{"id":617,"date":"2015-08-30T14:38:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beherenao.com\/?page_id=617"},"modified":"2019-09-07T00:34:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T00:34:36","slug":"bbc1-appearance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/?page_id=617","title":{"rendered":"Media appearances"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-621\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-Qubit-Sian-Williams-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-621 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-Qubit-Sian-Williams-2-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"With Sian Williams, introducing the show on BBC1.\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" data-wp-pid=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-Qubit-Sian-Williams-2-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-Qubit-Sian-Williams-2-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-Qubit-Sian-Williams-2.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Sian Williams, live on BBC1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Both<strong> Stanley Qubit<\/strong>\u00a0the NAO robot and his owner <a href=\"http:\/\/beherenao.com\/?page_id=129\">Chris Middleton<\/a>, have appeared several times on TV and radio, and in the press.<\/p>\n<p>On 30 August 2015, <strong>Stanley Qubit<\/strong>\u00a0co-hosted\u00a0BBC1&#8217;s Sunday Morning Live breakfast programme with\u00a0Sian Williams, and later appeared in a debate\u00a0about\u00a0the rise of intelligent machines, alongside broadcaster Ana Matronic and playwright Bonnie Greer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-620\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-Qubit-Ana-Matronic.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-620 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-Qubit-Ana-Matronic-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stanley with Ana Matronic after the show.\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" data-wp-pid=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-Qubit-Ana-Matronic-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-Qubit-Ana-Matronic.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanley with broadcaster and musician, Ana Matronic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>In 2017, Stanley Qubit made history\u00a0by becoming the first <em>real<\/em> robot ever to appear in an adaptation of Isaac Asimov&#8217;s &#8216;I, Robot&#8217; stories, for the BBC. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stanley voiced some\u00a0of the background robot characters in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.b7media.com\">B7 production<\/a> for Radio 4. The press certainly got <a href=\"http:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-27-at-13.09.31.png\" rel=\"lightbox-2\">excited<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley also interviewed some of the people involved with &#8216;I, Robot&#8217;, on the BBC Radio 4 website:-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p04rbfzk\">\u2022 AUDIO: Stanley Qubit (the robot) interviews actor Nick Briggs (Doctor Who)<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p04rbkkf\">\u2022 AUDIO: Stanley Qubit (the robot) interviews scriptwriter Richard Kurti<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Chris Middleton in the media<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Stanley Qubit<\/strong>&#8216;s owner \u2013 author, journalist, public speaker, and robotics expert <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beherenao.com\/?page_id=129\">Chris Middleton<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 has appeared on BBC1, ITN, Radio 2, Radio 5Live, Talk Radio, and local stations talking about robotics and AI. He has also been quoted in numerous newspaper articles, including in The Sun and the Evening Standard. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/chrismiddleton.company\">Chris&#8217; own website<\/a> for in-depth information on his work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-at-the-BBC-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-619\" src=\"http:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-at-the-BBC-2-1024x550.jpg\" alt=\"Stanley at the BBC 2\" width=\"660\" height=\"354\" data-wp-pid=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-at-the-BBC-2-1024x550.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-at-the-BBC-2-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beherenao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Stanley-at-the-BBC-2.jpg 1357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2017, Stanley Qubit made history by becoming the first real robot to appear in a series of radio adaptations of Isaac Asimov&#8217;s &#8216;I, Robot&#8217; stories, for the BBC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/617\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beherenao.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}