Sasha Barbagallo

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629 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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The Briefing · Hezbollah rejects ceasefire + The 60-year plan to make you love robots · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

Stick around.

That deep dive is coming up for you next.

Some things in life are inevitable, some happen by chance, and then there are the things that we as a society sleepwalk into.

So a robot named Frank rocked up to our Melbourne studios a few weeks ago, about 130cm tall, 35kg in weight, and it was wearing a black T-shirt, some shorts and a pair of Vans.

Some of my colleagues had a lot of fun with it.

Frank's been dubbed Melbourne's newest robot influencer.

It's racked up millions of views on socials, wandering the CBD, giving high fives, popping into radio studios.

It even stormed out of a fake interview on A Current Affair.

But Frank is just one robot in what feels like an army of them that have been popping up right across the globe.

I've seen one on socials in red robes dancing in the streets of China, another dripped in gold hitting up the clubs in Greece, and even one in South Korea wearing the traditional gowns of a monk pledging its devotion to Buddhism.

And it doesn't just stop at robot monks.

A robot rocked up to this year's Met Gala as Alexander Wang's plus one.

Melania brought one to the White House back in March.

We're live streaming them working full eight hour factory shifts.

Robot soccer leagues are in development and a humanoid named Lightning just beat the human half marathon world record by seven minutes.

They might have different names and different costumes, but the point is they're no longer confined to tech expos and factory floors.

They're turning up in spaces we once thought were exclusively ours.

And to figure out why and where this is heading, come on and take a seat in my DeLorean.

The year is 1966, and an MIT scientist named Joseph Weizenbaum has just created the first ever chatbot.

He called it Eliza, programmed it to act like a therapist, and set out to prove a simple point, that human-computer interaction was so shallow that no one would ever mistake a chat with a machine for a real conversation.

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