Brave New World with Stephen Hawking - Season 1 - Eps 1: Machines
The team showcase breakthroughs in technology and engineering that are creating a new generation of machines. Mark Evans fuses his brain with a computer in Switzerland to test a new breed of machine. Kathy Sykes hits the streets of San Francisco to have the ride of her life as she experiences the future of transport in a driverless car. In Italy Jim Alei-Khalili comes face to face with a remarkable, baby-like robot called iCub, which learns like a child. Joy Reidenberg discovers the extraordinary exoskeleton that can make the paralysed walk and give one man the strength of three. In the Canary Islands Maggie Aderin-Pocock visits one of the world's biggest telescopes, where they're searching for new planets in the furthest reaches of the universe - planets that we could one day colonise.
About Brave New World with Stephen Hawking
Title: Brave New World with Stephen Hawking
First Air Date: 2011-10-17
Last Air Date: 2011-11-21
Status: Ended
Rating: 9.3/10 (from 3 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 5
Network: Channel 4
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Aided by some of the world's leading scientific figures, this new five-part series examines how 21st century scientists are battling the world's big killer diseases, breaking down the barriers between man and machine and expanding our understanding of the universe.
Cast
David Attenborough
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Richard Dawkins
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Stephen Hawking
Self - Host
Kathy Sykes
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