ROBOTS SPECIAL: Inside the rise of the machines

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson takes a deep dive into the world of robots to chart the the beginnings of the machine age (2:30), the creation of the now-ubiquitous (ROS) robot operating system (5:00), the rise of artificial intelligence (7:45), machines leaving the factory floor into the real world (9:40), and into the fields (12:00), the end of work for humans (14:25), why Bill Gates called for a “robot tax” (17:20), how to flummox the machines (19:00), the importance of self-driving cars (22:05), giant killer robots (24:00), why looks matter (28:25), machines that drop blood from the sky (30:20), invisible robots (35:35), and what the future holds (36:20).

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0:14.5	Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.
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0:21.3	Should kick in Justin Samfut to remember which end of the screwdriver to use.
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1:13.1	Yo, technology. What is it all about? Hello and welcome back to Danny in the Valley. It is our grand finale of season one.
1:19.5	And so we're all about to take a quick break for Christmas. And when I say we, I mean me and my producers, Matt and Chica, we're a lean 21st century operation here at Danny in the Valley.
1:25.3	But fear not, we will be back in January with loads of great new
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