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Pleo robotic dinosaur
Ugobe (inferred)
“that one I was very impressed with”
“the plio baby dinosaur robot that is no longer sold that came out in 2007 that one I was very impressed with”— guest
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Boston Dynamics Spot Mini
Boston Dynamics
“are just impressive feats of engineering”
“the Boston Dynamics robots are just impressive feats of engineering have you met them in person”— guest
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WALL-E
Pixar (inferred)
“wall-e is just such a great example of that”
“so what's your favorite robots and movies in fiction wall-e wall-e what do you like about wall-e the humor the cuteness”— guest
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Jibo social robot
Jibo
“two amazing companies social robotics companies”
“Anki and Gebo the two companies two amazing companies social robotics companies that have recently been closed down”— guest
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Anki robots
Anki
“two amazing companies social robotics companies”
“Anki and Gebo the two companies two amazing companies social robotics companies that have recently been closed down”— guest
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Westworld
HBO (inferred)
“West world is maybe you know not so far off it's like you know depicting the bad characters as willing to go around and shoot and rape the robots”— guest
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Amazon Alexa
Amazon
“did you know that Amazon has like a whole team of people who are just there to work on Alexis personality”— guest
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PackBot
iRobot
“iRobot the room a company made this robot called the pack bot that was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan with the bomb disposal units”— guest
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Roomba
iRobot
“over 85% of rumbas have a name which I'm I don't know the numbers for your regular type of vacuum cleaner but they're not that high”— guest
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Bambi
Disney (inferred)
“I think one of the first like animations to really play with this was Bambi and they weren't originally gonna do that”— guest
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Clippy
Microsoft
“you have to get it exactly right otherwise you wind up with Microsoft's Clippy okay easy now what's your problem with Clippy”— guest
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Her
Spike Jonze (inferred)
“maybe not so like the movie her yeah right so a better husband well may be better in some ways”— guest
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Tamagotchi
Bandai (inferred)
“we know from you know Tamagotchis those like those little games that that we used to have that were extremely primitive that like people respond”— guest
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1984
George Orwell (inferred)
“then suddenly we're living in like 1984 which you know sounds extreme but that book was very prescient”— guest
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Amazon Echo
Amazon
“I have you know Amazon's echo at home and you know tell Alexa all sorts of stuff and it helps me”— guest
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Palm Pilot
Palm (inferred)
“it's kind of like the Palm Pilot back in the day most people are like why do I need this why would I”— guest
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