sunshine gees sunshine goes down, lets sunshine goes down, lots of once the sunshine goes down, lots of clear skies. cloud creeping into western scotland and northern ireland, some showers here. behind that band of cloud which is marked out by this weather front, there is some slightly cooler air trying to work its way in from the north—west. it will not make much progress during sunday, sunday will bring this local moving weather front across northern parts of scotland with the odd spot of rain. behind that something cooler and fresher, ahead of it long spells of sunshine and some real geek to be had. notice the deep orange coloured on our temperature chart, up towards the south east somewhere it is likely to get 31, 30 2 degrees. not much changes through next week, it will turn cooler for a changes through next week, it will turn coolerfor a time, changes through next week, it will turn cooler for a time, there will be lots of dry weather and plenty of strong sunshine. hello, you are watching bbc news.

the headlines, theresa may warned her cabinet any further dissension over brexit won't be tolerated. ministers agreed on a plan for the uk's future relationship with the european union. england play sweden this afternoon for the chance to reach its first world cup semifinal in 28 years. 12 thai boys trapped in a cave write letters to their parents saying they are strong and asking them not to worry. police investigating the poisoning ofa police investigating the poisoning of a couple in wiltshire warned the couple will take months to complete. i will be back with a full summary of the news at the top of the hour. now one bbc news, it is time to click. this week, tech watches wimbledon, restores voices, floats above london and makes a lovely stirfry. the thing i love about mit in boston

is that whenever you open a door in a basement you could run into anything. unless it runs into you first. which might be why, for the seventh straight year, mit has been named the world's number one university. and, i am going to say it, this is one of my favourite places in the world. what i love about mit is that it is all over the place. the buildings have this brilliant higgledy—piggledy nature and inside is the same. here at csail, for example, there is stuff all over the place. it is wonderful.

the computer science and artificial intelligence lab, csail, is mit's ai powerhouse with some of the world's foremost researchers in the field. here, ai has taught itself to see through walls while robots are being built to swim through our bodies. why? well i'll tell you later. but it is obvious that we are still only starting to explore how to use artificial intelligence and robotics. 20 years ago computation was a task reserved for experts because computers were large and expensive and you really needed to know what to do with them. but today, everyone has access to computation, and in fact computation is so prevalent. we don't even see how we depend on

it. we don't notice. the next 20 yea rs it. we don't notice. the next 20 years will be about bringing these technologies into our lives to help us technologies into our lives to help us with comedy of work and physical work. speech synthesis is something we have looked at recently. the technology can be used for good. if you are on social media during 2017, chances are you'll know about

the ice bucket challenge. for many of us, our voice is an essential pa rt of us, our voice is an essential part of who we are. and to lose it would be to lose a sense of our very identity. here in yonkers in new york, one man who lost his voice to motor neurone disease has been given back his sense of self through technology. project revoice is an international initiative to help give people with mnd or als their voice back. using software from canada—based company lyrebird, it can synthesise an accurate recreation of someone's voice from a relatively small amount of audio. lyrebird's software was famously and controversially used last year to recreate the voices of us presidents donald trump and barack 0bama. voice of donald trump: i am not a robot. my intonation is different. pat quinn was one of the early cofounders of the challenge. he was diagnosed with als in march 2013. the extent of his illness now means he cannot speak. he was one of the first to be given his voice back by project revoice.

one of the things that we hear from people with als is that they, you know, that their voice really reflects themselves and their own thinking about themselves. but we also hear it from their family members and that is really where, you know, people say that we weren't thinking about the fact that we would not be able to hear this person speak any longer until it was gone. and now, suddenly, we missed their voice and missed that side of them. so there is something inherently unique about a person's voice that hopefully we are able to capture and keep in the future. pat concedes that his new voice is not perfect. because he did not record this voice prior to losing it, lyrebird used online videos and speeches as their basis. lyrebird's algorithms analyse several hours of quality recordings to digitally recreate a person's speech. i don't think there are many companies before have done something

that allow people to copy their voice off a small amount of audio. speech synthesis is an old research subject and it has been going on for more than 30 years. but what we provide is for people to really do it in their home and you can go to our website, record yourself for a few minutes, and after that you will get a voice. the hope is to extend the scope of project revoice more people internationally, to allow more people with mnd and als to recapture and recreate their own voice. man's voice: this voice is terrible.

