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on today's show darpa shows off their newest arms and their robots and the circus is in town in Amsterdam and there are also robots a whole new breed of flowers is being shown off and their robots pound me it's tomorrow daily yes everyone welcome to tomorrow daily your source for all kinds of futurology robots and science news my name is Caleb animus and ashley is still out caring for her dogs we wish her and her dogs well but today we have a special guest very special her name is Kim horch ur welcome to show I so you're you're not any stranger to kind of like this nerd culture x oh um I also hosts a show called nerd alert on the young turks network we also love futurism science technology also a lot of culture but I see that on this show too yeah um and also science fact so that's a lot of fun yeah so we're gonna nerd out or Debra we also have like a segment we're gonna find out what you're into this week and you pick one of the nerdiest things I can possibly agree alright well we'll see let's start with our news stories oh I like to start by calling the guest out on their on their on their preference and their joy yeah so there you go that's that's done alright so we're gonna move into theirs it's a robotic heavy episode but trust me you're going to love this we're going to start off with the fact that DARPA has released their next-gen arms no we know next-gen consoles but these are next-gen arms they showed off the newest development is that they have footage of them actually being used okay so what we're going to see in this video error Army volunteers eating and drinking with robotic attachments as well as climbing up the wall this is newly unveiled footage released just this week of these new arms that is so if like any of these are me bill don't have arms they're going to be basically able to do anything yeah with them they can pick up objects as delicate as a grape they're able to handle very rugged tools like a hand drill and believe it or not it actually is the size and weight of a normal arm so it's not like a big heavy robot arm DARPA signed a contract with haptics the hand precipitation and touch interfaces to advance all react I know I'm tried that's right 200 the RT most this is already the most advanced robot prosthetic ever built and it's named the Luke arm can you gotta tear after after Luke Skywalker whores it's also called the DECA arm looks system but yeah we're going to go with Luke the goal the goal of this whole arm thing that they've got going on here is to build a fully responsive prosthetic attachment that is the confuser controls with their brain and nervous system while receiving force and touch feedback so closer to what an actual arm is that the tech is that they use the the signals come from a my god electromyogram electrodes which sends electrical activity on muscles close to where the prosthetic is attached so basically wherever your muscle is it'll sense when you're moving it of course they haven't fully like in the article like articles well it goes one way but not the other what well like they can't they can't sense what they're touching correct yeah how would that work though so what they have right now is they don't they don't have all of it figured out into like the arm they have it so you can also control it with your feet so like there's like there's a whole there's some hurdles to overcome but this is still the most advanced prosthetic that there is it's really impressive look they're able to pick up a spoon guide it to their mouth pretty pretty well I saw them doing fist bumps earlier they they can pour like one robotic I was pouring water into another guy's cup so it's it's pretty impressive how I would sable to move so yeah so there you go DARPA are our own American government is actually working on these and they can climb up the wall I'm sorry that's incredible yeah it is i mean we've seen robotic arm as before yeah but generally not that strong mm-hmm not that strong at least or able to be so delicate like this one guy was like picking up like eggs just cuz he can and wasn't you know squashing them I have that prize squash legs all the times maybe you're stronger than you think you know we're just angrier just kind of just so ticked off so there you go if you want to check it out DARPA has a whole bunch of other things you can look up let's see you look up the the deca arm system that's deka arm system there's a whole bunch of video of them trying it out so it's pretty cool yeah that's our first robotic story how about some robots that are just having fun for our for our amusement as our robot entertainment slaves oh da listen okay sometimes some people such as myself think the idea of a circus is a little outdated but what if they're drones instead of bears and elephants Oh No so there's no date for this yet it's called air 2015 it's set to start in Amsterdam and it is essentially a drone show so they would be flying around in formation they would be well there's light trails they have laser capabilities not death laser fun lasers yeah well some would say that death lasers are fun so this is it looks like they're just using it for summer arena show that there has been the amsterdam arena okay all right so does it like perform to music or like what's the deal i get is synced with music oh you know how sometimes planetariums would have laser shows yeah for people who may be enjoying amsterdam well now you can enjoy ballets and battled battles in amsterdam how many drones are involved and they say was it like is it like it looks friendly looks at me a lot yeah and they're jumping through hoops is like Tron over here you know it looks a lot like if you played final fantasy 13 Oh double its ball no that's final fantasy 10 crap uh there's there's a part where there's a futuristic city and there is a racetrack and they're flying around in circles through different light hoops and some things happen with the plot where