A principios del siglo XXI, el deporte es el rey. Encarna en sí el genio humano: la agilidad, fuerza, resistencia, valor y destreza. Se ha convertido no sólo en un espectáculo en sí mismo, sino que también cautiva a miles de millones de espectadores en todo el mundo. Pero como será el deporte del futuro? El hombre se convertirá en una máquina que quiere ser cada vez más competitiva, más eficiente? Para tratar de responder a estas preguntas, el documental visita a los laboratorios, garajes, estadios alrededor del mundo, donde los visionarios piensan, inventan, fabrican y, sobre todo, sueñan el futuro del deporte.
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00:00The world we know is suffering great changes. Technology and science are transforming our lives with great speed, and sometimes the pace of change can disorient us.
00:13The innovations used wisely can open the door to an era of extraordinary opportunities.
00:20Such a revolution feeds the creativity of men and women around the globe.
00:27These visionaries invent and implement new solutions.
00:31Open your eyes and prepare for an amazing journey until 2050.
00:36Prepare to dream about the future.
00:56As we advance through the 21st century, sport is the king. It embodies the human spirit in a unique way. Agility, strength, resistance, courage, skill ...
01:13It has become a form of show that captivates thousands of spectators around the world.
01:18What counts is the emotion, what the athletes express, not their nationality. The brotherhood among the peoples is the most beautiful thing about sport.
01:31Through sports, the human race has reaffirmed its superiority and its ability to exceed its own limits in an eternal race to break records.
01:40Sportsmen are only looking for adrenaline, passion, and they seek to surpass themselves and do something different, something that gives them a boost of adrenaline.
01:55Will there be challenges to overcome in the future? Will we be able to further expand the limits of human performance?
02:02As the human race that we are, we surpass ourselves by practicing sports to become better and better, but everything has a limit and we will reach that limit.
02:15Will we have to become machines, robots, to continue being more competitive, to achieve greater success?
02:21Better than ever. Better. Stronger. Faster.
02:29Will competitions be held in stadiums where sports are nothing more than a matter of life or death?
02:37He has five seconds of advantage. He just kicked him, or bike fix.
02:43There may be a special technology that makes people feel good doing certain things. It can make them very fast. It can make them fly.
02:53And all that can be very spectacular and fun. It can be a great adventure.
03:04So, what will the sports of the year 2050 be like? To find out, we are going to visit laboratories, homes and stadiums around the world, where some visionaries think, invent, build and, above all, dream about the future of sport.
03:20As a player, I have always wondered if there would be a better method to study, to prepare.
03:26And now, with technology, we can prepare certain things mentally, so that you can see it much faster than if you just aligned it and did it.
03:36And with our current psychological and evolutionary state, the human being is great, but I would like to elevate it to the next level.
03:43The wonderful thing about having these wings fixed on your back is that they follow you. It is something totally intuitive. You are like a child who simulates being a plane, except that this plane works and makes you fly.
04:00Before investigating the future, let's go back in time to understand how sports have accompanied the long evolution of humanity.
04:09Two million years ago, our ancestors already ran, and they did it at full speed, not for fun, but to escape the predators.
04:18And at one point, 100,000 years ago, the man of Cormagnon began to train to become a better hunter.
04:25The man began to measure himself quickly against other members of his clan, as shown by the scenes of fights carved in reliefs in Mesopotamia, dating from the third millennium BC.
04:35Gradually, training became competition. The warrior became a player. He began to practice fighting, throwing bows, jumping, or running for pure fun.
04:45Skill and strength came in art and were celebrated for the first time in Greece. In 776 BC, Coroibos won the Olympic race and was worshiped as a demigod.
04:57Sports were often reduced to the elite. From the 8th century onwards, sumo fights were held in the Japanese imperial court.
05:05The gentlemen competed in fairs during the Middle Ages. All over the globe, all kinds of disciplines were invented, from the most complex to the most comical,
05:15including the game called Lassoul, which was played in the French countryside in the 12th century, and football, which was born in the 19th century.
05:23Sports entered a new era. Provincialism gave way to global competitions thanks to Pierre de Coubertin, who recovered and modernized the Olympic Games in 1896.
05:36Rules were standardized and athletes became ambassadors, whose victories celebrated the supremacy of their nation.
