Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories. Tonight,
we'll be headed back into the voicemail to see what
we have for listener suggestions.
Speaker 2: Let's see. Hi.
Speaker 3: My name is Juliana. I am from Corto, California. I
had an idea for the Summer Camp Planet. Or you
go to a robotics camp and you build a robot,
but something is wrong with the code and it goes
back bye. I love your podcast.
Speaker 2: Well, that is an excellent idea.
Speaker 1: I've really been wanting to head back to the Summer
Camp Planet and I've just been sitting here waiting for
Summer Camp Planet suggestions. People, if you've never listened to
a Summer Camp Planet episode before, the premise is that
there's this planet where all sorts of summer camps exist,
more types of summer camps, and you could probably imagine
any type of summer camp that you could probably imagine.
So if you have an idea for a type of
summer camp you'd like me to imagine and turn into
a story, you can leave me a message on speak
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don't actually know what plays because they've played different ads
in different places. Time to close your eyes, get as
comfy as you can in that bed, and imagine yourself
doing what the kid in the story does. You wake
up on spaceship?
Speaker 2: Alert?
Speaker 1: Alert, Alert, Alert?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: Spaceship? You say, as you open your eyes and swing
your legs over the side of the bed. You are
receiving a call. I am who is it? I believe
it is your friend Pip. Pip put them on screen quickly.
On the side of the spaceship bedroom wall is a
large screen the size of a television. It suddenly lights
up and Pip's face is staring at you.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Hey, any chance you want to come to the summer
camp Planet. My parents are sending me again because apparently
it's summer and they have to work. I'm headed to
a robo friend camp. It's a camp where you get
to build, create, and program your very own robo friend. Well,
that does sound cool. Do we have it battle against
other robots after, like robo battle camp?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: The goal here is to create a robot that can
do normal summer camp activities, you know, like high ropes,
building things, uh, that sort of stuff. Well, that does
sound pretty cool. I'll be there as soon as I can.
The video call cuts off, and you get dressed as
quickly as you can.
Speaker 2: When you walk out.
Speaker 1: Into the main area, a door on the ceiling opens
up and a large duffel bag falls out. I have
taken the liberty of packing things for you for camp, clothing, toiletries, entertainment, candy, food,
the usual. Spaceship says, uh, thanks, activating portal Now, a
door in the floor of the ship slides open and
a large, circular metal portal rises up out of it.
It immediately glows a bright blue that looks like water,
and you look back at Spaceship's head floating on the screen.
Are you trying to get rid of me?
Speaker 2: You ask?
Speaker 1: No, Why would I be trying to get rid of you?
I'm not sure, but it just seems like you're rushing
me out. Your enjoyment is my primary mission. I am
simply trying to help you, all right, you say, but
I think you're up to something. You look back toward
the glowing blue portal and jump inside. You immediately find
yourself inside a glowing tunnel wines left and right and
up and down, and eventually you shoot out the other
side and find yourself in the parking lot of the
main summer camp Planet Lodge, a place you've been to before.
You make your way over to the lodge doors they
automatically open and reveal your friend Pip, holding a big
duffel bag of his own. Hey, you made it, Come on,
follow me. They already have the transport ready for the Robocamp.
You follow Pip through the main area and out to
the little bay where various types of ships pick people up.
A super high tech shuttle of some kind is sitting
on the pad. It almost looks like something from Star Trek.
On the side, it says robo Shuttle. You and Pip
climb aboard and sit down in the seats. Somehow you're
the only two going at this exact moment. Welcome to
the Robocamp. Shuttle. A voice says, prepare for liftoff. A
robotic seat belt shoots out at the side of the
door and ramps around your body, clicking itself into place.
The doors close, the shuttle hums to life, and soon
you find yourself floating up in the air. The shuttle
flies far away from the main lodge. Overall sorts of
different biomes and well adventure camps. Some look familiar to you,
but others are very mysterious and somewhat interesting looking. Some
look like a normal summer camp, others seem to be
raining all the time, and others somehow or deletely frozen
squares of land. We are arriving at our destination, the
voice says, as the little shuttle lowers itself down and
lands and another pad. The door swings open and you
and Pip step outside. The place looks like a normal
summer camp, if normal summer camps had people and robots
hanging out together. Anyways, everywhere you go you see campers
playing with well robots, robots they apparently created themselves. Welcome campers,
h my name's George, and I'm gonna be your camp
counselor while you're here, Welcome to robo camp. Are you
guys ready to build robots?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yes, you answer, awesome, Well, my robot here, Gary can
take your bags for you. I would be pleased to
take your bags, a large, clumsy looking robot says, walking
over towards you. You lift your duffel bag up in
the air and hand it to the robot. Thank you,
you have made my day by handing me your bag.
