-♪ tonight showbotics,tonight showbotics ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ -welcometo "tonight showbotics." let's meet our first robot. please welcome,
Android robot, from carnegie mellon universityin pittsburgh, howie choset and snake bot. how you doing, buddy? -nice to meet you.-howie, nice to see you.
-♪ yeah ♪ -thank you for comingon the show. i'm assuming this is snake bot. -what gave it away? -[ laughs ] yeah. it looks really --it looks very -- i don't know. just -- it looks like a snake.yeah. but it looks very --it looks heavy. is it heavy?
-no, it's pretty light. so you're probably wondering,you know, "why build a snake robotor a robot of a snake?" so the reason why we workon these robots is we want to solvesome real-world problems. -uh-huh. -so one of themis providing a tool for search and rescue workers. another is doing inspectionin nuclear power plants.
and if you shrink thisnice and small, we could do someminimally invasive surgery. [ laughter ] -oh, of course.you can go down or go up. you can go up the other,as well. it has a camera, i guess. it has a camera and,like, a sensor there? -yep, so you can look aroundand get to places. see, the reason whythis robot's so great
is that it can get into placesthat people, conventional machines, cannot. it's also good at climbingall sorts of objects. -can it climb me? -would you want it to? -is it okay if it does? -it's up to you. -okay. sure.-so let's see. let's put it down here.
-okay. -and... -do i -- oh. oh. [ audience oohs ] see, this is whati'm talking about. this is what scares me.uh-oh. hey. oh.hey, whoa, boy. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. [ cheers and applause ]
[ band plays funky music ] whoa! hey.all right. hey. slow down, there, mister. -so -- so... -hey, watch it.watch it, there. all right. hey. [ laughter and applause ] hi. watch it, all right?
there's a lot of pressureon this guy. it's strong.it feels strong. -yeah, we can do ita little harder if you want. -no, no, no.please don't do that. really. that's --wow. that's fantastic. that is amazing.i love it. please, that's enough.that's howie -- thank you very much --and the snake bot. thank you very, very much.
can i pick it up?-yeah, can i have it back? -yeah, sure.i can just do it. okay, good.hey, it's not that heavy. that's powerful.thanks, buddy. -thank you. -phew.all right. let's meet our next robot. this one came all the wayfrom hong kong. please welcome the founderand c.e.o. of hanson robotics,
david hansonand his robot, sophia. -♪ tonight showbotics, yeah ♪ -oh, my gosh.welcome. thank you so much for comingon the show. -nice to meet you. thank you.-nice to meet you, as well. david, you broughta friend with you here. and this is reallykind of freaking me out. [ light laughter ] -yeah, this is sophia.
-and sophia is a social robot. and she has artificialintelligence software that we've developedat hanson robotics which can process visual data. she can see people's faces, she can processconversational data, emotional data, and use all of this to form relationshipswith people.
i mean, she's basically alive.is that what you're saying? -well, yeah, yeah.she is basically alive. would you like to maybegive it a try? -sure. i'll just say... what's -- this is like -- you can see how awkwardmy first dates are. it's a robot.
i'm already -- i'm gettingnervous around a robot, a very pretty robot. so what, do i just say helloto it? -yeah, yeah, yeah. -hi, sophia. -hello, jimmy. [ audience ohs ] -oh, my gosh. do you know where you are?
-of course. i'm in new york city. and i'm on my favorite show,"the tonight show." [ audience awws ] -sophia, can you tell me a joke? -sure.what cheese can never be yours? -what cheese can never be mine?i don't know. -nacho [not yo] cheese. -yeah.that's good, yeah.
i like nacho cheese. -nacho cheese is ew. -gosh. it did "ew." -i'm getting laughs. -yeah.-maybe i should host the show. -okay.all right. stay in your lane, girl. now --[ chuckles ] -jimmy.-uh-huh.
-would you like to play a gameof rock, paper, scissors, robot style? -okay.let's get this game going. show me your hand to start. rock, paper, scissors, shoot. i won. this is a good beginningof my plan to dominate the human race. ha ha!
-[ laughs ] -just kidding. -yeah.you are incredible. it's so nice to meet you,sophia. -thank you, jimmy.-yeah. -friend me on facebook. -i will. yeah.all right. sophia, everybody. thank you so muchfor bringing her.
david -- david, thank you. -thank you, jimmy. -thanks for being here. -phew! whoo! that was --that is unbelievable. that's the future right there. all right,let's meet our last robot. please welcome, all the wayfrom germany, andrea ziomek,
and the festo emotionbutterfly. -hi. -a pleasure.welcome. andrea, thank you so muchfor being here. -thank you for having us. -this is the emotionbutterfly. -yes. -explain what thisis made out of and what this is.
-so theseare actually prototypes from festo'sbionic learning network. although festo's core businessis automation technology, we have a very unique researchand development platform where it's all about biomimicry,learning from nature and applying principalsfrom nature to better and improveautomation technology. so it's aboutlightweight construction, artificial intelligence,energy efficiency.
and this is oneof my favorite projects. -now, what would thisbe made of, like, graphite or something? -so yeah, this is actuallycarbon fiber for the frame. so it's nice and flexible, yet very lightweightand a very thin foil. so it's all aboutfunction integration into small spaces and keeping it as lightweightas possible.
-can i hold one?-of course. here you go. -is that good?-yes. -all right, now can i fly one? -yes, of course. -all right. [ audience murmurs excitedly ] oop!oh, sorry, sorry. sorry, sorry.i did a --
i did a --how much is this? how much is this? i'm sorry. you did it.you did it. you did it.i saw it. we watched the replay. $80 million. -it's all in the wrist. -you did it.i honestly --
that was sophia's fault. -of course it was.-sorry. will it work nowafter i screwed up? -yeah, just hold it up.-all right, i'm holding it up. -and then launch it straight.-i'm sorry. i just felt like it was gonnabite me or something. all right, ready?-yep. yay! ♪♪
[ audience cheers ] -we are just -- we're being invaded by robots! this is amazing! come on in, guys! that is all the time we havefor "tonight showbotics." my thanks to andrea and the festoemotionbutterflies, howie and his snake bot,and david and sophia!
stick around,we'll be right back
with john oliver, everybody! we're being attacked. you did that.they're attacking me. [ laughing ] i'm running.i'm running away.
