A huge challenge, but researchers say their model understands how springy and stretchy forms can move in an infinite number of ways. The next step, bringing thesejiggly jelly forms to life. Star citizen combines elements of a massively multiplayer role playing game, spaceship sim and first person shooter. All in a vast persistent universe. Thanks, wendy it has a large, loyalfan base. Previously we could not have done a planet like this before. When i was a kid, i wanted to be an astronaut. I ended up being a dentist. I always used to fantasise about being a spaceman and that is what this is. Star citizen is important. Chris roberts started out the Wing Commander franchise in the 90s. It is almost like he is the george lucas of space games. Star citizen came around because Chris Roberts wanted to create the ultimate space sim. I want to build a university i want to build the game i always wanted to build but did not have the tools to do until now. So when people saw what he was selling and what he wanted to create, they wanted to invest. And they have. In excess of 250 million so far. 37 million was raised in the last year alone. All this for a game which is still in the testing phase and is not a finished product. Cloud imperium games has been developing star citizen since 2012. It now has a team of 500 spread across five studios in the uk, germany and the united states. This is the la office. Even though the team here is busy still making the game, it is playable and being played by gamers at the moment. This game goes out every three months. But, of course, it is very early alpha so to a degree, they are having the exact same experience as someone who would be working on a game as a developer. But this is a game that, from its inception, has proven to be controversial. Since the original kickstarter campaign, the scale has dramatically increased, becoming a much bigger game in the process. As the crowdfunding grew, so did the scope. What began as an ode to Wing Commander gradually grew into this giant persisting universe and that is a very different product. As a result of changes to the game, earlier this year, roberts space industries, a subsidiary of cloud, was taken to court by a backer seeking a refund of almost 4,500 money he had spent backing the game. A california judge dismissed the case without prejudice, due to a clause in the star citizen end user license agreement which prevents anybody from taking rsi to court for a refund. The Games Company says it does issue refunds within a 30 day window. This brings us to the issue that seems to have generated the most headlines for star citizen money. 250 million sounds like a lot of money but when you think, the movie avatar was 370 million to make and most estimates put gta 5 costing 265 million to make, it is not a crazy amount of cash to put into a game. From sunny Southern California to grey and wintry manchester. While development on the game continues, here in manchester, citizen con, which is a convention dedicated entirely to the video game, is kicking off. Citizen con is where fans and backers of the game can meet each other, as well as the Games Development teams. One of the aspects of the game that has attracted a lot of attention is the ships. There are a plethora of different ships in the game, big and small, that can be purchased with in game currency or backers can use real cash which Cloud Imperium says goes towards further development. Rumours are rife of some backers spending thousands on ships. Most of the people i meet at citizen con have more modest budgets. How much money have you spent so far . 75 100. About { 250 in the game. Maybe £60. There are always exceptions to the rule. That definitely does not look friendly. Ive spent about 7,900 on the game. 7,900 . us dollars, yes. We should say that you are a streamer, so this is your thing, isnt it . Iam. It i am. It is, yeah. We do crazy battles, 50 players going to battle. Sci fi battles. That is what we do. In the midst of citizen con, i catch up with roberts. What is going on . We are trying to build a universe at a level of detail that no one else has done before, so it is taking longer than we were anticipating when we first announced it. Theres a lot of online negativity around star citizen. Why is that . It is easy to be an armchair developer so people dont know how much work goes into these games. There has been some stuff like Red Dead Redemption 2, that was seven plus years. It takes time to build games of this sophistication, and simulation detail that gamers expect now. So what is new . The new Pilot Technology we have, which is much more high fidelity. We have been working on dynamic weather. The other really big thing that we are showing, the first time we are going through a jump point, or a wormhole. Basically, as we carry on, well be opening up more star systems. Next year, we are promised the release of squadron 42, the Single Player campaign aspect of the game. But for now, Development Continues on the main experience. It seems this game journey is far from over. And that was star citizen. Now, christmas is nearly here which traditionally is the time when we all lay off the exercise and pylon the food. Not lara, however. She is not waiting untiljanuary to get fit. She is on the case now with a little help from a friend. I have my gym kit and my trainers. Now its time to meet the robot that i have an appointment with. Hello. Yes. It is putting me through my paces on the treadmill. The idea here is that i am going to be trained by ai with a spot of help from pepper here. This Bristol Robotics Lab trial aims to teach a robot the empathy and motivation skills of a human personal trainer. I dont know what he has in store for me. Get ready to start running. 