Now on bbc news, click. This week laras checking out some fast food sort of. Ive just been told to stand back as things might get messy. Dont know how messy. The Laundry Making Fast Fashion greener. And. Oh, no er, yeah, i think thats fast enough, thank you. Pizza baking, burger flipping, salad tossing. Over the years, weve seen food robots chop, fry and saute their way across the kitchen, saving us from one job at a time. Im such a lazy chef. I love eating the food but i want to make making it as quick as possible. See, i dont mind cooking, as long as you dont mind eating the same stuff every day. Well, i think theres a solution for both of our problems. Right lara over the years, weve seen more and more things become automated in the kitchen with various gadgets but now, the Robotic Kitchen may be upon us. This is the first to Market Robokitchen from moley robotics. Its a fully reliable product which you can put, actually, at your home or restaurant, everywhere, and its safe. Its time for lunch. What are you making me . Today, we actually want to make omelette. Choose the recipe. Its arm sets the temperature, grasps items and moves with Military Precision to deliver ingredients. Next operation is pour the egg. And it knows how much to measure . Yes look, its got the egg in the ladle yeah. And its just trying to get any extra bits off so it doesnt drip. Got to keep the kitchen clean, otherwise a human� s got to do that cleaning. Yes. Pre training with recipe data and sensors teaches the arm exact amounts and actions. And now, its taking the next implement. Hows it going to mix . In a slightly robotic way but its doing the job of course, you dont have to stand by and watch but for the first time, at least, its pretty mesmerising. Its off to get the cheese ah, it dropped a bit. Still a bit stuck to the tongs. Its going to shake that off and then, the tongs back there tidier than any human would ever be. Also, its designed for constantly cooking, so it can cook without stopping in the hotel or in senior house or in restaurant. I wants to serve for ten people at two oclock, for example, and it can Start Cooking to be able to serve ten or 15 people at two oclock. A human does still need to do the dishes, though. There we go so far, so good. And now, to try it. Lovely and the big difference between this and my own is this should turn out the same every time so far, ten chefs have contributed to over 50 recipes to the moley database, ranging from stir fries to curries, and more will be added when it becomes available in september. But there is still manual labour involved. A lot of chopped up vegetables here, which looks like a human has done most of the work already. Yes, but these vegetables and this container could be delivered from a Delivery Service as a pack for this particular recipe. Ok, so you could even avoid the chopping. Dishes like this Sweet Potato Soup can be personalised and, in future, youll be able to input your own recipes as well. I dont eat garlic or onion, so ive asked for it to be taken out. Though it does take the robot several days to get the new recipes right. Like anything, you know, you usually need time to perfect anything which you are making. Thats right. Practice makes perfect, even for robots. Absolutely. Now for the liquid. Thats stock, spiced coconut milk and some seasoning. Ah, time for salt and pepper. Laughs. That looks like such a clumsy stir it is impressive, but costing a whopping 50,000 quid, whos going to shell out for this spectacle . First of all, its a lot of place when the chef doesnt want to work for example, night shift, because nobody wants to sit down during the whole night and wait the order, you know . Or if he wants to have a nice dish in the middle of nowhere and, for example, a chef doesnt want to work there, he wants to work in the centre of london, so that could be also the good options. I can imagine it being used in the commercial space but i do struggle to imagine many people actually having it in their home. The strategy of the company is continue working on the machine and continue to make it more and more affordable so, one day, for sure, as we promised before, it will cost much less maybe 25, maybe 30k, so thats our goal. Thats still quite a jump from a standard kitchen and it will sometimes need a wipe down. Ive just been told to stand back as things might get messy. Dont know how messy. I normally make more than that, to be fair. A for me, its been totally effortless, but the real proof is not in the pudding, but in this soup. Mmm delicious oh, its got a bit of a kick to it. Mmm, yeah, its really good. Very well blended by the robot and the blender. Yeah, and the chef who create this recipe. And the Software Engineer that trained the robot what to do theres more people involved in the making of this soup than id have thought. Good, though spencer now, then, the race is on not on the race track, but in our city centres. See, lots of companies are vying to lead the way in remote controlled cars full sized ones, this is with tests being carried out in the uk, estonia, the usa and germany, where Alasdair Keane has been behind the wheel. Alasdair this car might look like its moving on its own, but the secret behind it is a team of drivers based in an office on the other side of berlin. The idea behind vay is that in a city, you wont need to own a car simply order one to be delivered to you whenever you need it. With vay app, then, the car is being remotely driven by the teledriver to the customer, so the customer doesnt need to search for the car. Just get into the car on the drivers seat, drive themselves to the destination and, at the destination, they just get out without the need to search for parking lot, etc. Theyjust get out because the teledriver can then take over control until it drives the vehicle to the next customers. That took us about 30 minutes to get here. This is a telestation, where they drive the cars as they move all over the city of berlin. And in a television first, theyre going to let me have a shot. Alina is one of the drivers. Shes moving a car around the streets of berlin, controlled from here. As i prepare to take over the wheel, i cant help wondering if its easy to forget youre in control of a car. It looks just like a normal car. The Steering Wheel has all the buttons that i recognise but, of course, theres this big red button. Exactly. What does it do . Thats an additional Safety Measure which vay implemented in case something happens with the session, then the teledriver is trained to react to that by pressing the brake very hard and at the same time, the emergency button, which basically will also bring the vehicle to a safe stop. So, thats me now in drive. You have full control. 