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what's up lovely people I'm Coy wire
this is CNN 10 and It's Finally Friday
fry yay almost time to unwind to relax
the mind as we creep into the weekend
but before we get there let's keep
seeking to finish this week strong it is
hot out there right for a huge portion
of the country right now and chances are
you might be trying to keep it cool
excessive heat warnings the most severe
form of heat alert currently span 1100
miles and are impacting more than 20
States temperatures in some places are
20 degrees higher than normal this time
of year this week more than 65 million
people will have experienced a
temperature above 100 degrees Fahrenheit
and the heat is causing significant
challenges listen to this tragically
nearly two dozen cattle died from
excessive heat in Nebraska and more than
100 residents events from a nursing home
in Kansas City had to be evacuated due
to temperatures reaching a 119 degrees
and one other thing to let you know just
how hot it's been an ice cream shop in
Iowa had to shut down because the
building couldn't stay cool enough to
keep the ice cream frozen the heat wave
is especially remarkable for this
already record-breaking summer the
scientific cause is called a heat dome
which is a strong area of high pressure
that traps and intensifies hot air at
the surface and the heat is predicted to
persist so we may see even more heat
records across Central and Southern
parts of the country the record high
temperatures are even impacting students
in classrooms in Denver Colorado 16
elementary schools and a middle school
ended classes early due to the soaring
temperatures Milwaukee Public Schools
were closed entirely in other districts
outdoor activities have been postponed
and even in classrooms where air
conditioning is working well the schools
have had to make make accommodations to
avoid subjecting students to sweltering
bus rides to get there our meteorologist
Miss Allison chinchar is here to break
it all down for us Ali it is smoking hot
out there
that's right koi it has been a brutally
hot week and it's all thanks to a heat
Dome now essentially what we've had set
up this week is a high pressure system
essentially parked over the central U.S
now normally we all know heat rises but
under high pressure that's actually
pushing that air back down towards the
surface essentially acting like a giant
lid trapping that heat keeping all of it
back closer to the surface and what that
does is it allows a lot of this same
area under that high pressure to just be
dealing with incredibly hot temperatures
and in some cases prolonged periods of
time because that high pressure system
simply doesn't move now over this week
we've had over 400 locations break
record temperatures again all the way
from Texas up into Minnesota and back
over towards the Atlantic side of States
like Georgia and Florida now we are
still going to continue to see those
heat records continue a lot of excess of
heat warnings and heat advisories still
in effect for the day Friday but I have
some good news and that is cooler
temperatures are on the way especially
across the Midwest the Mid-Atlantic and
the Northeast once we get into the
latter half of the weekend and into next
week
10 second trivia rur was a play
published in 1920 introducing the
concept of what robots records radio or
radon
if you said robots put your hands up
rossum's Universal robots was a check
play about machines taking over
the next time you have to do chores like
taking out the trash or doing the dishes
what if you could have a robot do it for
you it sounds like science fiction it
sounds like the future but the future is
apparently near the team at austin-based
robotic startup apptronic believes their
human-like Droid helpers will soon
become the norm we caught up with them
to find out what all they are capable of
and the potential downsides what is
Apollo exactly Apollo is our latest
humanoid robot sometimes you'll hear us
call it a general purpose robot this is
something that is going to be your
friend you're going to rely on these
things to do all the things you don't
want to do so what are some of its
capabilities we've designed Apollo with
roughly human morphology human range of
motion the same height the same weight
as a human we need to make robots much
more versatile than what they are today
the reason that it's humanoid is because
we've built the world for humans we have
a big labor shortage here in the U.S so
where Apollo is going to start is in
warehouses like you kind of see here it
can lift about 55 pounds it operates on
about a four hour battery and you can
change the battery out so you can keep
it running 22 hours a day is what we're
targeting what would you say to people
who are watching this they see Apollo
and they're worried Apollo could take my
job if we compare humans with robots
then the robots can take the portion of
the work that drives people out of those
Industries so instead of you unloading
trucks in the hot Texas Sun you're
managing a fleet of robots that's
unloading the trucks for you and you're
learning new skills that become
applicable across a range of different
Industries but where we hope it to
ultimately go is one day versions of
Apollo could be in your home or
eventually on the moon or Mars to help
with those Cosmic aspirations apptronic
has teamed up with NASA My Hope in my
dream is that we will have general
purpose robots fielded in space within
the next 10 years but the biggest
obstacle right now combining and finding
mobility and dexterity the co-founders
of apptronic are no strangers to that
having worked on NASA's Valkyrie robot a
decade ago Valkyrie capable of the extra
manipulation and walking carrying items
opening door worse but there are
limitations for example being able to
move very quickly and precisely we
really need systems that have more than
one skill that are flexible and
adaptable apptronic isn't alone in the
rush to build a humanoid robot Tesla has
a humanoid bot of its own and
hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics has Atlas
but Atlas relies on Hydraulics for its
movement Hydraulics are very powerful
but it's not safe to be around so our
bet at apptronic was that electric
humanoids were going to be the future so
the first phase for us was to focus on
performance of electric motors or
actuators and try to get them up to par
with what you see with a lot of
hydraulic systems and they're aiming for
this everyday robot to have an everyday
price what would you say is the price
point for Apollo the goal is for it to
be less than the price of your standard
car these have to be affordable they
have to be accessible
what would you envision a future Apollo
being capable of doing the next step is
to build a more hardened version of this
that is really kind of designed for
scale manufacturing I think 20 years
from now much like the computer we're
going to look back and think how do we
ever get by without the help of these
machines
today's story getting a 10 out of 10 is
creating quite the hoopla a top
basketball shooting coach named Chris
Matthews traveled to Japan to take on a
Japanese robot in a hoop shooting
contest let's call it labot James get
this the robot beat Matthews in the
first challenge then they put a smaller
hoop inside the rim to up the stakes
this time Matthews beat labot Toyota
Engineers built this Giannis robot that
can hoop a lot in 2017 and it's already
broken a Guinness world record for
consecutive free throws by a humanoid
robot more than 2 000 in a row happy
Friday everyone keep in touch over the
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powerful than you know I'm koi wire this
is CNN 10 it's been a blessing to spend
this week with you
thank you
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