05:44It was no longer just about winning, but about breaking records and leaving a mark on the history of humanity.
05:52Sports became more accessible, leaving the confines of stadiums to conquer the world. Today, hundreds of millions of enthusiasts enjoy exercising, alone or in a team, for the pleasure of competition.
06:09Sports have become a universal value. They mark the rhythm of our daily lives, influence our lifestyle and determine our health and well-being. Could it be otherwise in the future?
06:22Sports will not change in the future, because they are part of the human spirit. But just as technology will change our lives, the same will happen with sports, which will influence us even more.
06:37Technologically speaking, athletes of the future will have a lot to choose from. At the center of all this is Big Data, a concept that a technology uses to turn every minute of our lives into digital information.
06:51Pulsations, blood pressure, number of strokes or pedaling ... This sea of information will be processed and analyzed, but for what purpose?
07:01I think there is a lot of data that is collected that could be useful. It will be if we can start taking these measures biomechanically and say, this is what works. And then train that way.
07:13We are a little more effective in our training. You don't necessarily have to go the hardest way to get final results.
07:21Will the future miraculously provide us with the satisfaction of doing sports without the need to sweat? That is the promise of connected objects.
07:29Subjects with tapes to our wrists, arms or legs can explore, examine and analyze each and every one of our movements and weak points.
07:38To help us thus, according to their advertising, reach our maximum level of performance and a state of well-being.
07:43At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, engineers design the tools and techniques that will enable athletes to train and improve their performance in the future.
07:59I am less interested in the results than in the actions that lead to them.
08:14Another 15 seconds. Come on, you almost did it.
08:19Here, in the health and sports center, we focus on the individual.
08:24We use how many characteristics and data we can collect in mechanical and physiological terms.
08:31In the upper part, you can see the results of the imbalance, with an index of stability of 0%.
08:36In other words, the imbalance was such that you could not improve your performance, but you could improve your performance.
08:42In this way, you can improve your performance with the help of the individual.
08:48In the lower part, you can see the results of the imbalance, with an index of stability of 0%.
08:53In other words, the imbalance was such that your pelvis was not able to regulate it at the psychomotor level.
09:07When I observe the way people move, I realize that there are a lot of compensatory or unintentional gestures.
09:16The movement is not as natural as it was before. There is less instinct, more rigidity and tension.
09:23What is now interesting to us is to analyze behaviors with respect to certain values.
09:29For example, the trajectory of the center of the mass, the indexes of stability, and anything else that shows us how people handle their bodies.
09:38The goal is to teach them to make better use of their energy, of the mechanical characteristics of their body, and to make more effective gestures.
09:47Sometimes, when you walk with shoes, you feel little or nothing with your feet, and you are not even aware of it.
09:55But if you see the Maasai running, you will wonder, why the hell were they going to wear shoes?
10:02Exactly, your core is firm, your arms are coordinated. Very good, a good increase in your dynamic characteristics.
10:09Nowadays we work more with our heads and less with our bodies.
10:14People need numbers, diagrams and analysis to better understand the movement, and very possibly to recover it.
10:24If today we can use all this data in a playful way, or with a certain methodology, to teach children and adults to use their bodies again,
10:36I think that's a good thing.
10:51When I see how great athletes train, I get a lot of questions.
10:58Maradona, Ronaldinho, Bode Miller, the way in which they own each of their movements, their characteristic movements, their way of being, their behavior in terms of quality of movement.
11:11When I see all that, I wonder if that set of things could be recreated for the average athlete, for the amateur athlete, or for the athlete who wants to improve.
11:21In the future, this woman, and this man, or that other one, could be on the starting line of the same race.
11:34Perhaps one day they will compete against the best in the world, embark on an attempt to break records, and experience what athletes feel when they are at the top of their careers.
11:45Look at that, Genola Vileni will make his first attempt at a height of 6.16 meters. Has he made it?
11:51Yes, he has broken the world record in his first attempt. Incredible, what a great talent.
11:59If we examine the last Olympic Games, we will see that there are more than 100 Olympic records that were broken, and also about 37 world records.
12:07So when you look at those lists of questions, when is this going to end? When are we going to get to the point where the person is so high that neither his performance nor his brand can be surpassed?
12:18As a human race that we are, we surpass ourselves by practicing sports to be better and better, but everything has a limit, and we have reached that limit.