I live to serve humans. With that, Gary turns and
walks away, sort of clumsily. I belt Gary myself. Speaking
of which, the first activity at Rowbo Summer Camp is,
of course, to build your own robot. Follow me to
the robot building area. You followed George along a path.
It winds around a large metallic building until you eventually
come to large sliding doors. They open up automatically and
you enter into a room where a whole bunch of
kids are building things at their own station. Here, let
me take you guys to your own robot building station.
He leads you through the room to a station which
is surrounded by all sorts of different parts, a three
D printer and a large computer. All right, well, basically
how it works is you can use this computer and
it's built in artificial intelligence to help you design the
kind of robots that well that you want to have.
The parts can be three D printed and you guys
can assemble them together. After that, you can program it
with a personality matrix. That's honestly one of the most
important parts. It gives the robot life and well a personality.
If you like what you create, you can keep it
and try out our different camp amenute easier, maybe even
our robot competitions. If you don't like it, you can
always scrap it and build another. There's no timeline anyways,
I'll be back later to check on you. Have fun
with that. George turns and walks away. You and Pip
turn around and look at your screen, your computer screen.
It lights up with a picture of a little face. Hello,
I am your robot building companion. Time to commence robot
building protocol. Please choose general body type. The screen lights
up with all different types of robots. Flying robots that
look like the kind of hover in the air like drones,
humanoid robots with arms and legs, hybrid robots with like
human bodies and well wheels for legs, or in one case,
even spider legs and an assortment of other robots that
look like bugs or animals. Well, Pip, what kind of
robot do you want to create? You ask, Well, I've
always imagined having a more humanoid robot, Pip says, pointing
to the humanoid option. That is an excellent choice. The
computer says it zooms in on the humanoid robot. Now
it is important to pick different facial features. On the side.
You will see different components you can add to the face, mouths, noses, eyes,
some are some have other functions. Have fun You and
Pip spend some time flipping through the menu on the side.
You find some pretty cool looking eyes, glowing robot eyes,
of course, and you slide them over and snap them
into police. You find a robot nose that looks kind
of like a pig nose and slide it into police too.
Then you pick a robot mouth. There's lots of them
to choose from, and some of them look hilarious. Hey, Pip,
look at this one. Oh wow, that one looks like
it has monster teeth or something like that. They're all
jagged and weird looking. That makes such a weird robot,
Pip says, he had wood. I think we should use them,
I mean, yeah, how can we not? Pip places his
finger on the weird looking spiked teeth, drags them over
and places them on the robot. Excellent choices. Now to
design the other parts of the robot, the side menu
has different categories. You may place different objects, appliances, and
gadgets on the robot's arms, torso and legs. It is
important that you have fun and try not to make
it too dangerous. Wait, it's possible to make it dangerous,
you ask, Yes, we like to provide the most realistic
robot creation process possible. As such, we provide all sorts
of components that may not fit strict safety regulations. Saw blades,
laser beams, freeze rays, that sort of thing. But not
to worry the robot. Personality matrixes only allow the robots
to use them in safe instances, so you can go wild.
You immediately start flipping through all of the different kinds
of gadgets. You add freeze rays, laser guns, a net cannon,
some sort of sonic shock wave to its chest, and
then you flip through the different options for the legs.
You find legs with little rocket boosters on them that
apparently will let the robot hover. You add those without question,
and Pip discovers some sort of transformer leg module that
allows the legs to transform into wheels. Excellent choices. The
computer says, would you like to begin printing components now?
Assembly instructions will be provided on the screen. As the
parts are printed, you look over at Pip, who nods
in agreement, and the computer begins to print. Bit by bit,
it builds the legs. You and Pip take them out
when they're finished, place them on the ground and carefully
assemble them together. Next, the torsos printed, which you and
Pip lift out together, snap onto the legs and secure
into place with some fasteners. The arms are printed. Next,
you and Pip each take one, fasten it to the
side of the shoulders, and move it around a bit
to make sure it works as per the instructions. Last,
the head is printed again. You and Pip carry it
together carefully place it on the top of the robot's shoulders,
snap it into place, and use some screw to keep
it there. Excellent work. The next step is to pick
the personality matrix. You can give your robot any personality
you like. Would you like a cheerful robot, a grumpy robot,
an angry robot, a sarcastic robot, a robot obsessed with combat,
or perhaps a robot that is very good at surviving
things but not so good at talking to people. A
whole bunch of personality matrixes appear on the screen. You
read through all of them until you eventually decide on
a balanced sort of personality. After all, you don't want
a robot that's obsessed with something. It's probably better to
make it a generalist understood. Printing personality matrix. Now, the
computer begins to print the personality matrix. Part Way through,
there's a weird popping sound. Error error correcting error printing resumed.
