Back to episode — Episode 2829 CWSA 05/04/25
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from the terrible people. Let me just insult your character and we'll start from there. All right. Well, I've got a movie recommendation for you. So the other day I watched the new Captain America. Now if you haven't seen it, Captain America is black this time, but he's not the only Captain America, because I guess the idea is there's more than one Captain America. And there was an original one a…
← Previous segment →llegedly Hyundai the automaker, they've got a plant in Georgia and they're going to use Atlas robots to automate their plant. So do you believe that? I feel like all the robot stories are a little premature. They might be testing it, but they aim to manufacture 100,000 electric and hybrid vehicles annually, but they're going to use the bipedal robots. In other words, the two-legged robots developed by Boston Dynamics, and they're going to do a whole bunch of different tasks that are part of assembling that car. And the idea is that the robots will automate up to 40% of the vehicle assembly by the end of this year.
Does that sound even remotely possible to you? That by th
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e end of this year there will be an operational car making plant in Georgia where 40% of the effort will be done by two-legged robots? That seems a little bit optimistic but we'll see. You probably know that Elon Musk was starting his own city, I guess in Texas near where he was doing his SpaceX stuff. And now it's official. It's called Starbase, Texas. And I guess it's officially blessed by the…
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