finau, their pen pal is visiting? as they can about the pen pals. just before christmas, they will meet face—to—face. nice handwriting. scientists and engineers have been working on the development of human—like robots for years but the machines have always had a rather embarrassing problem — they fall over a lot. until now. this is the one of the latest creations of american engineering firm boston dynamics. the team behind the atlas robot hope that it'll eventually be agile enough to carry out search and rescue missions. as you can see, it's already capable of pulling off stunts that many human gymnasts would be proud of. perfectly landed. it could go to the gym for you. where skies are clear, temperatures dipping quickly. the faster not as widespread as last night. some areas of cloud around. we go from client to clear spells. a fair few showers across scotland, but of northern ireland and parts of england. a brisk breeze. clear skies, east anglia into south east england where we see the lowest temperatures. lowest

with finau is our business editor. this white paper long in the waiting.t can pull. the government sticks in a bit of money for research and development. it asks the academic institutions in a certain area to cluster round it, then they let these different centres to have test—beds for their stuff. in life sciences, that might be accelerated accept and of new drugs by the nhs, which is something they have committed to. for d riverless they have committed to. for driverless cars, it might be using public streets. they put this in place, and then private investment poured in. they would say that this morning's announcement is the industrial action. it needs to work. we learned last week in the budget that things are tough. we learned a couple of things last week, just how difficult the economic challenges are. abysmal productivity and growth. growth downgraded. they are hoping this will cure those economic ills, and you have brexit round the corner. they say they have been working on this for a long time. in the old day, a concerted industrial strategy, they