just getting the last—minute time. just getting the last-minute touches. welcome. from broadcasting house in london, this is bbc click live. please welcome your host laura lymington and spencer kelly. you turned up, good afternoon london. our welcome to click live. we're going to start with something truly magical. i would like you to put on your headsets, and we will show the magic image. we're going to show the magic image. we're going to show you part of the show about gulliver struggles. the liver and his daughter gilly are in the land of the giants, and they've been brought to the queen to entertain her. enjoy the show. well hello there little bed bugs. why, hello there, little bedbugs.

i hear you have prepared a special song for me? like we have a choice. your highness, i am afraid there's been a small misunderstanding. you see, we do know how to play the piano, but we are not used to such a big one, you see. the peasant promised you would play the piano for me. yes, but... and when promises are not kept it makes my heart so sad, and when my heart gets sad i start crying, and when i start crying... please, don't cry. forget what i said. we will play a song, just as you were promised. 0k? you may. thanks. here we go. ready? ready. 0k. applause.

i'm going to call up one of the people behind this a ar show from israel, please welcome sasha kreindlin. thank you so much. can you explain whatjust happened? what we did is, we created the tools to incorporate ar into the live show. this tool allows the artist to focus not only on the stage but the entire venue as your canvas. if everybody turned their head while the scene was going on, there is a whole castle around you. and the second revolutionary part is the interaction part, because they have buttons on their headsets and they can interact with the live show and it gives a world of possibility. please give it up for the ai show. so, we're just getting

the robots ready. aj is getting his laser tag guns ready, because he will trigger the robots to dance. at mekamon in bristol, 30 robot toys are being taught to tango. well, sort of. to get the bots to bust a groove simultaenously, they all need to be set off at exactly the same time. so the team behind them had to get creative. so, this fires infrared. at all the robots. and the robots get the signal, and they know it's time to dance. 0k, i'iow. a tv remote was just really boring, so we got the laser gun. and it makes cool noises. it is cool, when it works. does it still need reloading? you have to reload the laser gun? and we can reset that. it's a cone of light that comes out, not a single beam. if you get very close to our robot it's a net that's more narrow. the further back you are, we find it's a better, wider tact. it is the same with the robots,

they fire out a cone. they have used video animation software to choreograph the custom dance routine. i make one animation and that will be distributed to all 30. the way that we did the mexican wave was that we put it into grid so that the last bit has a staggered animation, so for that bit, they all had their own little animation. so here i've got six animations. that is how you get this. this ripple effect. because the robots don't know where they are in relation to one another, they have to be positioned in precisely the right place. but when it's done right... music plays. and i'm joined here by their proud father,

ceo and co—founder of reach robotics, silas adekunle. thanks for having me. if robotics can already do this for fun, there must be some exciting prospects about what they will be capable of soon. definitely. with mekamon we are about education, so you can learn to code and learn stem skills with mekamon. on top of that we have robots starting to get out and the next phase for robotics, especially consumer robotics, which will be a big part of that, robots that can go to our houses and help us. some of your smart devices, they can speak you and ask questions of you. the next stage is for you to be able to say, get me there and we'll get it for you. can you tell them a bit about your story? you have an interesting background. yes, that's a photo of me from nigeria. i was born in nigeria, moved to the uk when i was about 11 or12, but before that i had been interested in science, engineering, stem. so when i moved to the uk, to cut a long story short, i went to university

to study robotics and in that time i saw that when you combine consumer robotics with gaming, it gets a really powerful engagement. it's a lot more interesting, as you can see. these robots are a bit like videogame characters in real life. they get better and stronger all time. that was the inception of the idea behind mekamon. how do you get the motion so realistic? there are two ways we do that. one is something called kinematics, where the robot is actually figuring out where it is moving to, and the second is that we have an amazing talented team of animators who work on it digitally and try to make that motion as realistic as possible. so what you're looking at here is years of lots of research and behaviour and motion that is translating into the real world. finally, it is the mechanical engineering aspect. we have some proprietary technology that allows the robots to move like this. great, thank you so much. a man who wants to take over the world, but before we go, because we have this amazing routine taking place, we didn't want just

you lot to see it, so earlier today they had a little activity outside the bbc building. take a look at this. music plays. so i have a background in technology and magic. and magicians are interesting. their allusions accomplish what technology cannot. but what happens when the technology of the day seems almost magical? what happens when you can do this? now, 100 years ago that would have been the magic of levitation. now, is it possible to create illusions in a world where technology makes anything possible? jump. now, if you know how the trick is done, where is the illusion? but still, our imagination is more powerful than our reasoning. and it's easy to a tribute personality to machines. these are quadcopters.

but they are more than mechanicalflying machines. they analyse the environment around them and react to everything i do. advanced algorithms allow these autonomous machines to fly in close formation, aware of each other, aware of me. mathematics that can be mistaken for intelligence. and intelligence for personality. that's it. all that remains is to thank

everybody who turned up to cs five, and of course you at for watching. all: goodbye! dry and cloudy day across the country. this picture was taken by one of our weather watchers pretty cloudy conditions there, there were glances of sunshine around, that story isn't going to change much over the next few days. for the last few days of 2018, pressure keeps things mostly dry, cloudy and mild.

there will be some rain in the forecast, especially across the northern half of the uk. that sounded to this weather friend, tracking its way west to east. high—pressure the driving force. to the rest of tonight then, patchy rain across parts of northern ireland, scotland, northern england north wales as well. spot of rain in the early hours of sunday. it is east anglia are in the southeast that will see the lowest of the temperatures with spells holding on longer. touch of frost possible and the southeast. frost free to start your sunday morning, but a lot of clouds and drizzly outbreaks. through the day, it should brighten up through the day, it should brighten upa through the day, it should brighten up a little bit for the most part. across eastern england eastern scotla nd across eastern england eastern scotland as well. the ring will lingerfor much of scotland as well. the ring will linger for much of the day for the northern isles, we could see drizzly rainfor northern isles, we could see drizzly rain for the northwest scotland and the hills of western england wells as well. temperature wise, ten to 12 degrees outside. still pretty mild. not looking ahead towards new year's eve on monday and high—pressure still very much with us, we have got

weather fronts to the north. they will bring breezy or conditions to parts of scotland. outbreaks of rain likely in the northwest through the day. patchy rain pushing for the south into the evening hours. for much of the country, again it's looking dry, still pretty cloudy conditions and reasonably mild, temperatures on new year's eve around ten or 11 degrees. now we will hold onto that dry weather for most of us, through the night, so if you've got plans to see in the new year, for most places it's going to be dry. just a chance of seeing some rain, particularly across parts of scotland. barely cloudy skies around, if you are expecting to see some of those fireworks, at least it's mild and largely drive. new year's day on tuesday, we've got a wea k year's day on tuesday, we've got a weak front which will bring the odd spot of light rain. for most of us will be a trite mild day before things start to get a bit colder and more wintry. as we head into the new year. goodbye. this is bbc news. the headlines...

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