Florida reinforce virus restrictions, they say the nation has Serious Problems with his handling of covid i9. India now has half a million cases of the outbreak and the rate of infection appeared to be rising. 0n and the rate of infection appeared to be rising. On friday, more than 18,000 new cases have been declared, more than the high so far. In ireland, a new Prime Minister has been elected. President donald trump has signed an executive order, pledging to protect statues or monuments, as after many have been attacked due to recent protests. Now on bbc news it is time for click. This week, its a food special, with a groundbreaking greenhouse heated by sewage. Robots that dish up your dinner, the ultimate pizza, and Heston Blumenthal does this. Hey, welcome to click, hope youre doing 0k. I dont know what its like where you are, but over here, restrictions are being lifted, and many, many more places are going to be able to reopen soon. Which, if im honest, feels a bit strange. I dont know how you feel about it, lara. Yeah, i think ive already adapted to some things about lockdown, although ill be very pleased to get this fixed, and also hospitality is reopening. So it means we can go to a restaurant. Ijust dont know how normal its going to feel sitting down and eating in one. Yeah, i dont think im ready to eat out yet, its weird, isnt it. It is, but then i suppose it has been such a strange few months, the coronavirus has really affected pretty much everything, and the food and drinks industry is no exception. True. Now pubs are going to reopen as well, you might be looking forward to your cheeky chilled glass of wine, unless you have already been taking part in a spot of virtual wine tasting. The ciacci winery in italy is everything that you would expect from a tuscan vineyard, it is gorgeous, isnt it. Now click is always a collaborative effort, and each team member is fairly chosen to cover a story so this week clicks boss simon decided to delegate thisjob to himself. Not bad. With trade shows cancelled and no chance to visit their distributors around the world, this traditional business has taken to Microsoft Teams to do what they normally do in person. We have to do the video tasting only with our distributors, because it is a new way to communicate, because without other important trade fairs, so this is a new way to communicate. Im not saying that in the future a tradeshow will disappear, but i think they will be attended by more interested people with a very well planned schedules. For us, for example, in our sector, there is this type of digital transformation, and were starting to use Microsoft Teams, for us it was very, very revolutionary. It even a business like a winery is thinking about going online, and so many other industries are too, then i wonder if the tech shows we go to every year will ever return in the flesh. Well, booze aside, at a time like this, many of us are thinking about our health more than ever. And that can also mean thinking more about what were consuming, and where it has come from. In the uk, by some estimates, up to 80 of our food is imported. So travel restrictions and controlled borders could be a real problem unless we can produce more food ourselves. Sojen copestakes been to visit a world first project where the aim is to create more food but cause less damage to the environment. One word sewage. Yes, sewage. Every year we produce1 Million Tonnes of it in the uk. And it produces its own waste heat. Interest is growing on how to use this waste heat as a Sustainable Energy source, and here in east anglia its being used in the building of a unique greenhouse project which could revolutionise our countrys farming industry. This will be the worlds first greenhouse that is using heat from a Water Treatment plant, and that has the benefit of not only reducing the impact on the environment but also reducing the uks need to import produce. In the uk we consume over 500,000 tonnes of fresh tomatoes every year. 80 of this, around 400,000 tonnes, is imported. The same goes for cucumbers and peppers. We import 75 of our cucumbers and 90 of peppers. These new greenhouses could not only help make the uk self sufficient in produce, but also reduce Carbon Emissions by 75 . So ben, were now walking into the greenhouse, blimey, its really, really big. Certainly one of the largest in terms of the uk. For every hectare of normal land, a greenhouse like this can produce ten times more food using ten times less water. Wed be looking at growing probably about 23 million peppers a year in this particular facility. So what is that as a percentage of the amount of consumption of peppers in the uk . Id say probably 5 . A conventional greenhouse might use fossil fuels to provide its heat by burning gas or oil, but here the waste heat from the nearby sewage works is pumped 2. 