Robots could soon be taking care of more patients at the biggest hospital in west england. Southmead in bristol is already thought to use the most robotics in the nhs. Now its teaming up with the bristol robotics laboratory, at the university of the west of england. Matthew hill went to see how they work. Robot those tablets shouldnt be taken on an empty stomach. Meet pepper, the latest in a line of robots designed at the university of the west of england. Pepper is programmed to make sure patients are taking the right medication. With an ageing population, the gap between the care required and the care that is available is going to get wider and wider so that is why academics here are looking to intelligent robots like pepper working alongside Smart Sensors in peoples homes, even social robots to try to fill that care gap. Hi, parminder, it is tim from Southmead Hospital. How are you today . Surgeons here are now working with uwe on a two way mobile video screen to allow doctors to communicate with patients who have just been discharged. Technology like this may allow us to monitor patients, to do some of the observational tasks, you could say some of the more mundane and medial tasks, which allows doctors, nurses, Health Care Assistants to get on doing what they really do well. These prototypes cost millions and could take years before Affordable Technology like this can help patients live independent lives. A system like this means that if you want to get up and go to the toilet or do you want to practice standing and sitting four or five times a day, you are not having to wait. Uwe has teamed up with Southmead Hospital to pioneer robotics in the health and care setting. The hospital was already ahead of the field in this area and was designed with robots in mind, with a fleet of 12 automatic guided vehicles. And when it comes to surgery, its a european leader in the use of robots to help surgeons remove Prostate Cancer in a minimally invasive way. The medication draw has been opened. This unique partnership between doctors and robotic engineers could ultimately be setting the scene for how patients are cared for around the world. Matthew hill, bbc news. Now on bbc news, its time to click. This week, building the next generation of spacecraft, dropping in on china and ripping up the streets of post brexit london. Three, two, one, zero. Getting into space is an expensive, dangerous, highly complicated business, where hundreds of thousands of precision made parts all have to Work Together perfectly. If they dont. But as the race back to space hots up, commercial ventures are looking for simpler, cheaper, quicker alternatives to building spacecraft. And here in la, ifound a startup trying to solve all of those problems in the unlikeliest of ways by sd printing rockets. This is relativity space. Existing rocket bits are not 3d printed. What is the advantage of 3d printing . A lot of it, from our perspective, is flexibility. Traditionally, factories are made of tonnes of fixed tooling. Its then very expensive, very hard to change, then where you have to retool a factory in order to make a new product or even change a product slightly. For us, we can change all of that in software. So its digitising the manufacturing process and providing that flexibility, where, if you push new code to the printers and the hardware on the factory floor, you can actually make an entirely different product without changing anything in hardware. After a stint at spacex, jordan formed relativity space with his friend and ex blue origin engineer tim ellis. The two twentysomethings realised that 3d printing could help in several ways. Because it builds up objects layer by layer, it can produce complicated structures out ofjust one part. Also, much of the manufacturing can be done autonomously, which leads to a rather remarkable aim. The team wants to send robots to mars which can then build rockets on the surface. And that means that the astronauts who eventually land there will have a way of getting home. Its both better, cheaper, faster. Its going to actually evolve more quickly than other technologies and well launch factories to mars, to actually build things like housing, spare parts and infrastructure, and eventually leading up to printing the first rockets. Why has no one done this before . No ones had a printer big enough to print something that big. And a lot of the challenge we had as a company was making printers big enough to make entire rockets within them. This is what the printing process looks like close up. A robot arm weaves backwards and forwards to lay down a thick layer of special high strength aluminium alloy. So this is it, the Worlds Largest metal 3d printer. Its currently printing the top of the first stage of the rocket, so the first bit that burns its fuel and is then jettisoned. This is the top of that. And if you look really closely, you can see that its very slowly rotating. It takes about an hour to go all the way around at the moment, and that means that the robot arm with all the hot stuff and the liquid metal stuff can stay relatively still as it weaves each layer. And that means you get a lot more precision. The whole thing will take about ten to 12 days to print. I can wait. I dont know about you. And why have one giant 3d printer when you can have several running in parallel . Theyre basically off the shelf robot arms, all arc welding different rocket stages that, when put together, can stand 30 metres high. In its first five years, relativity space has already secured contracts with nasa and others. And next year, it hopes to make its first launch from Cape Canaveral in florida after becoming only the fourth commercial company to secure a launch there alongside the united launch alliance, blue origin and its la compatriots spacex. And, sometime after that, mars beckons and the promise that anyone who journeys to the red planet is not making a one way trip after all. Departing the planet may be a trip for just a few hardy souls, but this friday, more than 60 million will be making a pretty historic departure themselves. Now, dont switch off because where were going is ever so slightly past the bonging, or not bonging, of big ben onjanuary 31. No, were going a few years into the future, where, according to the makers of one video game, things post brexit are not going well. The game is the