The Robot Soccer Player

Joe tweeted out a video over the weekend of a robot playing soccer. Not just playing soccer, but playing soccer better than any human we've seen. This is semi terrifying. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think you tweeted this out, Yeah you did, or
somebody did on our Twitter feed. We have people the
new the new Boston Dynamics robot that plays soccer. Have
you seen that?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I couldn't sleep for three days after seeing that? Holy cow, people.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
That was something.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
This is it's is Boston Dynamics actually a film studio
that creates pranks because this this robot is playing soccer
like better than the best soccer player I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
We have no.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Fluid movements, nobody's as nimble as this robot is. It's
not possible.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
We got to post that for people at a link
at Armstrong and getdy dot com if they're not Twitter,
you know, aficionados or something. Seriously, it's terrifying. Robot armies
will soon be I was gonna say marching. No, they'll
be sprinting, leaping boulders, climbing tree across the landscape, coming

(01:01):
for our vital organs or or are you know, precious
juices or whatever they want out of us and will
not be able to resist. Right, AI controlled Boston Dynamics
robot armies.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
You know that's right. I can't. I'm usually the person
that thinks of this but didn't even think about it. Obviously,
the goal is not to create the world's best soccer players.
We are China, and China and everybody else is going
to have the best soldiers that have ever existed. And
you would send into the you know, jungles of Vietnam
in nineteen sixty eight, one hundred of these that can

(01:34):
climb and run and flip around, and oh my god, sure.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
If one was eliminated, you would get the that word
and you would send another one out, or another hundred
or whatever, you know, working death in destruction.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Sure, yeah,