00:00Would you let a humanoid robot into your home to do the cleaning?
00:03In San Francisco, that now costs around 26 euros an hour.
00:08American startup Toe Robotics has developed a humanoid cleaner
00:12designed to tackle the same everyday chores a person would.
00:15It's a humanoid, so it can do basically everything a human can do.
00:19It can vacuum clean, it can mop the floor, it can wipe kitchen counters,
00:25it can dust off some shelves.
00:27Toe Robotics launched its service in July.
00:30More than 50 homes have already been cleaned,
00:33and there is now a waiting list for people wanting to try it.
00:41It's exciting. The fact that it stumbles a little bit almost makes it endearing.
00:46It's a little bit like watching a child.
00:48And I think that's kind of how it's entering society.
00:50It's not about expecting it to be completely perfect,
00:53but the fact that it can climb back up after it falls,
00:56or like pick something up that it drops.
00:57It's like the error correction.
00:59It kind of makes it like seamless and kind of like in my home.
01:04A human operator controls it remotely,
01:07seeing the home through its cameras as it carries out each task.
01:14Toe Robotics says its robot still cannot match the speed or ability of a human cleaner.
01:19But for some customers, taking a little longer is worth it if the robot handles the jobs they would rather
01:25avoid.
01:27Like I don't want to clean the toilet.
01:29Like I'm willing to wait a little bit more and read a book or do some work.
01:33So I'm very excited. It's like a glimpse of the future.
01:36For now, that glimpse of the future comes in one-hour slots.
01:40Toe Robotics says it hopes to offer longer cleaning sessions as the service develops.
01:45Cleaning is only the beginning of its ambitions.
01:48The company eventually wants its humanoid robots to help with home repairs and maintenance and even elderly care.
01:56At the historic Emola Formula 1 circuit,
01:59race cars took the track with no steering wheels, pedals or drivers.
02:04All teams used the same car so the competition came down to the software.
02:10Teams from Germany, Italy and the United Arab Emirates competed to build the fastest autonomous racer.
02:16The teams that come here are all about winning.
02:19They are scientists, they look like scientists and they behave like scientists.
02:24But once the competition starts, it's about showing that they have the best software, the best code in the car
02:32and what they want is to win.
02:34And the choice of circuit adds another level of difficulty as mistakes at Emola can quickly turn into high-speed
02:40crashes.
02:41It's a non-forgiving circuit because any kind of mistake can really, really lead to a high-speed crash.
02:50So it's our utmost ambition not only to do our best but not to crash the car while trying to
02:56achieve the limit.
02:57And the circuit is giving us quite a big challenge.
03:01Organizers believe putting AI on the racetrack can also help build public trust in the technology.
03:06The league addresses, let's say, one of the biggest challenges in developing autonomous vehicles, right, which is testing risky scenarios
03:17in a controlled environment at high speeds.
03:20And against other vehicles that are traveling equally fast or even at different paces creating different outcomes that create data
03:27that you will naturally get in a controlled road environment where cars are usually traveling at, let's say, more conservative
03:34speeds.
03:35During the race, the engineers can only watch how the autonomous system performs.
03:40When the race starts, it's hands off. And so this is basically just letting, you know, a child just do
03:45its thing and just looking at them and, you know, wishing them all the best, essentially hoping to be proud.
03:52But, of course, that can go wrong. Our AI driver can stumble. It's all possible.
03:57After 12 laps, a team from the United Arab Emirates took the win at the race.
04:01and as soon as possible there were several layers of, we extract a number of actors.
04:07it's almost universal that we then saved together.
04:08Pulp truthfully, the 5th Party was surrounded by L italian.
04:08Unbelievable, absolutely.
05:31A new exhibition in Italy places French painter Henri Matisse's work alongside African sculptures, Persian carpets and textiles.
05:40The exhibition brings together around 100 artworks and objects to explore the cultures that influenced Matisse.
05:51Travelling in North Africa exposed Matisse to colours, patterns and textiles that influenced his work.
06:01What we've tried to do in the exhibition is really emphasize, you know, over five decades of Matisse's work,
06:08how a lot of the innovative ideas, a lot of the theories of representation was not just a rejection of
06:16European tradition,
06:16but a kind of deep questioning of a lot of his assumptions, using and studying art outside of Europe.
06:25Matisse, the world in a room, is open at Milan's Museum of Cultures until the 21st of February.
07:15they want more time to be considered.
07:16They want more these lessons, easy and frequent imagery in the picturesque of Matisse.
07:29In the Bulgarian capital, the Botanical Garden is hosting an evening walk through light installations.
07:36The outdoor festival combines music with illuminated trees, animal figures, and displays inspired by space.
07:48The idea is that you feel magical, that you're running for the moment of reality, and you're enjoying the light
07:55and beauty.
08:18The garden's evening transformation continues until the 14th of November.
08:26The 186th underwater cleanup operation by the Greek volunteer diving team We Dive, We Clean, and its first of the
08:33year, took place in Vathi, Ithaca.
08:35The diving team removed around 1,300 kilograms of solid waste from the seabed of the wider harbour area as
08:42part of a two-day environmental operation.
08:44The We Dive, We Clean team marks 13 years of systematic underwater environmental activity across various parts of Greece.
08:51Its overall work now amounts to almost 73 tons of waste recovered from the Greek seabed.
08:57The conditions encountered by the volunteer divers in Ithaca's harbour highlight both the scale of marine pollution and the wide
09:05variety of waste that ends up in the sea.
09:07Among the waste recovered were plastic and glass bottles, aluminium cans, fishing line, batteries, vehicle tyres of various sizes, carpets,
09:17and even a whole plastic boat.
09:20Removing such items is an important step towards improving the condition of the seabed, since waste can burden the marine
09:28ecosystem, trap marine organisms, and degrade the quality of the coastal environment.
09:34Of particular interest was the team's observation that much of the waste recovered from the seabed appears to date back
09:41several years,
09:43which may suggest that the public has become more aware of the need to protect the environment.
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