Can the machines built to enhance our lives one day become our greatest rivals? Presenters Professor Danielle George MBE (Television's Opening Night: How the Box Was Born, BBC Four), an electronics engineer from Manchester University and robot supporter, and Dr. Ben Garrod (The Day the Dinosaurs Died, BBC Two), an evolutionary biologist from Anglia Ruskin University and robo-skeptic, will uncover whether the rise of the robots will enhance the progress of humanity or ultimately threaten the survival of the human race. With extraordinary access to the world’s leading robot-makers, they will meet the trailblazing machines who pioneered…

Can the machines built to enhance our lives one day become our greatest rivals? Presenters Professor Danielle George MBE (Television's Opening Night: How the Box Was Born, BBC Four), an electronics engineer from Manchester University and robot supporter, and Dr. Ben Garrod (The Day the Dinosaurs Died, BBC Two), an evolutionary biologist from Anglia Ruskin University and robo-skeptic, will uncover whether the rise of the robots will enhance the progress of humanity or ultimately threaten the survival of the human race. With extraordinary access to the world’s leading robot-makers, they will meet the trailblazing machines who pioneered key evolutionary leaps for robot-kind, and their most advanced descendants – to uncover just how far we’ve really come. As robots continue to evolve, Ben and Danielle consider the unsettling question of what it would mean if robots developed consciousness.