Robot or Not‪?‬ The Incomparable

Friend of the show Frank is seeking to delineate when something is a “vending machine” and when it’s just a machine that vends....

Thanks to Friend of the Show Casey, we’re talking about weird cars and car classes again....

Listener Ivan sent in a link to an autonomous excavator that assembled a six-foot wall out of rocks. Is it the Roomba of construction materials?!...

A tale of dishwashers and large sinks....

We follow up on some feedback about our theme songs, and theme songs in general, while taking on whether we use the Skip Intro button when we should be listening to TV theme songs....

It’s baseball’s Opening Day, so here’s our discussion of automated balls and strikes, also known as “Robot Umps,” how they relate to automated Hawk-Eye tennis calls, and why we won’t ever know how good human umpires could actually be....