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A Robot Won a Half-Marathon. What's Next?

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0:05 You know how everybody's been building robots and stuff and for some reason everybody's fascinated with the idea of building robots that can like do crazy stuff like kung fu and >> fight each other. Have you seen those? >> I will watch those. Actually, >> I do. And I want to see the evolving like nature of him. >> They fall on their backs and they're just like >> Yeah, >> they spilled water on them. >> It's like a cockroach that got turned upside down. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Roboto. >> Roboto. We're like laughing about it now. >> We're going to be ████ >> You laugh now. >> They They just >> cry. >> For whatever reason, they just named this one ████ humanoid robot uh Lightning and made it run a half marathon and it beat a human >> in 13 miles of running. >> There's no fatigue. >> Kachchow. So, we've got an astonishing 50 minutes and 26 seconds, but for some reason, they deemed it necessary to throw probably millions of dollars in R&D to ensure that a robot can run

0:55 really fast or faster than a human. >> I'm not surprised that a robot could run faster than a human. I want the robot to run faster than any animal on Earth. >> I don't think that's far. >> We're getting close. >> So, basically, >> but it's a machine. >> It's probably have to run on all fours, though. >> What is the fastest? >> Can't be bipedal. Or are you talking about human with the blade legs? Oh, human with blade legs. >> ████ with the bionic man. Half robot. >> Where's Pastorius at, dude? Let's bring him out of retirement. You make Ptorius. Ptorius. >> Didn't those guys get so fast that they were like, "No more blade legs." You got get Ptorius and you make him run another robot and see who wins. Dude, >> who the ████ is Ptorius? >> He's the guy who shot his wife. >> He shot his wife and he has this he has the razor blades. >> Yeah. Yeah, we did a video about him. >> Yeah, he's he's got the legs. He's got the sword legs. Blade legs. Sorry. You know, um, >> those blade legs are dope, man.

1:46 >> I I seen a Roadrunner here. They're pretty quick. >> Oh, you saw one? >> Yeah, but then the coyotes always catch them. It's Yeah, they ████ lie to us. >> The coyotes are faster than the road runners. >> Yeah, they always They get caught. >> That sucks. >> Yeah, but the problem is that they're stupid, so they always run into TNT. >> Oh, >> yeah. That's There's always It's always planted. >> TNT. >> Who calls >> That's what it is, right? >> It literally says TNT only on those things. >> Acne TNT. Oh, look. Hey, that robot beat everyone. That's all. That fool's fast. >> That's a Kawaii. >> Kawaii. >> Whoa. >> That fool runs stupid, dude. >> Yeah, he's not really winning the swag thing, huh? Anthony, how come robots got no swag? Look at his ████ proportions, dude. I could run fast if my torso was this big. Pixar mom. >> Yeah. What the ████ >> They gave him a medal. That's really

2:36 cute. As he destroys and slaughters them all, >> he runs away. Yeah. >> Oh, they're competing against each other. >> Dude, I'd go fast if I ran like that, too. All gay. >> But look how small his torso is, dude. >> Ah, >> that's Hey, that's what we should say. I could run that fast, but I don't want to look gay. >> It's true, though. We run like that. >> Gay, dude. >> We get made fun of. >> Yeah, because it reminds me It reminds me of that thing I told you guys about like many years ago where they told me when I got to high school that if you run to class, you're gay. True. >> So then I would just walk and get late. I would get like tardy. That video you're playing though, >> Shen Yun, >> that was the um at the CCT Grand um opening new year Chinese New Year thing and then the the kids martial arts woo like uh Shaolin. They danced with the robots. It was super viral. You didn't see it? >> No, I didn't see it. >> Damn, boy. We got to ████ catch you up on old ████ >> D I'm trying to get I'm trying to see the the the robots the Chinese robots

