It's actually really hard to make a robot, guys

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  NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Darian Woods.

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  And I'm Jeff Brumfield, one of NPR's science correspondents.

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  Jeff, you recently went down a rabbit hole into artificial intelligence.

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  Yeah, I feel like I'm always down a rabbit hole in artificial intelligence, actually.

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  It's a confusing place to be.

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  I can imagine.

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  Recently,

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  I have been sort of looking at how AI has been moving out of the online world and into reality.

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  I don't know if you caught Tesla's big marketing event last year, but AI was there.

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  Tesla, the car company, of course, led by CEO Elon Musk.

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  Speaking of robots.

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  Yeah, a big part of that event was about a humanoid robot powered by AI called Optimus.

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  The software, the AI inference computer.

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  It all actually applies to a humanoid robot.

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  Are we meant to be, like, cheering this on?

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  I don't know.

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  It sounds scary to me.

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  Yeah, I mean, robots have been around for a long time in sci-fi as technological marvels,

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  and sometimes they're the villains.

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