5 kilometres via an enclosed loop system to the greenhouse. The idea to use this waste heat came from thermal engineer neil lawson. Well, it was inspiration from nature really. Walking down the river with the dog on a winters day, saw a stream coming in from the left and it was steaming and all the ducks were sitting there, obviously enjoying the warmth, so i followed that stream to its source, and came up to the Sewage Treatment works. They were discharging 1000 litres a second of clean water into the river, at up to 25 degrees centigrade. That equates to sa megawatts worth of waste heat. Thats enough heating for about 15,000 homes. Using Geographic Information system mapping, 43 sites close to wastewater centres have been identified around the country, including the anglian Water Treatment plant near bury st edmunds. So were now at the water recycling plant, where this treated water will then be pumped into a station and the heat will be removed from that process, and then the heat will be transferred to the greenhouse. Were taking a low source of energy which is otherwise a waste energy, using heat pumps to upgrade or compress that low grade heat to make it useful heat to heat a greenhouse. A greenhouse uses a lot of energy, here we have an abundant source available. Another benefit to this new farming technique is reducing reliance on countries where water is no longer so abundant. Parts of southern spain, actually, their groundwater now is saline. And theyre having to develop saline resistant crops. Whereas here in the uk, we dont have that problem, it rains all the time. We can get all the water we need from capturing it on the roof and recycling it. And thats not all the roof can do. And the entire roof is designed to maximise the amount of light that comes into it, so much so that the glass is diffuse and it enables the light to be spread evenly across the entire crop. Itll be an extremely high tech greenhouse. Its actually quite remarkable, it might look unassuming but actually theres a lot of Artificial Intelligence included in the environmental computers. All the vents are controlled by by Artificial Intelligence, they re constantly scanning met office data for prevailing wind directions. The trend for computer driven farming is growing. A six month autonomous greenhouse competition was recently held in the netherlands. Teams fully automated the process of growing tomatoes. Sensors, camera detection and models provided the needed information to get the plants their exact nutrients. And of course robots play a role in greenhouse production and here they will be deployed to help carry vegetables down the central aisle to the pack house. There are no plans to use robots like this sweeper bot to help pick produce, yet, but the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need to think about growing food locally and perhaps with limited human involvement. No one knows what the future holds, so with this particular pandemic, lets say, it could, the virus could mutate and all of a sudden we dont have enough food. Weve benefited from Unrestricted Movement and Free Movement of goods as well, and that may be set to change. If we dont have a bit more resilience in the uk, on ourfood production, there could be issues down the line. These issues could disappear depending on the success of this project. If all 43 sites were up and running, low Carbon Farming say they could produce all of the uks tomato requirements and at least half of its peppers. Until then, the first shipments from here are expected to hit the supermarkets next spring. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that microsoft abandoned its own Live StreamingService Mixer in favour of a partnership with Facebook Gaming instead. Apple announced it will move from using intel chips in its Mac Computers to using its own. Macs will run on the same type of chips as the companys iphones and ipads. And brands such as ben jerrys, patagonia and mozilla pulled their ads from facebook as part of a campaign to boycott the social media giant over its failure to address hate speech and misinformation. Researchers have brought the possibility of saying computer, enhance to our images that little bit closer. A team at Duke University designed a tool that can convert a 16 x 16 pixelated image into a 1024 x 1024 image in seconds. Being tested for the coronavirus may not be a pleasant experience but a new robot has been developed to help you reach the furthest reaches of your nose. Researchers at the Korea Institute of machinery and materials developed this remote controlled bot that swabs the inside of your nose and helps prevent medical workers from coming into contact with potential coronavirus patients. And finally if you have been missing the aquarium but also feel that animals should be free to roam their natural environments, this robot dolphin developed by special effects company Edge Innovations may be the future of sea life attractions. The robo dolphin waves 595 pounds and has a battery life of about ten hours. Theres a clickjoke here somewhere. Now, as restaurants open up they are faced with some serious challenges. They have to keep their customers at a safe distance from