What is it about robots that compels us to create them? And what does it say about a culture that makes machine surrogates despite not having reached a consensus about why to make them in the first place? In this episode, we'll explore the robots taking over our world, and the agenda behind them...

Links

• hitchBOT
• the definition of "robot" from Google and Wikipedia
• a drumming robot
• a spring-making robot
• oh, the many uses of springs
• Uber's first self-driven truck delivery was a beer run.
• Amazon's newest ambition: competing directly with UPS and FedEx
• The permanent transition
• The three laws of robotics
• The One Thing Real Quick Podcast
• "How to Keep Yourself Sane in Faketopia"

Music

All music used in this episode is independently produced and licensed by Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use.

• Inside the Toy Submarine, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Rotary Cog, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Bloom, by r beny
• Novation Peak Ambient II, by r beny
• Her Caliber, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Exquisite Motion, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Rainy Day Drone, by Blue Dot Sessions
• Tiny Bottles, by Blue Dot Sessions
• The Dustbin, by Blue Dot Sessions

Credits

Design Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC. You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.

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