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The Times Tech Podcast

Will your humanoid robot compliment you? And the end of 23andMe?

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Danny has been delving deeper into his humanoid robot obsession as he interviews the CEO of Texas based company, Apptronik. Plus, what went wrong at 23andMe as the once buzzy biotech startup files for bankruptcy.

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0:00.0

The other kind of term that is doing the rounds, vibe coding.

0:07.0

You know, because AI is so wonderful and great and so powerful, you or I don't need a software engineer to create our app or our video game or whatever.

0:20.0

We can just talk to our machine and it'll just do it.

0:24.2

So I've been trying to vibe code a video game for the past day.

0:27.0

What's it about?

0:27.8

Think Super Mario brothers, but instead of Super Mario, replace them with the Swedish chef

0:33.2

and he's having to avoid meatballs and fight a meatball monster at the end.

0:38.2

How's it going?

0:39.2

My vibes are not immaculate right now.

0:42.0

I would rather see, I have to say,

0:44.1

Danny in the Valley game.

0:45.4

I'm thinking like Mario Kart,

0:46.8

but with you in a Tesla,

0:48.4

he's got to be in a Tesla,

0:50.4

driving around, pointing it,

0:52.0

and trying to catch tech bros.

0:54.7

So anyway, so that's my life.

0:58.8

Hello and welcome back to the Times Tech podcast with me, Katie Prescott, in the city of London.

1:05.2

And me, Danny Fordson, in the Valley, Silicon Valley.

1:10.4

So in today's episode, Danny, you have been continuing your very extensive, diligent research into your new obsession, humanoid robots.

1:20.4

Yes, you'll thank me when you have your own humanoid robot podcast producer, or the one that you were saying earlier that you would love to just hand your

1:28.9

child off to a random humanoid in an airport. It's not a random humanoid. I think it might be more

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