house district of Helsinki.

These beauties were built back in the early 1900s

so that the workers of Finland

could have nice places to live

and nice gardens to tend.

They're symbolic of Finland's famed

social support system that has made Finns

some of the happiest people on Earth.

Bless you, Finland, and your wheelbarrow gardens.

Of course, progress often has its own plans.

The workers here, for example, have been

replaced by artsy hipsters

seeking a trendy neighborhood.

And, soon enough, workers and hipsters all over the world

might be replaced by robots that don't care

about social systems or pretty gardens at all.

Hello robot overlords.

Here at Helsinki's most scenic garbage dump

are some hard-working robotic arms

from a company called ZenRobotics.

The Zen part obviously being some bizarre marketing ploy

because there's nothing calming about these things.

Their mission is to divvy up industrial trash,

sorting things like wood and metal into their own piles.

How do you get the robot to see that it's not wood,

that it's a piece of steel, a plastic bag?

All this stuff is so amorphous and different.

We use cameras, we use metal detectors,

we use 3D sensors, and we use also near infrared sensors.

The A.I. is able then to predict, okay,

what kind of material?

We tried to understand how is a human operator

sorting waste, and he is not picking it

and putting it here.

It picks and throws.

Yeah.

And we simulated the same movements,

so our robot opens the grip and lets the object fly.

And what do we know about

how accurate the robots are?

Depending on the different kind of waste,

we can go to a purity up to 90%.

Can we go take a closer look at the robots?

Yes, for sure, yes, let's go.

So, the waste comes up, goes on this conveyor belt,

and then this is where it's getting scanned--

Yes.

And then in this moment where it's getting scanned,

it's telling the robots down the line,

there's gonna be an object coming that I want you to grab.

Yes.

And then the arms start to go to work.

Yes.

The robot gets to pick which waste

and to throw it in which bin.

I mean, it does a really good job to me

of picking up these objects that are such different sizes.

Yep.

You can believe there are many man hours invested

to really develop a gripper, what is

able to grip totally different kind of sizes,

shapes and waste.

And I think that was one of the biggest challenges.

ZenRobotics recently put its robots

to work right here in the heart of Silicon Valley

at this massive garbage processing facility in San Jose.

Artificial Intelligence and trash

commingling in harmony.

Just the way nature intended.

Back in Finland, I took a drive from the dump to Espoo.

It's a city about 25 minutes outside of Helsinki

that is something of a tech suburb.

Nokia's once glorious headquarters are here,

and so too are its more sedate current headquarters.

And the Angry Birds are here too.

But I have not come to Espoo for disgruntled birds

or airborne pigs.

I have come to see some satellites.

This is the headquarters of Iceye.

It is one of a handful of start-ups that have built small

satellites that take constant pictures

of what's happening on Earth.

How many satellites have you guys put up today?

The commercial constellation that we operate right now

is three satellites.

Three satellites.

And then, your satellites, they're mini fridge sized?

The famous mini fridge, yeah!

And then you also want to try and surround

the earth with dozens, hundreds of these things?

Right, yeah.

So, we really want to make the system,

that allows you to sort of reliably, and accurately,

and objectively see everything at all times.

It's almost like having a sort of a MRI scan

for the earth.

Iceye satellites travel from pole to pole

every 45 minutes.

Rather than cameras, their three small sats

use something called synthetic aperture radar,

or SAR, to pound the earth with microwave signals

from low earth orbit.

They then use signals that are reflected back

from the earth to build images of the surface.

Unlike cameras, SAR can see through the cloudiest of days

and the darkest of nights.

Iceye combine this radar technology

with advanced image processing and computer vision

software to create highly detailed pictures.

Can we peak at some of these images, and--

Sure.

Walk through what you guys do?

So, this was an example of the hurricane Dorian,

in the Bahamas.

We were able to image this exactly when

the hurricane was on top of the island.

This is the island as it normally is.

And then, in the afterwards,

the land border used to be here.

And I think here, the really dramatic thing is that

all of these red dots are buildings fully submerged.

This is exactly what becomes insurance information to--

Yeah, so, you have proof that all

of this stuff flooded, and--

Yeah.

And proof is one thing, and then, of course,

just the ability to react.

