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on today's show Japan is trying to build a robot that can play baseball I'm trying do art well do or do not ok Spotify and we are collaborating to make your ride so musical and speaking of music a music video is using scientific techniques to bring sound to life hmm very exciting stuff a lot of sound straw daily greetings citizens of the internets welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe I'm hero stash lease can enjoy me as always punching the sky on a Monday kill anonymous you look like link today that thank you smile tell you it's all this is my heroes tunic thank you very much I'm playing too much mario kart that is true but right the master cycle this weekend very exciting that hyrule castle track is so much they change all the coins in rupees sorry alright we have other things to target we do so let's say the headlines ok baseball robots mm-hmm once again teaching robots things is either really cool or really scary this i would say falls on the really cool side of the spectrum that's cool this is awesome this is the work of the ichikawa watanabe laboratory at the university of tokyo for the last several years apparently a team of researchers at this university have been working on perfecting a range of separate robots so they've been using multiple robots here they are there's one throwing know the others are they so each one of them can perform a separate task this one's tracking so you can see the cameras are watching the ball got their eye on the ball and the end goal of this is combining them into a single humanoid robot that can play baseball so there it is one robot yeah look at this one is batting yeah so there's lots of different kinds of robots so they have the throwing robot which we saw that uses finger similar to humans use them to throw a ball precision apparently they can throw into a strike zone with ninety percent accuracy what god the throw so then there's the tracking system it uses pan and tilt axes to achieve a wide field of view there's high speed actuators in there a high speed visual feedback to track a target moving at high-velocity this is the running robot on the batting robot you just saw uses high speed stereo vision to track the ball and hit it anywhere in the strike zone and then there this is a bipedal running robot that uses high speed visual feedback to note the position of the robot and adjust its balance in real-time and then there's catching robots it controls a it they have this hand that can open and close ten times a second Wow it measures the ball's flight using high-speed track in the same tracking cameras and everybody so this is one group working on on all of these different robotics yeah yeah they're working on all these different aspects of playing baseball and and they're hoping someday that they'll be able to like just like Captain Planet put like or a Power Ranger yeah like put all of them together and create Megazord cute that plays baseball so it's pretty be like perfect at baseball it would be really good I mean it would be really really good at it the thing is it is though some people would argue that that would be very boring to watch an all baseball robot baseball game because you would have to program the games you kind of know what the outcome would be so with humans you there's margin for error there's like things I could go wrong with robot baseball if they really perfected be kind of boring yeah but then we add like obstacles and like deadly things like trash fire yeah okay sorry all right like that I like it but it's battle bots but with like baseball baseball battle box I like it vanilla I saw this I just thought it was so so cool and and I always just love the idea of you know someday we're just flip on the TV and it's like oh it's you know it's the world series of robot baseball but this whole alternate world yeah hey bob babe ruth spot that's pretty cool pretty cool I thought it was really neat so okay I heard about this partnership I don't know all about it and I want to know if it's available here so tell me about uber and Spotify so I don't know if you listening or viewing have used uber but uber is a like it's like it instead of a cab you use your phone and you call up and a basically a town car comes and picks you up and take you to your destination it's pretty cool well they've partnered ebers partnered with spotify which is a music service that you can use on your phone or what not streaming music action music action and it now there is a button inside the uber app that lets you pick a playlist to listen to inside your uber rides okay so this girl is requesting an uber mm-hmm okay she's requesting an uber and she's also picking a playlist so now when she gets in the ober it will play the playlist inside of her uber so she can dance straight from her house oh they're jamil's how yeah I didn't hear the do burr okay she's leaving that's a very slim door yep there's the town cares this guy I'm sorry but can I just say I've never had an uber driver get out of their car smile waiting for me though and be handsome too like ambient like a definite time right excited iculous um but it's cool yeah you get to pick any place you want the driver gets to control the loudness of course well that's good uh but but this is a we didn't expect this partnership to come along so it's pretty interesting it's a little weird yeah it's it's weird but it's kind of cool if your party it feels