Regina Barber

Okay. So, Jeff, you've taken me from, like, optimist to pessimist. It's the, you know, the road I take every day. I'm starting to think that AI is, like, never going to work that well in robots or, like, it's going to be a really long time.

It's doing it.

It's doing it.

It's doing it.

I'm excited to hear more, Jeff. Thank you so much for bringing this reporting to us.

I'm excited to hear more, Jeff. Thank you so much for bringing this reporting to us.

I'm excited to hear more, Jeff. Thank you so much for bringing this reporting to us.

We'll link Jeff's full story, which has robot videos, in our episode notes. This episode was produced by Burleigh McCoy, edited by our showrunner, Rebecca Ramirez, and fact-checked by Tyler Jones. Jimmy Keeley was the audio engineer. Beth Donovan is our senior director, and Colin Campbell is our senior vice president of podcasting strategy.

We'll link Jeff's full story, which has robot videos, in our episode notes. This episode was produced by Burleigh McCoy, edited by our showrunner, Rebecca Ramirez, and fact-checked by Tyler Jones. Jimmy Keeley was the audio engineer. Beth Donovan is our senior director, and Colin Campbell is our senior vice president of podcasting strategy.

We'll link Jeff's full story, which has robot videos, in our episode notes. This episode was produced by Burleigh McCoy, edited by our showrunner, Rebecca Ramirez, and fact-checked by Tyler Jones. Jimmy Keeley was the audio engineer. Beth Donovan is our senior director, and Colin Campbell is our senior vice president of podcasting strategy.

I'm Regina Barber. Thank you for listening to Shortwave from NPR.

I'm Regina Barber. Thank you for listening to Shortwave from NPR.

I'm Regina Barber. Thank you for listening to Shortwave from NPR.

You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. Hey, Shortwavers, Regina Barber here. So if I say unicorns, what comes to mind? For me, I think about the way this legendary creature has been talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's linked to magic and fantasy. And of course, I also think of that key feature of unicorns. You know what I'm talking about. The famous unicorn horn.

You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. Hey, Shortwavers, Regina Barber here. So if I say unicorns, what comes to mind? For me, I think about the way this legendary creature has been talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's linked to magic and fantasy. And of course, I also think of that key feature of unicorns. You know what I'm talking about. The famous unicorn horn.

You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. Hey, Shortwavers, Regina Barber here. So if I say unicorns, what comes to mind? For me, I think about the way this legendary creature has been talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's linked to magic and fantasy. And of course, I also think of that key feature of unicorns. You know what I'm talking about. The famous unicorn horn.

You see, in medieval Europe, wealthy people could buy unicorn horns. They looked like these long spiral horns that tapered to a point.

You see, in medieval Europe, wealthy people could buy unicorn horns. They looked like these long spiral horns that tapered to a point.

You see, in medieval Europe, wealthy people could buy unicorn horns. They looked like these long spiral horns that tapered to a point.

That's zoologist Greg Okori-Crow. He's with Florida Atlantic University. And he doesn't study unicorns. He studies narwhals, the Arctic whale that has a long tusk jutting out of its head. And it's sometimes called the unicorn of the sea. Greg says way back when, seafarers brought narwhal tusks back to Europe and passed them off as unicorn horns.