Laura Bicker

What inspired you to try and track down everybody in the old school photograph in the first place?

What inspired you to try and track down everybody in the old school photograph in the first place?

What inspired you to try and track down everybody in the old school photograph in the first place?

You're a braver man than I am, Alistair, because you wanted to cheer your dad up. It could have gone really badly wrong. He could have been the last man standing.

You're a braver man than I am, Alistair, because you wanted to cheer your dad up. It could have gone really badly wrong. He could have been the last man standing.

You're a braver man than I am, Alistair, because you wanted to cheer your dad up. It could have gone really badly wrong. He could have been the last man standing.

He sounds really fit and strong, and so does Betty.

He sounds really fit and strong, and so does Betty.

He sounds really fit and strong, and so does Betty.

Are they keeping in touch? Are they going to stay in touch?

Are they keeping in touch? Are they going to stay in touch?

Are they keeping in touch? Are they going to stay in touch?

Head in hands, eight-year-old Timmy mutters to himself as he tries to beat a robot powered by artificial intelligence at a game of chess. This is not an AI showroom or an AI lab. This is a middle-class living room in Beijing. It's like a little teacher or a little friend, he says, as the mechanical arm moves another chess piece.

Head in hands, eight-year-old Timmy mutters to himself as he tries to beat a robot powered by artificial intelligence at a game of chess. This is not an AI showroom or an AI lab. This is a middle-class living room in Beijing. It's like a little teacher or a little friend, he says, as the mechanical arm moves another chess piece.

China is embracing AI in its bid to become a global leader in technology by 2030. And Timmy's mum, Yan Xue, wants to be ahead of the curve. This is an inevitable trend. We will coexist with AI. Children should get to know it as soon as possible. This is what the Communist Party hopes to hear as it pushes AI development to revive the economy.

China is embracing AI in its bid to become a global leader in technology by 2030. And Timmy's mum, Yan Xue, wants to be ahead of the curve. This is an inevitable trend. We will coexist with AI. Children should get to know it as soon as possible. This is what the Communist Party hopes to hear as it pushes AI development to revive the economy.

At an exhibition in Shanghai, you get a glimpse of the kind of developments they're looking at. So I'm watching two teams of robots play one another at football. Now, it's not perfect when they fall over. They do need a little help getting back up. One's just tumbled there. Humanoid robots also walk among us, alongside back-flipping dog-like bots made by a rising star in China called Unitree.

At an exhibition in Shanghai, you get a glimpse of the kind of developments they're looking at. So I'm watching two teams of robots play one another at football. Now, it's not perfect when they fall over. They do need a little help getting back up. One's just tumbled there. Humanoid robots also walk among us, alongside back-flipping dog-like bots made by a rising star in China called Unitree.

But there's one name on everyone's mind.

But there's one name on everyone's mind.