each other and protect their staff too. And then there is the question of trust. Would you want someone else preparing and handling your food at the moment . Which for us raises the obvious question is it time to call in the cuisine machines . Is it a vending machine or is it a robot . No idea but it can cook your croissant fresh on request and a quick quiche if youre lucky. Others can serve hot ramen and pizzas in minutes. Hopefully will not be getting all of our food from vending machines just yet, not until we have to evacuate the planet, but this one is rather smart. It builds salads from scratch. We use different technologies to dispense different ingredient types. Pumps for liquids, powder wheel type mechanisms for solids. But all these are managed by a Software Algorithm that provides real time feedback based on weight to make sure that we dispense all these ingredients very precisely. If we do not, and we try and dispense Something Like an avocado, were going to end up dispensing guacamole, or sliced tomato, we end up dispensing the base of a salsa. Now, over the years we have seen more than ourfair share of bionic arms mixing drinks and weird. Whatever that is. They were gimmicks, lets face it. But maybe, just maybe, this is their time. This robot in belarus can serve more than 300 cups in every 12 hour shift and is already offering an alternative to shuttered coffee shops. This kind of way of serving the coffee is kind of different from the personal touch of a human but, especially in the time of coronavirus, that is the way i would want to see mostly all the fast food, you know, all the cafes and restaurants. Absolutely, this coronavirus pandemic accelerated the process of adaptation of robotics technologies. 0ther robot arms have been trained to use tools and, for each new ingredient, it takes alfred here tens of thousands of tries to get to grips with it. Alfred right now knows how to use ladles, spoons, salad tongs and dishers. It uses a camera to then direct the material and then it is able to react to the torque that it feels and that is able to tell it whether it needs to pushes harder or softer. And it also can work with its camera to determine how much material is actually inside the utensil at any given point. Alfred is not as fast as a human serverjust yet but it can still plate up to 50 orders per hour. It only operates at its highest speed of two metres per second when it senses that no one is around. It slows to a standstill if it detects a human is dangerously close. Right now, this robot is dispensing pick and mix but its newer, bigger brother will have many, many arms, many dispensers and it will soon be feeding 0cado staff in one of their canteens. We can take a whole range of orders and our robot will automatically create the optimised routine. We call it a flight path. This is not a technology that is going to overtake next spring, youre not going to see every restaurant in london with robots in there but we think over the three years, five years, eight year horizon, this Robotic Technology in kitchens will be as commonplace as a microwave or a food mixer now. I think it is time to get a view from someone who is world famous at using science and take in the kitchen. Tech. It is only Heston Blumenthal. Hey, heston, how are you doing . Im very good. Do you think right now, with all of the fears that people have and the restrictions that there may be a use for more automation in the kitchen . Robots can be incredible so a robotic arm to make your favourite cocktail that when you come back into a bar remembers what your favourite cocktail can be amazing. One of my ideas was to have two robotic arms like tom cruise. Imagine. One of them squeezes a bit of negroni out and it goes like a fountain and the other one catches it, then you can have someone come and join in in between the two of them. It could be magic. They can make money, they can give consistency. But then what happens to the staff . Working with humans can be a nightmare. But it can be the most rewarding thing in the world. So if a computer can chop an onion really quickly, a robot, get the robot to chop the onion really quickly so then the human could do Something Else about being human, can create, so if robots could give humans back their creativity and their imagination, that for me would be unbelievable. Over the years we have seen quite a few Food Computers on the programme, these are boxes or even shipping containers full of strawberries or lettuce that are growing under led lights and in special nutrient mixes and the advantage is, we were told, is that you can grow this food very locally to where its sold, so you do not have to ship it half way around the world and also that you can very precisely control the growing conditions. So you might be able to even improve on the quality of the food that you get out of the ground. What do you think about Food Computers . The question you just asked me is exactly our lab here. If you think about growing something, it needs energy. When