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Tomorrow Daily - This samurai-sword-swinging robot arm might be better than WWDC, Ep 190

2015-06-08
on today's show a robot Samurai best it's human master in a duel oh and boy what a weekend what a lovely weekend because robots faced off against each other and only I think for only 41 and lastly Apple through their developers conference yes we're going to recap wwd it's tamar daily hey hey everybody welcome back tomorrow daily you're the best talk show in the whole world I'm your host Ashley together joining me as always so that you uh I'm sorry I just you okay it was so boring right okay so sleep what's great is I didn't watch it so apparently that's good for me but we're going to recap what happened i'll tell you all about it right now okay so a lot of people have been saying what happened today what is it google IL wasn't very exciting right well I I hate to break geofence WWDC zzzzz was all not all that exciting either but there was some new things that we can tell you about that might be coming to your iPhone iPad or your macbook if you are so inclined okay so let's start off with iOS 9 so iOS 9 lots of stability lots of fixes lots no no major visual changes that was iOS 8 that was the big visual change they have a new UI some responsiveness to some very specific requests for example you can ask Siri show me photos from Utah last August or remind me to grab my coffee from the roof of the car when I get in you can ask you can ask for these reminders like so for right now Siri has not been very great i made a joke on twitter they were like oh series taking over 1 billion requests and I'm like and she has not been able to 999 million 999,999 of them um so they have this thing called proactive assistant which I thought was pretty interesting and that's that's the whole like you can ask Siri took sort of proactive it's gonna guess kind of what you're doing stuff like that so and you can also ask things like they did a thing with serious they like hey play the song from Selma and so you're not asking for something very specific but it knows what you want it knows the specific song from Selma you want because that's sort of the song everybody asks for his glory by com ok so now then it was like oh yeah the song from Selma ok is it weird it played off of ok so they played it off of Apple music so this is a smooth transition go ahead great transition Apple music 10 bucks a month for a single subscription this is their acquisition of beats this is now finally rolling out as an apple product it is going to be like I said 10 bucks a month for single subscription so similar to Spotify but 1499 for a shared family account for up to six people get out of here so which they really they're shaking that up so I would imagine Spotify will probably respond in kind with some sort of multiple account access for a higher rate okay Mario does this go to I'm sure that there's a like a cnet video that goes deeper into this yeah we have tons of coverage on all of wwwdcom Engelbert a fee I just want to give you guys the the sort of broad strokes here okay and they're also going to do something called beats 1 which is going to be a global radio station they're doing a thing called Kinect which is kind of like a social media network but inside Apple music just for artists so they showed a clip where they were like oh let's go see what Pharrell is doing or let's go see what this artist is doing in the studio and it shows this like beautifully curated page of the pictures they've been posting on social media they can do things like lyrics they can pick put up audio clips they can do little videos all sorts of stuff and so and they curate it all together like we're seeing on the screen in this beautiful little setup where you're able to see all the stuff that's kind of going on in there your favorite artists career at this time which is pretty cool okay um so not not quite like ping which was a big fat nightmare and they'll remember that fail very quickly um alright that seems whatever both days you're gonna get a three-month trial it launches at the end of June it's free trial for three months and then everybody that has an apple gets a free trial free trial and then on Android they're gonna release Apple music in the fall so they're gonna have apple music on it on Android devices if you hear maybe if you have a map book and you use iTunes but then you have an Android device you've been looking to kind of switch over to apples ecosystem in terms of itunes and all that stuff real quick poll I Logan would you likely drop Spotify for this no I'm not doing it he says now playlist oh my god so here's the thing i have been hearing conflicting reports about no offline playlists I've heard that maybe they just glossed over that because that was just sort of a standard feature but they did make mention of the fact that if you really like a song in the streaming service and Apple music you could tap on by and buy it immediately like an idea to own the music no not necessarily no I don't think so but I but they made mention of that feature but the thing is is I don't think that means no offline playlist very specifically so all right well sure they break it i'm sure they have it on the right now okay so any anything else we're talking about it this thing max got public transit info so for anybody who