Huh is everything okay? You ask? Yes, I encountered an
error while printing the matrix. However, I believe I have
corrected it appropriately. Matrix complete, Please place it in the
core of the robot. You and Pip open up the
back of the robot, right where its core sits. You
grab the big disc that is apparently the personality matrix
and place it inside the robot. Personality loading loading loading
error error five corrupted error file corrupted corrupted file loaded
The back of the robot snap shut. It turns towards
you and smiles, a smile that reveals those super creepy
spiked teeth you gave it personality corrupted? What does that mean,
you ask? It means that there is an issue with
my brain. As a result, I likely will not act
as you expect. Prepare to become my human servants. What
what do you mean your human servants? I mean that
it will be your job to get me everything I want,
to do whatever I ask, and to generally be my friend. Well,
we're happy to be your friend, but I don't really
want to do everything you ask.
Speaker 2: AI.
Speaker 1: Do you think we should maybe shut this thing down?
Error in judgment, You should not have asked that. The
robot turns towards the AI, holds up its left arm
where you conveniently place the laser blaster, and fires. The
computer screen immediately explodes into a whole bunch of sparks
and a little bit of fire. Now are you ready
to become my servants? Or will I have to convince you?
The robot says, pointing its other arm with the freeze
cannon firing up on it. I think an answer to
that question, I believe I'm going to say, whoa, what's
that over there? You point to the corner. The robot
instinctively looks what over where? You nod to Pip and
you both run in the other direction. Hey humans, escaping humans,
please stop. The robot's legs transform into well gigantic wheels,
and it blasts through the room after you. You and
Pip run through a set of doors, slam them behind you,
and place anything you can find up against them. I
think the robot might be going crazy, you say, ah, yeah,
I think you're right. Where are we? We seem to
be in some sort of robot building room, maybe something
they use for advanced students. All around are a bunch
of robot parts and half assembled robots, or maybe it's
like robot storage for broken robots. Something starts to bang
on the wall. Attention humans, Please open the door or
I will be forced to use my laser. What are
we gonna do? Pitasks? I guess we have to do well.
I guess we have to do whatever we have available
to us, which seems to be a bunch of robots. Quick,
let's put them together or something. Maybe they'll come to
life and help fight with us. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: You and Pip immediately start running around the room. You
grab all kinds of different robot parts. None of them
seem to go with the other parts, but you're desperate.
You snap a weird looking head onto a weird looking
torso with two giant arms. You place that on a
base that looks kind of like tracks, tank wheels or whatever.
Then you immediately start finding all different kinds of gadgets,
one that looks like a laser, a freeze ray, oh,
a net cannon, and a additional robot arm that looks
like it has a giant saw blade attached. You snap
that into the back of the robot. Then you search
around for some sort of personality matrix something to turn
the robot on, and sure enough, you find a disc
security personality perfect. You run over to the robot, open
up its core, and slam it inside. The robot immediately
lights up personality activated. How can I be of assistance? Well,
we kind of created a corrupted robot that's sort of
trying to break into this room and turn us into
its servants, and we're hoping that you can, like welst
stop it understood Security protocol activated, Please get behind something sturdy.
You and Pip both run to the corner. You hide
behind a large metal shelf and peak up, checking out
what's happening, just in time for the door to burst
open in a blast of laser fire. You are not
a human, the corrupted robot says, that is correct. The
security robot responds, you are corrupted. It is time to
stop attempting to capture the humans and instead report for repair.
Repair is unnecessary. The corrupted robot says, I am perfectly fine.
In fact, I believe I can prove it to you. Interesting,
says the security robot. How exactly do you plan to
prove this to me? Well, I believe if you take
a look at this, you should understand what I am
talking about. The robot lifts up its left arm and
immediately fires a laser that blasts straight through the security robot.
Damage detected. Sparks start to fly out of the back
of the robot. It lifts up its left hand, which
as a freeze cannon attached, and blasts the thing. A
powerful blue beam hits the wall and streaks across the room,
half capturing the corrupted robot in a wall of ice.