Like, now what if you could trigger the payment

to these guys automatically?

So that people get to rebuild their lives,

and so forth.

Much more quickly, yeah, yeah.

Now here, we're looking at a large tanker, The Grace One.

It relates to the sanctions to Iran.

It became this big story, when it was impounded

in Gibraltar, when it was said that it was headed

towards Syria, with a tank full of Iranian oil.

This is an image from a while back

where we're able to see the Grace One ship here,

in the Iranian shores in January.

So, maybe the US knows where this tanker is.

The NSA knows, the CIA.

And they can choose to make public what they want.

But, basically, with you guys, there's a democratization

to all this, where anyone who's willing to pay

for your imagery, you know?

Yeah.

It's not just in the hands of these few governments now.

It's like everybody can know what's going on.

Yeah, I think that's part of the big story here.

In the case of this tanker, what was really interesting is,

was it full or was it not full?

How full was it? And so forth.

If it's full of oil, it's down in the water,

and you're getting something on the depth,

from like a shadow off the water, or something like that.

Yeah, exactly like this.

And then this is a mine, it's an open pit mine.

So, the more mundane use case here is just that

you monitor the progress of the mining activity.

But, of course, the safety of, is there some

displacement that is likely to cause landslides?

Or, is there some underground mining that

is likely to cause collapses?

When it started in 2014,

Iceye was the very first company

to build a commercial satellite in Finland.

Since then, it's raised more than 65 million dollars

from investors and plans to launch a constellation

of 18 small satellites in the next couple of years.

Right now, we're fully booked with customers.

So, there will be some governments.

There will be some insurance, some finance.

I mean, there's a ton of positive use cases

to all this stuff.

I do think some people, though, would be creeped out a bit,

about this all-seeing eye,

that is keeping track of what people are doing.

I think, as far as the sort of creepiness,

and sort of personal level,

I think a lot of the mobile phones, internet,

Google type services, they tend to track you

to much higher precision, than we ever,

so, like we never would never really

be in the business of identifying humans.

We don't image faces.

The resolution is way lower than that.

For us, it's about objectivity,

of being able to provide as neutral

a source of information as possible.

AI robots and super fancy satellites

are all well and good.

Probably?

But no visit to Finland would be complete

without exploring its oldest and most famous tech:

the sauna.

Or, as they say it here, the sauna.

And since Finland is a tiny place full

of accommodating people,

I was able to find not just a sauna

but the sauna.

And not just any sauna companion

but the sauna companion.

Finland's most famous actor, Jasper Paakkonen.

Along with having an outstanding six-pack,

Jasper owns this beauty.

He joined me at about 11 p.m.

to teach me the art of the sauna

and what it means to the Finnish people.

When you walk into a sauna, you're stripped down

from your clothes, you're stripped down from

all the titles, your wealth.

You leave your wallet outside

and it's just a bunch of people at their most bare

state of being.

And it's really hard to not be honest

when you're so exposed and so bare.

Yeah.

So, this is a pretty common thing,

is to come in here and hash things out?

Yeah.

Sauna is the only word from Finnish language

to travel to other languages as a common word

to use and saunas are more common in Fin,

it's more common to own a sauna than it is to own a car.

Which means every single person has a sauna.

Yeah.

Everybody has these saunas, but the ones here

are very traditional and what is the

classic Finnish sauna?

The real sauna would always be a wood-heated sauna

because the burning of the wood gives the sauna its,

this very distinct flavor or this loyly.

Loyly the word means like the spirit of the sauna

and the feel when you throw water

onto the sauna heater's rocks.

That's loyly and you just get much better loyly

when you heat it with wood.

Loyly. Loyly.

Loyly. Loyly.

Perhaps unimpressed by my grasp

of the Finnish language,

Jasper decided it was a good idea

to complete the sauna experience

by subjecting me to a ritualized form of icy torture.

We just lower ourselves down to our necks,

and then we take a few deep, kind of just easy breaths.

Try not to hyperventilate.

Okay.

Takes a second to settle in.

I feel good.

Wooh!

Okay, that's refreshing.

All right, man.

See now, you start feeling this tingling, warm...

Definitely able to breathe now, so that's positive.