12:28But without records, there would be no emotion, there would be no intrigue or tragedy, nor therefore spectators.
12:34Will the stadiums relegated to the category of monuments that we will visit someday remain to inhale the soft fragrance of the ancient glories?
12:46To make sure that the show continues, will we be tempted to cheat, to resort to increasingly sophisticated doping forms?
12:53The advances in biotechnology could change everything. It could be possible to play with the height, muscle structure, resistance or lung capacity of each athlete, depending on the sport he practiced.
13:09It is a chimera to think that we can cheat with nanotechnology and genomes. At least today we do not capture all the complexity of the human genome. Not by far. Science is much more complex than that. And this is only the beginning of history.
13:32Could it be that for the first time in history we have reached the end of evolution? That our physical bodies no longer fit our ambitions?
13:47What would happen if we could change everything and transform the human body to create an augmented man, a man of 6 million dollars?
13:56Steve Austin. Astronaut. A barely alive man. Better than ever. Better. Stronger. Faster.
14:08Medicine can already have a powerful effect on the human body. At the moment we only use it when the patient is sick. But it is perfectly imaginable that some modifications can be used to improve someone's performance.
14:39We will have to see where all this goes. I don't think people cut their own legs to be able to use a prosthesis like Pistorius to run faster. But it is difficult to imagine what the limits are.
14:55We ask questions not only from the perspective of performance, but also from an ethical and philosophical point of view. Where should we stop?
15:09Being able to equip ourselves with an external armor, what we would call an exoskeleton, capable of increasing our strength and our resistance, could soon be a reality. At least that is the dream of this passionate inventor who lives in San Francisco.
15:23And with our current psychological and evolutionary state, the human being is great, but I would like to raise it to the next level.
15:42My name is Keahi Seymour. The aim for the future is to run as fast as the fastest animal on earth, the cheetah.
15:53I was always intrigued by the speed and everything related to the fastest man on earth, and how a human could be able to run 100 meters in less than 10 seconds.
16:10I always wanted to investigate all this in terms of combined technology, to see how fast a human could run. That's why I say I'm half a freak and half a sportsman.
16:25I've run a lot with them, and my speed limit is 40 kilometers per hour.
16:31I remember when I designed the first prototype of the bionic boots. I saw a natural history program about kangaroos, in which the presenter said that kangaroos store energy in their Achilles tendons.
16:50I instantly related all that to a human leg, because I knew that we also have Achilles tendons. I wondered if I could make an artificial leg that would allow me to run like an animal.
17:05After several prototypes, I realized that the possibility of running like an ostrich is more applicable than that of the kangaroo to a human being.
17:15I then began to investigate the physiology and mechanics of the ostrich, and then I built my first prototype. I strapped it to my legs with straps and ran like an ostrich.
17:25The simplicity is the key to the boot itself. You don't need to rely on a battery or gasoline to provide you with energy.
17:39It produces a storage of kinetic energy that becomes potential. People don't realize that the forces involved in running are really high, between five and seven times the weight of the body.
17:55I'm an inventor, designer and manufacturer. I work in all these things in my workshop. I don't have high-tech gadgets like laser cutters or welding materials. I don't even have an autocad.
18:16I only have raw materials. I make the cuts by hand, with a saw, a drill and an angular grinder. Those are the three tools that I have used to make each piece of the boot myself. By hand, each piece.
18:33This is how we do it, with the bionic laboratory.
18:47Not only extreme sports enthusiasts are interested in the invention of Keahi. In the nearby Silicon Valley, there are also engineers working on the design of exoskeletons.
18:59Hi, I'm so glad to see you again.
19:02How are you?
19:03Very good, and you?
19:04Very good.
19:05Bionic boots, which do not require energy or electronic components, are particularly interesting for scientists who work for the health and defense departments.
19:14Well, and what speed have you already reached with them?
19:17I have reached about 40 kilometers per hour.
19:19Without a doubt, you can run much faster with those boots than without them. Is that true?
19:23Sure.
19:24If it weren't, it would be a little weird.
19:26I think so. Exactly.
19:29Here we are developing the muscles, ligaments and tendons. They externally cover the body, and we use the internal structure, recreating the human skeleton as a compression element.
19:39So we're doing something very light, almost as much as Spiderman. Something like that. That's the kind of super suit we're developing.