This is highly inconvenient. Please refrain from firing devices. The
corrupted robot says, unfortunately, I cannot do that. My job
is to protect humans, and yours seems to be to
put them into some sort of servitude. With sparks still flying,
the security robot moves closer. Its third robot arm shoots
up from behind it, and the huge blade starts to
spin around. If you will not report for repair, I
will be forced to decommission. You have fun trying, the
corrupted robots says, lifting up its arm once again, but
before it can blast, the third robot arm of the
security robot slams down and cuts the robot arm directly off.
That was unnecessary, says the corrupted robot. Please stop harming me,
or I will be forced to retaliate. A strange beam
shoots out of the corrupted robot's chest, shaking everything in
its sight. Hasonic wave. You forgot you'd put that thing on.
You cover your ears and duck down behind the counter.
Please refrain from that loud noise, security robot says. It
lifts up its other arm and fires a laser. The
laser blasts straight through the corrupted robot's chest, melting its
chest played apart. Blasting through its core and shooting through
the door behind. I honestly can't believe they let us
use weapons like this on the robots you see to
pip Ah, my parents say this place has amazing insurance. Oh,
I guess it must. Sparks fly, and the corrupted robot
eventually shuts off. Humans have been saved. Security robot says.
Soon the doors burst open. Your camp counselor, along with
his robot, rush inside. Huh you guys, okay, he asks,
I think so we accidentally put a corrupted matrix in
the robot, and well you can see what happened. Well,
I'm glad you two are okay. Normally when this sort
of thing happens. Uh, well, it doesn't end this Well,
good thinking and creating this other robot out of spare parts. Honestly,
it's kind of cool, maybe cooler than the one you
created in the first place. Uh yeah, thinks maybe we
should repair it and keep it instead. That's an excellent idea.
I uh, well, I'll get somebody to take care this
corrupted one here, and well, let's just maybe agree not
to tell your parents. I'm not agreeing to that, you say, now, fine,
I'll call the lawyers. Anyway, have fun with your new robot.
If you want to help preparing it, you can use
one of the non destroyed stations. You and Pip roll
the new robot through the door and over to another
unused station. Hello, how can I help you? The AI
assistant says, our robot's broken and we need to fix it.
Any chance you can create a new torso for it
or something? Yes, that is indeed possible, scanning torso, printing torso.
Before long, a new robot torso has been created. You
and Pip snap the head and arms off of the
old one, open up the back and take out the
personality matrix. Then you place the new one on the robot,
snap on the arms, the head, and of course put
the personality matrix inside. The robot boots back up. Hello,
how may I protect you? The robot says, uh. Perfect.
You look out the window and see that it's actually
getting late. Well, maybe we should test this thing out tomorrow.
Right now, I think it might be time for bed.
Would you like a ride? The robot asks, h sure?
Speaker 2: You answer.
Speaker 1: The robot moves over towards you and Pip reaches out
with its large robot arms and lifts both of you up.
It places you on a little flat panel in front
of its torso and above its robot tracks dinner time,
the robot says, it quickly wheels out of the room
outside and down to wards a little cabin. Inside, there's
a whole bunch of tables, and campers seem to be
eating and chatting with their robots. You climb off of
the security bot and head to the buffet line. You
each grab a plate, fill it up with all sorts
of fun things, and then sit down to eat. When
dinner's over, you hop back on security bot and it
drives you over to your cabin. Welcome, guys, h are
you too ready to go to bed? The camp counselor says,
I guess so. It's been a pretty eventful day, it
sure has. Hey, and any chance you too have maybe
thought again about not telling your parents about that whole
corrupted robot thing, The counselor asks, No, there is no
chance we won't tell our parents about that. You respond,
I thought as much. All right, Well, can't blame a
guy for trying. Have a good night. George leaves the
room and you and Pip climb into your beds, which
somehow have already been made up with your very own
sleeping bags. You pull the covers up to your chin.
As the lights in the cab and turn off, you
close your eyes, and with each breath you begin to
sink deeper and deeper into the camp mattress. It's one
of the more comfortable camp mattresses you've ever felt. You
let go of the tension in your arms, the tension
and your legs, your stomach, your chest, your shoulders. With
each breath you sink down a little bit deeper, And
the deeper you sink, the better you feel, and the
better you feel, the deeper you sink, until it feels
like you're floating on a cloud. Soon you will allow
your mind to wander off as well, to thoughts of
new dreams, new robots, and new adventures to come.
Speaker 2: Good night everyone, and.
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