1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: on Tech on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demiro. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 2: Good morning, Rich, Good morning too, Amy. 4 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: The future is here. How about a robot for every home? 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 3: Well, if Amazon had their way, there would be one. 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 3: They just bought a company called Fauna Robotics. They make 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 3: a small humanoid robot called Sprout. But before you think 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 3: you're putting this thing in your home, it does cost 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 3: around fifty thousand dollars right now, so we do have 10 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 3: a ways before this is going to be, you know, 11 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 3: vacuuming our floors and you know Rosy the robot things. 12 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 2: But it is about. 13 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 3: Three to three and a half feet tall. It's soft, 14 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 3: it's approachable, it can interact with people, it can dance, 15 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 3: it can carry light things, it can even show emotion, 16 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 3: and it is cute. There's no denying you. If you 17 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 3: go to the website, it is a pretty cute robot. 18 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 3: But we'll see if Amazon can make this push. They've 19 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 3: got a bunch of robots in their factories now they 20 00:00:58,160 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 3: just need them in our homes. 21 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: It looks a little a little bit like Wally. 22 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's funny because I was at Disney Imagineering, 23 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 3: and I was like, this looks like the robot I 24 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 3: saw there, and they work with Disney, So I'm wondering 25 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 3: if Disney is a part of you know, if they 26 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 3: helped design or something. There's some connection there because it 27 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 3: looks very similar to the robot, and the way it 28 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 3: moves is very similar to the way the Disney robots move. 29 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: Life imitating art. We love it, Okay, Well, so we're 30 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: not gonna We'll talk about it more when it's not 31 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars anymore. 32 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, they couldn't even sell the Astro, which 33 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 3: was like fifteen or sixteen hundred dollars. That was like 34 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 3: the Alexa that rolled around on wheels. Remember that one 35 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 3: they made a big deal about and nobody ever got it. 36 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: Okay, So I remember we talked about this a while ago. 37 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: Open Aid had launched a deep fake video app called Sora, 38 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: and now they're ditching it. 39 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is kind of a head scratcher. So this 40 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 3: was a big launch, right. It was the first time 41 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 3: you could type a prompt into an app. It was 42 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 3: called Sora, and it would make a very realistic clip, 43 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 3: including of your face, so you could be dancing, you 44 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 3: could be doing anything really, and it went viral. They 45 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 3: said they had a million downloads in. 46 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 2: Just a few days. 47 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 3: But now they're shutting it down. I don't think it's 48 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 3: been a year. And they say they're going to put 49 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 3: their teammates on robotic simulations, so they're really trying to 50 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 3: figure out. This is a whole new world. By the way, 51 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 3: amy of these companies trying to build data about how 52 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 3: we do things like how do humans fold close, how 53 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,399 Speaker 3: do humans deliver things? How do humans walk upstairs? All 54 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 3: this stuff. There's like companies that are now trying to 55 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 3: grab all that data from real humans and process it 56 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 3: so that robots can mimic what humans. 57 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: Do, so that sprout can do it for us eventually. 58 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,679 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, how do we brush our teeth? Yeah, and 59 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 3: you could teach a human how to brush our teeth 60 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 3: in like ten seconds, but teaching a robot very different. 61 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: Okay, So they're shifting focus over to that because they're saying. 62 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,239 Speaker 2: I don't know, there's more to this story. 63 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 3: I think it's weird because obviously open Aye is not 64 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 3: going to stop doing video stuff, but it just seems like, 65 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just there's something weird here. 66 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: Okay, well we'll have you keep an eye on it 67 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: and then you can give us an update when we 68 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: find out more very sinister. Here's something that very exciting. 69 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: You can now air drop between your iPhone and not 70 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: another iPhone but you're Android or your friend's Android. 71 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 3: Yes, as long as you have a Samsung Galaxy S 72 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 3: twenty six model. So that's what they're starting with. But 73 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 3: eventually this will come to all Samsungs, I do believe. 74 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 3: But yeah, Samsung Galaxy S twenty six models this week 75 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 3: are getting air drop, which means, like you just said, 76 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 3: you can finally share photos and videos with your friends 77 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 3: at the party, whatever, just by air dropping them from 78 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 3: your phone to the iPhone or vice versa. 79 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 2: This is rolling out, so check your updates. It should be. 80 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 3: Toggled on automatically apparently, and if you remember we talked 81 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 3: about this last year, Google introduced this on its Pixel 82 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 3: phones and now the Pixel nine and the Pixel ten 83 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 3: have this functionality. And this is a good thing for 84 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 3: merging the war between the platforms. But by the way, yeah, 85 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 3: I don't think this has any blessing from Apple whatsoever, 86 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 3: but because of some changes in European laws, they basically 87 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 3: can't do anything about this. So it's kind of complicated, 88 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 3: but basically air drop is. They made it so that 89 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 3: you could figure out how air drop works, and Google said, okay, 90 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 3: let me tinker under the hood. Let's figure this out, 91 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 3: and oh now we'll build it into our phones. 92 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I'm excited about that. 93 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 3: One. 94 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: Okay, one last quick thing. There's a new nail polish. 95 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: I saw you doing this on KTLA yesterday that allows 96 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: you to use your fingernails now to type. Because what's 97 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: on the nail polish that lets you use your fingernails 98 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: on the phone. 99 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 3: Now, Well, I guess fingernails are not conductive, right, so 100 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,239 Speaker 3: you can't tap them on the touch screen. 101 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 2: I didn't know this, but okay, fine, I know this. 102 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 3: If you have long well, if you have long finger 103 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 3: I mean, I knew you couldn't use your fingernail, but 104 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 3: I didn't realize that women were using their fingernails, long 105 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 3: fingernails to try to tap tap the screens. 106 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, so we tried. 107 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 3: So these students at this college in Louisiana, they went 108 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 3: through a whole bunch of compounds, painted them on the 109 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 3: fingers and figured out that two of them work to 110 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 3: conduct electricity and finally make fingernails conductive to touch screens. 111 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 3: And so they presented their findings at the American Chemical 112 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 3: Society's spring meeting, which I'm sure is a meeting of 113 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 3: very smart people. And maybe we'll see this inside nail 114 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 3: polished soon, but not like tomorrow. 115 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: Obviously they just figured this out. But that's kind of 116 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 2: a cool breakthrough. 117 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: That's very cool. I love that. That's a host of 118 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: rich on Tech right here on KFI every Saturday from 119 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 1: eleven to two. You can follow him at rich on Tech, 120 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: on Instagram, rich on Tech, dot TVs where he puts 121 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: all this great tips and information that he talks about 122 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: on his radio show and on KTLA, and of course 123 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: you can watch him on KTLA. Rich on Tech. Thank 124 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 1: you so much. 125 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 2: Thank you Amy. 126 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to you next week.