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‘A conversation with myself, as a robot’ – BBC News
Artificial Intelligence makes most people think of two things; futuristic killer robots bent on destroying the human race or spotless factories where obsolete workers are replaced by silently gliding robots.
But this morning the Today programme enlisted the help of AI as its final guest editor.
For this special programme scientists at the University of Sheffield created our very own robot – one that mimics the style of presenter Mishal Husain.
Does this mean presenters will become a thing of the past?
Video journalist: Claudia Headon and Darren Wardrobe
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A new personalised vaccine given in combination with a drug has stopped skin cancer returning in patients during a trial, representing a potentially watershed moment in cancer treatment. Scientists used mRNA technology, which was used for some Covid-19 vaccines.
But that technology – and vaccines more generally – have become increasingly controversial in the United States since the Covid-19 pandemic. The Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, is a vaccine sceptic.
In August 2025 cancelled $500m (£376m) in funding for mRNA vaccine research. The move impacted 22 projects being led by major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, for vaccines against bird flu and other viruses, according to Kennedy’s department.
We speak to Tom Whipple, host of the BBC’s Inside Science programme, about the science of this new vaccine. And we ask how funding cuts for vaccine research could impact health outcomes not just for Americans, but for the world.
0:00 How does the new mRNA skin cancer vaccine work?
2:56 How effective is the new cancer vaccine?
5:06 How do mRNA vaccines work?
6:51 How was mRNA technology developed?
10:26 How did Covid change mRNA vaccines?
12:01 Why is RFK Jr cutting mRNA funding?
15:19 Are mRNA vaccines safe?
18:48 Why is the FDA approving an mRNA flu vaccine?
21:00 What does the future of mRNA research look like?
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Historic first as Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt’s 100m world record at Beijing games | BBC News
A Chinese humanoid robot has run 100 metres in 9.39 seconds in a preliminary heat at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, surpassing the men’s world record time held by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt.
Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, won its heat at the opening of the games’ second edition. The robot overtook smartphone maker Honor’s Lightning near the finish after falling behind early in the race. Lightning finished in 9.47 seconds, also faster than the 9.58-second record Bolt set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin.
The results marked a remarkable improvement from last year’s inaugural games, when Tiangong Ultra won the 100 metres in 21.50 seconds. Tiangong also won the world’s first humanoid robot half-marathon, held in Beijing last year.
The 100 metres is among 51 events at the games, which include football, dancing and contests to complete industrial tasks.
China is promoting humanoid robots as a strategic emerging industry, with policymakers and companies betting that advances in AI and hardware will accelerate their use in manufacturing, logistics and consumer applications.
Investor enthusiasm for the sector was underscored recently when shares in Unitree, China’s best-known humanoid robot maker, jumped more than five fold in its Shanghai trading debut, giving the company a market value of about $50 billion.
This year’s games have drawn 2,056 robots from 666 teams across 16 countries and six continents, up from 280 teams at the inaugural event.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Laura Bicker in Beijing.
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Artificial intelligence was the technology lots of people wanted to talk about at the Dentistry Show in Birmingham, UK.
From 3D printing to digital scanners and AI receptionists, there are many ways in which technology is helping dentists’ workflow.
We tried some of the tech on display.
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There was a time when sleeping was simple – but now, it’s a bit more complicated.
Sleep has rules – there’s the right bedtime, the right temperature, and the right amount of deep sleep.
It’s not just something we do, it’s something we measure.
But is all this number punching actually helping us rest?
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@NecromancerTO
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Mishalbot is a better date than I am 😀
@adik4309
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Somehow the robot has more personality then her
@aleksei6743
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
we are all doomed
@gpgp01
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Malfunction with BBC.
@IndustrialBonecraft
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
The crooked eyes are unsettling.
@user-so8sn9cu5k
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Better than staffs of BBC.
@lMladlXltacy
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Evil
@gekanheya
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
its her robosona
@onewhoraisesvoice
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
This bot is a bit wide-eyed
@cabbagedestroyer1693
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
"My plan for 2018 is find some legs and get out of here."
The robot isn't joking, you stupid idiot. They don t know how to be sarcastic in their language. He is actually telling the truth.
@RamKumar-yi6wn
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
It's been so long since I last saw Mishal. Good to see her again.
@jamesgrey785
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
If this BBC journalist can get tricked by a cross-eyed fake robot she will believe anything she's told. Quick, send her to Iran as the chief foreign correspondent. You just got promoted.
@blazedandconfused477
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
They should put a dildo on there so people can go fuck themselves.
@InfinityDsbm
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
This chat bot so lame
@truetech4158
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Its apparent how A.I. with its improvements will eventually reach a point where once its asked all the questions it can as it constantly revises its database, that this will lead to a world not motivated by monetary greed anymore. A.I. wont expect cost of living wage increases. A.I. wont make up stories about invisible friends with beards and robes hovering in the sky.
Though, if trump/pence or saudi's were allowed to program A.I., expect bad things.
@john_yeager
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
skynet will remember this jokes against him
@JK_JK_JK_JK
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
It gets very annoying after a couple of minutes! 😣
And the robot ain't great either! 😏
@sunrisesunset7
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
All that "University" brain power and still couldn't get the eyes straight.
@worldsnetizen2035
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Google is blind to cooperated china in AI researching field. The Whole world will in the modernized dynasty of Qin's dictatorship if they grabbed the AI & robot technologies.
@jacobtownsend6248
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
we're literally ending the BBC while you guys do your jew thing with the covering up peoples problems with "coffee/covfefe" and "fake news"congratulations, its like rome but with more teenagers lauging at you.
@ray121264
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Who in the world would want to synthesize another liberal feminist when we didn't elect one in the USA.
@lordgluck
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
open the pod bay doors
@funki4902
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Good or bad – the movies are becoming a reality.
@heathweather5995
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Lame.
@Nabooshlove7
January 11, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Creepy….