FULL EPISODE: Robotic Rabbits - January 8, 2026
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How are robotic rabbits being used to combat invasive pythons in Florida?
Unexpected guests. No topic is off limits. From sex and relationships to the human condition. Personal anxieties and so much more. The only talk show of its kind in the world. World This Is. Hi and welcome. Pull up a chair and put on your thinking cap. Here's what you'll learn on The Last Show University tonight. Except you won't get a degree. Okay, so police are starting to use AI to write their police reports. And one of them ended up saying that an officer in an incident turned into a frog. Seriously. So what went wrong with this auto-generated report based on body cam footage? And why a frog? We'll tell you that in about 10 minutes time. Then after that... How does a healthy giraffe tragically die inside a world-class zoo?
A 13-year-old giraffe was crushed by a gate at the Toronto Zoo, and people are asking, how could this happen?
What are the implications of OpenAI's ChatGPT Health for personal medical data?
Halfway through the hour, we'll unpack the incident and cover what captivity really means for exotic animals. All right, that's some of what we'll cover tonight. There will be more. You will learn more. But for now, let's dive in with stories from the tech industry today. part of the last show with David Cooper? Call us and join the conversation. 1-888-505-6644. We are here to cover the tech stories of the day with tech analyst, Carmi Levy. And the most important top story that you need to know about involves robotic bunnies to fight invasive Burmese pythons. Carmi, welcome to the show. You know, start with bunnies.
That's always the best.
And then add the word robotic and then you're even doing better. And then add the word pythons and it's the best story of the year. Oh, and then even more, add the word Florida and maybe the best story of the century.
You know, it's funny. I've been to Florida. I've walked around, you know, in and around the Everglades.
Why did a police report claim an officer transformed into a frog?
I've been in kind of rural Florida where you probably should be close to a vehicle or carry a gun because Lord knows the wildlife there can kill you. And the people, but keep going. Yeah. And so I did not know this. I did not know that the Burmese python is not native to Florida. It is an invasive species. And over the past number of years, it has decimated in some areas small mammals and birds in some places up to 95 percent of the small mammal population.
These are not small snakes. They can grow up like over 15 feet. These are serious beasts.
What happened to the giraffe at the Toronto Zoo?
These are basically biblical level serpents.
They are. And, you know, they'll squeeze you to death and you're done. And what's scary about them is they're incredibly good at camouflage. And to the point that an estimated only one to three percent of all the Burmese pythons that are out in the wild have ever been located because they're just so good at hiding themselves. When conservationists try to control the exploding population, they can't because they can't catch them. Normally, you'd use decoys or you'd use humans to go out into the wild and look for them. That hasn't worked because of this camouflage. And so they've created this robotic bunny, a cyber bunny, that uses some pretty intense technology to fake out the pythons and get them to think that this is an actual bunny.
Are exotic animal cafes a cute trend or a welfare crisis?
And then they use that as a lure. And then once they identify them, they can then go catch them. And so these bunnies have, they cost about $4,000 a piece. They have about 120 of them deployed so far. And they have internal heaters, so they're kind of just warm enough to, as a regular rabbit.
Because don't snakes like sense infrared and heat and that kind of thing of their prey?
They do. They're incredibly sensitive, right? And so they can sense things like temperature and movement and smell. And if something isn't quite right, they won't take the bait.
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And so they've used those sort of those three things. So internal heaters to sort of mimic the heat signature of an actual rabbit, solar-powered motors to replicate. We know when rabbits twitch. So they'll twitch using these motors, again, to fool the snake. And then aroma diffusers that release synthetic scents that smell a lot like rabbits.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:03
2
How are robotic rabbits being used to combat invasive pythons in Florida?
0:03–1:08
3
What are the implications of OpenAI's ChatGPT Health for personal medical data?
1:08–2:08
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Why did a police report claim an officer transformed into a frog?
2:08–2:44
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What happened to the giraffe at the Toronto Zoo?
2:44–3:32
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Are exotic animal cafes a cute trend or a welfare crisis?
3:32–4:03
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What did Ashley Tisdale say about her toxic mom group?
4:03–4:54
8
Should we allow AI to resurrect loved ones after they pass away?
4:54–1:20:08
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