3:27 are going to take over you guys. >> Hey, how come there's so much robotic ████ going on over there? But we don't really see that here >> because they have no ethics. >> Yeah, cuz they get one guy. They get one guy. They're not they're not limited to ████ ethics. >> Well, there's one guy that's like, "Hey, we're just going to do this." >> It's not that they got no ethics. It's that it's it's they got one they got one ethic, whereas over here, everybody's got their own ethics. So, we got arguments all day. >> Yeah. But what does this have to go against our ethics, though? Like, American robots seeing nothing wrong with that. >> China's AI and robotics, it just blows us. >> We're not We'll never catch up. We got too many protesters. >> Have you seen the cities in China now, bro? They're crazy, bro. They're destroying us. >> Like if you if you did this in America, the first thing people say is that that took jobs from other people >> dancing. Yeah, that's the first thing. >> Yeah, you're right. >> Yeah. Immediately everybody's going to

4:17 be an upra. We're going to ████ we're wasting money on this. Where is all the help for the homeless people? How are this representing fat people >> to say that though? >> Cuz they're taking care of their poor folks. >> These guys and they're so proud to show them off. He's like child endangerment, domestic violence. These robots are attacking children. I don't know. America's going to be ████ whacked. >> Yeah, they'll be whack. >> Yeah, dude. We're We're covered in bubble wrap. >> Look, that Chinese kid has a robot friend. America loves to see progress and go, "Oh my god, we're so doomed. We're cooked, fam." >> Yeah, we are. >> We don't even need to think about the robots. Let's just look at the kids for example. If the kids ████ up right over there, they're like, "Do better. F███." The kids like they're crying, but they're getting boards broken on their faces. Over here, if a kid cries, we're going to be like the teacher. Oh, that's why that's why we never reach excellence and all the kids are underperforming and can't read words that are three

5:07 syllables. >> We got no American kids that can do whoosher. Meanwhile, yes. All of them are getting beat at home. I'm sorry, guys. Everyone's getting hit at home. We all got hit. >> Everyone's crying at home. >> Everyone's crying. Everyone's getting beat. >> Oh, cool. >> I'm You got to crack a couple eggs, you know. >> How do you think that stereotype started that Asians were better than you at? >> You want to get good at school, you got to get beat by your parents >> because they want to be. >> My mom was right. Actually, this whole time my mom was right. Yeah, >> there's a there's an Asian kid better than you because there's an Asian parent beating the ████ out of them. >> It's not because they're trying they're not trying to beat you, >> which is better. It's it's better. It's way better than having an absent parent. >> They rather stay home and eat a pizza and get fat and play video games, but they they won't they're not allowed to parent or absent parent. Which one do you want? >> Abusive. >> You want a little bit abusive? >> What kind of abusive? >> Yeah, you're right. >> I had both. >> The way that Chinese parents discipline you abusive

5:57 >> verbally and sexually. Uh, not sexual abuse. Obviously, obviously >> disappeared. >> Both. They had sex with me and then they left. >> Dude, they're just >> they ████ >> robots look way more >> kick my ass and do a did a smoke bomb and >> they they even move like Chinese guys. They're doing drunken master. Bro, >> I don't even know how they're like programmed so well to remember all this ████ >> Oh, that's so cool. They're getting all stylized and doing ████ drunken master style. >> I've seen them do dances and >> they're pretty sick. >> This ████ looks hella tight, dude. >> ████ >> Bro, they look Didn't Mike Song go to one of these where he saw it live? >> Uh, yeah. I think No, he was there. He was there this year. >> Yeah, he was there this year. I I was here a couple years ago and he went >> the ████ robot knows air flares,

6:48 dude. You think Shen Yun's going to do robots next? I think they'll do whatever it takes to ████ get their point across. I think they'll do anything, bro. You think Americans are watching this and going, >> "Anything for Fallon Gongs to take the front seat?" >> Everywhere I go, I just stumbled across a Shenune. They're everywhere, dude. >> This is ████ impressive, man. I don't even >> This is impressive. >> It's really great. And not everyone can ████ create robots. Should be praised for martial arts robots. We're asking for like trains to be built. Like the money's already going there. Just finish the train. some clean. >> That's That's the saddest part. Whenever they whenever they compare the train progress to like China's train progress, you're like, "God." And then the cope is always from Americans going, "Yeah, but China's train will fall apart in a month." >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Ours didn't even get made. We can't talk ████ But that you can't use that. >> And we And we spent way more money on a

