voice-over: this is bbc news. well héve the hséééiaés ~ ~ , which is straight after this programme. this week, alasdair gets a special tour of the uk's national satellite test facility. once we close the doors behind us, you won't get wi—fi, you won't get phone signal. no—one can hear you scream. whip the cream top. on tiktok is affecting influencers there.

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them to the kinds of conditions they might face in launch and in space. if it's in low earth orbit, it's difficult to fix. it is giant. it's massive. yeah.

so it's about... it's about 18 metres by 18 metres on the floor space. it's a similar order of magnitude up there. so this allows us to test satellites, naturally — so we'll do electromagnetic testing. so we'll do antenna testing, auto—compatibility testing, and electromagnetics testing. in effect, this is a room that you can completely block out any signals or anything from outside? yeah, once we close the doors behind us, this room will be fully shielded. no—one can hear you scream. this is like what we've got on the walls and the floor. if you give that a feel... give it a squeeze. yeah. so it's...

impregnated in carbon and painted. how many of these are on the walls? it looks like it. is supersized. to launch conditions. in this part of the research centre, they can point 48 of these speakers at the satellite to see what impact sound will have on it. so this is what we call direct field acoustic noise testing. it is random noise. while they don't blast launch recordings at it, the noise played does recreate the sound frequencies that would occur during blast off. solar panels could flex and break, but because a lot

of it is... bolts will undo and... literally... yes. absolutely, yeah. because we go... so effectively, 10,000 sort of movements in a second. we have a very big blue door. it's, effectively... outside, mean that we can run a test louder than an aircraft carrier deck. you'll hear a rumble. everyone will know what we're doing. is the vacuum chamber. it's so big, the building had to be constructed around it. next door they have a slightly smaller one in use, and that means getting dressed up even more.

why are we so suited and booted for this task? things we have, which is humans. collects in the room, and it will slowly evaporate it incredibly clean. require planetary protection levels of cleanliness, warm or really cold. a satellite spend four years observing exoplanets, what impact temperature has.

or the glue, get all the outgassing done. space in a vacuum. of the items in it. using liquid nitrogen. an infrared mission. of satellites in space will increase by thousands. 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 environment. we built all the environments in unreal, and then we had the animators animating the characters in those 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.

of the animal so the actor could move around and react with each other. but on your screen, it would be the animals. so that was a little bit of revolution on this movie — being able to freely direct those virtual characters live. back to the trees. no, we have to fight. some of the biggest challenges of mufasa was technical, continent of africa, so we had to go and shoot those able to start building them from this material. canyon, mountains, rivers.

trees, rocks that we would set—dress everywhere in order to add a layer of complexity on those sets. but there was also the creative challenges with barryjenkins and his dop, james laxton. it moves a lot. it goes extremely close to those characters, to a wide view, to come to a very close angle on the fur, on the ear of the lion. sure that we would be able to render them. on his ears in order to convey those details on him.

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this is a place where robots are less robotic and more might be better suited to work in the real world by asking the question... why don't we take inspiration from nature and build something that's actually more lifelike? moves like life? and just the fact that we can build systems like this, and that's why i've come to meet pele. footballing legs. i think i've come across.

it straight again. this takes a lot less energy. just look at how hard a knee motor has to work and how hot so here's how it works. you have little bags filled with oil and an electrode on either side.

is driven by muscles which are contracting, i think if you want to have something with the same amount around a more flexible structure? like, if you look at our arm, the eccentric application to be quite flexible. i can move my whole hand around here without having to take these complex motions. and eth zurich. and as thomas and toshiko have

discovered, pele doesn't even need complex sensors to avoid obstacles or balance as it climbs over them. now, there are other things one needs in life, too. footballer, is often in need of some kneading. chuckling why... sometimes you have, like, clingfilm sticking to something because of electrostatics.

and give the muscle the full range of motion. it sounds very much like why you have a massage in real life anyway. yeah. just to free it all up. yeah. to nature, but, yes. care, the rest of the robots around here are a little more gentle. most robots are made of hard materials, like metal, for example. into the real world. because if they bang into something, they might damage it. they might damage themselves. they might damage you. these things out into the wild, and if they smack into something, nobody gets hurt. the world is made for soft, squishy, fleshy animals. of give on your gripper. turns out that 3d—printing soft materials is, well, hard. now, this is how this type

of 3d—printing has worked your printer deposits microscopic particles of your material down. it's not perfect at the top. in the mechanism and clog everything up. and that means that we haven't been able to 3d—print all the materials that you want in soft robotics — until now. now we have a different technique. so now we can 3d—print with really gooey materials. this new method means that

you can 3d—print robots with a variety of soft and hard parts — bones, ligaments, and tendons, for example — all in one go. don't like humans? more of a dog person? no problem. here's a pup that's positively pneumatic. yes. yeah. to its original position. and this is why it's important to have a material that springs back quite quickly to its original shape. yes. these robots still need

training to understand and navigate their environments and cope it's only their pride that will get hurt. skeletor. many parts of the country had a pretty cloudy day and sunshine work in. drier air from the continent started to clear the skies,

going to be pushing its way slowly towards high pressure, that do this. across western areas, but not very much at all a few patches of drizzle around elsewhere. across east anglia and south—east england. be pretty extensive. to the day here. further westwards, our band of rain very slowly pushes eastwards.

england, central and eastern scotland too, it'lljust be to the afternoon. now, heading into the early part of the new working week, we see another of these weather fronts, initially bringing wet weather to western areas, the front dying as it works its way eastwards across the country. the winds a lot lighter further east. the afternoon to northern ireland and scotland. conditions with a south/south—westerly wind. just a few patches of rain here and there before clearing, and then we get this area of high pressure building in for wednesday. dry and sunny.

from wednesday through friday. that it could start to get colder, perhaps with some wintry weather.

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