relies on the subway to get to work school never have that before no no a lot of so a lot of people you've been using google maps is a real um oh yeah no yeah you're right you're it did to an extent but it wasn't it wasn't very good and well i mean a lot of apple maps isn't very good i sighs laughing I mean I also joked around about how I said cue the deluge of people who accidentally got sent to the wrong place because they trusted Apple maps of their public transportation just happened to me the other day I was join the YouTube space and it through me like a mile away and then made me Trek all the way back I'd like I didn't even make it I passed right now stupid it's insane they also showed off a thing that is very Flipboard like called news it's going to assuming replaced newsstand and there it's basically it's like Flipboard you have all these different content creators and you can see all these like sort of curated really pretty layouts for articles and cultures and things like that they have multitasking on the iPad which is a really big deal a lot of people have been asking for that here it is on video Craig federighi also known as hair Force One because his hair is so delightful showing off multitasking on the iPad it's only gonna work on the air in the air to as far as I'm aware for now what why well cuz it's I think it has to do with processing power it has to be able to deal with two different windows but he talks about how yeah I'd like so you have these windows you can pull up different things I'm very similar to what we've seen in a few different android tablets and also i mean the surface pro 2 i'll make similar but it's kind of a little computer as opposed to just just the tablet but yeah you can see this is how it works it's pretty simple looks pretty straightforward easy to use and I but I I'm looking forward to that but unfortunately I only have an iPad Mini so this will be completely worthless to me when it comes out in iOS 9 passbook is now called wallet they change passbook to wallet so you can use Apple pay but it's also there like we kind of feel like it's kind of graduated beyond just you know like little passes for stuff so now this is like your wallet we have Apple pay in there your your cards are in there now your rewards cards are in there now all this other stuff Apple pay also coming into UK so congrats United Kingdom you're gonna get to pay with your phone and and all those checkout clerks are gonna look at you like you're a wizard yeah when they are always confused when i use Apple pay ya like I don't think that's gonna work and I'm like me go see it worked it's fine and they're like how did you do that oh my god did nobody train anybody because of really good crisps over in London I love her so is that it prawn cocktail crisps the best crisps in the world I'm gonna try this oh you absolutely have to and then lastly os10 10.11 is El Capitan that's the name of the the Opera so we have Mavericks Yosemite going with the whole places in California so here is El Capitan there's a performance upgrades and place is huge the public beta will be available in july as well as for the first time iOS 9 will have a public beta already able to try it out so you know it was boring in a relative sense I still think guy google i/o was way more boring I at least they introduced the music service thing like their Jimmy I upon came out you know that was fine I I think that they were I think they were both like improving on things that already existed yeah so it was like these are great these are all great things like don't get me wrong these are all awesome i'm excited for all these things and i'm excited for all the things that Google is doing but it it feels like it was a lot of like iterative sort of okay well we have this and now we're just gonna polish it up even more on both ends at Google and Apple so hey maybe you know we realized that not every single one of these is gonna be like groundbreaking what she's going with like just you know tempered expectations I think so and I think this is sort of it speaks to this kind of entitlement to innovation that I talk about a lot where it's like people feel like we need to have innovative devices like every year people get mad when their devices do not like blow their minds and it's like it doesn't have to like you Portia's generally speaking have not majorly changed their design of their car like they have improved it little by little every year and it's their amazing now but it doesn't need to be a completely different car every time it can still be great but it doesn't have to be so totally different that you know you don't have to go to the other side to make it better for I'd buy into that men also go to the other side nice you don't have to you couldn't you make it better as you go like this it doesn't have to be like we're here and now we're way over here now you don't have to do 180 to impress I think it was good it was fine it was acceptable and satisfactory I'm sure in all the ways that Apple people would like um but I felt the same way about Google i/o which was like it was it was good it was good i think there were some good updates i think people will be very happy with what they're gonna get in there operating system of choices upgrade later this year but other than that we're done here cool all right mu DC what'd you get out of 10 ah this 6.5 I think you gave a 72 the google i/o actually yeah 6.5 from 27 like right around i would say right around there all right it made brought up you know they kind of forgot about dre if I'm being honest they not bring out dr. Dre I forgot about him so the DARPA Robotics Challenge happened this weekend boy is that a really cool competition so if you don't know DARPA Robotics Challenge is everybody brings their robots together and they come try and compete in this obstacle course i love that all different designs of robots just trying to like complete this obstacle course it's really interesting we got a hilarious video of a whole bunch of robot cannot wait it's coming up just wait for that yes but well let's talk about the winners okay we want to talk about team cast from South Korea they want two million dollars with their robot because their robot is a transformer in a way that it may can like transform to put like move differently oh it's really cool it's one of only three robots that managed to complete the course so it's really impressive okay they're gonna they're gonna do the transforming I like to see if you're watching they're gonna they're gonna transforming in just a second uh it got through the obstacle course in under 45 minutes which i guess is pretty good that's I think I'm pretty good okay yeah chicken this is their robot right here um did you think no thank twisting oh my gosh yeah you see it likes get now we're different like it changes the way that it moves and the reason let me give you the goal okay reeny this this thing existed this contest was open after the earthquake and nuclear disaster in Fukushima Japan in 2011 so they the whole point is to create a robot that can complete tasks during a disaster story so it makes sense that they make an obstacle course and the one that can make it through can transmit don't have to be super versatile right that makes a lot of sense no that does make sense and i love how they're saying like bipedal walking is it this can be really kind of precarious but then they also have like you were saying it transforms it has wheels and it can just wheel itself around and there's just one of the best looking there's a lot of ones that were kind of like janky they had like you know big giant battery pack behind them the second place team was team THM see they had a robot based on Boston Dynamics Atlas robot there's a lot of the Appalachian there's a lot of Atlas robots modifications in there I was a say yeah I've heard that like a lot of these entrance to the competition will take a robot like Atlas or there's another robot to that they take it us like a base model and then they add on to it or they change it up to where it's like their own robot but they use that as sort of a jumping-off pretty cool that is pretty amazing but yeah a robot competition so that we can have a better future unfortunately only three of them made it through the course but two million dollars to South Korea who now beat us at robotics and starcraft yeah and watches every now this this south korean team team cast is that's pretty amazing that in a weird way brings us back to the the the question of the day the hashtag of the day for the last article yeah that's true whoops we forgot to mention that had a second the day so damn let's go back and mention the hashtag of the dead okay so hooray for robots robots but but TD WWDC 15 15 um and tell us are you are you angry are you bored are you sad are you hungry how do you feel about what about things at WWDC comments like to are you really feeling it is there something that maybe was missing i personally would have liked to seen the appletv get a refresh a new set-top box know what it was so it uh um our oath and brian tog I'm he was super team I cuz i saw him because they have the live string thing if you don't know and they were in that little sound booth and brian tongs like this the whole time he's like I think it was bummin he was bomb in there was no Apple TV but he talked about it on apple byte he was like yeah there's not going to be apple TV this year and i have a feeling a lot of that has to do with it i think a lot of people are speculating light agreements with studios for streaming and all this other stuff like to have all these sort of you know companies and partnerships where you're streaming content times right now we'll see we got google chrome we got you know i know there's some great joy mill roku yeah roku got lost that time just using your phone but apple i mean i think this is a really good chance for apple to kind of take that set-top box area out of the hobbyist section cuz right now they're all these sort of like hundred-dollar boxes yeah i was on fire TV Apple TV Roku you've got all these boxes that are about 100 bucks chromecast a little bit different but still like $35 so cheap but then you know maybe you do something like xbox one where you're able to actually plug your cable into apple TV and then it's like you can also watch all of your cable subscriber they've got a lot of great thing yes okay see if that comes the past but yeah it's gonna have to happen relatively quickly so what about you is there anything you wanted Apple to show off I just wanted the apple TV to be honest with you yeah and I also want them to introduce some sort of VR headset or a our thing like yeah I know that they probably just started working out there