hour, which is straight after this programme. this week, alasdair gets a special tour of the uk's but will he ever make it out? once we close the doors behind us, you won't get wi—fi, no—one can hear you scream. now, how do you bring mufasa to life? we go behind the scenes of the disney blockbuster that

has no sets and no locations. why... there you go. everyone needs a massage. theirjourney to space starts in rockets of all shapes and sizes.

if it's in low earth orbit, it's difficult to fix. rather strange room. this is our electromagnetics facility in the nstf. it is giant. it's massive. yeah. so it's about... it's about 18 metres by 18 metres on the floor space. and i think it's about 15 metres high. it's a similar order of magnitude up there. and what does it allow you to do?

so this allows us to test satellites, naturally — so we'll do electromagnetic testing. antenna testing, auto—compatibility testing, block out any signals or anything from outside? yes, any signals. all of those things. if you give that a feel... and it's just foam. give it a squeeze. it's quite sturdy, though. yeah. so it's... that's a bigger version of this, which is polymerfoam impregnated in carbon and painted. i think at least 40,000. it looks like it. there's a good reason

everything in this facility is supersized. satellites can be as big as a minibus, and the team need to be able to hoist and roll them around to different exposing it to launch conditions. 48 of these speakers at the satellite to see what impact sound will have on it. it is random noise. it's trying to generate a kind of a random noise would occur during blast off. solar panels could flex and break, but because a lot of it is... you can get very high frequencies. bolts will undo and... literally... yes. ..unwind? absolutely, yeah. because we go...

it's, effectively... an aircraft carrier deck. you'll hear a rumble. everyone will know what we're doing. is the vacuum chamber. next door they have a slightly smaller one in use, yeah, it is essentially

to stop the fallout we drop a lot of skin and we sweat, and all of that and stay in the air, and we're trying to keep it incredibly clean. require planetary protection levels of cleanliness, so we can't contaminate them with human items. warm or really cold. rachel is working on the ariel mission, which will see a satellite spend four years observing exoplanets, what impact temperature has. we generally only go

to about 80, just for using liquid nitrogen. but for ariel, we need to go even colder because it's they have a role in everyday life, from major science or warning us when life—threatening weather is on the way. come, kiara. i'll tell you a story. a story of destiny that - would change our lives forever. hello! i was the vfx supervisor for mpc on mufasa: the lion king.

you are filming a movie, but instead of going outside and filming it, you are goggling up in virtual reality and you are strolling the savanna in that virtual environment. environments — the director having a monitor so he could see what was happening in the scene, but, in reality, you had an empty volume, so it was him going around and finding his angles. so that was a little bit

of revolution on this movie — being able to freely direct those virtual characters live. back to the trees. we're trapped! no, we have to fight. and for this movie, we are visiting the entire mountains, rivers. we had hundreds of greens, we call them, which is plants, trees, rocks that we would set—dress everywhere in order to add a layer

of complexity on those sets. and his dop, james laxton. their camera is very dynamic. it moves a lot. it goes extremely close to those characters, animals, would hold close—ups, extreme close—ups — and those shots are extremely long, too, so we needed to make sure that we would be able to render them. hairs just on the lion, and something about like

coming out of the farm. mufasa, it is your time. time for a look at the tech news. it's been a big week for deep seek. its has deep seek. its success has spooked the financial markets lead us president and lead us president donald trump to say that the rise of the company is a wake—up call for the us seems to 7 seems to i like like it competitors like chat gpt. it also cost significantly less to

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the company has been selling organic dairy products, now, since milktok took off in september, sales rise by up to 20%. this has long been a local brand known in northern california, but they say they are now gaining traction outside this region and even outside the united states. in 2024, when we started tiktok, we had 34 but the party may be about to end. last year, citing national security concerns, the us congress passed a law giving tiktok�*s chinese owner

or face a ban. hello. yeah. telling its 170 million american users it was fortunate that he was working with them on a solution. tiktok went offline for about a half a day some have called it a stunt that left trump the winner, but not everyone agrees. tiktok didn't choose the winner. they thanked their saviour — which is exactly what you do when you're so desperate. and milktok will last.

