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What's up, sunshine? Rise up. I'm Ky

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Wire. Welcome to another edition of CNN

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10, where I simply tell you the what,

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letting you decide what to think. I'm

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ready. You ready? Let's go. We begin

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with a creative new approach to

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preserving indigenous languages. While

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the two primary languages spoken in the

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US are English and Spanish, there are

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still several native communities that

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use the original lexicon spoken by the

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first people who inhabited their land.

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Some of the key linguistic groups for

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indigenous languages spoken today in the

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US are Navajo, Yupic, Suen, Apache, and

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Irakcoyan among others. But as these

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native populations continue to decrease

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and assimilate into modern cultures,

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many not by choice, some cultural

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institutions have been doing important

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work to try to preserve the languages

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that remain. And one young woman who

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belongs to an indigenous community in

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Michigan is taking matters into her own

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hands, inventing a language robot

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inspired by none other than an Elmo toy.

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Meet the Scobot, an interactive robot

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that helps children learn indigenous

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languages using live translation. Here's

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our Claire Duffy with the story.

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The United Nations estimates that one

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indigenous language will die every 2

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weeks and that half of the world's

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languages will disappear by 2100. So now

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there's this growing group of

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researchers and technologists who are

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looking to reverse that trend with the

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help of AI and robotics. Many of them

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are young members of indigenous

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communities who want to help others like

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themselves connect to their language and

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culture. I spoke with 24-year-old

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Danielle Boyet. She's a member of the

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Inishab community in Northern Michigan.

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And she said she grew up speaking only a

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little bit of her community's native

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language because of generational

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language loss. So she created the

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Scobot. This is a small robot that sits

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on the wearer shoulder. It comes in

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designs that look like woodland

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creatures. And when a user says a word

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to it in English, it uses AI speech

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recognition technology to respond with a

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corresponding pre-recorded audio file,

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saying that word back to the user in the

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native language. She provides these

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schoolots to students in classrooms who

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get to build them and then interact with

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them to learn the language. And I asked

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Danielle why it was so important to her

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to preserve and document this language.

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Here's what she told me. When you lose

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your language, you lose such a key

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component of your culture and of your

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ways. It's the way that we communicate

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about the world around us. It's the way

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that we tell stories. Now, young

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technologists who are working in this

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space say they're being very intentional

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about how to apply artificial

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intelligence to the problem of

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preserving endangered languages because

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of a history where resources from

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indigenous communities have been taken

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without their consent, without

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compensation. So, for example, Danielle

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says that it was a very intentional

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choice for her to use pre-recorded audio

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files of kids from the community in her

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school rather than an AI generated

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synthetic voice because, in her words,

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language learning should be a community

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endeavor, not just something that you do

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between you and a robot. Now to a

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groundbreaking discovery in Argentina,

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where scientists have unearthed the most

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complete skeleton to date of an extinct

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apex predator with a taste for

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dinosaurs. They've dubbed it Costan

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Sucus Atrox, a Cretaceous area crocodile

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that measured up to 12 feet long and

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weighed about 550 lbs. It roamed the

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humid flood plains of what is now

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Patagonia nearly 70 million years ago,

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much farther south than previously

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thought. It was a hyper carnivore,

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meaning its diet was almost exclusively

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meat, including other dinosaurs.

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It was a predator that had enormous

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teeth, very high, very pointed canines.

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Surely with that, it could give a strong

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bite, retain prey. We assume that the

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animals these enormous crocodiles prayed

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on were dinosaurs.

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That diet also likely doomed the

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predigious predator, causing it to die

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out in the mass extinction event at the

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end of the Cretaceous period.

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Researchers now hope to recover isotope

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information from the fossilized teeth in

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order to learn more about the remarkable

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reptile.

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Pop quiz hot shot. What is the maximum

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speed that a school bus can drive in the

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US? 45 mph, 65, 75, or 85 mph?

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Answer is 65 mph. An estimated 25

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million children ride school buses each

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and every day in America.

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Quick question. What's the largest mass

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transit system in the country? Give you

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a hint. It's yellow. That's right.

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School buses. Millions of students rely

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on them to get to and from school. But

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what if your school commute could be

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cleaner, quieter, and smarter? One

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company is aiming to do just that by

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revolutionizing the way we use the big

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yellow buses. Our Bill Weir has a look.

