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welcome to what the future on today's show okay guys sorry to interrupt we actually have some breaking news we have the first results in from the ocean cleanup system that's that massive u-shaped device nicknamed Wilson that's trying to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch so the results are in things aren't going swimmingly the ocean cleanup group says that for some reason the trash is exiting the system as it's being collected now they're not exactly sure why that is but the leading theory is that Wilson is moving too slow you see the ocean cleanup system actually has to be moving faster than the trash it's collecting for the trash to stay inside now this could be due to winds but engineers say they're positive they're close to making Wilson work they think that by opening the u-shape about 60 meters wider that should solve the speed issue now they plan on starting those adjustments as soon as Thanksgiving Day so good luck to ocean cleanup we'll be following your progress now back to your regularly scheduled program on today's show the literal break through 15 feet below the surface of Los Angeles Shade for those haters who say that watching TV is just a mindless activity and what may be the creepiest robot we've had on this show to date I knew I should have made a left turn at Albuquerque that tunnel Elon Musk has been digging under Los Angeles is finally finished he posted this video on Twitter over the weekend this is the moment his Bourn company broke through the wall at the site of its first station born machines have been tunneling for the past two years they started two miles away near SpaceX headquarters that first station by the way has been named O'Leary station for a boring company employee who died recently now musk wants to use this as a proof of concept for his Hyperloop transportation project the idea is to transport people and vehicles on skates underground at up to 155 miles per hour earlier this month he said the tunnel will be open to the public December 10th all right this one goes out to my dad who said all those hours watching TV was a mindless waste of time waste of time maybe mindless not anymore thanks to Samsung who's working on software to control TV with your brainwaves they've partnered with experts in neural prosthetics on a project called Project pontus using machine learning it reads a combination of brain waves and eye movements so the user can tell the TV what they're trying to watch now this is being designed for people with disabilities who often can't use standard remotes you're looking at the second prototype here Samsung says it's also working on a system that relies only on brain signals for people who can't control their eyes it hopes to start formally testing the technology next year ok seems like I've told you about a lot of creepy robot projects on the show but this one may win the WTF award say hello to a FET oh the Robo baby head that's gonna be in my nightmares tonight believe it or not he's actually not trying to scare us those facial expressions are actually seven years in the making his creators say that to date androids haven't been able to mimic human expressions so to change that they study the three-dimensional movement on a hundred and sixteen facial points now from those measurements they say they were able to develop more realistic movements compare that to when we first saw Fido in 2011 the difference is very striking so back in 2016 developers showed us this video demonstrating upper body movement a feta was first built to represent a one to two year old boy so my hope is that we see him walking this time next year okay that brings me to our question of the week a lot of you have asked if I'm a robot I think the best way to answer that is with another question if you were building a robot would you make him a pale white guy who gets easily sunburned with a gluten intolerance all right one more note don't forget this Monday NASA's insight Lander is scheduled to touch down on Mars if all goes as planned this will be the first Mars landing in more than six years insight we'll be studying the Red Planet's interior it's equipped with a heat probe to burrow under the surface and super-sensitive seismometers you can watch insights landing live at cnet.com coverage begins Monday at 11 a.m. Pacific all right what makes you say what the future let us know in the comments that's gonna do it for this show I'm Mandy Altman thanks for watching what the future