Humanoid Robots are taking over

China is hosting the first Humanoid Robot olympics and Ben describes each event just by looking at pictures

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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But right now it's time for this Are you excited?
Featuring veteran news anchor KT fun tweets screw KT.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
So here's how I want to do this story.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Because the pictures are unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I want to tell you what it is and then
just to hand the pictures to Ben and let them react.
Now you've seen a bunch of these pictures, right Christina. Okay,
So let me just read you this little news nugget Ben,
and then we'll get going headline. The first ever World
Humanoid Robot Games kicks off in China. What The opening

(01:03):
ceremony of the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games took place
at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, China. During
the ceremony, robots demonstrated sprinting, soccer, boxing, and other sports.
The competition begins today with more than five hundred humanoid

(01:23):
robots and two hundred and eighty teams from sixteen countries,
including the US, Germany and Japan. So Ben, instead of
talking about all the events and stuff, I would like
for you to just react to pictures.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
All Christina, this is the one I'm showing them here.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Okay. I didn't know we had robots in this. Go
USA humanoids.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Always go USA humanoids.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh okay, So it looks like two robots. Why do
they need protective head helmets exactly? Why didn't they protect
their heads? Are boxing? They got the boxing gloves and
they have headgear on. Why are they detecting their heads? Yeah?
I mean what it does remind me of the movie

(02:06):
Real Steel. Okay, And I don't you know if it's
kind of like a go kart racing or really anything
where it's like, all right, you are building something, and
whoever can build the best one, good luck. You might
win this competition. If you could build the best robot
that can win a fight, great, you win the fight.
If everyone is held to the same standards and has
the same budget or whatever, to work with the movie

(02:27):
Real Steal. I love that movie came out in twenty eleven.
Hugh Jackman was in it. It's like Rock'm soccer robots
robots fighting. That was badass, Like I love that movie.
This this looks this does look more like collegiate boxing
just with robots. Or it's like, you know, there's nothing
excited that. Robots don't look cool or anything. They like
mannequins with edgear. Are those featherweight robots? They're not even

(02:50):
that impressive.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I would like to know their way in, like how
much do they with?

Speaker 1 (02:53):
And is the ghost of Don King there? Okay, I'm
gonna show him this, Okay, man other event feed weigh
in on. Okay, this is the same looking robots, but
now they have jerseys on, just shirts and no pants,
no shorts. Their organs are out and it looks like
they're playing soccer. There's a soccer ball. There's a bunch

(03:16):
of people watching them play soccer. And these one of
the robots coming in for like a slide tackle. They
have balls for hands. They don't have hands. I guess
they don't need them in soccer. They're not gonna shake
hands or anything.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Does it?

Speaker 3 (03:32):
So?

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Far to Any of these pictures make you want to
watch this? No, it kind of looks like.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
It kind of looks like those old, those old games
where like we're growing up, it's like a football game
and it was a football field and it just shook. Yeah,
the little tiny characters wrote bump right around on it.
It's like a magnet electric magnet thing. It's like that,
but with real life robots. All right, Uh so I
want to show I'm gonna show him a picture of

(03:58):
the hundred meters. Yeah, I want to get his opinion
on how this is working out.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
I would want to watch all of these, by the way.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
I think I would too, depending if I took shrooms
or not. Well, all right, here's some robots racing. I
mean to me, it's like, can you make the robots interesting?
Like I don't love the Olympics until I learn about
the stories of the athletes. You know, in real steel
every robot looked different, and so it's like, Okay, that's
a scary looking robot.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
It's different than this robot. Okay, here comes a fight.
But these all look identical.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
So what if they were running down the track with
double d's, Oh batteries, you know, yeah, yeah, yea batteries.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
The one thing I'm confused about the one hundred meter
is they're not facing the same direction in that picture.
They are they are, they are. One of them just
started running. One of them's got like a pirate peg leg.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Maybe, I don't know. I can't tell what I'm in.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
I'm betting on that guy.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, and one of them is really short, so I
guess they are a little different. What does every big
universal international games have? It has an opening ceremony, yeah, Ben,
all right? Oh, they dressed them up like they made
the robots, like hold the guitar, and it's a robot

(05:12):
holding a guitar, but the robot's head is a security camera.
The other one looks like et dressed up in the closet.
And this ladies just weren't a traditional Chinese gown. I
guess what is she singing with them? Is she a
sexpot or is she a humanoid out there with human

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with them?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I don't know. We'll know with this. Describe what's happening here, Ben,
all right.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Here is one of the robot athletes taking a picture
with a real athlete. The athletes just taking a selfie
with a robot before the opening ceremony. None of these
really look that different from each other. So what is
the intrigue here? We get up beating down? These robots
are kicking the soccer ball.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
You want to root for your country? That's that's the ENTRIESU.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Right, take so right, Okay, here's robots playing soccer. Don't
they look like they're ald depressed. Yeah, they got their
heads down looking at the soccer ball. Just looks like
they're all down and sad. Their shoulders are sling.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, these are these Come on, these these these robots
are not having fun? All right? Coming up next bed?
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