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This week we talk with the founder of Citizen Scientific workshop Dave Ultis, who is working on a number of educations robotics kits.

This week in the robot podcast we announce some changes coming next year and then go into the Asilomar 23 principles created by a the Beneficial Artificial Intelligence Conference and endorsed/signed by the likes of Elon Musk and Head of DeepMind. The changes revolve around a new technology news show and change to a monthly interview format at The Robot Podcast.

This week we talk about the Festo Cobot BionicArm and OctopusGripper, along with Jeff Bezos' Giant Walking robot. Then we jsut cover the entire history of robotics from Da Vinci to today.

The main story. How we are perceiving AI as way smarter than it actually is. Flippy Burger Robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMIkWyiJp0k Georgia Tech: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/point-and-click-method-robot-grasping-control MIT Tech Review - "AI's PR Problem" by Jerry Kaplan : https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603761/ais-pr-problem/