19:48Well, the problems we face to create these super suits are the number of sizes you need to be able to adjust each suit or each increase to any person.
19:59If you look at the body and you look at the human figure, you'll see that everyone has a different DNA or a different size.
20:07We're all different snowflakes.
20:10In the future, everyone will wear these suits.
20:17I still have to educate the public. It's a little difficult to do it myself.
20:30But you know, I compare it to what happened in California, where skateboarding was born, fiberglass surfboards and mountain bikes.
20:41Here in my city, in Marin County, my boots soon caught the attention of the public.
20:46And I think that as soon as people can try them and feel that new feeling of speed and the rush of adrenaline, they will become very popular and everyone will want to have a pair.
20:59It's taken me almost two decades to reach where I'm at right now, in terms of an aesthetic, for a product that also works well.
21:18The only person who believed in me all these years has been my mother.
21:27She writes to me, she sends me love letters in which she tells me to never stop believing.
21:32I'm trying to open a new path, founding a new sport, something fun.
21:38Maybe in a period of 40 years, everyone will move around with bionic boots.
21:44We could probably use them in different sports. We could use them in extreme sports.
21:51I think we could add a set of wheels to them, like on-line skates.
21:56In that way, we could make bigger jumps, or apply them to football, to make longer and faster jumps.
22:02So we can combine technologies to invent new sports.
22:07And when it comes to inventing new sports, human imagination seems to have no end.
22:13Slacklining, mixing boxing with chess, playing football in space, and even jumping from the stratosphere.
22:29The truth is that we have an innate ability to turn everything into a game, no matter how insignificant it is.
22:46Sci-fi writers have a much darker perspective.
22:50They describe future sports as an extremely violent game, where death is just another part of the show.
22:57Let's go, another game full of sensations. Becker has the ball, it has appeared suddenly, he has five seconds of advantage.
23:12He just kicked Leobike Figgs. He shouldn't have liked it very much.
23:18Oh, what a blow. A brutal impact.
23:24People are looking for the most extreme, and they push the athletes and sponsors along the same path.
23:31Because the sponsors want communication, they want promotion, and they push the athletes to take more risks,
23:39in a way that is cool for the public, that will see more crazy things every time.
23:45But for the athletes, it's quite dangerous.
23:55The desire to make an effort, to reach more, to respect oneself and the opponent, are values expanded all over the world.
24:04Will they be doomed to disappear in the future?
24:07To rediscover the essence of the game, a former American football player and a team of Los Angeles developers have turned to virtual reality.
24:24My name is Nate Longshore, and I played as a quarterback in Southern California.
24:28My dream for the future would be to be able to participate in sports competitions using virtual reality.
24:38Look at the back of the backboard. You see the separation it leaves, right?
24:42It's leaving the defenses behind. The thing is safe out there, and it comes right up to here.
24:46Okay, very good.
24:47An easy reception.
24:48Very good.
24:50You see how quickly he got the ball out of the field? Just like we would do in the stadium.
24:55Let's do that, read what we have in front of us, go to number one, open it and take it.
24:59Just like he did here. Move on to the next game.
25:02As a player, I have always wondered if there would be a better method to study, to prepare.
25:08I always felt that there had to be a more productive use of the time we spend planning the strategy of each game.
25:17The one we had was not very efficient.
25:19But now with technology we can prepare certain things mentally,
25:23so you can envision it much faster than if you just put it all together and did it.
25:29Sport is becoming something more mental.
25:32From coming here. The field is open.
25:34Good, very good.
25:36My gut instinct tells me that if you do something mentally enough times and you engrave it in your head,
25:43you're going to be more capable of physically recreating that same action
25:48and adopting the same security measures when you have to physically do it.
25:56One, two, three, four, five.
25:58Good.
26:00You're up, Henry.
26:03You're throwing.
26:04You scared him.
26:06Injuries slowed my career.
26:09Both legs, a torn bicep, back injuries.
26:13All those things were adding up and accumulating over time.
26:17I thought, if this had been available when I was playing.
26:22Henry, do you want a piece of that?
26:24I started playing in high school.
26:26We trained from two in the afternoon to eight, six hours,
26:30just because there was a lot of work to do.
26:33Now they only practice two hours.