that doesn't work out so well but it looks a lot like that okay yeah I mean this looks fun I wanna see this right looks pretty cool so it's it's not its own show is it's it's own show or that's like you watch soccer and then I think you're going just straight for this straight for the drones it's not not all the details are out yet there's no there's no date besides fall of 2015 so that's a few months from now right on um you seemed to be not so pleased with the bears and elephants no longer being part of the circus yeah I don't know I mean drones do it for me but I like bears don't you feel bad for them I feel bad for the Bears they shouldn't be in a circus and their places are very this yeah an antiquated notion of entertainment like it's tara march around with this creepy Calliope music for my pleasure ya know it's it's it's weird it's weird maybe they can make drone bears then we'd all like we meet in the middle that benjamin button in the middle I'm into that okay that'll be into it this week okay so now we're moving on to robots what I know I was just as surprised as you so over at MIT a few a few of the students have made a robot garden that is more than meets the eye well it is meets the eye but it was more than that it's robots so so check this out what you're seeing is they're setting up this this robot grid system it's these flowers that not only glow but they also bloom on command so this technology is is its Arduinos that connects 16 tiles together and we controlled by clicks to like light up and bloom and stuff like that or be controlled by code now the reason I bring that up is that the goal of this system is to teach young computer science hopefuls especially girls no sexism there that's what they said the concepts of basic algorithms and programming so you learn program these children learn programming by playing around with these lights and coding it and and seeing what they can do with it the flowers have printable motors for simulated blooming and color LED for code control there's also sheep robots that are down there on the floor they don't really show but they just kind of like walk around you control them too and there's also magnet controlled Swansea there it is blooming see how kind of like opens and paper closes yeah they're they're paper their paper printed they also tried to make it so that it's very easy to replicate so that schools can go there they're trying to make this for school so that the kids can learn coding very easily mm-hmm so all this stuff is really cheap and this is uh by the MIT computer science lab so they're saying the next step is to make the garden controlled by multiple students at once rather than just one one person controls it right now but I see there's the students completely amazed look at him oh my god they're so shocked no but the MIT students said that other students were very excited I don't see any smiles that it looks it was really cool i wish they were showing the sheep but they're hoping to make it so easy for you know like classes to replicate this and teach students program and how to like grow fake flowers i feel like with raspberry pi and even like MoMA yeah I mean those are you know they're pretty simplistic but I think it gets people interested in computer engineering or programming it also and this is a great thing it's better than learning like necessarily just looking at a screen and sane ones and zeros it's much easier just kind of see it in practice more accessible lights up and yet like blooms and whatnot so that's pretty cool speaking of which we didn't touch on our TV of the day every single episode we asked you know the audience and the viewers and the people that are smarter than us a question we missed it back but it was for the circus one yeah so we have 14 it's a TD circus and we want to know wait what did we want to know my thing didn't show what would you like to see pretty drones do in the circus so you know maybe you've seen the blue angels before and you could compare what they do or maybe you've seen a regular circus and you want a drone bear like hail does jojo mayer so what would you like to see the drones do at the circus so as always we answer so what would you like to say I would like to see them kind of sky right but on a mini level and I want them to make something more complicated and colorful then you might see in the ditch fantastic that's cool so like like archers of you are you okay of my face of your just of your faces oh cool who's not does that girl but nerd alert girl she's a young turks everybody knows oh no I would like to see them um bring me cotton candy it was like little is it dragging like a taco drone but with treats for the circus yeah there you go just like flying around just giving them to me now I don't have to pay for it so there you go TV circus please let us know what you'd like to see the drums do at the circus we're going to take a quick break and then we're going to come back and we're gonna talk about what we're into this week one of us has a really really nerdy one whatever and then the other one of us is it's just amazing and you'll love it and it's the best thing ever those are both me alright we'll see you guys a sec oh hi we didn't see you there welcome back to tomorrow daily Thursday is one of the coolest days for us because we get to talk about kind of like our own self this is we're gonna do into it which is we're going to talk about like what we're into what we're excited about this week some of you may be excited too so let's find out into it that a little heart you're into the Intuit graphic well that was a waste okay now you don't get into it no no I still get a wish oh forget it this daughter wit all right well let's see this is gonna happen alright so Kim I'm gonna let you go first as the guest um so what is your into it what you into this week when I am into this week is x-wing miniatures so Star Wars released a board game it was in 2012 but there have been steadily expansion