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do we think about the robot dogs? I wanted you to bring that up because that one to me, it's just so silly. A dog has such a specific purpose and it's to be a dog. Why would I want a robot version of that? Like, get a dog, like rescue one. Hold on though. Wait, I shared with you a story about a whiskey sniffing robot, which its whole design is for it to detect ethanol leakage from barrels in a distillery in Scotland, which hold on. This was a great story, but I was so excited about it. Its whole job is to sit in there. You wouldn't want an actual dog to spend all of its time in one room. Like you can do that to an actual dog. They're basically our kids. Like you wouldn't do that to an actual dog, but to a robot dog. And the only, the only problem they have with it is that because it's a dog, it's short, too short. So it can't like do the higher level barrels, only detects at like, you know, six feet and below or whatever. That was like, that was the flaw in their plan. And I was just like, this is incredible though. Yes. Yeah. Well that's, that's again, going back to a niche robot of a sniffer. Like it's not a dog, it's just a sniffer and in organic cases, the best sniffers happen to be dogs. So if we're going robotics, the sniffer could be a thumb. Like it doesn't matter. Like make it however you want. And it's a sniffer. Well, here's a question for you, Sean, though. What about people who are allergic to dogs, but really love dogs? Get a cat. I mean, I don't know. That's really not the same. You cannot say that. That's really not the same. I don't know. They make hypoallergenic dogs. You can- They make hypo- He's not wrong. I mean, they do. They breed them. He's not wrong. He's not wrong. No, again, it's just, I suppose I'm doing trainings and stuff right now and it all comes back to what's the purpose, why, right? And if it's, if it's because you want to comfort and companionship that a dog would offer, there's got to be other alternatives than a robot version of something that you can't have. Right? Like why would you get the robot version of something you can't have instead of getting something else that fits the purpose? So, and I, as a kid, I did love the idea of those really terrible, when I was a kid, robot dogs that would try and interact with you. And I'm like, that's not really a robot. That's basically- When your parents didn't want to get you a real dog. Yeah. No, I grew up with dogs. In fact, I'm sad I don't have one here in Ireland at the moment. But no, it was, it was, you know, as a kid, I loved it. I loved the concept of, oh cool, my own robot dog. You know, after, you know, a little bit, it all wears off. And that's the cool thing about organic dogs is they grow, they learn, they adapt to your house lifestyle, you know, not to say that a robot dog couldn't do that, but it would be less cool knowing that someone programmed it to try and pick up on my cues and stuff like that, rather than watching a creature grow and learn. Like you said, Chris, you said it best. They're like your kids. Yeah. And like, again, if you're going to get a dog- You have to take care of a real organic dog. If you don't, it will suffer and die. Where a robot, yeah, sure, there's some maintenance, but it's not the same. You're not bonded to it. You don't have that same literal life and death attachment to it.
