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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Futureproof Extra: Gods & Robots

From Asimo to Siri to Rosie the robot maid from the Jetsons, we have longed for the ability to create artificial intelligence and life in our own image. And through technological leaps in robotics and AI that dream is quickly becoming a reality But what can the ancient past tell us about how far we've come in that endeavour? Dr. Adrienne Mayor is an Historian of Ancient Science & Human Curiosity at Stanford University and Author of Gods & Robots: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology