Killer Bots! with BattleBots’ Ray Billings

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🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Programmed…to kill! On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly sit down with BattleBots’ Ray Billings to discuss combat robots, his killer robot Tombstone, and how to create robotics for competition.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk Sports Edition.
0:18.0	Today, I think we're going to settle on the title of Killer Bots.
0:24.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:26.0	I got with me Gary Riley.
0:30.0	Oh, Riley, excuse me.
0:32.0	Yes, that's fine.
0:34.0	Yes, Gary.
0:36.0	Yes, we are.
0:38.0	We are very much a tribal.
0:40.0	Former soccer pro and former professional sports commentator.
0:44.0	But we've got you now.
0:46.0	You are ours.
0:48.0	We got you.
0:50.0	Chuck and I.
0:52.0	Chuck and baby.
0:54.0	We're going to have a couple of capillaries and they learned the word yes.
0:58.0	That's how you know it's a robot.
1:00.0	When it's just so formal that no.
1:02.0	No, no, when it's a robot from 50 years ago.
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