highly anticipated watch dogs legion, in which makers ubisoft suggest that society has, shall we say, deteriorated a bit. Marc cieslak was invited by ubisoft to their hq in toronto to take a very special look inside the game before the launch. This isnt the real piccadilly circus. None of this is real. Come to think of it, im not even real. This is a virtual version of me reporting from inside a video game. Ah, london had a good run there for a while. Watch dogs legion imagines a dystopian vision of a post brexit britain, a surveillance state governed by an oppressive regime. The player assumes the role of an activist and hacker who must recruit in Game Characters to their cause and ultimately bring down the government. We need to recruit a resistance. Legions the third instalment in the popular franchise developed by video Games Company ubisoft in its toronto studio. Were taking a lot of just influence from what we see in the world. Whether its the current political climate, whether its emerging technology, we find ways that we are inspired by those things, ways that were maybe a little bit afraid of these things and then we extrapolate out. A large area of london has been mapped for the game, and every character that you meet is playable their backstory and personality, as well as characteristics, filled in by the games Artificial Intelligence when the player approaches them. Any character that you see in the world. I guess theyre kind of like a level of dumbness, right . And then, as youre paying attention to the characters, they get smarter. As youre profiling them, and as youre getting more interested in them and as you decide to recruit them, we layer in more complexity into the character, but we always keep it consistent with what you initially saw. Technically interesting innovations, but is it asking for trouble using real world events like brexit in a game . The british people have spoken and the answer is. Were out. I want to put that to the games creative director clint hocking. But for this interview, were going to attempt something it which has never been done before. Im going to perform an interview with a developer of a game inside their own video game. In orderfor my 3d model to be created, theyre going to need a whole bunch of images of me, which is whats going to happen in here. To do this, every minute detail of my face and body needs to be scanned so i can appear as a game character. And three, two, one. That was great. Its not like the photo me booth at the railway station. Real big its incredible how little we use our face like that, right . Next, its on with the performance capture suit, marker dots painted onto my face and im fitted with a head rig which captures my facial movements. Now, be honest with me. How do i look . Is someone going to call action for us or are we just going to go . Now were ready for virtual lights, camera and action. Clint, why did you set this game in london . Well, you know, marc, i think london is an incredible city to set a video game in. Its not just full of culture and historic landmarks and all kinds of amazing places that people want to go to and visit, its also an incredible city full of cultural diversity. It was really important for us to be able to make sure we were simulating not just the city and everything thats going on that you see around you but also the population and her people. Brexit has been hugely divisive in the uk and quite a lot of people are going to be quite angry that its been included in a video game. Well, i look at it as a creator of culture. If we were creating films or movies or books, its the same with video games, you know . Its our responsibility to look at the things that are happening in the world around us and have something to say about that, to create something thats meaningful and that people can look at and engage with and it speaks to the world that they live in. This games been in development for four years and global events move very, very quickly indeed. Have you included any more of those events in the game itself . Well, marc, things are changing around us all the time. And every day, we have to look at whats happening in the world and make decisions about what we are going to be able to include in our simulation. We look at regulations for drones flying in the skies, there are Autonomous Vehicles in traffic and we have to think, are these things that we want to include in our simulation and make playable for players in our game universe . So its something we think about a great deal. Clint hocking, thank you very much indeed. Thank you. This is marc cieslak for bbc news, in a virtual version of london. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week saudi arabia was accused of hacking the phone of amazons billionaire founder jeff bezos. Crown prince mohammad bin salman is alleged to have sent an encrypted video file via whatsapp, which saudi arabia denies. It was revealed that the introduction of gdpr in 2018, the eu has imposed 114 Million Euros in fines, with regulators in france, germany and austria handing out the biggest fines so far. Is it a bird . Is it a plane . Yes and no. Its a pigeon bot. Researchers at Stanford University have built a robot bird using real pigeon feathers. The team believe their findings could inspire future aircraft wing design. Quite the coup how would you feel about sharing a ride in a driverless car without a Steering Wheel . The origin, made by General Motors own crews, is also missing pedals and a rear view mirror. Its developers, which also include honda, hope that multiple occupancy electric vehicles will reduce emissions, accidents and congestion. And finally, spending too much time on your smartphone . Google suggests popping it in an envelope. Google envelope is an app used in conjunction with a paper cover you can print out at home. The combo can dumb down your device so it can only make and receive calls or transform it into a photo and video camera with no screen, although it only currently works on the pixel 3a. Will it work . Answers on a postcard. A couple of years ago, amid terrible wildfires in the us, we went on location with californias firefighters to see how they were using tech to battle the blazes. Drones have become a big tool in the firefighters arsenal, but for how much longer will they fly . Early this month, the Trump Administration called