0k. Foot off the brake. Yeah. And were starting to move forward. There we are. Ifeel like im getting very close to these cones. Yeah. 0h its very strange, the spatial awareness of where the cones are. Yeah, its something that you have to get used to. Yeah. Perhaps my Driving Reputation came before me but while i was behind the wheel, there was a safety driver, just in case things didnt go to plan. So, chris in the car is telling me to take my time. Yeah. At this point, ifeel like im speeding around the track but the car is going less than iokm h. Just as im getting confident. Oh, no i think i have a lot more training to do before i get let loose on the roads. Drivers here go through hours of training, including theory and practical. Controlling these cars relies on 4g and a signal between the car and the driver. We all, of course, have been there, where weve not been able to get a signal for whatever were doing. What happens if one of these cars loses a signal . Its a very good question. What we have built is like that, as you know from your private experience, that some Network Providers in this corner have better quality than the others, so what were doing, we have redundancies, meaning were not only relying on one network carrier, we have, like, four multiple carriers, so if one falls, we still have three and so on. And in the unlikely scenario that all drops, the vehicle detects this in real time and comes to a safe stop. And then, depending whether they recover, we can resume operation. In hamburg in the north of germany, vay are the First Company in the eu to have permission to run this tech on the roads with nobody in the car. You can imagine seeing a vehicle on public streets and theres no one inside. People, like, their reactions vary from disbelief to enthusiasm and excitement, and what we have learned is that they actually trust this technology when they understand theres actually a human that controls this vehicle and not a computer. And i think this is, like, very important because it also shows the opportunity and, like, paving the way towards an autonomous future which we believe in. There are still hurdles to overcome not least Building Trust in this tech. But as connectivity gets better, we could be seeing more remote controlled cars on our roads in no time. And now, its time for a look at this weeks tech news. X, formerly known as twitter, is facing a bill from local authorities in San Francisco after an Unauthorised X was placed on the roof of the companys headquarters. Authorities said that the company did not have permission to put up the sign and will be charged for the cost of its installation and its removal. The Scottish Island of 0rkney has become the first place in the uk to have mail delivered by drones. The joint operation by royal mail and Drone Company skyports will initially run for three months but has the potential to become permanent, due to the islands landscape. All Three Islands are within close proximity so we can use something called extended visual line of sight flying so, effectively, you rely on people track to see eyes and ears of the pilots flying the drone. Youtube has announced an expansion of tools for its short video platform youtube shorts. Some of the features include adding effects and stickers, going live and collab, which allows a creator to record a video with another video next to it. And nasa is launching its first on demand streaming Service Called nasa plus. The platform will allow viewers to watch live coverage and enjoy new series on nasa missions. Nasa plus will take off later in the year. Lara in february this year, a devastating earthquake hit turkey. But whats been barely reported is that google was operating an earthquake Early Warning system, which it claims had sent out millions of alerts to people before the quake hit. However, a bbc investigation failed to find evidence that this warning was actually received by most turkish people in the earthquake zone. Anna foster in turkey and James Clayton in San Francisco have more. James it was one of the most deadly earthquakes in modern times. Februarys quake happened in the middle of the night. Many people died where they were sleeping, in their beds. 50,000 people were killed. However, there was an earthquake Warning System run by google in turkey, and the Company Claims millions of people got a warning before this earthquake. It works on any Android Phone thats about 80 of all of the phones in turkey and this is google� s explainer on how it works. Android phones have these tiny accelerometers built into them which can sense earthquakes. People will now be able to have their phones become part of this network of mini seismometers looking for earthquakes around the world. We call this the. When the phone detects an earthquake, it sends a message back to google� s servers. When enough phones do this, google can pinpoint the epicentre and send out an earthquake warning. And so youll hear it go. Phone chimes it looks like this, and it says, drop, coverand hold. So its pretty loud. Its pretty loud. This is micah berman, the product manager for the system at google. If it was on do not disturb, it would override that . Exactly the same behaviour that you just heard, no matter what state your phone is in. You should get that warning . Yes. The further you are from the earthquake, the more notice the system can give you, up to around a minute enough time to try and find a safer location. So our system did activate for both of the major events in turkey, as well as for a number of aftershocks. Heres my colleague anna foster, whod been reporting on the ground from the earthquake zone. I was really puzzled by that claim, because i was here on the ground in turkey in the hours and the days and the weeks after the earthquake. And nobody had ever mentioned in any interview with me receiving an alert before the earthquake. So we decided to go to three cities that had been impacted adana, 0smaniye and iskenderun. I simply asked people whether theyd received an alert. Everyone youre about to hear from has an Android Phone. So when the earthquake happened, the first one that happened in the night, did you get this alert on your phone at the time of the earthquake . No. And what about. . So it looks like that and it makes a sound. Phone chimes no. No . No. No, no, no. No . No. We spoke to dozens of people on the streets. Most people hadnt even heard of google� s system. No, no. No . Funda lost 25 members of her family, including her sister and nephews. So you didnt receive any alert, nothing on your phone . In all three cities, despite our attempts, we didnt find one person, not one, who got a warning for the first earthquake. I put our findings to google. How sure are you that, firstly, it did fire and secondly that it actually got to people during this earthquake . Im as sure as we can be that the system activated and that we did send alerts. Its possible, you know, that given all of the. Like, the massive impact of the first event that this just quietly happened in the background while users were really paying attention to other things. At the end of the day, i think thats probably the most likely explanation, that users were focused on Something Else and might not even have noticed if they got the alert. Have you spoken to anyone who got it . I have not, no, though i dont speak turkish and, you know, im not in turkey so. I would love to. Has google spoken to anyone . I dont know. Harold tobin is a professor of Earth Sciences and director of the Pacific North west seismic network. These systems are extremely new, right . Theyre at the cutting edge of whats possible. I feel that if you are delivering an essential sort of. Life safety, Public Safety piece of information, then you have a responsibility to be transparent about how it works and how well it works. We cant be sure that no one got this alert, but we can be sure that many people didnt. There was no Blanket Warning a warning that could have saved lives. Now, we know that fast fashion isnt great for the planet, yet many stores still sell trendy cheap clothes that are here today and gone tomorrow. But there are ways to make this trillion dollar Clothing Industry more sustainable, as Francesca Hashemi has been finding out. Millions of tonnes of clothes are sent to landfill every year, making the industry a major contributor of Greenhouse Gases and a massive consumer of a finite resource water. Fashion is the second most polluting industry after aviation and shipping. It accounts for 10 of Global Carbon emissions, and its very water intensive. From Manufacturing Textiles for Cotton T Shirts to washing or dry cleaning clothes, the industry relies heavily on h20. But some people are trying to change that. Here at acs, we also use water, were large laundry. We believe that, in the next 12 months, we will get to a stage where we wont take any water from the mains. This fashion hub rents, resells repairs and sanitises pre loved clothes from the high street or luxury brands. But how sustainable is it . Even though we might be working with some of these fast Fashion Brands, were wanting them to help change their consumer mindset, so in being able to rent or get second hand fashion, rather than this kind of model of just consuming constantly. So working with these brands, we are helping them to increase their sustainability credentials, and were stopping garments from ending up in landfill. The way in which we handle the clothes on site and how we are carbon neutral, how we have gone through a process to minimise our Co2 Emissions on ourjourney to net zero, on our reduction of water, we know that how we handle them here is a much more Sustainable Way than what we all do in our own homes. Talking of water, the entire operation once used about 20,000 litres of the stuff every day. About 50 , thats 10,000 or 11,000 litres, that was used in laundry. But theyve managed to halve this by using something scotland has plenty of. Acs now harvests rainwater from the roof, then recycles it to use for cleaning and preparing clothes for customers. What we have is, theres three pipes. The first pipe is actually the reused water, so this is the water from the laundry, and what its done is, at the end of one of the final cycles, its actually pumped out, and you can see along the pipe, and pumped into this tank. The computer inside the laundry knows when the next cycle starts. It activates the pump that pumps the water out the tank, brings it up and brings it in at that inlet there. The second pipe that you see is actually the reused water from the coolant system. Theres a tank in the floor above thats a hot tank, and that water is actually pumped in, activated by the computer in the laundry machine. Thats actually hot water in there, and what it does is, it means that we dont have to heat it and then the next one is for cold washes, and that water is the rainwater harvesting, which is actually, again, stored in a tank upstairs. So all the water collected for use on the laundry, its not always clean if youre reusing it. How do you deal with that . You can see the waste pipe there, and the waste pipe goes through this very large filter, and it takes all the microplastics out. And the waste water then goes into the normal drainage system, the mains, and then what its done is process the way that normal water would be processed. The team partnered with the university of west of scotland to create a digital twin of their Water Consumption, and some of their findings are pretty interesting. So at the moment, acs utilises 5. 