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NARRATOR: It's Saturday night in the year 2100, and you're at the quiz night in a care home.
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NARRATOR: It's Saturday night in the year 2100, and you're at the quiz night in a care home.
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The Saturday night quiz is serious business.
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While the residents battle it out, a team of carers quietly ensures the smooth running of the home.
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Luna announces the questions.
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Zach serves dinner and drinks, and Qi-Young administers evening medications.
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But Luna, Zach and Qi-Young aren't human.
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They're robots.
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And one day, they could be your retirement companions.
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One in three people born today will live until they're 100.
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The world's population of over-60s has doubled since 1980 to around a billion, and it's projected to double again by 2050.
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That's a lot of people who may one day need additional support to live fulfilling and comfortable lives.
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Assistive intelligent robots could relieve pressure in understaffed care homes.
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So what would being looked after by robots actually feel like?
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Imagine - you're woken up by your favourite song played by a music robot.
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Luna, a humanoid, is ready with your perfect brew, milk and sugar selected with precision.
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Luna helps you choose your outfit for your morning walk and assists you into your exoskeleton, an aid that gives you full control of your mobility.
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You take a stroll around the gardens with your human carer, Dan.
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You choose your own route and your exoskeleton responds to your subtle movements and commands, which it picks up via smart wearables so you're fully in control.
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Along the way, you see robots maintaining the beautifully manicured grounds, alerting carers to any potential hazards.
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You stop to chat to a friend, and if your conversation is cut short, a robot attendant will remember what you were talking about and set up another time for you to chat.
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When you return to your room, it's been cleaned by a team of housekeeping robots.
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Unburdened by time-consuming routine tasks, your human carer Dan can take his time chatting to residents, giving everyone his full attention.
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You then enjoy a sumptuous communal breakfast with the other residents and staff.
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Bruno, the kitchen robot, serves up a feast customised to your personal dietary requirements, allergies, and he doesn't forget that you hate mushrooms.
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Clara, a humanoid robot with soft silicone skin and a calming voice, assists you with medication.
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Her senses can immediately detect changes in your mood, walking pattern or skin temperature.
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Prakash, a robot designed for emotional wellbeing, tells you a joke.
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His AI adapts to each resident's personality and allows him to keep up to date with their interests, likes and dislikes.
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While this scenario may sound idyllic, it's not without serious considerations.
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Take, for example, logistics.
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This vision would mean extensive building redesigns to accommodate robot carers.
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Care homes of the future would need to take into consideration how robots navigate rough terrain, shared spaces and moving around one another, all while ensuring that they don't themselves become mobility hazards for residents.
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And on an ethical and legal level, there's a ton of complexities with no easy answers.
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Imagine a scenario where a robot makes a mistake, perhaps administering the wrong medication or failing to alert staff during an emergency.
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Who or what would be held responsible?
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And what are the privacy implications of sharing all your personal health data with a robot?
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And what will all of this mean in terms of maintaining the skills and jobs of human care workers?
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And then there's, of course, the question at the heart of what it means to give and receive care.
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Empathy, emotional support and human contact are essential for all of us, particularly when we're at our most vulnerable.
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While robots may be able to help out with physical caring, health monitoring, and even limited companionship, could they ever be a true substitute for the humans currently doing those jobs?
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This leads us to perhaps our most important question.
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Would we have the right to refuse robot care?
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And how might we be empowered to do so?
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These aren't just questions for engineers or policymakers.
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They're for all of us.
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What do we want our care to look like in the future?
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Today's research looks at how robots can make their own decisions using data from their sensors, other robots and tech worn by residents and carers.
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By 2100, robots will be far more capable than they are today.
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If they can allow for more time and attention from human carers and empower our older selves to live safe, dignified and fulfilled lives, perhaps it's not a question of if they should be used, but how.
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在这堂课中，您将通过观看《Imagining YOUR life in the year 2100 | BBC Ideas》视频，来练习您的英语听说能力。视频描绘了未来护理机器人的生活场景，这不仅能激发您的想象力，还能帮助您熟悉与技术、护理和伦理相关的词汇和表达。通过这个练习，您将能更自信地运用英语进行交流，同时提高您的语音语调。通过“看YouTube学英语”，您可以透过模仿视频中的对话来改善自己的发音与流利度，这是一种有效的 shadowspeak 方法。
关键词汇与短语
- assistive intelligent robots - 辅助智能机器人
- exoskeleton - 外骨骼
- emotional wellbeing - 情感健康
- personal dietary requirements - 个人饮食要求
- communication - 沟通
- privacy implications - 隐私问题
- vulnerable - 脆弱的
- care homes - 护理院
练习技巧
在观看视频时，请集中注意力，尽量做到 shadowing，即在听到每一句话时尽量同时复述。这种方法有助于提高您的语音的准确性。视频的语速适中，适合用作 shadowing site。建议在练习时，可以尝试分段观看，每次专注于片段内容。首轮观看时，尽量把握意思，记下不懂的单词；在第二轮时，边听边说，努力模仿视频中人物的语调和情感。通过不断的重复和模仿，您会发现自己的发音变得更加自然和流利。同时，不要害怕出错，勇敢地表达是提升语言能力的关键。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。