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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks.

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Speaker 2: A'd be twenty three to eleven.

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Speaker 3: On News Talks, it'd be over and I Elon Musk

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Speaker 3: has held a robo event with all sorts of new

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Speaker 3: products and designs, including robotaxis, robo vans, and something called

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Speaker 3: a humanoid. Our texpert Paul Stenhouse is here with the details.

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Speaker 3: What on earth is a humanoid?

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Speaker 4: Paul? Yeah, So, if you've ever seen Will Smith's movie

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Speaker 4: I Robot came out in two thousand and four, it's usually,

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Speaker 4: you know, a good classic to watch when you've got

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Speaker 4: whole lot else on in the queue. That is basically

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Speaker 4: what Elon Musk says you're going to be able to

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Speaker 4: buy by the end of twenty twenty five. Now hopefully

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Speaker 4: it's the good one and not the bad one I Robot,

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Speaker 4: but he is calling it the biggest product ever, right.

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Speaker 4: He's saying it as an autonomous assistant and a humanoid friend.

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Speaker 4: And let me say, I saw the headline, saw the

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Speaker 4: video and thought I was kind of skeptical, I'll be honest,

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Speaker 4: pushed play on the video and was maybe terrified, but

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Speaker 4: you may be amazed.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Right. So these this robot started to have it lookcause

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Speaker 4: it looks like a robot, looks like a human. It

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Speaker 4: looks it's got arms and legs, and it's got like

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Speaker 4: a rotator thing where it's hipstar so its body can

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Speaker 4: swivel around, and it it was having a conversation with

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Speaker 4: someone and it looked at them, It engaged with them.

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Speaker 4: It spoke to them in like a cadence and tone

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Speaker 4: that was just off puttingly normal. I don't know how

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Speaker 4: to put it. And then I was reading an article

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Speaker 4: on it said that one event attend told this robot

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Speaker 4: thing that it was doing a good job as it

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Speaker 4: was pouring it a cocktail from a keig Right. True story.

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Speaker 4: The robot looked up and said, you want to get

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Speaker 4: a photo, and then made a peace sign with its hands,

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Speaker 4: like ready for the photo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Crazy. So Elon Musk had them at this event. They

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Speaker 4: were dancing, they were serving cocktails, they were chatting with people.

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Speaker 4: They showed a video where he's trying to position them.

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Speaker 4: I guess is almost like Rosy from the Jetsons. I guess, yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, being able to what are your plants, collect

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Speaker 4: your packages, clean up the kitchen after dinner, unpack your groceries,

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Speaker 4: or play a board game with the kids.

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Speaker 3: So he said on x quote, it will be able

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Speaker 3: to do anything you want. It can be a teacher,

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Speaker 3: babysit your kids, walk your dog, mow your lawn, get

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Speaker 3: the groceries, just be your friend. Whatever you can think of,

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Speaker 3: it will do.

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Speaker 4: Be your friend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So these are going to cost at the moment, what

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Speaker 3: like forty or fifty grand or something like that.

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Speaker 4: So New Zealand dollars. Yeah, they're saying somewhere between like

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Speaker 4: and there's a lofty goal, right, they think they're going

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Speaker 4: to have them ready by the end of twenty twenty five. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he's saying it's going to be less than the price

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Speaker 4: of a car. No, don't get me wrong, that's a

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Speaker 4: lot large price tag. Yes, if it can do all

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Speaker 4: of those things, I guess it'll pay for itself pretty quickly.

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Speaker 4: I yes, yeah, I mean imagine the because here's so,

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Speaker 4: here's here's the cell. Right. The marketing materials are saying

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Speaker 4: they should be taking on the dangerous and the boring

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Speaker 4: tasks in your life, right if you were a business owner, right,

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Speaker 4: what are those like really boring, really repetitive tasks? That

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Speaker 4: you could. I mean, that's a pretty fifty grand are

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Speaker 4: these robots? Yes, that's a salary.

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Speaker 2: It is, Yeah, I mean it's always that's where we're going.

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Speaker 3: And I don't want I don't want to be the

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Speaker 3: guy who says this isn't going to happen. But I

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Speaker 3: am acutely aware that Elon Musk was the one who

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Speaker 3: said that we would all have like fully autonomous vehicles

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Speaker 3: about seven or eight years ago, right, and we aren't

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Speaker 3: quite there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: The robocab looked kind of cool.

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Speaker 2: Though it did look kind of cool. Just explain the robocab.

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Speaker 4: So the robocab, imagine a car, no steering wheel, no pedals,

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Speaker 4: just two c and age enormous screen sitting in front

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Speaker 4: of you, and you tell it where you want to

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Speaker 4: go in a way it goes. But then there's the

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Speaker 4: robo van Jack with right looks like a futuristic airstream

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Speaker 4: whose worst enemy is probably a speed bump.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this thing is so.

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Speaker 4: Low to the ground. Looks cool, but it looks like

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Speaker 4: it's going to get destroyed by a bad road.

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Speaker 3: Yes, or a slight slow yeah yeah yeah, can't make

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Speaker 3: it up a driveway, but it looks very cool. Oh yeah, yeah, look, hey,

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Speaker 3: thanks Paul.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be fascinating to see if these.

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Speaker 3: If these humanoids actually do make it to market, especially

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Speaker 3: by the end of next year. Before eleven o'clock, we

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Speaker 3: are in the garden with the fertilizers that you need

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Speaker 3: to get your spring plants absolutely humming at this time

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Speaker 3: of year.

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