Chapter 1: What are humanoid robots and why are they trending?
Humanoid robots, robots for short, have been everywhere lately. And I'm not talking about, you know, the robot that mows your lawn or vacuums your living room. I'm talking about those ones that walk, talk, and look like they could kill you. They're running half marathons in Beijing.
It starts like any other race, but this one is different.
The robot came in a whole six minutes faster than the human record previously held.
They're giving prostate exams in the new Jackass movie. Let's let it rip, baby. And they're now the top priority over at Tesla.
As you've heard me say a few times, I think Optimus will be our biggest product. Not just Tesla's biggest product ever, but probably the biggest product ever.
Humanoid robots are being hyped as the future of everything from household chores to elder care to who knows, maybe even war. So on today's Explain from Vox, we're going to try and suss out all the hype and sort out our robot reality.
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Chapter 2: How are Tesla's Optimus robots changing the landscape?
But Agility is very much focused on the warehouse and their robots look a little bit more inhuman. They have those backward facing knees.
This may look like your average American warehouse, but Agility Robotics claims it's actually the world's first factory for humanoid robots.
It's weird grasshopper-like legs allow it to crouch and pick up items off the floor, and it can surprisingly handle stairs as well.
Apptronic make a more general-purpose robot that looks much more like a human in terms of, you know, normal sort of body proportions, stands upright, you look it eye to eye, or eye to unblinking robot eye, whatever that might be.
Meet Apollo, your new robot co-worker. He's designed to work alongside humans in a factory and help alleviate taxing and physical labor.
The goal is that he's going to start doing work here on Earth, but then long term, going to the space station, from the space station to the moon, Mars, and beyond.
I got to meet them, shake hands. I played Ikakok. Do you know this? No. Rock, paper, scissors is what it is. Sorry. It's called Ikakok sometimes in the UK. I did not know that. I thought we were going to talk about robots, but that's now the most fun fact you've given us. Yeah, you go, ick, ack, ock. Yeah, and then you throw, whether it's rock, paper, or scissors. Anyway.
They come to us for one thing, but we give them something else, you know? Exactly. And I also got, this was my heart's content. You know, I so wanted to do this. I wanted to kick a robot. Kicking robots happens to be an efficient method of testing a machine's balance.
In recent years, as robots have become increasingly sophisticated, their makers have gone from kicking them to shoving them, tripping them, even hitting them with folding chairs. I had that burning urge inside me that I want to get my own back before they obviously take over the world. So the robots were nice to you, but you weren't that nice to them. Oh, I was horrible. I was terrible.
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