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Tomorrow Daily - Japanese construction firm using robotic bulldozers guided by drones, Ep. 257

2015-10-13
greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily Club ASCII talk-show in the known universe I'm Ashley skele and this is our temporary set while our new set gets built but for now Komatsu is one of the largest construction companies in the world and they're facing an issue that may affect the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games they don't have enough workers to operate heavy machinery so they're turning to drones to guide their robotic bulldozers and stuff the service is called smart construction and because of Japan's aging population meaning less able-bodied people to operate heavy machinery Komatsu devised a way to operate those heavy machines by remote-controlled drones who map out work areas and update them in real time as the bulldozers and other vehicles move dirt and other debris around a site Komatsu still needs a couple of people on the ground to ensure that they can handle problems if they arise or if anything needs to be fixed but those people don't actually require the same kind of training a full blown machine operator would need in addition surveying sites with drones dramatically decreases the amount of time it takes to complete the mapping and also drops the margin of error considerably so while Japan still has an aging population and that's going to be an issue going forward it's pretty awesome that Komatsu's answer to that problem was hey let's just throw a bunch of drones or robots at it and see what happens okay so going from one olympic city to another there's a pair of VJs in Rio de Janeiro Brazil who are coming up with new and interesting ways to show off both their audio and visual techniques yoga Merida and ceci sula Waga designed and assembled these amazing trikes that they call suave sea clothes they're packed to the brim with features like high-powered projectors laptops batteries and speakers and they're all rolled up into a boxy mount set on top of each one of the tricycle frames and what they do is they go around and they play music for everyone in the vicinity and while they do that they project beautiful high-quality animations on to nearby surfaces and can even manipulate them to conform to building edges and other environmental features in the area apparently they have been doing this for the last year or so and I've taken the suave sea clothes through play like Russia Germany and Switzerland but honestly this is the first time I've heard of them and so now I want them to come to Los Angeles and show off their super skills with their suave si clothes so awesome all right very last headline and then we'll get into new releases we have to talk about the electrical engineering professor who created a bikini that absorbs pollution when you swim in the ocean this swimsuit is called the sponge suit bikini so here's the science behind it the material the suit is made of is called sponge and it consists of carbon material that's light flexible and can absorb just about anything up to 25 times its weight except water which makes it a great material for things like cleaning up spills and also desalination add sponge to a 3d printed frame designed by Eric R bajo and architecture and design firm in Istanbul and voila a beautiful cool-looking pollution absorbing bikini the material is relatively cheap to mass-produce and poses no harm to the wearer since sponge traps contaminants inside the materials pores and doesn't get let out unless it's heated to a very high temperature so space-age and honestly that suit is super fashionable I mean I would wear it so great work science all right guys let's check out our new releases this week's new releases include Yoshi's wooly world for Wii U on October 16th of course we're rejoining Yoshi it is the first major Yoshi title for the Wii U and honestly it looks like the cutest cuddliest game you've ever seen in your life everything's made of yarn and I just want to squish it and make my heart grow a hundred times so I'm really excited for that then there is the Witcher 3 heart of stone expansion for ps4 Xbox one and PC on October 13th which is today and provides you with over 10 hours of new content and story line for your lovely hero girl to experience and of course last but certainly not least crimson peak hits theaters this week on the 16th of October it's Guillermo del Toro's new gothic horror movie it stars Tom Hiddleston Jessica Chastain Charlie Hunnam and Mia Wasikowska and honestly it looks so beautiful you guys get out your Victorian garb and go see crimson peak this weekend I know we all want to okay let's talk about your pictures time forever on tog refer the day today spawn tog refer is Austin who writes to us and sends us this lovely picture he took on his iPhone six-plus and he says hey Ashley I'm a new fan of the show and so far I love what I've seen you guys are great and I can't wait to see the new set I took this photo in Daphne Alabama at a nature walk called Alligator Alley although I didn't get any pictures of alligators I did manage to get this picture of the Sun setting over Mobile Bay I would love to share with my local scenery with tomorrow daily fan so you have my full permission to use my photos on the show thanks Austin PS as I wrote this message I read it back to myself in your voice love the show and hope see my photos soon well Austin thank you for granting us permission to use your picture on the show because we've used it you're welcome and thank you for sending it to us if you guys want to send in your phone tog Rafi you can email us tomorrow at cnet.com you can always find us on the Internet where tomorrow daily calm if you want to actually share the show with a friend and of course you can find us on social media where tomorrow daily all over the place if you want updates for the show or if you want to talk to me our producer Logan online you can find us on twitter @ashleyesqueda and hat Logan boys that's it for today's show guys we'll be back tomorrow with a brand new docket of science bag needing science fiction and being all awesome and stuff but until then vegan humans we'll see you guys next time bye
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