26:35So in 10 years of evolution,
26:37we've cut the physical practice requirement by a significant 60%.
26:43It's not that the game requires less.
26:46It's that we have new tools to speed up the process.
27:06You have these virtual environments that you can move around in.
27:10You don't just require your hands to control them.
27:14You have to physically move around in these virtual worlds.
27:18In my case, I'm 2.15 meters tall,
27:21and my eyes are normally 2.05 meters above the ground.
27:25So I have a routine to capture the perspective.
27:28My body and my brain are very used to that.
27:31So the first time you enter this virtual reality,
27:34the perspective has nothing to do with it.
27:37In addition, now you also have the possibility
27:40to test your enemy before the game.
27:42And it's a significant advantage to know
27:45that you've practiced in advance against what they're going to do.
27:54From the moment technology becomes an integral part of sport,
27:59we begin to discover new skills in athletes.
28:03Currently, a football player can only use his senses
28:06to evaluate the tactical situation.
28:09But one day, he will have information in real time
28:13thanks to a computer or a group of sensors.
28:20And it won't be shown to him in Google glasses, like now,
28:24but directly in the athlete's eye.
28:27Or he will have a processor connected to a radio transmitter
28:31to communicate with the outside world.
28:35This would mean a change of perspective
28:37for both players and coaches,
28:39whose instructions would no longer be lost in the steam of the changing rooms,
28:43but would appear directly in the eyes of the players during the game.
28:48Would they have to develop a new sense
28:50to be able to process this type of information?
28:54Perhaps the task of handling this information in real time in the field
28:59could not be assigned to the players.
29:02It could be handled by a special team
29:05that transmitted the main guidelines and probabilities.
29:09Then the players could react in real time,
29:13because the opposing team would be forcing them to change their game plan.
29:19The question is, at a neuronal level,
29:23what are our limits to understand
29:26and take advantage of all the information received?
29:32Forget the big muscles and the chocolate bar.
29:36We present to you the athlete of the future,
29:39the player capable of changing to compete with the greatest champions.
29:49For a long time, video games were reserved
29:52for teenagers with acne locked in their rooms.
29:55Rebaptized as e-sports, they have become a social phenomenon.
29:59There are hundreds of millions of players all over the planet
30:02and the best compete with each other in tournaments
30:05that are held in huge stadiums.
30:13But is it really a sport?
30:16In any case, the players, sorry, and athletes
30:19train more than 10 hours a day.
30:22They have the reflexes of the best ping pong players
30:25and the vision of a hunting pilot.
30:28Their followers are as passionate as fans of real sports.
30:32The meetings are broadcast on YouTube
30:35and get hundreds of millions of viewers.
30:38So why not imagine a future
30:40in which all competitions are held in a virtual world?
30:47I think that's already happening today.
30:50Young people spend more and more time in video game rooms
30:54instead of doing it on the athletics tracks.
30:58But will that completely replace physical exercise?
31:02Probably not.
31:05I like sport as it is.
31:09But the interaction between real athletes
31:13and their virtual avatars
31:16will increase their importance without a doubt.
31:28One thing is certain,
31:30both in real life and in virtual reality,
31:33athletes always seek the same thing,
31:36the challenge of danger, to exceed their own limits,
31:39even if it's only for a millisecond.
31:42In the end, athletes look for adrenaline, passion,
31:46and they try to exceed their limits
31:49and do something different to get more adrenaline out of it.
31:55The production of hormones, especially adrenaline,
31:58induces in an extremely powerful way
32:01to take risks in conditions
32:03that the human body cannot survive.
32:07Everything that is dangerous, unreachable or unbeatable
32:10acts as a magnet for extreme sports fans.
32:18One of them has found a new playground in Dubai
32:21between the dunes and skyscrapers.
32:36The man in the dune
32:39The man in the dune
32:42The man in the dune
32:45The man in the dune
32:48The man in the dune
32:54I am the lost link, so to speak,
32:57between man and birds.
32:59I am a flying man,
33:01a man with wings attached to his back.
33:06I am the lost link, so to speak.
33:36The idea for this project came to me a long time ago.
33:45I was 30 years old, I was a professional combat pilot and a civilian pilot.
33:50I discovered free fall quite late.
33:53That was pure free flight, but it didn't last long, 45 seconds or maybe a minute, later
34:00you had to open the parachute, it was almost over.