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For 100 years, the wheels on the bus

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have gone round and round, round and

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round, with very little improvement.

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Yellow diesel dinosaurs belching fumes

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all through the town and with no way to

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track America's most precious cargo.

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Like, you can track your pizza, you can

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track your packages, but you have no

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idea where your children are. My

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champion for change is a mom/engineer

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who set out to reinvent the school bus.

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It's a company called Zoom.

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When Ritu Nion moved to Silicon Valley

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and started a family, she found the same

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child transport challenges her mother

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faced back in India.

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Nothing had changed. This problem is

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generational. It is very much societal.

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Why is the technology not applied and

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how I can revolutionize this whole

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thing? Even in the epicenter of

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door-to-door ontime delivery,

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we didn't think in this way when it came

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to our kids.

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Yeah, it is a problem hidden in plain

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sight. Like nobody realizes it's the

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largest mass transit system in the

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country. 27 million kids commute twice

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daily on this infrastructure.

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Hi Matteo, I love your shirt. I love

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that dragon shirt. That's so cool. And

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for special needs families like

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Matteo's, knowing exactly when a safe,

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quiet ride will arrive at both ends is

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an educational game changer.

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Sometimes they'll tell you like it's

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coming a little early or it's running

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late, but right now it's still on

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schedule.

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That's so great. And our driver is

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Diana.

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Yes. So it gives you the driver's

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information. Ready? All right. Have a

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good day. Nice. Nice.

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Bye, Mattel.

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So he rode a diesel bus, right, his

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first year, right?

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What was that like for him? I he has

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autism,

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right? So it was uh a little

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uncomfortable cuz he the noise. So he

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was just sometimes like cover his ears,

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you know, it bothered him. Now with

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these buses, like you can barely hear

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him, so that's not an issue anymore.

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Oakland became Zoom's first big customer

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thanks to Kimberly Rainey, who came from

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package delivery at FedEx. We gave them

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a little bit of a shot. Uh we also tried

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them on our most difficult students to

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see really how well that the app and the

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technology held up. Um and it was great.

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Our parents loved it. We like to call it

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like Uber Lift meets FedEx type Amazon

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meets Tesla. And we've merged them all

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together into almost the exact perfect

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operation.

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Normally school buses stop for 3 minutes

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every stop. And the reason for that is

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they want to make sure the kid is there

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and nobody has missed each other. In our

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case, we are able to reduce that

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boarding time to 8 seconds per stop.

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By trying to solve one problem, she

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ended up solving all kinds of other

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problems. Since there is a national

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shortage of bus drivers, smarter routes

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make the most of everybody. And the

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extra juice saved gets used after

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school. Because these aren't just buses,

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they are giant portable batteries which

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get plugged into the grid after school

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and during summers.

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74 buses in Oakland are giving 2.1

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gawatt hours of energy which is

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equivalent to powering 400 homes

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annually. Zoom is in 14 states, 4,000

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schools across the country and we are

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rapidly growing. So our mission is to

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enable 10,000 buses in the next few

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years.

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School bus by day, power plant by night.

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That's right. That's right.

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[Applause]

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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10

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goes to a nonprofit in Nebraska

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dedicated to helping a new generation

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take flight in careers of aviation.

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Young adults are invited to aviation

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STEM day at the Millard airport for

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hands-on aviation experiences. From

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flying a Cessna 172 simulator to hearing

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the roar of a live ramjet engine. We are

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seeing a rising interest in aviation

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which is good because uh the retirements

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are um accelerating and we need young

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people to consider aviation as a as a

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career.

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I became interested in aviation a couple

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years ago. So I'm just doing all the

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exploring I can to just figure out what

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I want to do, where I want to go to

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school or if I want to go to school. um

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whether I want to go to the military or

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college and just exploring my options.

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For these future pilots and aviation

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extraordinaires, the sky is not the

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limit. It's just the beginning. All

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right, superstars. Time for a shout out.

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This one's going to St. Joseph's Indian

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School in Chamberlain, South Dakota.

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Going out and making it an awesome day,

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everyone. So glad to see you. I'm Koi

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Wire and we are CNN 10.

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