you play energy, it is a vibration. So sunlight, wind, temperature, animal noises, emotions, all have a major impact. So can you see these . Whats that . Theyre three jars of rice in water. Dimitri who is running this every morning, he will give one jar gratitude, language but with intention. The otherjar he will give verbal abuse useless, idiot, stupid the otherjar he will take no notice of. After two months, the rice that has had love goes more kind of florally fermented sweet, sometimes golden. The one that has had the abuse is like an old cheese. And the one that has been ignored is like human poo with vinegar. I will show you this as well. A vibration generator. You apply different frequencies to it. Here, there is a speaker. You put water in and you apply different frequencies. It is a tibetan singing bowl. So we have been baking nut milk and ice cream and tea and coffee and we have been applying different frequencies either though out here using tuning forks. Tuning fork sound vibrations. And applying those to the liquid that we cook with. There is a noticeable difference. Listen, heston, this has been. Brilliant. Thank you so much for your time. Thanks. Ok, before we go, wejust had to get our hands on some tech. A few months back, we sent our resident baker, omar mehtab, to play sous chef to an ai controlled pizza robot and this is what happened. Pizza, arguably the comfiest of comfort foods, and its eaten by the millions daily around the world. And this one here was put together by a robot. Developed by picnic, this modular machine is set to put together around 300 pizzas per hour. Thats so many that youd need three of these big ovens to cope with that amount. But those still need to be prepped by human, but from there, its completely automated. Now, to get this machine running, first you need to select what kind of pizza you want on this tablet. Once youve done that, you place the dough inside, underneath this sensor right here, and what that does is it works out the exact location of that dough. Whys that . Because it needs to work out where exactly those ingredients need to be placed on the pie. There are four modules for sauce, cheese, vegetables and meat. But a restaurant offering more on the menu can add however many they want. In between each ingredient module is a camera and this camera takes pictures of each stage of the pizza making process. It then sends those pictures back to the also it can analyse them and improve itself over time. So the more pizzas it makes, the better it gets. So what you should get in the end is. The perfect pizza. But theres one thing that i still have to do, which is take it from this machine and put it in here so it can bake. What were doing is were digitising what has been a completely manual process. So were capturing data about ingredient usage, ordering patterns, eliminate sometimes you have food waste because you bought too much of an ingredient, you didnt use it. People can order directly off of their phone and the system can tell the customer exactly when their pizza will be ready because it will nowhere where it is in the queue. Know where it is. Right, now, im going to put this machine to the test. A taste test. You know, i dabble in a bit of baking myself so im going to bake my own pizza and compare the two and see which one comes out better. Two, one. And its ripped, oh hey. And this means i can be as specific as i want as i go along, like taking out some black olives, and adding extra cheese on top. Things the machine cant do, but, if youre inexperienced like me, that may come with a price. Oh, no. The rest of it is, um, its stuck to the mesh laughs and now, to taste. First, mine. Yeah, all right, ill be honest, it was awful. Oh, sod it ok, i lost. And since the pandemic began, the company say they have also seen an increase in business as social distancing in kitchens and food preparation free of human contact becomes desirable but is there a danger that the restaurants who use this machine could have very similar food to each other . When we encounter a customer, we want to use their ingredients, their style, however they like to make their pizza. We want to make the same pizza that the chef is already making, just make it much more consistency and make it much more easily, with lower food waste. So these machines could fill up the kitchens of pizzerias in future, unless you want to stick to a humans touch. Well, not mine. Can someone help . Man loves his food, man loves his food that was omar. And thats it for this week. We hope we have given you some, ha, food for thought. Yes, you can keep track of the team throughout the week on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter bbcclick. Thanks for watching and we will see you soon. Bye bye. Hello. After all the heat and humidity of the past week, its now cooler out there. Considerably fresher. This is an area of low pressure in charge of things. It has pulled in the cool airfrom the things. 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