i hate it. it sounds like a professor i would not listen to. with project revoice we would like to see a person's voice be accessible as possible to them so that they can use their voice whenever they want to use it. and have it be ease—of—use, true ease—of—use. with voice banking and voice messaging generally we just want to try and bring it to as many people as we can and in as easy a way as possible and truly make it commonplace for people to be using their own authentic voices when they communicate. hello and welcome to the week in tech.

it was the week that a security researcher discovered that wearing juggalo style clown make—up could fool some facial recognition systems. juggalos are fans of hip—hop outfits the insane clown posse. thousands of fortnite players infected their computers with malware after downloading cheat software to try and improve their game. they say trailers give away the best bits of the film. somebody at sony pictures is in hot water after uploading the entire movie, khali the killer, to youtube instead ofjust the trailer. researchers at harvard have developed a robotic cockroach that can walk on land and water and even go for a dive. the ambulatory micro robot applies a voltage to the water in order to break the surface tension, allowing it to go for a swim. from walking on water to flying through the air with the greatest of ease. we have seen disney's stunt robot before but it has had an upgrade and now has a human—looking body. the autonomous self—correcting aerial robot can make adjustments

in the air to make sure it nails its death—defying leaps again and again. finally, the next time you are trapped on a desert island or want to make a romantic declaration in the sand, why not get a robot to do it? created by ivan miranda, this little robot makes strides in the sand, acting like a beach printer. maybe not the quickest way to get your sos message out though. bringing art to the masses through technology is something many have tried to achieve over the past few years. but here in london's hyde park there is something pretty big on display. so how can we see this recreated in a way that more people could see it? this is christo and jeanne—claude's the masta ba. the name being a type of ancient egyptian tomb meaning ‘eternal house'.

this one, though, is only temporary. made up of 7506 barrels and weighing 600 tons. if you are here, you can not exactly miss it. for those who are not in the vicinity, being able to enjoy this or wanting to see from all angles in the day or in the night—time light, well, you could do so with one of these. a google cardboard version provides a basic look around the installation. but a fuller experience as possible using the htc vive or steam. firstly, i've come indoors to do this because it does not matter where i am and i need a good wi—fi connection. so let's go. i can get up to five metres away, i believe. now it's time to start flying.

ok. that is impressive, where you can see over the other side. it is quiet. no—one in the park today. it's dead. the night—time view is still a work in progress but i did get to see the subtle shadows and the colours that changed through the day. i am no stranger to a spot of vr but from an art perspective, i would like a second opinion. let's see if i can go over the top. it is wonderful to do this. that is a fantastic aerial view. problem is you start to get a bit tourist and look at london skyline. it is eerie that there seem to be no people in the park at all. 0k, louisa, let me help you. what i think was fascinating for me is that you are an art expert yet you were more distracted by the london skyline, the park and the lack of people than actually being able to focus on the art. that is the trouble with this kind of thing. perhaps it'sjust for old dinosaurs like me but there is still something quite thrilling about being able to go up in the air. mastaba is a great piece but i would argue that actually its impact is a physical impact, that when you walk in the serpentine, walk in hyde park

and you come across this extraordinary mass, the scale of it, all that stuff, that does not come through on the vr. with a version 50 times the size planned for abu dhabi, you can see that scale is clearly important here. but whilst it may be a lot easier to create that in a virtual world, it is may be missing the point. that was lara. ok. back to mit in boston now where i am walking around and around and around in order for an artificial intelligence to track me. that is me that you can see on that screen there. but what is really impressive here is the detector is not in this room at all. it is next door and it is seeing through this wall. it is called rf pose and the transmitter uses low power radio signals that pass through walls but reflect off

objects in the next room. everything reflects. notjust the human body. the ceiling, the walls, everything. to make sense of that mess and focus on the human body, you had to eliminate of them and that is a complex process and machine learning and deep learning is good at that. the system has taught itself to pull out the human skeleton from the mass of reflected signals and it can deal with many bodies in the room and, of course, it can see in the dark as well. the professor would like this to be used for healthcare as a way of checking on elderly patients without capturing any sensitive personal information or any actual images. in fact, the software is so sensitive it can even detect heartbeat. you could check for sleep apnoea, for example, that is disruption of breathing during sleep. you saw all the beats moment by moment so you can look at the interval, the time between individual beats and look for arrhythmia.