like your friends are going out to a party you need a ride like so you can get your get your party mix on LMFAO on its launching and only 10 sit it's fun to content see what you don't still less it'll just be you know what the sad thing is is okay wait tell me about the launch cities and then I'll tell you with the same thing ok launch cities are Los Angeles London New York City Nashville Mexico City San Francisco Singapore Stockholm Sydney and Toronto these are all the major cities rotational cosmopolitan city yep it's where it's you know they're already pretty big we should I can do but right after this so that hears that here's the issue you do have to have a spotify account which is like okay nine dollars i may have a premium right yeah I premium ok Spotify and you you know have to order uber have to take a new for someone yeah so there you go also they're gonna have a live live events on Friday oh look at it where you can win a chance to get a ride with some artists uh if you sync up and use this how the artists like Andrew WK Jake Owen and Diplo one of my favorite musicians I was gonna say two out of three of those artists I may have never heard of which one but I won't say but I two out of three of those artists you'll have to just guess okay um you know the two out of three okay guess that the sad thing for me is that I could just imagine like I feel really bad for some uber drivers who are gonna get like a bachelorette party and it's gonna be two o'clock in the morning and these girls are gonna be like whoo and they're gonna have their gonna just play over and over and over again turn down for what like a repeat and this poor uber driver is just gonna be like I think this kill me this is like a response to though the fact that they pretty much when they get in a car look cuz they're wanting they're wanting a tip right there wanting a good review or whatever and so this is kind of too like up that like likely well haven't you ever taken an uber and like the radio like with somebody's playing something you're just like I hate this song and you would try danger they try to assume what you into the like are you the only kids love a rock maybe a guest by your picture cuz it has like your paper like your profile picture whatever maybe they try to kill you would be I'm guessing Taylor Swift well Taylor Swift not available on Spotify over if she took all her music off of it so there's no shake it off for me thank you very much trouble when you walked in oh boy so that brings us to our hashtag of the day which is TD uber spot and because of this live event on Friday happening I the question is what playlist or song would you want to hear when an uber driver came to pick you up we using the service and what famous musician would you want to be in the car as a ride along ok any post any play even a song or album whatever ok uh Taylor Swift oh boy and the music to listen to while Taylor's away playlist Oh perfect I like that that's good I wonder if she'd she'd probably one I'm throwing no but if I was thinking about Steve you Sean Taylor Swift they answer uh Jack Black okay cuz that'll be fun to write amazing my fallout3 playlist I like it though I'm wearing my Fall Out shirt today anyway said I was surprised you and say like tenacious d that you were fighting no you don't listen I'll listen to our music yeah alright so what else what do you got what do you want I would want to ride in a car at being inspired recently by sonic highways I'd ride in a car Dave Grohl Oh seems like really cool and funny I'm like that you could have a lot of fun with him depending on where you're writing and in la car rides take a really long time and then I think I would want to listen to I'd want you know what because it was Dave Grohl I'd want to listen to like Britney Spears circa like early 2000s throw him off his game when she was hot and had the snake no because I feel like we would totally like fant like fangirl out a little bit and be like and did like dance and go crazy to it I feel like Dave Grohl is a teenage girl on the inside in his heart of hearts I feel like maybe he's just just a little bit of a teenage girl Jess and I love that about him I feel like we could have a lot of fun listening to old britney spears and we can sing along i'd love to make taylor swift let's not spotify woof be good that would be pretty basic all right so so that's the question for you guys basically so what who would you ride in a car with and what do you have would you listen to would you force them to listen to you what would you just want to listen to alright so our third stories also music-based this is really really awesome you have to check this out we're going to show you this video if you are listening to the show only you have to watch this part of the video I would say this is like the must watch also mean the baseball robot pretty amazing yeah um I always love really cool music videos this music video is from a guy named Nigel Stanford and a director name's Shahir Dowd and I Nigel Stanford decided one day after seeing and a documentary about people with synesthesia uh it's stuck with him these are people with like audio visual disorders think people who say like when I hear sound I can also see color like I can see the color and sound things like that so he then saw a video years later called cymatics which is the study of visual sound so he decided he wanted to make this video so this is really cool each sound and each audio track