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Robert Brooks

Robert Brooks

American former American football player

Jun 25, 2026

12:23
So the sense is you're allowing surgeons to feel things without resorting to open surgery.
12:29
exactly you have the ability to amplify human touch so you can for example feel the inside of a blood vessel we're working with a french company they're working to build a neurovascular endovascular catheter robot and their system is far more sensitive than the human hand so they can start to feel things that are just at the edge or beyond human sensitivity perception kind of like you can use a microscope to see things that you can't with the naked eye.
13:38
Is that what it is?
13:38
Yes.
13:39
So now we're trying to get AI to do it.
13:41
So the AI has to learn to do it.
13:43
And we're trying to build humanoid robots that come close to what humans can do.
13:48
And it's the same companies building all the components for these early humanoid robots that... built the components for surgery.
20:02
... like a soft skill and it shouldn't really matter, but it does matter, and then how do we nurture that in our families?
20:08
Yes.
20:09
Uh, in probably every book I've written and many of my articles about resilience, in the books, there's a chapter on empathy.
20:17
And the reason it's in there is it's such an important skill that we have to really develop in ourselves.
20:26
Daniel Goleman, now, God, it's about 30 years ago, he wrote a book, Janick, he's a psychologist, called Emotional Intelligence.
20:33
And in that book, he basically said, sometimes more important than IQ is emotional intelligence.
20:41
And one of the ma- key components of emotional intelligence is empathy.

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30:32
... to know that you have to deal with that first.

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