Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots

Ben meets one of the most human like robots in the world: the disarmingly charming Erica. She might be warm to the touch, but her sense of humor falls decidedly flat. He also visits the fearsome Eric, the U.K.'s first robot. Danielle meets an early pioneer of robotic movement, who led the way for robots to take over the workplace, and meets the latest breed of robots at Boston Dynamics.

In this episode, Professor Danielle George and Dr. Ben Garrod investigate whether robots will ever become our friends, if we should trust them with our lives, and if one day they will even become conscious. Ben visits the first attempt to make a robotic brain with a rudimentary awareness of its surroundings, before meeting its most advanced descendant: the driverless car.