-It is time for "Tonight Showbotics."
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-♪ Tonight Showbotics ♪
♪ Tonight Showbotics, yeah ♪
-Now, we here at the show love technology,
and we always love showing you the latest thing,
and, tonight, we have something really incredible.
So please welcome Boston Dynamics CEO
Robert Playter and his robot, Spot.
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-Welcome, Robert. -Hey, Jimmy.
-Good to see you, Robert. -Thanks for having us.
-Thanks for being here.
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This is Spot. -Wow, this is unbelievable.
Robert, thank you for being here.
-My pleasure. -Spot.
We're friends, right? [ Laughter ]
Okay. -Yeah, everybody's friend.
He's everybody's friend.
-What -- What exactly is Spot?
-Well, Spot is a walking robot.
We wanted to build a robot that could go anywhere
a person could go. -Yep.
-And you can't beat legs. -No.
-And so we built Spot.
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-This is unbelie--
This is unbelievable.
Are these things for sale? -Absolutely.
-What can it do?
Say I buy this thing, what would it do?
-You mean what's its day job?
-Yeah, what does it do duri-- Yeah, what does it do, yeah?
-Well, it's an inspector. So, Spot goes into
dangerous places where people don't want to go --
nuclear power plants, electric utilities --
and does inspections
and making sure that the equipment is running well.
-That's unbelievable.
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What does -- What does -- What does --
What does this do, like, the head?
-Well, so we made Spot as a platform.
You can attach lots of equipment...
[ Audience "Oohs" ] ...including the arm
and the head.
And, you know, when you're going around,
a lot of times, you run into doors,
you need an arm to open a door,
and that's one of the great things for the arm.
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-This is unbelievable. -You can pick stuff up.
But, you know -- -I got you.
Wow, wow, wow. [ Laughter ]
Wow. This is -- -But we've also recently learned
some new tricks. Would you like to see them?
-I would like to see a new trick, yeah.
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-Well, we've been working on our bartending skills.
-Okay.
-So they're still in development here.
-Uh-huh. -But, you know, you can't --
We're always exploring jobs that Spot could be doing.
So he's gonna pour you a beer here.
-This is the first time. -Yeah.
With robotic precision.
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Hey, you gotta tilt that glass.
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-All right.
[ Laughter ]
[ Laughter, cheers, applause ]
Not bad.
That robot got a good laugh right there.
Now, do I need -- do you need special training
to operate one of these? -Oh, no, it's super easy,
because Spot takes care of all the details.
You basically just have to tell Spot which direction to go.
Would you like to give it a try? -Yeah, I would.
I would like to try this thing out.
-All right, all right. -And you trust me with this?
-Oh, I totally trust you because I trust Spot.
Spot will handle it. -Okay.
-So there's two joysticks on this device.
The one on the left basically is telling Spot
to go forward or back... -Yep.
-...or side to side. So why don't you give it a try?
-It's almost like a --
It looks like a Nintendo Switch or something.
-There you go. [ Laughter ]
Yeah, just go ahead, go ahead. Go ahead.
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And then, the other, side to side.
So, legs let you move in any direction -- omnidirectional.
And that other one lets him turn around a little bit.
The one on the right. -This one?
-Yeah, that'll turn him left and right.
There you go. -Wow.
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Can it go -- Can it go up the stairs?
-Absolutely. Let's go up the stairs.
-Here he comes, guys!
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Yeah! Yes!
I love this!
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Wow.
How long --
Can it make its way over to --
Can it make its way over to the desk?
-I'm sure it can handle these steps.
These are easy compared to that.
-I would like this to be my first robot guest.
-All right, let's -- let's go.
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Wow. -Robert, how --
This is so wild.
Robert, how long have you worked at Boston Dynamics?
-30 years. -30 years.
-Yeah. -On just Spot?
-No, I mean, we've done a whole host of things,
a bunch of different robots.
But this is the first one we've productized.
-Wow.
Hi. [ Laughter ]
Hi, Spot. This is your first time
being interviewed on a talk show.
Oh, it is. [ Laughter ]
We're excited to have you. Are you --
Have you ever -- You've never been on a talk show, right?
[ Laughter ] No.
Now, Spot, I heard that you've brought some friends with you.
Is this true, Robert?
-Oh, yeah. So --
[ Laughter ]
We teamed up with BTS to put together a special dance show
that we would like to show you tonight.
-I love BTS. [ Cheers and applause ]
I've been waiting for this moment.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's Spots
dancing to BTS's "IONIQ: I'm on it."
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-♪ IONIQ, IONIQ ♪
♪ IONIQ, IONIQ ♪
♪ When I look into your eyes ♪
♪ All I see is you filling my mind ♪
♪♪
♪ Though I bump into something ♪
♪ New possibility ♪
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♪ Full energy, higher esteem ♪
♪ Better focus on what's charging me ♪
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♪ I'm on it ♪
♪ Chasing my chance ♪
♪ On it, on it ♪
♪ IONIQ ♪
♪ Takes me there ♪
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♪ Show you the way ♪
♪ IONIQ, IONIQ ♪
Yeah.
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-My thanks to Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter
and the incredible Spots!
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Stick around. We'll be right back
with Liam Neeson, everybody. Well, that's...
I've seen everything now. That was amazing!
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