内容摘要：Lorraine, which currently runs for almost the entire year, will now only air for 30 weeks out of 52, with GMB extended by 30 minutes during the weeks Lorraine is not on air, until 10:00.

Lorraine, which currently runs for almost the entire year, will now only air for 30 weeks out of 52, with GMB extended by 30 minutes during the weeks Lorraine is not on air, until 10:00.

"You're literally stood, like, a metre or two metres away."Ten to twelve hour days during those types of incidents are common, Mr Aitken said.

Mr Aitken, who like Mr Gardner joined the service at the age of 19, said he was getting to the twilight of his career but, in his head, he was still enthusiastic to help."Where you're going out, it's probably the worst day of somebody's life, and you can go and you can make a difference," he said."It's just my body shouts a bit at sometimes."

They are asking people to tidy up after themselves when they have been out in the countryside.One wildfire was caused by a bit of broken glass which had magnified the suns' rays and sparked a blaze, another by a disposable BBQ.

The direction of the wind meant the BBQ was still there, with a couple of square kilometres of burnt grassland in its wake, Mr Gardner recalled.

"It can be annoying at times," Mr Aitken said.So much work needs to be done on the artificial intelligence that would control such a machine.

"The AI simply has not yet reached a breakthrough moment," a Unitree spokesperson tells the BBC."Today's robot AI finds basic logic and reasoning – such as for understanding and completing complex tasks in a logical way – a challenge," they said.

At the moment their G1 is marketed at research institutions and tech companies, who can use Unitree's open source software for development.For now entrepreneurs are focussing their efforts on humanoid robots for warehouses and factories.