this week, we re diving into the world of artificial reefs. the advantage to this is you can take all of the best qualities of a natural reef and you can exaggerate them, completely. the robots have come to town. and paul finds out how old bangers are being given an afterlife. it s an engine ina dishwasher. course it is! our oceans and the marine life they support are under threat. climate change is causing them to warm at record levels and as the seas absorb more co2 they also become more acidic. and that as well as other man made damage like trawling for fish can have a devastating impact on important habitats like reefs, but can technology offer a solution? well, adrian murray has been finding out about some conservation efforts to help bring back marine life in two very different parts of the world, starting in denmark. just off the island of samso, plans are under way to build an artificial reef, and i m about to join a group of researchers on the water for a closer loo
they re very well trained doggies! a good example of ai and robotic co operation comes courtesy of uk company 0xa. it s creating software with al roots, allowing autonomous vehicles like shuttle buses and mining offroaders to navigate the world around them. but when we look at the wider world at the moment, especially things like tech, there are big concerns about the effect of technologies like artificial intelligence on the workplace. there was going to be change injobs, the vehicles for our autonomous shuttles, they would have supervisors, they may be remote, you may have people in parts of the country that doesn t have great opportunities helping solve traffic problems in the clogged south because the vehicle drivers and operators no longer need to be in the vehicles. so the issue here is how do we skill ourselves? one of the most controversial applications of robotic and ai tech is in defence. ai pioneer yoshua bengio recently warned of the potential dangers of the misuse of the t