play the drums. Now you're going to say to yourself, I know, but Scott, there have been things called drum machines for a long time. You know, you could just program them and then they make sound. To which I say, well, but you know this is better. They've added AI to it so it can make up its own beats. Now that's pretty good. Imagine if your AI drummer could come up with beats that you wouldn't even think of. That'd be pretty good.

But you know what they did? They put this capability in a robot. So the robot has arms and they're trying to figure out how to make the wrists to be as snappy as human wrists. To which I say you're just producing sound, right? That's the end product of the robot drummer. If it's just sound, can't you just directly produce the sound? Do you really need a robot arm to hit a drum? There's no other way to produce that sound, like such as recording a drum? I don't know.

I do like having a robot to play ping-pong with me because at least I can get some exercise and play ping-pong. So if you know anybody who's making one of those ping-pong playing robots, I'm in the market as soon as I can get one.

Well, there's another study from the University of Bristol about if you synchronize the movements of your robots and your humans, it builds trust. So they call it harmonizing. So trust between humans and robots is improved when the movements, let's say if you're just walking down the hallway, if the robot kind of synchronizes with the way you're walking or the way you're moving, then your trust will be improved in both directions. Now I don't know how a robot develops trust, but it works in at least one direction.

Now on one hand it looks like an innocent little unimportant story about how robots learn to move the right way. However, here's the part they don't tell you, and that's why I'm here. If a robot starts pacing and leading, meaning copying a human being, but then later it moves on its own and you see if the human copies the movement somewhat automatically without knowing it, that is one of the most powerful methods of persuasion the world has ever known. At the moment it's something only humans can do.

So if you're in a meeting with your boss and your boss does this with his hands, do that with your hands. If your boss does this and leans on the table, do that. And after you've copied your boss for say 20 minutes while the boss is talking and there's a meeting going on, then see if you can get the boss to follow you. So after you've copied the boss's arm motions, you do a new one. Put one hand up, let's say. See how long it takes for your boss to get into that same position. You're going to be amazed how easily it is to get people to change their physical position without knowing that you did it to them. It's something we practiced in hypnosis class and I didn't believe it. I didn't believe that it would work until the first time I did it and I thought, holy cow, did I just make somebody change their entire body witho