Burger Pass Chaos, Robot Marathons, and the Human-Robot Rivalry Heats Up

The Headlines:

• Red Robin’s $20 Bottomless Burger Passes Sell Out Instantly—and Glitch Out

• China Hosts the World’s First Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon

• Humanoid Tech Race: China vs. The West

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Red Robin Passes Sell Out Faster Than Taylor Swift Tickets

It’s official: America loves burgers more than concerts. Red Robin's Bottomless Burger Passes—$20 for a daily burger and bottomless sides through May—sold out instantly and created chaos in the process.

Fans reported website crashes, errors, and even being charged $682, which is the full promo value for the month. Those accidental charges were quickly refunded, but the chaos still made the burger run feel more like a Black Friday brawl. One customer joked: "It was literally easier to get Taylor Swift tickets."
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China Hosts First Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon

More than 20 two-legged humanoid robots lined up in China for the world’s first humanoid half-marathon, a futuristic flex of tech that was more adorable clunky chaos than Terminator-style takeover.

Built by university teams and tech firms, these bots jogged, stumbled, and waddled their way through the race, which was more about showcasing China's growing ambition in humanoid robotics than actual speed.

The winning team’s robot may not have broken any human records, but its creators claim it's on par with U.S. models—setting up a global robot race that Elon Musk believes could be a $10 trillion business.
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for Nina's What's trending.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Shout out to you if you landed a Red Robin
bottomless Burger pass because you got the Golden ticket. These
passes were harder to get than Taylor Swift tickets, say
some of the fans. Their website crashed over the weekend
after Red Robin has announced that they were going to
be selling these bottomless burger passes for twenty bucks, meaning
that you would be able to get burgers in free,
bottomless sides for the entire month of May. I mean

(00:23):
that's quite a steal. So everybody wanted to get their
hands on them. Everything crashed. Some people were actually even
charged six hundred and eighty two dollars, which is the
value of the pass on accident. They fixed it, but
for a minute, like that's what was happening. So their
website wasn't ready. I guess they didn't realize how serious
people are going to be about a burger path.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Hey man, twenty bucks for burg free burgers for a month.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Oh I know, and they're French fries. There's nothing like it.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
They're like bomb bomb. We used to steal the Little Shakers. No,
the Red Robin sauce, the little the seasoning, thank you
the seasoning. They have a specialist seasoning. So every time
we would go, it'd stick them in our purses because
you can't buy them. Maybe you can now, but back
then you couldn't.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
So well you can't get this pass anymore. Oh no,
they're sold out.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
It's only going on for like a day. But I
guess it crushed.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
What are the medical bills? What do you mean I
have to eat that many burgers?

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I was kind of wondering the same thing, to be
honest with to my moms or the other day. I
was like, you can't eat a burger every single day?

Speaker 4 (01:20):
And she has, yeah, you can.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
I almost. It was like, what do you mean you
almost do? And she goes, well you have eat that
or chicken. I'm like, okay, well we have chicken. That's
another different. I was like, what you eating a burger
for every single day? Like a full, like juicy, like
greasy burger. Like I feel like that can't be good. Free.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
So they have veggie burgers, They've got chicken burgers, They've
got all kinds of burgers.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
So you get all kinds of food. You could switch
it up and it says salad. It says you get
a bottomless side. Yeah, you can get a solad outside.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
You're going for the salad.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
And I think healthy, That's what I think. Yeah right, Robin, Yeah, yeah,
they are delicious though.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
That's the problem. That's what I'm saying. The problem is
it's my daughter's favorite restaurant. She loves that place. It
is delicious, But after she wants to go to it
too many times in a month, I'm like, I need
to go to the doctor.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
My heart is slower, and I'm making bad choices.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I know that.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
I know that.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
I will say the service there has become terrible because
they have the little things in any restaurant that has
the thing on the table, Yeah, like the servers don't
pay attention at all. But so they should just make
it robots, you know what I do.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
They're almost there, there's a call button on it, there
is a server.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, come on over. It's like on alight. And literally
I've had someone go.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I've called someone over and been like I want this,
like yeah, you can just put it on the pad,
and then they.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
Walked away And somehow I'm still gonna tip you twenty percent. Yeah,
because of that guilt.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
That doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
But since he brought up robots, I'm gonna go ahead
and jump to the robot story. Who do you think
one in a half marathon race the robot or human?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Robot human unless it was a wheel because I don't know.
I don't see robots legs moving like late human like.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Well, in Hong Kong they did this, the first ever
humanoid half marathon.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
It was on Saturday, and actually the humans won.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah we did, I should say surprisingly the humans.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Won, and that's how it starts by a mile. Robots
won't forget that.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, why would we do?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
They're going to be angry. Okay, it all started because
of this half marathon.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I'm starting to realize this.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
Now, we don't need robots with chips on their shoulder exactly.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, it's funny because they were talking about how these
particular models are so sophisticated that they actually compared to
Western models of the humanoids. So the race for whatever
country is going to create the most accurate humanoid is on.
And now so all of these people that make Western
US US.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Where was this made China? Oh? I don't know, I
thought it was here.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
So everybody is focusing on creating the perfect humanoid.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yeah, that's what. No way we beat them. No, there's
no way we did. What do you mean we did?
It's according to this the humans did.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
No, I'm saying, there's no way the United States beats
China at the humanoid race.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh no, no way, were about in the race human
sources robots?

Speaker 5 (04:02):
No, no, no, I'm talking about No, there's no frigging
way we want.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Because they're they're figuring out how to make their humanoids
do half marathons. We'd figuring out how to make them
when a hot dog anty cop. That's why, of course
their robots are going to be better.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Wait, China's working on humanoids.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
We're making twenty dollars burger pass.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Yeah, there you go. America is on the cutting edge. O.
Chios don't even work in our tables. Will you take
that with you today? Because that's as trending