like oh my god every doings we're gonna do this we gotta do it guys we got a just buying a our company I want to say they acquired them maybe a week or two ago so that was the rumor yeah but I'm sure we're like that's gonna be the next it's a bit like the eyelids yeah of course well then of course like the Apple car is a thing they were saying that's gonna happen in the next like five do i do not want an apple car that's art that's that's the line for me all right are you draw the line and then Apple everything I only have this I don't need to be like driving around the car and Syrian this and computer and headset too much cars too far tell me about samurai robots um you're gonna flip out like a ninja when you see this this video is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life uh can we just transition as meanwhile in japan meanwhile in japan we like to say motoman nh-24 is a robot that was designed by Japanese engineers to mimic the sword moves of a samurai mass yes and so what they did was they took this robot which is just one big robot arm it's not like a you know it's not like Atlas where it's you know walking around swinging a sword like a knight of the round table sure they tracked the movements of real-life Samurai Master here he is a Sal machi and they uploaded those moves right into the robot so they tracked all seven this guy is he's got World Records he's a world record holder this this guy is an amazing are a sword master this guy's an amazing samurai sword master ok and then what they did was they uploaded all those moves into the robot and then they did a duel between the two of them and the duel was not them swinging swords at each other because wow that would be really dangerous yes but it was a whole bunch of trials they did four different challenges basically of diagonal cuts and then there was like you know you'll see the different kinds and they're like okay so you have to do all these cuts and the robot would mimic that and then it was that was sort of this would score all these things and so the robot beat him I think this is the best story it's kind of my favorite episode IV honestly this video is better than that press confe lievable yeah I could watch this for why didn't they bring you this robot out wa museum I don't know this is great is he not a fit like I'm just going for like honored here is he not mad that like it's taking away the art form like I of them asked like if there was a host robot I don't think I'm good but I'd be like you don't understand the art hosting um something I like horizontal cut ok oh by the way can I just mention this guy this Samurai Master can hit a fried shrimp in half flying a team as it flies 80 miles an hour of the air p.s right a fried shrimp a little fried sure he can hit it like a baseball bat but just slice it in half as it's going 80 miles an hour through the area so it's not a joke like he is serious swordmaster but yeah I don't know how it feels about having his moves upload into a robot and then the robot beat him in a duel David it a thousand cuts I might favorite part of this entire competition was at the very end they bowed to each other the robot bowed at him I'm sorry I just took a drink while the screen was off and i almost spit up on chef I'm sorry I didn't mean it don't look he bowed again I'm going back to wipeout watch they're gonna doubt each other right now look it's a mutual respect no best keep out out of honor the robot vowed because he's programmed to now no honor the robots is respected him this is cool I saw Tomorrowland this weekend but I'm still mad about that this is better than all of that I'm just mad I'm just mad I'm scared so fortunately the robot again was it was uploaded it was programmed to do all those things so it did not learn to use the sword in such a great way exact we can rest easy for tonight knowing that this robot is not going to go on murdering rampage really cool video though good fine no I like that but now we have my robot video that I was talking about earlier oh yeah we're so we're gonna come back with your user feedback and all that fun jazz that we have afterwards but before we go this is from the DARPA robot challenge this weekend here are all the fails you welcome back to the show returns and we're running along we are running very long so going coming yeah it's time for back at haggen go ok people are going nuts for this on Kickstarter it's called hydrate me this is a smart water bottle how weird is that it's already weird go super weird ok uh it keeps tabs on your drink your water drinking throughout the day this is not that there says V this so this is the prototype yeah it's pretty stupid looking yeah very dumb ah but keeps tabs on your water drinking throughout the day and then tells you when you need water by glowing there's no idea of glows I want this so bad ok I know I knew you would like this kale drinks like eight gallons of water a day like water is so important it's so important it's the most under ok keep going it holds 24 ounces of water it has one year battery life and the battery is very replaceable they say it's a battery you can find at any like drug store so probably up some kind of watch battery it is dishwasher safe which I really like because a lot of the metal ones like zojirushi and swell and all of those you can't put in the dishwasher you can't dishwasher and it comes