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🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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We love when our listeners send in super unique questions. We also love robots. So we had to answer this head-scratcher of a question from listener Lucas: why aren’t robots ticklish? We asked pediatrician Emma Gerstenzang to help us find the answer.
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0:00.0 | From the brains behind, brains on, this is the moment of um, exclamation point. |
0:19.1 | Moment of um, comes to you from APM Studios. |
0:21.3 | I am the ticklebot 9,001. |
0:27.4 | Hello. |
0:28.3 | Do you want to tickle your human friends but are too shy to do it yourself? |
0:33.0 | Or perhaps you would like to tickle yourself when there are no other humans around and you need a laugh, |
0:38.8 | then you are in luck. |
0:40.9 | Ticklebot 9,001 is programmed to meet all of your tickling needs. |
0:45.7 | With patented tickle touch technology, the Ticklebot 9,001 is designed for maximum giggle output. |
0:53.4 | Simply enter your tickle target with the state-of-the-art |
0:56.3 | tickle touchpad and boom, ticklebot 9,001 takes care of the rest. You will be amazed by the |
1:02.9 | results. The laughter, the smiles, it is a dream job. Ticklebot 9,001 did not attend 10 years |
1:09.7 | of Tickle Academy for nothing, but sometimes Ticklebot wonders,001 did not attend 10 years of Tickle Academy for nothing, |
1:11.6 | but sometimes Ticklebot wonders. |
1:13.9 | What does it feel like to be tickled? |
1:16.8 | Ticklebot must know, why can't robots be tickled? |
1:20.2 | Lucas had the same question. |
1:22.3 | Let us find a human expert to consult. |
1:24.4 | Thank you. an expert to consult. |
1:38.6 | So robots don't have tickle spots because robots don't have nerves all over their body. |
1:45.8 | My name is Emma Gerstyn-Zang, and I'm a pediatrician in Philadelphia. |
1:53.3 | The reason that a person is ticklish is because we have nerves all over our body that feel when someone touches us. |
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