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World Service,28 mins

06/04/2010

Digital Planet

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Jon Stewart reports on the desire to humanise Robots. He visits the laboratory of Maja Matarić at the University of Southern California and is given a demonstration of robots that care. The Granta magazine writer, Steven Hall, reflects on the past and future developments of robotics. The documentary photographer, Greg Constantine, reveals the back story to his digital archive of the Nubians who live in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. Tina Shoulders discusses how the elitist fashion world is waking up to the benefits offered by social networking tools.

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