packs for it there's a new one about to come out called us scum and villainy well that's cool so basically if you're not familiar with this x-wing miniatures is a board game based it's like a turn by turn strategy game based on the dogfights that you may have seen in the various Star Wars films and television shows and it's really fun you can play with a team or just two people against each other I have a lot of fun with this I'm you almost always a rebel yeah there you go that's my side but with scum and villainy you get the scum and villainy like Boba Fett and the mandos and Prince size or I can't miss pronounce his name every time I only read it I'm sorry but it is your toast no I'm not yeah Boba Fett before was on the Imperial side I'm so don't be mad I've only read that word I'm on the internet I'm allowed to be more opinionated than your hub so ok cool so way comes out when very soon okay so what are gonna do to celebrate are you gonna like have a big party or what maybe I will okay I don't know I'm used to being a rebel so I scene with a new set they're going to be much more tricky moves that will force your opponents into bad situations that they'll have to make tough decisions for which I tend not to be a fan of when playing board games because I'm boring like I want to be the rebels and I I want to be an x-wing fighter too right usually West chanson solely I'm not Luke Skywalker right yeah not like with those robotic arms from earlier and mornings on that so the new york toy fair just announced that in the future they're going to put episode 7 stuff in the game that's really really cool yes it's gonna be great yeah that's a great way to learn about like your future movies that you're interested in by the way is look at the toys there are always hints and spoilers in the toy yeah they just had a Jurassic Park one they released the new dinosaur track yeah that's pretty good oh you knew you knew the name nice job uh it looks crazy I love it yep alright cool so what I'm into this week is also a nerd alert type you know thing it is Kingsman I mean the kingsmen I know I'm late to the I don't like to you know the movie but this is the movie that came out this weekend up against fifty shades of grey and did okay it did okay I think it made like 50 50 mil in the box office but more importantly what's great is this this is based off a graphic novel not a lot of people knew that and that's really cool cuz Mark Miller makes those kind of yeah he he made kick ass kick ass too he kind of sneaks under the radar like like when they get made into movies people don't realize that their base I was it like the same kind of like crazy kind of super realist not super unrealistic violence it's over the top it's like it like there's it's yeah people also arms get cut off someone gets cut in half it's not even really a spoiler it's it's very violent and it's basically it's such a no mods like Mark Millar's in love with everything he covers so like when he did kickass he was like in love with the superheroes and and he's in love with spy films in this one Samuel Jackson plays a character with a lift so it's it's really great uh but yeah good all the way to the end it's it's a just when you think you've figured the movie out it keeps it takes a right turn this scene the right I've heard that same is the same where everything gets turned on its head oh my god yeah yeah it even addresses like certain clichés and stereotypes anyway don't listen to me anymore just go see the movie it's really really great and yeah you haven't seen it no I haven't seen it yet oh it's so great you had Jupiter ascending instead so go see the Kings may that's a review they put on them now Jupiter said it goes the Kingsmen yes Kim or trick yeah alright so that's that's cool alright so now it's time to listen to what you guys have to say because we're dumb you don't listen to us so let's check out you know your comments we got to today okay cuz we didn't to comment yeah we got to no no we got a lot but like we don't necessarily always want to delve into the YouTube when it's brag about yeah today we got it that's my comment on anything no we had a good several but these are these are tweets that were tweeted at us okay um so there's almost ed Mars this is from yesterday we asked them if there's like whole Mars competition Mars one is sending people to Mars it's going from 100 to 25 224 people but it's a competition so we have shown yeah fish is so weird so we asked them what would you do to go from the 124 like how would you impress them I said that I would tell them I'm really good at digging because they want to find if there's water on the bottom so I just like I'm really good at digging you remember remember that character shuffler from mystery man that's me um so uh shock ocular nervosa says I would show how I can lay on my couch for weeks at a time proving I can withstand the long trip you did it that's pretty cool that's one of a kind a lot of people can pull that off they sprain they get they get into a lot of energy netflix it's really netflix yeah there's no netflix on Mars now houses yeah no house of cards John said I'm not here to make friends I'm here to be America's Next Top Model yep you got it you gonna do this on Mars yep on Mars we're gonna need more of that so there you go there's the ones that were like tweeted at us being read in the YouTube comments and so sorry anyway so I on to our last piece of user feedback which is our photogra for the day that wasn't a question it was actually a fact I sound like it was a question alright so far tog refer is where one of our viewers takes a photo with their phone sure tog refer I got it all right ok clever alright so Ingo sent us this photo taken from an iphone 4 says hi guys this picture was taken early morning for my iphone 4 no editing which I still own and use I was on the freeway in south san francisco when the rising sun displayed this 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