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welcome to what the future your destination for all those stories that make you say WTF you know robots are already beating our chests champions they're solving Rubik's cubes in a fraction of a second and now those engineers over at MIT they've come up with yet another game for them to ruin they taught this robotic arm to play Jenga and spoiler alert it's probably better than you its strategy is basically the same as yours the robot uses a camera to look for the ideal block to remove then it carefully pushes against it using visual cues in a device that detects force to decide whether to keep moving that block or push it back and move on to another the robot actually learns as it plays every time it's about to make a move it weighs the possible outcome based on all the previous moves it's made so what's the point well right now robots aren't very good at deciding how much force is needed to accomplish a task so this type of machine learning could be ideal for assembly line procedures that require a delicate touch kind of like threading a screw on a cellphone you know the older I get the more I feel like I'm eventually going to need any surgery after one of my weekends snowboarding trips which is why it's actually comforting to know that virtual reality is helping surgeons learn to do their jobs better before you ever even go under the knife consider this like a flight simulator but for surgery designed by fundamental VR the Mayo Clinic is already using it to train surgeons we've seen medical simulators before but this is the first to combine the imagery with haptic feedback I can feel it going in that's Luanne that means doctors actually feel realistic sensations this is powered by fundamental VRS haptic intelligence engine that mimics the feel of medical tools and human tissues and it's not just realistic it's actually cost-effective it costs less than the price of one human cadaver now right now surgeons can use it to practice final procedures hip replacements and knee procedures but fundamental says simulations for laparoscopic surgery and general surgery are also coming among a few others that could be the first engine to carry humans to Mars in case you missed it over the weekend Elon Musk tweeted videos of SpaceX testing its new Raptor rocket engine it's designed to power the starship that SpaceX is working on to take people to Mars SpaceX says starship will launch from a rocket it calls super-heavy which will be powered by 31 Raptor engines no word on when starship may actually launched but SpaceX has said it hopes to get to Mars by the mid-2020s meanwhile on Mars the NASA insight Lander sent back these pictures to remind us it's hard at work its robotic arm put a protective cover over the seismometer insight put there in December the seismometer will give scientists their first look at the deep interior of Mars back on earth expect traffic and much more of it why am I talking about traffic on what the future because self-driving cars are going to make it much worse that's the prediction of a researcher at UC Santa Cruz he says as self-driving cars become more common the actual owners are going to avoid paying parking fees by just sending their cars to cruise around while they're off waiting a line for avocado toast and doing SoulCycle under the simulation see RAM just 2000 self-driving cars in downtown San Francisco slowed traffic to less than two miles per hour of course we're still a ways off from it even being legal to send your car off on its own all right what makes you say what the future let us know in the comments if you enjoyed this video maybe give us a thumbs up thanks so much for watching I'm Andy Altman