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by asking the question... that moves like life? and just the fact that we can build systems like this, it's mind—boggling why we haven't worked on this more. the mind boggles and the leg bounces. footballing legs. this early prototype is unlike most robotic legs in the elbows or the knees, but this actually the joint has to twist those long limbs from just one end. pele, though, has muscles — one on either side that pull

the leg into the bent position and then pull it it gets compared to pele's muscular motion on the right. so here's how it works. electrode on either side. all the oil into one part of the bag, and the whole bag or we could go a step further, biomimicry in some way — is driven by muscles which are contracting, rotary motion. of flexibility and motion, degrees of freedom, you need to break away from this like one—motor—per—joint

paradigm and go towards — can we apply many, many muscles around a more flexible structure? like, if you look at our arm, the eccentric application of muscle force onto our of muscle force onto our extremities allows us extremities allows us to be quite flexible. i can move my whole hand around here without having to take rigid motors that do these rigid motors that do these motions, but instead i can motions, but instead i can use multiple muscles, use multiple muscles, multiple bones that allow us multiple bones that allow us to do these complex motions. this is a joint project between the max planck institute and eth zurich. institute and eth zurich. need complex sensors to avoid obstacles or balance as it climbs over them. as it climbs over them. no, itjust bumps into things and bounces over them. now, there are other things one needs in life, too. after a hard day of running around, pele, like every footballer, is often in need of some kneading. chuckling. why... why... why do you have to massage

the muscles sometimes? so i guess there is something called charge retention — meaning we apply a quite hefty voltage to the actuators.

into the real world. because if they bang into something, these things out into the wild, and if they smack into the world is made for soft, squishy, fleshy animals. for example, grabbing things is much easier if there's a bit of give on your gripper. your hand, the floor... worked up until now. of your material down. but the problem is, they're all uneven.

it's not perfect at the top. when you flatten them off, they getjammed up and that means that we haven't been able to 3d—print now we have a different technique. so now we can 3d—print with really gooey materials. a laser scans the top of each particle and works out particle on top to even out the imperfections. this new method means that you can 3d—print robots

don't like humans? more of a dog person? here's a pup that's positively pneumatic. you're blowing air in through the backside. yes. yeah. and then it makes different parts of the legs move. springs back quite quickly to its original shape. yes. and navigate their environments and cope with where thousands of hands can practise and make mistakes although, even if they do get things wrong, hopefully, it's only their pride that

will get hurt. hello there. look relatively quiet. and some rain in the mix — but nothing particularly we do have this rain—bearing

weather system, but it is and it means that front will tend to weaken as it moves of cloud, some mist and fog, as well — much of that and wales, some places will get to see some sunshine. into the afternoon, parts of east anglia and the far southeast are likely to see some spells of sunshine. ten celsius in plymouth — pretty mild for the time of year. wales, parts of northern england again likely to see some sunshine. eastern scotland may see some sunshine, too, quite a brisk wind, as well, up to the northwest, and some outbreaks of rain. and, as we head through saturday night, well, this rain a bit of patchy rain running ahead of that. but in the southeast corner, where we do see some clear

we will see clearing skies across southeastern parts. so, here is ourfront — yes, a band of cloud for sunday, some bits but this will be weakening all the while. northern ireland should start to see some sunshine into the afternoon. now, we do it all again for the start of the new week, looks like high pressure should build quite strongly across the uk. a bit of rain through monday and into tuesday, but a lot of dry weather through the week and some sunshine.

live from washington. this is bbc news. a small plane has

crashed in philadelphia, commercial aircraft and a military helicopter, safer. us president donald trump says tariffs on canada, them on the eu too. aircraft crashed and sparked a large fire in a built—up the city's office of emergency

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