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.
NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/killer-bots-with-battlebots-ray-billings/
Thanks to our Patrons Angie, Bruno Faria, EMILY RIVERA, Jocelyn Sailas, Kellie J. LeDonne, Ben Hansen, and Brooks Dart for supporting us this week.
Photo Credit: Kai Schreiber, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
StarTalk Live – Climate Science, with Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Science of the COVID Bubble
The Hidden Science of Music, with Eric Whitacre
Cosmic Queries – The 2020 Nobel Prize
Baseball Physics, with Bill Nye
Cosmic Queries – Proving Einstein Right
Cosmic Crib, with Rainn Wilson
Hard Hits
Cosmic Queries – Cosmic Grab Bag
Cosmic Queries – COVID-19 Vaccines
Building a Virtual World – Drone Racing League
Cosmic Queries – Life on Venus
Cosmic Queries – Interspecies Communication
Revolutionizing Tennis, with Nick Kyrgios
Cosmic Queries: Lunar Geology
Cosmic Queries – Stargazing
Rebuilding the Human Body
Exploring Grit, with Angela Duckworth
Cosmic Queries – Sharks
Artificial Intelligence and Sports
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Stuff You Should Know
The Daily
NASACast Audio
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
Why’d You Push That Button?