34:03So with my training and experience in aviation and other sports, I thought it would be great
34:11to prolong that feeling of freedom.
34:15The way the wings work is very simple.
34:38We realized when studying the birds that the curvature of their wings creates an area
34:45of low pressure, which produces the ascension, is the difference between the high pressure
34:51under the wings and the low pressure on them.
34:59I had my team calculate how much thrust I would need to stay in the air while I was
35:04gliding.
35:05Little by little we added reactors to it, four in total.
35:12We changed all the aerodynamic aspects and now we are going around in the clouds.
35:25I am using high-tech materials such as carbon and Kevlar.
35:30I checked the aerodynamic factors in a wind tunnel.
35:34I have seen the results.
35:36I have to stay in shape, because I use my own body to drive.
35:41I have to do my part.
35:43It is certainly a complete sport.
35:46I have to develop physically and mentally, just like an athlete.
35:50While I am preparing to fly, there is a period of concentration during which I suddenly
35:55begin to focus on what is going to happen.
35:59It is a certain positive tension, and a rise in adrenaline, because you are preparing
36:03for the action.
36:06The wonderful thing about having these wings fixed on your back is that they follow you.
36:11It is something totally intuitive.
36:13You are like a child who simulates being a plane, except that this plane works and makes you fly.
36:20And that's fantastic.
36:42We have come across a wall.
36:45Not just the Jetman, but the whole world.
36:48I mean fuel.
36:52At this moment we mainly use fossil fuels, or nuclear energy or gasoline.
36:59There is still a little left, but one day all that will be over.
37:05We have to discover something else if we want to keep having fun.
37:09And while we get to it, we should also stop polluting.
37:18To what extent will the environment force us to adapt?
37:22We do not know in terms of energy what we will have available.
37:26It is well known that both extreme athletes and high-level athletes consume large amounts
37:31of energy.
37:34The expansion of infrastructure, logistics, transport of spectators and players, sports
37:39and especially major sporting events, have a clear impact on the environment.
37:45The London Olympic Games in 2012 emitted more than 3 million tons of carbon dioxide,
37:50the equivalent of what 200,000 Americans emit in a year.
38:02Will sports in the future be limited to satisfy our hedonistic and childish pleasures?
38:07Or can we expect some kind of awakening, the advent of sustainable sports?
38:16There is a special technology that athletes can use, or anyone, that provides a lot of
38:23autonomy.
38:24And I can imagine that some new sports will be born, disciplines that will be developed
38:29from that type of new technology.
38:37Annually, a rather peculiar race is held in Australia.
38:41The World Solar Challenge, 3,036 kilometers through the Tanami Desert, using only
38:47cars powered by solar energy.
39:12My name is Daniel Eddington, I am one of the pilots of the Solar Car Project team at
39:19the University of Western Sydney, as well as an electrical engineer.
39:26In some way you feel like a pioneer.
39:29It's quite exciting because we don't use any oil, it's just about driving under the
39:34sun.
39:35You can go miles and miles without having to connect to an electrical outlet or visit
39:40a gas station or anything like that.
39:43We are still building at the moment and making the most exciting project for the future.
39:50It's very, very exciting to be on the crest of the wave of a sport like this.
40:03The most challenging thing about designing a car like this is that you have a limited
40:07source of light rays.
40:10You have a certain amount of light to work with, the amount of which you can only extract
40:16a certain amount of power.
40:18When you develop a car like this, you have to focus on things like aerodynamic efficiency
40:23to reduce weight, the efficiency of electronic systems, the resistance to wear of the tires
40:30and the bearings we use.
40:33All we do is make sure that we have the maximum possible efficiency to drive the car in a
40:38straight line on the road.
40:43As an engineer, this issue is exciting to me because we are implementing some developments
40:49of high solar technology for electric vehicles.
40:52And on the other hand, as a competitor and runner, I am so fascinated by designing and
40:55building the car like running with it.
41:09Driving the car is a sensation, it's a sensation, frankly, attractive.
41:14It's not quite like driving a normal car because there's no noise, no vibrations, no things
41:20like that.
41:21You feel, you really feel the adrenaline when you're driving it, especially when you're
41:26driving fast.
41:27Because the threat of an accident or something dangerous happening is always there.