5 of the roof area, which is about 1,000 litres of water per day. If it utilised the whole of the roof area, it would be able to collect around 18,000 litres per day. This would almost be sufficient not to utilise anything from external sources. The entire operation being self sufficient in terms of their Water Consumption is aspirational and, of course, variable. But its also a great example of what one clothing hub is doing to increase their sustainability credentials. But in this fast moving fashion economy, what more could the industry do . In terms of technology, we need a lot more data in the fashion industry. Currently, the majority of Fashion Brands will only publish tier one suppliers on their website, so the people who manufacture and make the clothes. When it comes to tier two, which is things like the making of the fabric, and then tier three, which is your raw materials, the majority of brands dont know where thats coming from. And i think, moving forward, thats the type of data were going to need to be capturing in order to avoid greenwashing. Thats all weve got time for. Thanks for watching. Well be back next week. See you. Go. You probably dont need me to tell ou go. You probably dont need me to tell you that go. You probably dont need me to tell you that this go. You probably dont need me to tell you that this is go. You probably dont need me to tell you that this is the go. You probably dont need me to tell you that this is the fourth tell you that this is the fourth consecutive weekend when difficult weather has been in charge of our patterns. Storm antoni is responsible for the storms, and the rolling area of low pressure will disappear by sunday. That will allow for a drier and brighter day. Still quite breezy to start off across eastern england, with clarke and some splashes of rain, but most of us will get to see some sunshine through the day, albeit with quite a few showers, some heavy, thundery ones particularly affecting parts of scotland. Temperatures a little bit higher than they have been, 17, 18, 19 degrees. This is not particularly impressive for this point in august, but it should be a warmer day on saturday in many places. During sunday night was largely clear skies overhead and lighter winds, temperatures are set to drop. It is going to be quite a cool and fresh night, bringing towns and cities down to 8 degrees, and some spots will get chillier than that. But after that fresh start, monday should at least bring some spells of sunshine, although there will be some showers, they probably wont be too many. Later in the day, we will see more Cloud Rolling in towards the south west of england, parts of wales and northern ireland. Temperatures if anything just a little bit higher, 16 21. As we move out of monday and tuesday, we will see this next frontal system pushing in from the west, but this is going to be quite a weak affair, so it will bring quite a lot of cloud, could make things a little misty and murky for wales and the south west, with some bits and pieces of rain and at the same time this brisk northerly wind bringing the odd shower into scotland. Temperatures between 16 and 20 degrees in most places. But wednesday, still signs of a week frontal system bringing some bits and pieces of rain, but there is likely to be a lot of dry weather, some spells of sunshine. The wins will be quite light, temperatures will start to climb, 1724. And that temperatures will start to climb, 17 24. And that certainly looks like the first sign of a change. As we move into thursday, we see High Pressure building to the east of us. Low pressure to the west. This Weather Set Up will bring some warmer air in Weather Set Up will bring some warmerair in our Weather Set Up will bring some warmer air in our direction, so thursday is likely to be the warmest day we have seen for quite some time. Still some large areas of cloud around but some sunny spells as well, and the vast majority should be dry. Have a look at the temperatures, quite a change. 25 degrees for glasgow, 26 for cardiff, birmingham and london. A couple of places might get warmer than that. But it does look like we might then see a frontal system pushing eastwards which will cool things off again into next weekend. Low pressure still quite close by, particularly up towards the north and the west but it does look like High Pressure will have a bit more of an influence on keeping things that Bit Drierfurther of an influence on keeping things that bit drier further south. For next weekend, low pressure still fairly close by, but i think it should be a little bit less unsettled, they will be a bit more in the way of dry weather, and it should feel just a in the way of dry weather, and it should feeljust a little bit warmer as well. Thats all from me. Goodbye for now. Live from london, this is bbc news. Dozens of people are dead after an express train derails in Southern Pakistan. 100 others are reported injured. In niger a deadline set by west African Leaders for the militaryjunta to step down and reinstate the countrys president is now hours away. And at the womens world cup, the defending champions, the usa are knocked out by sweden after a tense penalty shootout. Hello, im samantha simmonds. We start with Breaking News from Southern Pakistan where at least 30 people have been killed in a rail derailment. Another 50 are injured. The Hazara Express came off the rails near nawabshah in sindh province, as it travelled from karachi to abbottabad. These are the latest pictures from the scene, in a remote area
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