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floriane has tried several this is bbc news. exoskeletons, but liked this one this from the inside, so much, she is now working and so am i. the headlines at eight: so in order to try the device, for the company. i need to be measured for it. theresa may arrives at a summit in egypt with a promise that mps will be able to have another say these measurements are essential to find the recommended gait on her brexit deal by march 12th , ruling out for someone of my height and weight. it is a heavy computing task, a meaningful vote this week. so calculations are done it is a practically hands—free exo on a server outside the suit. so as well as walking, we want to leave the european union she can do this. the results are then on the 29th of march with a deal. sent to the exoskeleton. that is what we are working for, there was also a surprising amount we have good progress, back in 2016, we visited of computing going on in the device. constructive discussions with the european union, the cybathlon in zurich, the device aims to improve movement as well as the basic form of motion, and we will be continuing that work for people with total or partial a competition where people so we can leave on the 29th of march paralysis and after 18 months the exo can make its own decisions, with limited mobility competed of trials, the latest version and leave with a deal. so something unexpected happens — against each other with some is finally ready to sell say, my foot hits the ground too of the most sophisticated augmented to rehabilitation centres. late or someone pushes it = it labour's deputy leader, tom watson, motion devices on the planet. works out how to respond. warnsjeremy corbyn he has to act the design that we are trying urgently if the party on trial were robotic arms, lean forward, and push up. is to stay together. is about 6—7 years of work prosthetics and exoskeletons, and they are hoping to release pope francis promises all being used to help with some wow. that the roman catholic church a personal exo in a couple of years that's. .. will do more to tackle child sex the most challenging tasks faced that's amazing. abuse at the end of a vatican by people with disabilities. or so and that is currently secret summit on paedophilia. and right behind me. i can even lean sideways and crouch. and a couple of years ago we saw i might take a peek. an exoskeleton helping people lift i can also change the direction i move in by leaning my heavy items in a hardware body whilst walking. store in america. i'm going to aim and now one french company yep. towards the right point. is using the tech to rehabilitate oh, yes. oh, i can feel it going that way.
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and give paraplegic patients the chance to walk again. the start—up has grown to around 50 employees, lj rich went to visit. many motivated by family members who are or will soon be unable to walk. this small remote activates the suit. so one of the key things leaning forward at the right speed and angle activates we are working on at the moment an accelerometer on the back. is allowing stroke patients to get inside the exo and retrain this starts the system walking. their walk with the exo. the more you use it, is it becoming easier they slowly regain their ability or was it easy straightaway? to move so you've got to tune the exo down in the assistance it brings over time. it's easy, because we are not the company clearly has ambitions beyond this, pained, not fatigued, its first exoskeleton, and it's good for my arms and floriane is looking forward to shaping its future. and shoulders because we have no crutches. the company is keen for to me to experience
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brilliant. that was lj rich in paris. now, during our christmas special last year, we show you the first hands—on with the new flexible phone. created by chinese firm royole, its first phone has been five years in the making. one of its tricks is to unfold, creating a tablet. back injanuary, i caught up with the firm's boss, bill liu, and asked him how he'd managed to beat the likes of samsung and lg to create the world's first bendable phone. we focused on the flex release phase because it's so hard, so difficult to make it happen. from a technology innovation point of view, you have to do a lot of innovations from the fundamental materials, process, device designs, certain design and then later product design so that is why we invested $1.7 billion in shenzhen, china, to build up the 4.5 million square feet production facility for the mass production of the flexpai.
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i'd love to know whether the main problems is the fact that the connections break or the main problem is that you can't get the colours right on the bendy or obviously you need a replacement glass, you can't have glass. the most challenging part is you have to manufacture millions of transistors, tiny circuits on top of the super thin flexible film, and the film is only several micrometres. it is thinner than our hair diameter, and it has to be very, very precise position. at the moment, the royole flexpai is only available to buy in china but they're not the only ones going bendy. take a look at this tablet that folds twice to create a phone. its makers, xiaomi, say it is only an engineering model at the moment, though. another chinese firm, lenovo, has also previously teased that it's working on a similar product. for royole, though, this isn'tjust about wearables and phones.
