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Real robots have more and more in common with science fiction robots every day. Not enough that you need to worry about them rising up against humans, but you should maybe consider being nicer to your smartphone...Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links![Truth or Fail]Plesiosaur Swimminghttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/odd-swimming-style-plesiosaurs-decoded-robothttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0951RangerBothttps://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/rangerbot-programmed-to-kill/https://www.sciencealert.com/rangerbot-great-barrier-reef-conservation-crown-of-thorns-starfishhttps://www.qut.edu.au/news?id=137688https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zjKTvj0lB4Firefighting Robothttps://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7986345/firefighting-robot-saffir-prototype-us-navyLifeguard Robothttps://mentitude.com/ocean-alpha-dolphin-1-unmanned-usrv/[Fact Off]Clothing robothttp://www.news.gatech.edu/2018/05/14/robot-teaches-itself-how-dress-peoplehttps://futurism.com/pr2-ai-robot-dressing-gownhttps://robots.ieee.org/robots/pr2/Video of the dressing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYj7gHQ_fwYParasitic turtle robotshttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2130292-parasitic-robot-controls-turtle-its-riding-by-giving-it-snacks/https://phys.org/news/2017-05-parasitic-robot-waypoint-turtle.html[Ask the Science Couch]Synthetic skinhttps://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=85&contentid=P01336https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/4/32/eaax2198https://www.tum.de/nc/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/details/35732/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8812712OmniSkinhttps://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/3/22/eaat1853https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17895328/robotic-skin-flexible-soft-robotics-yale-nasa-spacehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-robotic-skins-turn-everyday-objects-into-robots-180970328/[Butt One More Thing]https://www.sciencealert.com/this-robotic-rectum-lets-doctors-get-a-feel-for-prostate-examshttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/04/robotic-rectum-developed-to-help-doctors-get-to-bottom-of-prosta/