{"video_id":"KZuFoE-mX5w","title":"Who Needs a Job Anyways??","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2026-02-03T14:53:29Z","duration_s":611,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":7.279,"text":"It's day four of our CES coverage, and I'll admit it, I'm losing it a bit. I'm","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.48,"end_s":11.2,"text":"more machine than man now. Twisted and evil,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.12,"end_s":15.759,"text":"but I know you guys want that tech news. Robots. NVIDIA's keynote focused on AI","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.84,"end_s":19.92,"text":"and robotics with a handful of robot cameos. But how about everyone else's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.84,"end_s":23.68,"text":"bots? Qualcomm just unveiled a full robotics tech stack built to power","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.16,"end_s":27.76,"text":"everything from home robots to industrial machines and of course,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.439,"end_s":32.079,"text":"humanoids. And were there ever some humanoid bots around the CES show floor","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":29.92,"end_s":36.079,"text":"this year? LG showed off their Cloyd home robot designed to help with","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":34.079,"end_s":41.04,"text":"household chores. And now it can also recognize faces. Cloyd, that's my worst","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":38.879,"end_s":46.48,"text":"uncle. If he tries to high-five you, you just roll away, pal. Stiff that guy. Not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":43.92,"end_s":50.559,"text":"to be outdone, Switchbot unveiled Onero H1, another robot butler, but this one","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":48.559,"end_s":55.199,"text":"comes with modular attachments, and it's got a bit of a slowmoving Slenderman","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":52.879,"end_s":59.199,"text":"vibe to it, which I'm sure some somewhere might want. Don't fret,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":57.36,"end_s":61.76,"text":"robotics aren't just about replacing a millionaire's human cleaning staff.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":60.64,"end_s":66.0,"text":"They're also about taking over industrial manufacturing. Case in point,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":63.76,"end_s":70.24,"text":"Boston Dynamics productionready Atlas, which can now carry heavier components","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":68.08,"end_s":74.88,"text":"while maintaining balance and is powered by Google's Gemini AI. This brick sh","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":72.88,"end_s":80.24,"text":"house is headed to Hyundai factories for 2028 to start building cars, making it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":77.36,"end_s":85.439,"text":"even more clear that some robots are definitely coming for some human jobs.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":82.799,"end_s":89.68,"text":"Outside CES, robot sports are booming. As CNN notes, humanoid bots racing and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":87.759,"end_s":93.36,"text":"playing soccer are really showing how fast this tech is advancing. So,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":91.119,"end_s":97.6,"text":"athletes might be losing some of their jobs soon, too. I'm sorry, LeBron. You","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":95.92,"end_s":101.439,"text":"might not get to play basketball until you're 50 after all. Did you see the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":99.28,"end_s":105.439,"text":"Onire H1's physique? I bet that thing can hoop. It wasn't just humanl looking","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":103.6,"end_s":109.759,"text":"robots that we got at CES. We also saw a bunch of oddball droids built for doing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":107.52,"end_s":113.68,"text":"chores or whatever the hell the Lynx M20 Pro allterrain robot is meant to do. It","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":112.159,"end_s":117.439,"text":"actually won an innovation award. And although it might just seem like a robot","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":115.759,"end_s":120.56,"text":"dog that can stomp or roll its way through the desert, once you see it jump","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":119.119,"end_s":126.159,"text":"on a set of stairs like something out of a skateboard video, you might find yourself saying, \"Screw it. Give this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":124.24,"end_s":130.8,"text":"thing a trophy.\" As for more practical bots, we got Anker's new Yuthi S2 robot","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":128.959,"end_s":135.04,"text":"vacuum, which doubles as an aroma therapy diffuser, so your house will","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":132.319,"end_s":138.72,"text":"smell clean and smell nice. La dah. That's very fancy. But can it climb","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":136.959,"end_s":144.319,"text":"stairs? Because Robo Rock's new experimental Soros Rover certainly can.