uses cymatics visualizations to form the basis of the tracks composition so how it's all put together so um this right here is a collab me plate I hope I'm pronouncing that right it's a thin metal plate that vibrates when sound waves run through it so they put Sam sprinkled on the surface and then this right here this speaker the bass track has a thin dish of frozen of vodka inside there to make it was a little more viscous so that's why they put frozen vodka inside gotcha and water and then the drum is visualized using a hose pipe attached to a subwoofer so you can see it changes like based on the frequency it's a very specific frequency to be able to get water to do that wow that looks amazing it's really really cool and ok so then they had this which was um cards on a record player that they are playing and then they flick against the microphone to make this sound and then they also had the piano track right here this is a ferrofluid it's in a long shallow dish and there's magnets that are activated by the keys so he puts all these things together and creates this amazing music video and and also a really cool electronic track that you can check out you can head over to his website again his name's Nigel Stanford oh and make sure he gets a bunch of credit he's in New Zealand ER he's a musician he obviously loves the study of cymatics and also and the song conveniently is called cymatics so it's really easy to remember and this is off of his new album solar echoes cool isn't that neat like a music it's really cool like I really it's very easily it's there's a lot of like Browns and things like that in there because you like don't hang up soon uh no I wouldn't call it upside is like electronica Oh interesting sort of like industrial electronic music like kind of what I would refer to it as yeah I guess you have the most control of her like crazy sounds are you doing electronics oh yeah well I mean they just had a lot of control over everything they're making inside that studio so I just thought that was really neat um you have to check out the music video you watch it and listen to the song it's pretty cool link to Lincoln in the in the show description yes of course we go over to the article for the show you can find all of the links and stuff to everything that you see and hear about on the show yeah and if you're on YouTube you can if you go to the cnet tomorrow deal I noticed a lot of people are having problems finding those legs I know they're on the there on the cnet thing well maybe what we could try to do is put them in the description for our youtube yeah we can because i love the youtube people i'm gonna hook them up oh come on alright alright well known that note we're gonna take a quick 30 second break but we'll be right back with very exciting colleague of ours let's take a trip to the bionic or oh okay quite i am ii i'm severely excited about this so we're gonna painful we're gonna check that out and then of course we have your user feedback and our phone tower for the day so i'll click away welcome back to the show we have returned a kiss is awesome this is really really really clean he's jacked up about okay because what happened is here I'll lean it in a little bit okay what happened is when we reported on the show about this cruise ship that's only a robotics it's the bottom of the season high tech cruise ship ever to be Korean right and during the show I was like it's like one of the first ones Rose like let's see if they can send us or whatever like huh that'd be cool and they never liked yes they actually like you know we always go like hey call us they did I did which was pretty cool so we couldn't get we couldn't go there right it's in New York sorry this is how except it's in New York but they were like oh cover this whole ship and everything whatever like no no no the thing we want the most is the robotic flat bar bartenders all we care about okay you finished so we sent our very own CNET's update reporter Bridget carry over to the ship because she is based in New York and we had her go hang out with the Bionic bartenders so it's as cool as we thought of it was this really cool surprise like spinning boats it's great check this out well it's not often you can get served by robots in this case we're at the Bionic bar on quantum of the Seas where robot bartender serve up drinks constantly all you have to do is order your drink from a nap and about a minute later out it comes with each cocktail the robot arms reach up above to gather the proper liquor proportions when the drink is ready is poured into a plastic cup for it to be picked up you have to tap your wristband if ordering from a soulless machine concerns you there will be waiters the waiters also serve as the eyes on the ground to make sure minors don't try to use other people's bracelets to order alcohol but there is a plus side to order from machines you don't have to tip now Royal Caribbean didn't make these robots they're actually from a company called maker shaker they've been working on these for a while now and they made a deal with royal caribbean to get it on quantum of the Seas and you may see it on other cruise ships later too but the challenge in building a robot like this goes beyond programming the arm but actually the big challenge was to build everything around rubble in a way that this would become like an extension of your arm when you want to make a cocktail these robots were developed in the city of Torino Italy