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their vision is that flexible electronics will change the way we interact with the smart home and technology generally. there is the age of internet of things, so flexible displays, flexible sensors, flexible electronics, break the limitation of the phone factor, of the surface. eventually, all of these things will be smart, will be intelligent. that is where we see the flexible display‘s future. now we've heard rumours of samsung making a flexible phone for some time and this week, we finally got our answer at their latest launch. here's jen copestake. in a big surprise, samsung not only unveiled a folding phone but announced it would go on sale in two months time, at a staggering cost ofjust under $2,000. called the galaxy fold, the phone opens up to make a 7.3—inch tablet display capable
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of running three apps at once. it includes a new type of hidden hinge which they say can handle thousands of folds and unfolds, with a battery on each side to extend runtime. the eye—watering price seems unusual, if not risky, given the company said the cost of its 59 phones led to lower—than—expected sales. but they say this is a luxury item, and a new category of device. also launched were the 510 series phones, the mid—range x10, cheaper s10e and the 510 plus. each new model of phone comes with a super—wide camera so you can get 123 degrees of vision, basically the same as a human eye if you want that. the camera also allows you to use some artificial intelligence capabilities to improve the way you take photos. you can still unlock the phone with facial recognition, but samsung have done away with the iris scanner and they say this was to maximise
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the end—to—end display, which seems to be all the rage these days. the screen is maximised with a hole—punch camera and features a new security option. in—screen fingerprint sensors are becoming more and more popular and samsung says they have got something unique called an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. it's different to a typical optical sensor, which takes a photograph of your thumb. instead, it measures the contours of your thumb. they say this will make it even more secure against spoofing so it's not possible for someone to take a photocopy of your thumb and use it to open your device. one more surprise was the unveiling of samsung's sg—ready phone. we didn't get a price, but we can guess it won't be cheap. a sg—ready phone might give samsung a strategicjump on competitors like apple but with widespread roll—out of the network not expected any time soon, they probably won't be flying off the shelves. that's it for the short
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version this week. the full—length version is waiting for you right now on iplayer. don't forget, next week we are at the mobile world congress in barcelona. and you can find us social media on facebook, youtube, instagram and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. good evening, this time last year, we we re good evening, this time last year, we were starting to feel the effects of the so—called beast from the east. but not this year, there is still some cold air across siberia, but it is not coming to our direction. instead, ourair is coming from the south—west, a mild air, which are pushed temperatures
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up air, which are pushed temperatures up above 19 degrees today. 19.1 in parts of west wales, a new february record for wales. more of this weather to come, through the first pa rt weather to come, through the first part of the week. but some frosty nights and foggy mornings. by the end of the week, things will turn a little bit more unsettled. not from the east, from the west. as we go through tonight, temperatures after such a warm day will dip away. one or two spot in the south could get down to minus six degrees. not as cold further north and west, partly because of the extra cloud, some of patchy rain, too, across north—west scotland. that will slide away northwards throughout the day. also starting tomorrow with a fog in yorkshire and north—east england. some could be quite dense and slow to clear. but for the majority, tomorrow is another blue sky day, with lots of sunshine to be had, and once again, it will feel warm, unseasonably warm, 15—18 degrees, some places could be up to 19
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degrees. nine would be more typical for this time of year. it is all because of high pressure, this remains in charge through monday night, and it will turn quite cold. not too much of a problem with fog at this stage, most places on tuesday will enjoy it more fine weather and sunshine. some more cloud across the far north—west, and again, temperatures widely15—18, one 01’ again, temperatures widely15—18, one or two spots a little warmer than that. fog looks likely to be a problem again on wednesday, in the midlands, east anglia, in the south. some of that could be slow to clear, more dry weather, with some extra cloud and some rain for northern ireland and western scotland. temperatures may come down a little bit, but not a lot. the bigger change will come through the second half of the week. first of all, this area of low pressure here on thursday could introduce showers just about anywhere across the uk. as we head towards the weekend, there is the increasing chance of some rain, and it will turn a bit colder.
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