7:39 train that didn't get made. You could say that like 10 years ago. You can't say that anymore. >> Wouldn't you take a train that maybe has a less shelf life than one that never lived? >> Used to dog on China all the time. Like he would say the same type of ████ like see these buildings in China, they don't know how to build. This motherfucker's over there and he's like it's great over here. Like I love it here. It's the best. >> It is crazy over there. >> And it's like for him it makes all the sense in the world. >> But it's crazy that like there's people from America that don't understand the regional differences between ████ China is a huge ass place. You can't judge all of China's construction on one building. You don't even know this the town that building's in. >> Like what? How are you saying that like all of China is a ████ if just one thing? >> That's true. Like, come on. >> That's called good propaganda. America can't build nothing. It's good propaganda, dude. >> But that's that's the thing about China is that they're going to all their cities that used to be not that

8:29 developed and they're spending all this time and they're turning them into these smart cities. So, everybody went >> like the zombie cities that didn't have >> Yeah. >> The crazy part is when you go >> for Detroit or something, you know, like >> want something to get done here without >> Maybe maybe freedom isn't good after all. >> No, it's not, bro. >> Communism. Communism. communism. >> But they they're thinking ahead though progress can happen. >> Yeah. No, communism that that is the high point is that nobody's allowed to say no to ████ So when they say we're going to make this, they actually have to make >> All right, cool. You know, over there, you know how they had the belt and road like initiative? >> Yeah. >> You know, if that ████ happened in America, everyone be like, "No, you can't you can't build here." >> Yeah. They like, "We found a dinosaur bone. You can't build." >> Honestly, I'm just going to start working on my mandre now cuz it's terrible. because we're going to be speaking it very soon. >> Wish we could copy parts of China. The way they do it

9:21 is is when you go to like a country like let's say like 10 years ago, you like visit a country and then you visit that same country now and the development is insane. But then you go home and you think about the same type of development and you just don't see progress. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. But also >> worse, >> but then arguably some progress isn't really good, you know, like some like Altadena probably don't need to look any >> Okay, what progress did we get in LA in 10 years? I think maybe the in it dome. >> Oh, >> the init dome is a piece of ████ >> 5G internet, >> you know what I'm saying? Whereas if you go to if you go to South Korea, >> if you go to South Korea, if you go to Vietnam, >> Asia's blowing up, >> or you go to any city in China 10 years ago versus today and you're seeing like what the you're in the future. What I'm visibly seeing is better uh homeless tents. They're getting more like two stories now. They're getting bigger.

10:12 They're getting wider. >> They're in front of >> That's true. Cuz what if LA's like golden era was 1920 and then it's like damn, it was the ████ in 1920. >> It's coming back, y'all. >> Mean like the pro progress is like kind of subjective where like if I look at my parents Downey home, they don't want to change anything about it. Probably for 100 years. I'd love it to be the same progress in the way of like central air conditioning or not electricity. >> Progress in like Cal, like at least in California now, especially in like neighborhoods that aren't that good, the progress is when they get a TJ Maxx, a HomeGoods, and a Marshalls all together. You're like, "All right, we're cooking with some fire." >> But we can only go as fast. Yeah. We can't go faster than the citizens can ████ govern themselves. You know what I mean? Like you can make all this nice ████ if it's still getting looted by kids on bikes, you're probably not

11:03 progressing as a society. >> I'm just saying that like you you also have like random spikes of non-normal, right? You got like a Elon Musk who creates like the Boring Company who's willing to like dig a hole underground to like revolutionize public transportation for your city. But like of course for some reason, nobody's going to know the actual answer, but for some reason we can't do it or it's not going to work. We can't fix public transit. >> Oh yeah. For some reason, something is going to get stopped. >> We know the reasons. And that >> all our money is going to Israel. >> Well, it's the same reason that every other state, whatever the thing they produce the most of is going to be on all their commercials to consume it. >> You make the most potatoes. Guess what? Potatoes are the healthiest thing magically, you know? So, what is California? Cars, gasoline, roads. Like, they're they're too in deep on that investment that they're not willing to go like efficient trains out of nowhere. >> Unless they own it, but they don't. So,

