Programmed…to kill! On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly sit down with BattleBots’ Ray Billings to discuss combat robots, his killer robot Tombstone, and how to create robotics for competition.
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Photo Credit: Kai Schreiber, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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