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":141.2,"end_s":146.64,"text":"And look at those legs. Damn, maybe this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":144.319,"end_s":151.2,"text":"thing can ball, too. Speaking of stupid, sexy robots, Motion Spino S1 Pro pool","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":149.52,"end_s":155.12,"text":"cleaning robot can pull itself out of the water like a Bond girl. Or Bond","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":153.76,"end_s":160.56,"text":"himself. You remember those little shorts? Wow. Intel and AMD have been","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":158.08,"end_s":164.879,"text":"exchanging words this week. After Intel launches Panther Lake chips, the first","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":162.48,"end_s":169.68,"text":"built on their new 18A process, one of their execs told PC World that AMD is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":167.44,"end_s":172.64,"text":"selling ancient silicon, while we're selling up-to-ate processors","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":170.959,"end_s":177.12,"text":"specifically designed for the gaming handheld market. AMD's Raul Tiku fired","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":175.519,"end_s":181.12,"text":"back, calling Intel's benchmark comparisons not even a fair fight since","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":178.959,"end_s":185.36,"text":"Intel compared their highest end chip to AMD's mid tier. He also called Panther","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":183.36,"end_s":189.2,"text":"Lake a Swiss Army knife that carries all of this baggage from its chiplet","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":187.519,"end_s":193.599,"text":"architecture, implying it's not purpose-built for handhelds like AMD's Z","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":191.44,"end_s":200.08,"text":"series. But you know what? That ancient silicon is actually selling. AMD's Ryzen","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":196.319,"end_s":202.239,"text":"7 5800X, a Zen 3 chip from 2020, just","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":200.08,"end_s":207.36,"text":"outsold every other CPU on Amazon Germany last month, moving nearly 2,000","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":204.959,"end_s":212.48,"text":"units. Turns out when DDR4 is half the price of DDR5, people are happy to build","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":209.84,"end_s":217.92,"text":"ancient AM4 systems. 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I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":608.8,"end_s":612.08,"text":"heard Rally will be here, though.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"It's day four of our CES coverage, and I'll admit it, I'm losing it a bit. I'm more machine than man now. Twisted and evil, but I know you guys want that tech news. Robots. NVIDIA's keynote focused on AI and robotics with a handful of robot cameos. But how about everyone else's bots? Qualcomm just unveiled a full robotics tech stack built to power everything from home robots to industrial machines and of course, humanoids. And were there ever some humanoid bots around the CES show floor this year? LG showed off their Cloyd home robot designed to help with household chores. And now it can also recognize faces. Cloyd, that's my worst uncle. If he tries to high-five you, you just roll away, pal. Stiff that guy. Not to be outdone, Switchbot unveiled Onero H1, another robot butler, but this one comes with modular attachments, and it's got a bit of a slowmoving Slenderman vibe to it, which I'm sure some somewhere might want. Don't fret, robotics aren't just about replacing a millionaire's human cleaning staff. They're also about taking over industrial manufacturing. Case in point, Boston Dynamics productionready Atlas, which can now carry heavier components while maintaining balance and is powered by Google's Gemini AI. This brick sh house is headed to Hyundai factories for 2028 to start building cars, making it even more clear that some robots are definitely coming for some human jobs. Outside CES, robot sports are booming. As CNN notes, humanoid bots racing and playing soccer are really showing how fast this tech is advancing. So, athletes might be losing some of their jobs soon, too. I'm sorry, LeBron. You might not get to play basketball until you're 50 after all. Did you see the Onire H1's physique? I bet that thing can hoop. It wasn't just humanl looking robots that we got at CES. We also saw a bunch of oddball droids built for doing chores or whatever the hell the Lynx M20 Pro allterrain robot is meant to do. It actually won an innovation award. And although it might just seem like a robot dog that can stomp or roll its way through the desert, once you see it jump on a set of stairs like something out of a skateboard video, you might find yourself saying, \"Screw it. Give this thing a trophy.\" As for more practical bots, we got Anker's new Yuthi S2 robot vacuum, which doubles as an aroma therapy diffuser, so your house will smell clean and smell nice. La dah. That's very fancy. But can it climb stairs? Because Robo Rock's new experimental Soros Rover certainly can. And look at those legs. Damn, maybe this thing can ball, too. Speaking of stupid, sexy robots, Motion Spino S1 Pro pool cleaning robot can pull itself out of the water like a Bond girl. Or Bond himself. You remember those little shorts? Wow. Intel and AMD have been exchanging words this week. After Intel launches Panther Lake chips, the first built on their new 18A process, one of their execs told PC World that AMD is selling ancient silicon, while we're selling up-to-ate processors specifically designed for the gaming handheld market. AMD's Raul Tiku fired back, calling Intel's benchmark comparisons not even a fair fight since Intel compared their highest end chip to AMD's mid tier. He also called Panther Lake a Swiss Army knife that carries all of this baggage from its chiplet architecture, implying it's not purpose-built for handhelds like AMD's Z series. But you know what? That ancient silicon is actually selling. AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X, a Zen 3 chip from 2020, just outsold every other CPU on Amazon Germany last