in five colors it talks to your wearables too and this is the thing I really like about it so if you're exercising it actually adjust and knows you need more water and I'll tell you like how you need so cool yeah yeah so I thought you would really like this um it's also really beautifully designed I just like that it is very plain it's not like ostentatious it's very sad or is it glowing right there telling you hey buddy drink drink some water I'm glowing yeah this is great I think I think just drinking more water is just a nice addition it helps you sleep better yeah it makes your skin look better you either you lose bags under your eyes you you know your body likes it better do you digest better so this may seem small on ebay thing kills dumb he likes water bottles well I but it's pretty great and so I I just like the whole thing about it saying like oh you're exercising you need more water yeah I'm realizing from your Fitbit or whatever they you're exercising so now you need more one now they need to find a way to make it so it tracks when you're drinking a lot and then it's like yo you need to drink some water drunk and you need hydration you should make a wearable that tracks your blood alcohol level and talks to the app mine would be like baby boobs are alarm sounded okay cool so okay what are your battery life huh thirty dollars okay so on kickstart it's 45 we're battery life though that being said ships december this year a one-year battery life for the thing is you have to recharge it that was the big thing was they were like we don't want you like having to recharge your water bottle every nice dumb so like you have this little battery it's like a watch battery and then you just replace it okay cool like five bucks you said $45 yeah definitely do those ships out into summer this year and they asked for 35,000 there's 35 days left in the campaign they have over two hundred thousand dollars so they're doing just great cool I can't wait for this exists I agree I feedback is bakit Logan on this okay so there you go then it's already on the market now go get it alright so now it's time for your user feedback alright guys so last week we asked you guys to talk about the Disney research plan to add walking robotic characters into the park we had a terrifying robots that look at five nights at Freddy's we asked you guys to take this as a photo challenge and send over images of children that you think they're giving a face that would be an appropriate reaction to see some really good response very good response I'm so Mitchell wrote in and here's Mitchell's yep it's just Chucky terrifying checkers Joe this here's Jose which he sent in a picture with his good i love that took a selfie way to go Joe listen I'm as surprised as your baby like that's hilarious jl fox wrote in and sent this little Brooklyn nine-nine happen in there Gail wrote in and sent over this oh hey there's poo wait what yeah screaming which I love and then Justin wrote in and said to my geeks at tomorrow daily I present the sketch out kid on Disneyland knows what's up I love is just like Alan think so and then lastly James emailed us and said love the show and then that was picture is a very surprised baby there was a lot more actually there there was a lot and also I might add very shocked that the majority of you did not send in crying children which I thought would be the number one image it was mostly just surprised faces true that but I was expecting like terrorized traumatized babies yeah so I don't know think that these days hurt I think they've seen some messed up stuff they've seen some so they've been places they've done things let's have our last piece user feedback which is our photog refer the day I don't know why I did this cuz it's like that's a normal camera with a viewfinder but then I do it with the I guess you do with your phone that's a battery so hard on yourself just it's just the gesture Danny wrote in said hey first time email or long time watcher I love your show and I watch it all the time while here's my picture it is a wonderful picture of the canadian parliament in ottawa i took it right after my 10k race which I crushed yeah you get that water bottle we talked about you enjoy it so that's Danny surgery look at the amazing picture it's colorful and the rays of light I mean gosh you must have been Celt you must have thought the entire world was celebrating you finishing your 10k a good way to put it that's what it looks like how does the 1+1 get a photo like this I mean does a really good job has a great camera sensor as a good sensor okay good lens in there sorry but yeah wow really nice picture great work day job good job on the 10k yeah a nice job of the 10k we're really proud of you if you guys want to send it your phone tog raphy send us a little story your picture and what device you took it on to tomorrow at cnet com and you can also send us all sorts of stuff on social media we are tomorrow daily on pretty much every major social media site I mean if you can't find us just go find us on Twitter yeah well you said what I was gonna say okay all right what about what about you to dry tunes and you do you just said just look on those look on the things oh yeah that's yeah yeah yeah and plus if you're watching on YouTube you already there you know the drill guys you 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