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the Internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk-show the known universe I'm Ashley Scott you're watching one of our short episodes we're gonna be at you on Thursday with a long episode it's a deep dive if you will into the stories of this week so with that being said let's hit the headlines so we're not quite at the point where you're going to be able to lock a mr. Fusion to the back of your DeLorean but there is a new fusion reactor set to light up before the end of this month it's a stellarator reactor called the w7x and it's over at the Max Planck Institute in Germany it took more than a million hours to build this thing over 19 years to make it fully complete 50 individuals 6 ton magnetic coils make up the cage that holds super hot gases and they're cooled to minus 200 degrees Celsius the machine itself is 19 meters wide and in the shape of a ring and the position of the cage was specifically optimized by a supercomputer to pinpoint the best possible design for the machine itself traditionally we've used nuclear fusion reactors called tokamaks but the one issue with them is that they can only be used in short bursts and any magnetic disruption can destabilize the reactor stellarators like the w7x are supposed to be designed to be impervious to those disruptions so this could get interesting for the future of nuclear energy engineers are waiting for approval from germany's nuclear regulators but if all goes well they want to flip this baby on by the end of November let's make some energy a meanwhile in Japan a movie is being released with a robot co-star the film is sayonara written and directed by Japanese filmmaker koji Fukuda it's the story of a Japan that has been decimated by radiation and the main character Tanja gets a very low priority number for evacuation meaning she has to stay behind and suffer radiation poisoning but she's not alone her childhood companion Leona is there with her but that's not CG or makeup you're seeing Leona is actually Geminoid F a real-life robot created by Hiroshi Ishiguro who's robotics work you might be familiar with he's the guy who made that robot that looks exactly like himself it's kind of weird but kind of cool so back to Geminoid F since Geminoid F can't walk the story gives her a knee injury and then sits her in a wheelchair for the length of the movie where she can move around freely it's interesting that she's treated like any other cast member on the film's website and in the movie it looks like she helps Tanja deal with her increasing radiation sickness hey Bethesda I think I just found the plot of Fallout 5 too soon alright so very last story I always like to ask where's my Rosie the robot and honestly Patton about a year ago said that they had won for us but now there's actually a working prototype the Patton showed off its skills at Tokyo design week last week and to refresh your memory it's a wheeled robot that's kind of like a Roomba but it's built around adaptive AI that lets its owner choose what type of AI it should use and then place objects or attachments on top of it the patent can work with for example if you were to place a lamp on the path and it would pinpoint where you are in the room find the best location for the light source relative to your position and then wheel the lamp over to that location there are depth sensors contact sensors and other features onboard powering the little robot and it looks really really fun so here's the new stuff its designers announced they're going to make the patent as an open-source platform so devs and hobbyists alike can create their own features apps and attachments for it there's still no word on pricing or availability but flower robotics says they want to have this thing out and available for you in 2016 and I still want it to make me pancakes hey guess what it's Monday let's talk about crowdfunding this sounds like a joke but I assure you it's not there is a robot band that has gone to Kickstarter to fund a lead singer so I should probably start with the humans involved in this project there are three guys named Frank Marcus and stock and they're artists who built three robots named fingers stick boy and bones those three robots comprised compressor head a robot jam band of a sort but the robots need a fourth a lead vocalist to sing and interact with fans and they want to make a record that no human can perform the robots can do specific musical actions humans just can't do live like playing multiple riffs at the same time they don't want a record label to interfere with their artistic goals because they're real musicians man so Kickstarter seemed like the way to go part of the project includes a mind link web app that would notify users when the band comes alive and translate some of the robots communications in a human speech super weird but so metal metal do you see what I did there there are all kinds of pledge levels you can get in at and they want over $300,000 so they've got a long way to go and about 25 days left to get there so if you're interested in hearing a band that is comprised entirely of robots this would be your chance all right guys let's look at your beautiful beautiful photos our phones are over today is Terris who wrote in and sent this picture that they took with their iPhone 6s and they said hey guys took this photo earlier last month on my iPhone 6s I use clarity from camera plus and borders other than that photo is untouched this is a partial panorama photo as well if you think the photo is show worthy you have my permission to use it well Tara's obviously it's show worthy because there it is right here on tomorrow daily thank you so much for sending in that amazing panorama I just oh it's so beautiful if you guys want to send in your phone tog Rafi a please feel free to do so email us tomorrow at C Netcom send in your photo give us a little story about it give us permission use it on the show and of course tell us what device you took it on because I find that pretty interesting and also you can find us online we are tomorrow daily calm if you'd like to share the show with a friend we're tomorrow daily on all your favorite social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and I'm at Ashley ask Evan on Twitter and producer Logan is at Logan Moy can also find Jeff cañada our co-host who'll be here tomorrow at 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