Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots
BBC FOUR, 9.00PM The best thing about this fascinating two-part series on the rise of robot technology is that its presenters, electrical engineer Danielle George and evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod, have such contrasting attitudes (unalloyed enthusiasm vs cautious scepticism) to a future in which robots will inevitably play a key part in human society. Tonight’s concluding part looks at how far along the path towards intelligence robots have come, and considers whether they can ever be truly conscious and emotionally intelligent – and whether we would want them to be. GO