on thursday and the process will take until september to come up with a winner. i ll be back at the top of the hour. now on bbc news, it s ai tennis, robot footballers and body tracking tech as click serves up a sports tech special. this week, we re at wimbledon to find out if ai can predict the winners, although spencer s concentrating on the more important parts of the event. choose my blanket design. got to get the food sorted first. lara gets her trainers on to put some of the latest fitness devices through their paces. they say that i run like an elephant. the question is, is it true? probably! cheering it s men versus machine as omar and paul kick off against the robots. and we check out the tools hoping to make sports more accessible. it s one of the biggest events on the sporting calendar. the players, powerful. ..light of foot. ..lightning fast. it requires physical endurance and nerves of steel. and that s the reason that every year the crowds spill out to watch wim
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this week, we re at wimbledon to find out if ai can predict the winners, although spencer s concentrating on the more important parts of the event. choose my blanket design. got to get the food sorted first. lara gets her trainers on to put some of the latest fitness devices through their paces. they say that i run like an elephant. the question is, is it true? probably! cheering. it s men versus machine as omarand paul kick off against the robots. and we check out the tools hoping to make sports more accessible. it s one of the biggest events on the sporting calendar. the players, powerful. light of foot. lightning fast. it requires physical endurance and nerves of steel. and that s the reason that every year the crowds spill out to watch wimbledon. you see that there? that is centre court and it s been in that spot now for exactly 100 years. a centre court centenary. indeed. nice line. i know how much you love wimbledon, but are you like my aunt, who shouts at the tv for tw
it s one of the biggest events on the sporting calendar. the players powerful, light of foot, lightning fast. it requires physical endurance and nerves of steel. and that s the reason that every year, the crowds spill out to watch wimbledon. you see that there? that is centre court and it s been in that spot now for exactly 100 years. a centre court centenary. indeed! nice line. i know how much you love wimbledon, but are you like my aunt, who shouts at the tv for two weeks? i absolutely love it and i absolutely am like your aunt. this is the most stressful two weeks of the year for me. my heart rate goes through the roof and i m just watching the thing on tv. oh, you need one of my activity trackers. i ve got a few to spare to track your heart rate. ah, yes! how did you get on with those? well, i ll tell you and you about that in a bit. right you are. yeah, wimbledon has been at the forefront of trialling new tech, both on and off the court, and we ve been lucky enough
of a 44 billion dollar deal to buy twitter. as italy battles its worst drought in 70 years, we report from communities which are seeing a third of their agricultural produce threatened. ina in a normal year, even in high summer, i could not do what i m doing right now, which is a walk across this stretch of river po without even getting my feet wet. this riverbed has become a sandbank. and.go for it all naomi campbell gives her advice on modelling and motherhood after being awarded an honorary doctorate for her impact on global fashion. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. our top story in sri lanka protesters have stormed the president s official residence in colombo as the country s economic crisis deepens. the whereabouts of the president are unknown. we can bring you some new pictures which have just come in showing the potesters inside the residence. police fired tear gas in an effort to disperse huge crowds gathered to demand the resig