i have to say, on this trip to boston, i have noticed an interesting theme. an acceptance that artificial intelligence has its limits. the team behind the self—balancing cheetah robot want to fit it with human—controlled arms because ai is not up to the job of opening doors and manipulating objects, not yet anyway. and a completely different piece of research is also eschewing ai altogether. this is an idea that hopes to block e—mails containing bullying, harassment and hate. what is interesting is that here we are in the artificial intelligence department but you are basically saying ai is not cut out for this and we need to go back to humans. from talking to people who deal with harassment we found harassment is really contextual.

it's personalised, often to the person getting harassed, because often the person harassing them is sometimes using something that they know about that person to harass them. and so we think that something like ai isn't going to be able to cover all the ways people are getting harassed, and in fact people might be trying to get around the things that a model might be learning. they will have a very innocuous title for the email, and maybe their harassment will be hidden near the bottom and you have to go and read it. it is an idea called squad box, and its aim is to use not a computer but your friends to spot and manage harassing emails. the idea is simple. messages are intercepted and redirected to a squad of moderators that you have chosen, and who will probably understand what is personally offensive to you, even if it doesn't contain the obvious keywords. what is really interesting here is that there are no swear words in here.

"i think your work is fake and you are just out to make a profit off the backs of hard—working people, you should really re—evaluate your life." i can see how an algorithm would pass that, that's fine. for now, squad box has been geared to work with email, but its creators say that it could be ported to work with social media, and certainly the moderation approach sounds very social. cecil is also at the forefront of robotics, building machines in shapes and sizes that challenge our very idea of what a robot is. primer, the so—called superhero robot, picks up different outfits, or miniature exoskeletons, depending on what it needs to do. off he goes! it's like a really cool dying moth. for long journeys it can roll up into a wheel. to cross water, it dons a fold—up boat and set sail. and if need be, it can

abandon ship as well. the tiny transformer can even strap on a pair of wings and glide off into the future. so, this can be used for some medical applications. for example, last summer, we developed this kind of stomach, a simulation. so we have an origami robot, similar. we encapsulate it into ice, so it's like a capsule, so when we deploy it into the stomach... it will melt in the stomach? exactly, then we can the electromagnetic field to move this little robotic pill, to move to the point where we want to deploy the drugs or remove something from your stomach. like a foreign object you have swallowed. yes.

primer is controlled by manipulating a magnetic field and it uses a heating pad to help it fold. right now you drive it using a makeshift controller. can i play? yeah, just... this is really cute. so, what might this be used for in the future? we could use it for space exploration, we could launch out and send out a stack of different exoskeletons. they use one small single robot. elsewhere in the lab, here is an experiment in origami—inspired robotic muscles which can lift 1000 times their own weight. it's going to break my scapula! last week you will remember this robot, which followed me around collecting my tennis balls as i prepared for wimbledon. sadly, i didn't quite make the draw. but it turns outjen copestake did. yes, it's a beautiful day here at wimbledon. we're checking out all the technology behind the tennis tradition.

artificial intelligence gets everywhere these days. even here at the all england club, where ibm's watson is busy at work behind the scenes. we are going to see three ways ai is being utilised at the tennis for content creators, players and fans. first, content creation. where are we right now? we are below broadcast centre. these are what we affectionately refer to as the bunkers. any chance of running into roger federer down here? possibly in the media room around the corner. watson's incredible processing data power is being used to create highlight reels with no human involvement. listening to the noise of the crowd and listening for those really exciting moments. taking in the audio feed from the side of the court, and you know those rounds you get where you get the real "oohs" and "aahs. "

so if the crowd's excited, it might put that down as an exciting point. it's looking at the data to decide, where are the pressure points in the match? it also looks at how the players react. how animated they are with their arms, how obviously emotive they are when they do that. it combines those together to create an excitement level and that gets fed into this dashboard and all of the points are ranked, and at the end of the match, watson will also generate a highlights package based on those exciting points, and they give that to the content team so we can get it out quickly. players can also take advantage of this quick turnaround of highlights. instead of going through hours of video, each team is given a unique website to check. here are roger federer‘s unforced errors. this helps coaches create a narrative of what happened in the game and quickly see where they can improve against their opponents. players, we sort of sometimes forget they are really the biggest fans of their own sport, and they want to know how their friends are getting on, their rivals are getting on, but also those statistics and data that help them in their own analysis

of how they are playing, that is really valuable as well. and for fans who want deep analysis, they can get it by accessing all of the statistics via wimbledon's new facebook messenger bot. that's also driven by watson. watson has one final data trick to show off. it's the first nonhuman to design a wimbledon poster, celebrating 150 years of the all england club. it uses visual recognition to scan over 300,000 historic photographs. the final result is this mosaic made up of 8400 individual images. instead of the usual colour matching, watson was taught to recognise the different elements of a photograph, such as umbrellas, and find umbrella photos to match. even the texture of the court is made up of other photographs of courts. well played.