11:54 they're not going to change ████ up. Well, cuz the car companies worked so hard to dismantling the public transit system. >> They took away the cable cars. All that work >> like the the Montreal the I keep calling it a Montreal. The Montreal from LA to Vegas. They're not they're not going to get there. >> Oh, the uh Yeah, >> it feels like I heard I heard it halted. >> LA to Vegas. It's Rancho Cukamonga. >> Rancho Cukamonga, >> right? Like what the ████ >> Probably to >> What happened to the Hyperloop? I thought it was going to go like to Resorts World. >> The Hyperloop has been built so they have it underground. You could it's just a taxi service for Tesla. So you >> really cool. >> And then but they are expanding it but like he's he's basically only working as fast as like the delegations are allowed to approve different things. >> Is there another tube one that they were going to do that was like hella quick? >> I think I've heard of that. >> I think it was at the resorts world that it was a station there. >> Oh X tube.

12:44 >> Yeah. >> Shut up. >> That's the one that crosses in the middle. It's real dangerous. >> I don't know. But that tunnel that they made is freaking crazy. >> The Tesla tunnel. >> Yeah. But then I I get it. Like it's crazy because it feels like there's only enough space for like you like >> what if you got to pee? >> What do you mean? >> Like what if you're in the middle and you can't >> same ████ that you do on roach. You got to pee before you leave the house. >> That's called the Vegas loop. The hyperloop is actually for a train that he's building and proposed in 2013 which is supposed to be 600 to 700 mph. >> Yeah, that's the one I was thinking about. Hyperloop go from like here to London in like 12 minutes type ████ It's It's >> 12 minutes. >> One of those like underondon. >> Yeah, it's like underwater. I'm exaggerating, but the the whole point >> it's like an actual tube like underwater and stuff too. Yeah, >> it's a tube because it's a vacuum. So,

13:34 there's like no air pressure. So, that's why things can move fast. >> Resistance, man. >> Well, how fast does it actually go? >> Really fast, >> dude. 700 mph is faster than a plane. But it's in it's like a bank tube. Like >> Yeah. A little >> like every time you do it though, something happens to your body. Like something bad happens. >> Well, yeah. I'm sure they'll get No, >> it doesn't. It's like It's like when the thing is in a vacuum. It's like, you know, when you're in your car and you're moving 80 mph, how do you throw your phone straight up, but it doesn't fly. >> But that's that's where you start entering like time travel stuff. >> Can't even be upset about how things work in in America because that's this is the result of like everyone has a voice. You know what I mean? Like that's true. >> You make one thing and all these people protest it and you have to listen to them. >> I think with social media it proves that nobody should have a voice in you. >> Everyone's voice is the same. >> Point of being a dictator. >> I think it proves that nobody should have an anonymous voice.

14:24 >> No, dude. >> We can't we can't handle it, bro. We literally can't handle it. >> Saw Trump fly all of the most successful and biggest businesses American corporation stuff. They just flew to meet with Xi Jinping in China. You see that? You know what that tells me? I don't know what happened because obviously they're trying to >> they're trying to make sure that you know things don't go and escalate into further points of tension and stuff like that but to me it looks like when when you take all the giant business people of the like our entire country Elon Mus Jensen plane like we're talking about trillion dollar companies and we fly them over to China and then we meet with their ████ you know supreme leader basically I feel like like that's going to to them like I feel like maybe they're doing something right Well, we need to take our biggest dogs and be, "Hey, by the way, we're still good." Right? Like, to me, that looks like a little bit like we got to we got to show face.

15:14 >> Professor Jen just made a they just dropped a video about that. I want to watch it. >> Let's save it. Let's save

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