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greetings citizens of the internet welcome to smart daily the best geek talk-show in the known universe I'm Ashley together I'm Jeff kanata and we're here to keep you up-to-date on the headlines we've heard a lot about Harvard's Robo B's but it looks like they've got some new tricks up their wings the goal of the Robo B is to create robot insects that can fly autonomously for sustained periods of time they've been working on this B for years now and the most recent version is about the same size as the real thing it weighs just 84 milligrams which is lighter than a real B and it can do something previous versions couldn't it can land on a wall during flight using electrostatic adhesion robobee can stick to just about any surface and needs 1,000 times less power to perch compared to hovering which greatly extends its battery life research on Robo B will continue and the team leader Robert Wood says it might be five to ten years before we might see Robo be used in real-world situations are they going to be pollinating Robo flowers that's well there that's one of the things they're saying that they would maybe consider robotic pollination well that's good because I guess all the bees are dying off and we're doomed really scary I have the robot army save us and they may have to replace the lost bees with Robo bees which would be kind of cool yeah sneaking robots guys there's a robot that can now fold my laundry so gimme gimme gimme folding mate just dropped a preview trailer for its robot laundry Overlord the bot has clips that you hang your clothes on and then it draws your shirts into the machine to be folded up nicely and stacked for putting away it also has d wrinkling perfuming softening and sanitizing options available for an additional price sadly though you will not be getting one for your significant other this holiday season because pre-orders won't start until next year and the folding mate won't ship until 2018 and the starting price tag is an eye-watering 700 dollars also it cannot handle oversized items or things like underwear but but who is folding their eye we're number one and also who's folding fitted sheets no one cuz what's impossible it's impossible to further finishing then you invent a robot to do that yeah that would be there's no price too high for Robo fitted sheet robot sky's the limit blank check this is the start of this story was so wonderful and the end was so bad yeah I want 700 ollars is way steep and not till 2018 couple years I gotta wait tears I already stopped folding things just when I heard about it and now I have 2 years of unfolded laundry I can only pre-order one thing two years in advance which is my tether car oh yeah I can't there's no I can't wait that long it's too much but ok so a lot of people the argument is I think we have to talk about this on Thursday there's a lot to there's a lot to get in June and I'm dying I'm so dying to know what you guys think of the fold you mate uh ok there's a huge schism in people there's a good Canyon between them right one side says this is the laziest thing I've ever seen in my life people are the worst not wrong you're not wrong uh and yet and yet the majority of people if you look at polls about this thing say this is the greatest thing since sliced bread I want one but not at $700 I want the the roomba to move hit my laundry toss it to the folding maid who then fold and fold say yeah yeah it's like a Rube Goldberg machine of robots oh I like that a lot of laundry folding I absolutely hate folding anything so this makes me so happy I'm ready okay so hashtag hey TD you could we'll talk about it on Thursday if we if we see your comments up on Twitter yeah I'm sure people have lots to say about that let's get to our phone tog refer of the day today's photogra from the day is Michael who took this selfie with his iPhone 6's yes Michael writes and he says hey guys love the show here are some selfies that JD little chard took he has his own 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