that was jen at wimbledon. back in boston, my robot tour has left me hungry for more. the spyce restaurant is where i'm going to feed my need. touchscreens take the orders, robots cook the meals, and the humans are relegated to the source stations. chicken rice... an orange delivery box zips up and down a track transporting ingredients and dropping them into seven specially designed spinning pots. they toss the food, keeping a constant temperature via an induction plate. the only thing letting down this computerised cohort of wok wielders is arguably the people in charge of delivery. they haven't called my name out yet. it was there all along. look at that. was i supposed to get a drink with my order?

ok. thank you. the concept is the brainchild of the spice boys, four mit graduates who spotted a gap in this in this field to fill in this tech hungry town. early on, the first prototype, the first idea of design was about three and a half years ago. one of the key things that we made sure to pay attention to while designing this was, you know, it's a food robot, it has to handle food. food is so unique, it comes in all different sizes and textures, and one of the key focuses was to design all of this it could handle the food gently and preserve the quality, preserve the integrity of the food, while being able to, just, you know, use the wide array of food you see on our menu. now, this is obviously only suited to stir fries, and maybe other dishes where everything is cooked together and presentation is not an issue. if you want a steak, potatoes and a drizzle of red wine jus, you'll need a completely different robot. well, that's it from this robot restaurant, and that's the end of a us trip for this time.

i hope you've enjoyed it. you can see more of us on facebook and twitter throughout the week. thanks for watching. and would you like some kale? hello. it is shaping up to be yet another sunny day. in fact, the weekend as a whole brings plenty of dry weather, with lots of hot sunshine. there is a bit of cloud around. some coastal cloud, sea

breezes developing close to the coasts as well. more cloud generally into northern ireland and the far west of scotland, with the odd spot of drizzle. but for most of us, it isa of drizzle. but for most of us, it is a semi—story through the rest of the day. from aberdeen go to edinburgh, lots of sunshine. temperatures in glasgow up to 2a celsius. more cloud creeping into northern ireland. further east, hot sunshine. 31 degrees in london. just a small chance for a shower. of course, england are playing this afternoon. we dive under the clouds and as you can see, there are areas of blue sky likely to be overhead. kick—off is at 3pm. temperatures around about 26 celsius. what about the forecast for wimbledon through the forecast for wimbledon through the rest of the day? lots of hot sunshine. temperatures topping up at around 30 celsius and only cooling

off very slowly as we head off into the evening. that is the story for most of us. late sunshine. the small chance of a shower. the vast majority will be dry. lots of clear skies overhead. a bit more cloud creeping in across western scotland and northern ireland. ahead of that band of cloud, lots of warm and muqqy band of cloud, lots of warm and muggy weather. but behind that band of cloud, there is some slightly cooler air, trying to move in from the north—west. it is not good to make much during sunday. it is really dragging its heels across northern parts of scotland with the odd spot of rain. behind that, something cooler and fresher. ahead of it, long spells of sunshine and some real heat. notice the deep orange colours. quite widely up into the high 20s. somewhere is likely to get 31 or 32 celsius. not much will change next week it will turn a little cooler for a time, but there

will still be lots of dry weather and plenty of strong sunshine. this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 1300. theresa may warns ministers that public dissent over brexit will no longer be tolerated after they backed her plan for the uk's future relationship with the eu. a nation expects england play sweden in samara as they look to reach their first world cup semi final in 28 years. iamat i am at the samara arena where the turnstiles are opening. and there are some interesting characters about. the nation is expected to come to a standstill as millions of people watch the game in pubs and on big screens up and down the country. 12 thai boys stuck in a cave send letters to their parents assuring them they're fine. police investigating the poisoning of a couple in wiltshire last weekend warn the operation could take months.