0ne one for one minute. Along with reacting to participants heart rate data and facial expressions, while they try to build up to running 5k, it considers personality type in its quest to perfect its patter. That robot, to begin with, knows nothing. Then our Fitness Instructor tells the robot in real time, now it is time to have a joke or know it is time to sympathise, and now it is time to challenge. Every time it does that, the robot learns from that example. After a few sessions, the robot then start suggesting things. The estimated speed of a t rex is 27 miles per hour. I cant go as fast as that i had to write what kind of behaviours the ideal robotic personal trainer should have, yet still keeping it as simplistic as possible for the robot assist and coders to implement. It is quite unnerving when it leans forward. Ifeel like im in trouble. The key human aspects in psychology going to analysing what that client needs at a given time. Ten people took part in the trial. Some were totally at ease with the concept. 0n the day of the session i would be thinking 0k, pepper is standing there, waiting for me. The longer you do this, you get used to it a lot more. And if i were to run on the treadmill now, i would be wondering where is the robot . They did notjust see it as a tool or an object. It was not just a robot. Each of them developed a relationship. They would talk to it in different ways. The robot could be trained by different people, giving it different personalities and styles. The general idea is that the gym of the future could be a very different place. Nice work. Well done for today. Thank you. I hope to see you again soon. Goodbye. Give me five. No, maybe not. 0oh, denied that was lara and pepper and that is it for this week. Next week, it is the click christmas special, which means tons of serious journalism and sensible outfits. In the meantime, you can get in touch with us on social media. 0n on facebook, youtube, instagram and twitter. Thank you for watching and we will see you at clickmas. Hello. It may be a windy, showery, and quite cold weekend to come but at least there will be some sunshine occasionally. Here is the picture. Low pressure dominating the scene, these disturbances moving on through with drier, brighter gaps and the isobars quite close together. It is going to be blustery out there. Too much wind, really, to allow too much in the way of frost to start the day on saturday. Just a few pockets in scotland, maybe one or two icy patches around as well. For many of us, there will be sunny spells from the word go but showers are coming. This area moving north and east across england and wales. Throughout the day, a feed of showers coming into northern ireland, wintry on hills. And into scotland, particularly in the west, frequent showers here. Heavy downpours at lower levels. Some heavy snow to some of the hills here. So, walkers, take note of that. It is going to be a blustery day. These are some of the wind gusts and the winds will get stronger again later in the day, down towards the south west of england in particular, as another batch of wet weather starts to move in. And as for those temperatures, most of us in single figures, many of us just into mid single figures. Now, lets just run on through saturday night and follow this area of wet weather feeding north across more of england and wales. Could well be seeing some hill snow out of that through wales, parts of northern england, even into the midlands, to relatively low hills at that. Northern ireland and scotland still seeing some snow falling in some of the hills here. It looks a bit colder across Northern Britain to start off on sunday morning. Icy in places. And again, dont be surprised if its fairly wintry on fairly modest hills through parts of wales, northern england, perhaps the midlands as we start off on sunday morning. But then on sunday, there is a little bit of a gap between weather systems, where more of us will be dry and get to see the sunshine before this comes in later in the day. Still a bit of uncertainty about timing. But, yes, it does look quieter for a time on sunday with some sunshine, perhaps a bit more widespread than it is during saturday. Still, a few of these showers delivering snow to the hills of scotland, mind you. And then, well, as we go on through the afternoon, its across parts of southern england and wales well start to see this next system moving in with outbreaks of showery rain, just putting the wind gusts on again. Maybe not as windy for some of us but those winds really strengthening down towards south wales and South West England again. Later today, eventually because it gusts around 60 mph. Similar temperatures. It is going to be chilly. But then again, occasionally, we will find ourselves in the sunshine. So to sum up the weekend, then, there will be sunshine occasionally. It is going to be windy. It will be wet at times. And some of us will see some snow, and maybe notjust on the high hills. This is bbc news welcome if youre watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. Imjames reynolds our top stories borisjohnson is celebrating the biggest conservative victory in over 30 years. He now leads a government with a majority of 80 seats. Thank you for the trust you have placed in us and in me, and we will work round the clock to repay your trust, and to deliver on your priorities with a parliament that works for you. Mrchairman, there are 23 ayes and 17 noes. The article is agreed to. In other news one step closer to impeaching the president . A committee in the Us Congress Approves two charges against donald trump. 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