Summary
We're looking at humanoid robots - the ones that look like us. They have arms and legs. But are they really that practical and useful ? And how might they develop in the future ? Also in this edition of Tech Life, you've heard of charging points for electric cars and bikes ? Well, next it's plug-in points for cruise ships ! We learn about Bitcoin halving. And tech is helping farmers in Ghana to grow more crops.
Presenter: Zoe Kleinman Producer: Tom Quinn
(Photo: An image of Atlas, the Boston Dynamics robot. Credit: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images, and Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. The new series of the infinite monkey cage listen on radio four and BBC sounds |
| 0:26.6 | hello and welcome to tech life the program about technology making an impact on your life I'm Zoe |
| 0:34.6 | Kleinman and this week we're looking at humanoid robots, the ones that look like us. |
| 0:39.4 | They have arms and legs and the idea is that they do the same physical things that we can do, |
| 0:44.1 | but are they really that practical and useful? Also this week, we often talk about charging points |
| 0:49.7 | for electric cars and bikes, but how about the electric plug-in points for these? |
| 0:57.3 | And what is Bitcoin halving? We speak to TechLives expert. |
| 1:01.0 | We speak to TechLyves expert. Recently on TechLife, we featured the robot dog spot, which is being used to help decommission nuclear power stations around the world. |
| 1:27.6 | It's made by Boston Dynamics. |
| 1:29.6 | Well, the same company produced another robot, very human-like, or humanoid, called Atlas. |
| 1:35.3 | Around the height of an adult, with arms and legs, it could do a lot of the things you and I can do, and a bit more. |
| 1:40.8 | Well, actually, a lot more depending on how agile you are. |
| 1:47.9 | The a bit more, well actually a lot more depending on how agile you are. This is the sound of Atlas running upstairs, jumping and doing a backflip. |
| 1:52.9 | Well, hydraulic Atlas has now been retired after 11 years. |
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