which is a fitting home for a cocktail shaking bot Torino is the birthplace of martini and vermouth next to the bar are these really cool screens they give you an idea of how much weight time you have for the next drink you can see who's up next so you can see how long it takes until your drink comes along in the queue and get some trivia on what most popular drinks are with different age groups I keep having enough of these I want to start wine to tell this thing my problems it's been a hard day at work guys I don't think human bartenders need to worry about losing their jobs just yet well that is until they can teach this thing to put the little umbrella in the drink not bad for a robot I'll take another one of these keep just keep them coming keep them coming so that was Bridget Kerry's trip to the bionic bar on the quantum of the Seas its royal caribbean's flat new flagship cruise ship if you want to check out a full tour Bridget actually did a tour of the other parts of the ship which are also very very cool over on her show update so if you want to check that out make sure you head over to see nuts update and you can check out the rest of quantum of the Seas but Thank You Bridget yeah thank you very much Bridget I'm going out and drinking on our behalf yeah that looks great I didn't she didn't tell us what she ordered though it looked like maybe uh I was gonna call a tokyo tea that's what it look like tokyo tea yeah you guys it's like a Long Island iced tea but it has Midori on it instead of oh okay like Coke so it changes the call a classy lady I've never better fun fact seems nice I used to be a bartender so oh really yeah yeah God fun fact bards used to be a bartender I can even flip like I can flip the bottles after you a little bit of flair really wow that's right yeah I like the fact anyone has a tip them too yes I really quite enjoy that um but you know it's like that's another couple bartenders who aren't working now they can go on a cruise I have time to go on a cruise they're not working on the weekend time to get more tattoos all over the body hey hey hey laughs relax so that was our that was our fantastic little trip to the Bionic bar once again thanks Bridget Carey and let's move on to your user feedback last week we asked you guys I know it seems like forever ago we asked you about playstations view service oh yeah the view service introduced by sony to kind of cut out the middleman of your cable service and provide you with television straight through your playstation where people happy or mad here's the thing yeah we got really mixed responses on its response so gabs wrote and said i would try it but it does depend on price and channel availability i love my netflix a lot but i'm a huge playstation fam so there you go all right Stefan wrote to us and said i would need BBC actually should I read this in a British accent yes i would need BBC that is all I would want from it mostly for Doctor Who and Sherlock and top gear and about a million others oh yeah was that a good British accent oh this is great terrible i'm not that great there's not that great ya know uh but DBC point yeah that's our news BBC though I think they can lock that down I think they could probably lock down one channel for you Dane wrote I would have to be paid to leave cable bottom line he's just straight-up like you would have to pay me to leave my cable / writer the end period and a story glad there is one person that's tucked inside no cable yeah cable all the way d then we got an email I guess we have email from Chrissy said I am all about any ala carte media offerings but I hope they have an advertisement free offering amazon allows you to pay a little less and see ads or pay a little more and not see ads I really like this business model sony could do this or even offer different advertising tears and then he gave us some examples Netflix and HBO is pay service no ads basic TV free service with ads cable TV pay service with ads what boo haha I don't make any sense but it's like a blue but it's a hulu it's like Hulu you pay and you have to watch ads and they're really frequent yeah I mean not to complain about hulu plus but guys dial it back yeah an SNL there's like there's more commercials than there is sometimes it skips I think the commercials are actually Saturday Night Live sketches a few jokes on you if you look at it in a very meta way you can actually get through hulu plus Saturday Night Live yeah if you think like these are all really bad Saturday Night Live sketches or just passed off as commercial well it's just like whenever you watch like a clip from lie close the clip from the simpsons or whatever and the commercials longer than the clip how does that even happen I just don't her set happens with YouTube videos too yeah you watch a trailer and then they play a trailer mobile for 30 seconds no particular this is supposed to be an ad already it's a 24-second clip and you're just like why why what just happened here so yeah I know we totally get you guys um I love it uh they sound honestly kind of torn on it they do I think a lot of nobody they need to give this Eastern three for everybody for like two months to get everybody kind of like see what their maybe they'll put it in beta like PlayStation now yeah and then I'll say like what would you pay for this service and then whatever people say Sony will make it triple haha good point guys great great 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