month, moving nearly 2,000 units. Turns out when DDR4 is half the price of DDR5, people are happy to build ancient AM4 systems. After taking shots at Intel, AMD climbed into the nextG AI chip arena with NVIDIA. Lisa Sue gave us a glimpse of AMD's MI500 series performance, claiming a 1,000 times performance uplift over their older MI300X. Uh-oh. Look out, NVIDIA. AMD is a thousand times better. Except maybe it's not. Those numbers are comparing an 8GPU MI300X node to an entire MI500 rack with how many GPUs? Nobody knows. Basically, AMD is that kid in high school who had a girlfriend who lives in Canada. Turns out Canada is actually a real place. And if you visit, you can use our sponsor, Sy. Hi, I'm Terminator. Send back to protect John Kana. And yes, I'll be back online instantly with SY. My mission can't be compromised by suspicious SIM dealers outside terminals. They could be T1000s. 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As silicon chips shrink, they hit physical limits that cause energy leakage and overheating. 2D materials let electrical signals move more efficiently with way less heat. The Wuji chip packs 5900 transistors, which is nothing compared to the billions in your phone. But the previous world record for this type of 2D chip was 115. So they just 50x the technology. Shanghai Atomic Technology plans to have the production line fully operational by June 2026 with targets of 90 nanometer equivalent processes this year, 28 nanometer by 2027 and 5 or 3 nanometer by 2028. For reference, TSMC's cutting edge is currently 3nm. So if China's timeline holds, which is a big if, they could have a fundamentally different approach to chipmidsteps the silicon limits everyone else is running into. Then again, remember how hype you were for graphing? OpenAI launched Chat GBT health this week. It's a non-hippaco compliant, non-enttoend encrypted health assisted. All you have to do is connect it with B.Well and give Sam Alman access to your complete medical history and all your device data. In exchange, you get health advice that OpenAI explicitly says is not intended to provide diagnosis or treatment guidance. Meanwhile, Utah just became the first state to let an AI system legally prescribe medication. For $4 per prescription, Dr. Chatbot can renew 190 different chronic condition meds. Pharmacists are thrilled. One called it a complicated and unnecessary solution since pharmacists could just renew scripts themselves. Another said, \"It's insulting professionally that the state trusts a computer more than me.\" While that sounds bad, according to Doctrronic's own non-perviewed study, their AI matches real doctor's diagnosis 81% of the time. So, only one in five of you might have a problem. Pretty good for our audience, honestly. [laughter] Google announced Gmail's quote unquote biggest update in 20 years. And surprise, it's all AI. Front and center is AI overviews in email search. Remember how hard it was to hit F or use the search bar? Now you can finally give your exhausted pinky finger a break. All you have to do is let Google read all of your emails and then you can ask Gemini, \"Who have I told you that I have a girlfriend up in Canada?\" And Gemini will dig through your inbox and let you know all the people you've lied to in your life. There's also a new AI inbox view that prioritizes your to-dos and identifies your VIPs. If users don't want the service, then they have to opt out of it. Users have to opt out, not in. And if you don't, then Google's going to read all your emails. I mean, they probably already were, but now they're going to be weird about it. Bose is officially letting its sound touch smart speakers reach their end of life and will shut down cloud support this spring. But instead of just bricking them all like most companies do these days, Bose is releasing the API and documentation. Now developers and enthusiasts can build their own tools and keep the devices useful. Bose is apparently keeping things like AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth, and local app control working as basic features. Please, everyone else, learn from this. It's crazy that Bose looks like an absolute hero for just not bricking something that people have paid for. We're living in the age of the bare minimum level of decency here. It's so depressing. Thank you, Bose. After several lawsuits, Roblox has decided that child safety is important. The company announced that they now require facial age verification for users to use chat. Users have to let the app scan their face. Then it'll guess their age and sort them into discrete age groups to ensure that users are only communicating with other people their age, which means teenagers could end up chatting with Jennifer Aniston, Kiana Reeves, or other time travelers. Roblox claims that images are deleted immediately after processing. Despite this, both Texas and Louisiana have filed lawsuits over new child safety concerns. Meanwhile, GitHub is also playing Content Cop, but with a lot less explanation. The platform recently banned or suspended around 80 to 90 repositories from 40 to 50 developers making mods for adult games and sex toys. Most weren't told what rules they broke. GitHub updated its acceptable use policy in October to ban sexually themed content, but hasn't clarified how that applies to code for vibrator plugins. Some accounts were mysteriously reinstated after a journalist started asking questions. Still with no explanation though, effective developers are now migrating to alternatives like GitGon, which is exactly what it sounds like. And if you don't know, please don't ask because I can't explain more or YouTube will demonetize us with explanation. Speaking of YouTube, please come back to it tomorrow for the last of our five days in a row of CES tech news. Who knows what kind of crazy could happen? 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