00:00We're in this kind of weird liminal space, I feel, with robotics where no one can really decide what they
00:04should be.
00:05Are they humanoid bots like Lance was just demoing there for us?
00:09Or are they the sort of more consumer robots like robot vacuums or the as-of-yet unseen Samsung Bully
00:16that will someday release?
00:18Maybe, maybe not. What can we expect in 2026?
00:21Definitely the march, the steady march of humanoid robots will continue.
00:25We will see more eye-popping videos.
00:29The One X Neo Beta, which is a $20,000 humanoid robot, is supposed to show up in homes next
00:35spring.
00:36I still think that it's probably, that's ambitious, optimistic.
00:41If and when it does show up in the homes, people will be ready to throttle it because it'll be
00:46unloading the dishwasher like this.
00:49It'll like take 45 minutes.
00:51But I have seen some recent, there are actually a bunch of videos that dropped this week of robots running
00:57and boxing and beating the crud out of their own CEO.
01:01These are disturbing videos.
01:03They really aren't where we're going because a lot of this stuff is sort of canned functions that they can
01:08do.
01:08But it also breaks all the five rules of robotics, right?
01:12You can't harm humans.
01:13But it is going to be a very interesting space.
01:16And remember, the thing that is propelling all of this robotic development is AI.
01:21It is really supercharged their training in a way they could not do before.
01:26So they are learning skills much more quickly and getting much better at handling unforeseen circumstances.
01:32If anyone expects that they will have their Rosie the Robot in their home next year doing all the chores
01:38and they'll just leave them behind, they're going to be in for a rude awakening.
01:42Next year is not really going to be that year.
01:44But we will see a lot of really cool development.
01:46I've still got a quick question.
01:48Yeah.
01:48Sort of for Lewis, because you're sort of the entertainment streaming expert on the podcast today.
01:53Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't there a lot of movies where robots find people and doing that sort of thing
01:57where things go wrong?
01:58There's that one that comes to mind about, you know, a specific robot, time travels.
02:04There's a couple, actually.
02:05It's funny that, isn't it?
02:06I've heard of that.
02:07My favourite thing that I've seen recently is the fact that much like cats and dogs, robots cannot quite conceive
02:15of mirrors.
02:16And I saw a video of a robot just running headfirst into a mirror multiple times.
02:22It's either that it's like intruder alert or that it just thinks there's an infinite corridor or something that it's
02:28ahead.
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