41:34In this race, something is always about to happen, of something happening.
41:39So when you're on the track, you don't want to go too hard because you could go too fast
41:46and end up in the gravel or you could crash into a wall.
41:54We're driving those technologies forward, which may seem a bit unattainable right now
41:59and a bit strange, in the sense that we're not as renewable of a sport as we could be.
42:06We're pushing them forward to do things better in the future.
42:10So developing this type of technology is a key part of this kind of competition.
42:23All these projects emphasize technology.
42:26In 2050, sports will undoubtedly be full of it.
42:31What will happen if one day technology does not surpass us?
42:34What will happen if tomorrow athletes have to face a new class
42:38of opponents that is unbreakable, inflexible and perhaps even unbeatable?
43:08You challenge yourself, you challenge yourself with your own fears, with your own dreams,
43:21and with challenging other people.
43:24I don't think it's a problem for me for a robot to beat me.
43:28But it was going to be something weird, very weird.
43:32If I really have to challenge a robot, it's going to be a very strange feeling.
43:39In the south of France, a group of engineers is working on a robot team that will compete
43:43in 2050 against the 11 best footballers in the world.
44:05Our robots are prototypes, they are not at all objects produced in a chain.
44:11I see them much more as handicrafts, in the sense that they have a certain versatility.
44:15Have you seen that?
44:18Adjust it a little.
44:19Yes.
44:20Football is a very interesting challenge, because it involves a lot of obstacles.
44:25Fall, get up, get into position, hit the ball, avoid the opponent, and play as a team.
44:34We are very interested in solving these problems.
44:41A robot has many advantages.
44:44To begin with, in theory, it is faster than us in terms of reflexes.
44:50The computer system that is inside a robot performs billions of calculations per second.
44:57In the end, a robot has much more efficient reflexes.
45:01But what Messi does is not a reflex, which could be better or faster.
45:06His behavior is the result of an authentic motor-sensitive intelligence.
45:14There is a strategy for each moment, a quality in execution, a kind of symphony
45:20driving within the head of a champion that we cannot even imagine.
45:25A robot needs an algorithm that describes its movements.
45:43Despite all the knowledge of physics that we have, precise and quantified, we still have
45:50to find a model to describe the movements, which, in that case, we could express as
45:55an equation.
45:57If we lack a clear mathematical model that reflects reality, we cannot recreate it.
46:02That's what keeps me awake at night.
46:06Every year, scientists and engineers from the best laboratories meet to participate
46:10in the World Cup of Robotic Football.
46:15Behind the friendly atmosphere, this competition is a human and technological battle in which
46:20friendly gestures are not allowed.
46:23In the world of robotics, victory is above all.
46:29Everything comes to life during the game, because we encourage them, we observe each of their
46:37movements, celebrating what they do according to what things and looking at each other.
46:45It is the same emotion that an athlete would feel after training for a whole year to be able to
46:50compete.
46:51We put all the meat on the grill.
47:05In the future, there will be more and more robotic competitions.
47:10People will support laboratories in the same way they support squads, perhaps due to
47:15prototypes that become emblematic.
47:18That would be fantastic.
47:20Yes?
47:21There would be a robot game, without a doubt.
47:23In 2050, robots could be able to defeat us, and not just in one sport, because it is
47:40simple.
47:42Scientists are already able to build robots that run faster than us.
47:50But maybe one day, robots will be able to defeat a pentathlon champion in the five
47:55disciplines.
47:56They will be able to run, swim, even if they are made of metal, ride a horse, jump, and
48:04so on.
48:07The truth is that it is a huge scientific challenge.
48:18Man is a unique being, both from an intellectual point of view and from a physical one.
48:26No other species has the same level of versatility, and it will be very difficult for robots to
48:32recreate it.
48:34Even having limits, humans at the moment are unbeatable and unbeatable.
48:50For centuries and across the continents, sports have never ceased to evolve, innovate
48:56and adapt.
48:58They act like a mirror, reflecting man, society and the times that run, in their brightest
49:04moments and in the darkest ones as well.
49:07What will they look like tomorrow?
49:09The range of possibilities is wide and fascinating, but the same question will always arise.
49:15What will the values, rules and limits be?
49:19For those who are dreaming of the future, the ambition will always be to give man the impression
49:24that he can still jump higher, run faster and be stronger.