- Did you make popcorn?

- No.

- Oh, no.

I thought you were gonna make popcorn.

Did you make popcorn?

- No.

- Oh, man.

Okay, okay, that's okay, we don't need popcorn.

It's just that, uh, Nanobot, come back.

Yeah, we're doing our show, you're the stars!

So that's okay.

We'll get popcorn later, but today's show, it's all about robots!

♪ Wimmee creates all the day through ♪ ♪ And you can do it too ♪ ♪ Think of words and of rhymes ♪ ♪ And make Wimages please do ♪ ♪ Do, do, do, do ♪ ♪ Do da da do ba do ♪ - [Girl] It's time for "Wimmee's Words!"

(people cheering and clapping) - Ba da ba, robot shows!

(Wimmee laughs) Oh, man, teah.

(Wimmee laughs) Okay, okay, okay, let's get rolling.

We've got a question, as we always do.

This is for Miss Stephanie!

Miss Stephanie.

(laughs) - Yes!

- Here's my question, ready?

- Yes.

- Would you rather have a robot or a pet?

- I think I would rather have a pet, - Ooh.

- Because they're alive and I really like cats.

- Wait, robots, okay, they're alive, are you...

Wait, am I... What?

Oh, okay, I'll just go with it.

Okay, okay, okay, cool!

Thanks Miss Stephanie!

- Cool!

- That's cool, that's cool.

Okay, Brody!

Brody's on the show, same question for you.

- I think I would like to have a robot pet.

- Ooh, a robot pet!

(laughs) Any particular classification of robot pet?

- A hamster.

- A hamster robot?

Okay, I've got some pieces here, I'll try to work on one, and have you, wait, wait, you got a control panel I see, too!

(Wimmee chuckles) - Yeah!

- Nice, nice!

- Wanna know what this one does?

- Oh yeah, what does it do?

- Ha ha ha.

(Wimmee laughs) - Push it again, push it again!

- Ha ha ha.

- (laughs) I love that button!

Thanks Brody, we'll see you later on the show.

Let's figure out how we can make a robot hamster, that's a good idea.

Okay friends, share with me something you would want a robot to do for you.

I'm gonna go right back to Brody.

Brody, what would you want a robot to do?

If you could have a robot, whether it's a hamster robot or just a general robot, what kind of things would you want it to do?

- I think I would like to have it do my chores.

- Do your chores!

Thanks Brody.

Okay, here we go.

(Wimmee clears throat) ♪ I'm a little robot tried and true ♪ ♪ I can do your chores for you ♪ ♪ When I do your chores, you'll say yah hoo ♪ ♪ I love what my robot can do ♪ (Wimmee laughs) That's the theme song that goes with this.

All right friends, share with us something you would want a robot to do.

Miss Stephanie, any ideas from you?

I see cooking as a possibility!

What do you think of that, Miss Stephanie?

- Well, I do like that, but even more, I would like it if a robot could clean my house.

So, similar to Brody.

- (gasps) Oh, yeah!

Clean out, okay.

All right, I'm gonna combine cleaning the house and making dinner.

Whew!

Thanks grandma and grandpa.

Okay, here we go.

(clears throat) ♪ I'm a little robot tried and true ♪ ♪ I can cook dinner for you ♪ ♪ I can also make the house real clean ♪ ♪ I love what my robot can do ♪ I got an extra syllable in there somewhere!

I'm still working on that.

Ooh, take my dogs out to go to the potty if it's raining!

(Wimmee laughs) Okay, okay, love it.

Here we go.

♪ I'm a little robot tried and true ♪ ♪ I can take your dog out for you ♪ ♪ When they go potty you'll say yah hoo ♪ ♪ I love what my robot can do ♪ Oh, I got the syllables!

Boom!

Spot on.

Okay, laundry!

Okay.

♪ I'm a little robot tried and true ♪ ♪ I can do your laundry for you ♪ ♪ When I do your laundry you'll say yah hoo ♪ ♪ I love what my robot can do ♪ Oh, drive carefully!

♪ I'm a little robot ♪ I'm gonna make it jazzy this time, just for fun, ready?

I'm gonna wrap it up with a jazzy one.

♪ I'm a little robot tried and true ♪ ♪ I can drive my car for you ♪ ♪ When I drive my car you'll say yah hoo ♪ ♪ Do doodle-dee doodle-dee doo ♪ ♪ I love what my robot can do ♪ ♪ Doodle-Dee do be do ba ba ♪ (Wimmee laughs) Thanks friends for all those great ideas!

Let's go find out what Moby's gonna share with us today.

(upbeat music) - I was just reading that machines are made to help people.

Yeah, robots come in all different shapes and sizes, and some can be controlled by a computer or a person.

Yeah, most robots are built to do one particular job.

They may help build things in factories, drive cars or trucks, clean floors, mow your lawn.

Robots can even help doctors with surgery, and explore other planets in outer space!

(laughs) And some robots, they love to sing.

(chuckles) Robots are pretty cool.

(upbeat music) - So many possibilities.

Okay, let's keep going here.

Let's see, it's time for today's one, two, three sentence story!

Beginning, middle, and end.

We write a story in three sentences, inspired by three words.

In the first sentence, we set the scene.

In the second sentence, there is a problem, right?

But don't worry friends, because in the third sentence there is a solution!

Let's get rolling.

We need a noun, AKA a person, place or thing.

I said person.

(laughs) A person, place or thing.

Let's go to Brody for the very first word.

Any word at all!

Brody, what you got?

- A frying pan.

- Frying pan.

(laughs) Thanks Brody.

Okay, a frying pan.

Today's story, it's got something to do with a frying pan.

Let's see.

I was thinking of what to make for dinner as I looked at my frying pan.

(chuckles) Actually, my frying pan robot!

(laughs) Added a little detail there.

Okay, we've got my frying pan.

The frying pan robot is assisting.

Friends, there's problem though!

Making dinner, no!

Some of you did say you want a robot that makes dinner, right?

So this is good.

Okay, but not the problem, no!

Okay, but it's okay, it's okay.

Problems simply lead to solutions.

Okay, so friends, any word, any word at all?

Let's go to Miss Stephanie for today's second word.

Oh, no, Wimage board has gotten me in the frying pan!

That's a problem!

Did you see that Miss Stephanie?

- I did, I'm confused!

- Oh man, I'm a little nervous now.

Okay, what word are you thinking of?

- I was thinking of the word feather.

- Feather?

- Yes.

- Interesting, hmm, what inspired that, anything?

- No.

- No.

Okay.

That's cool, that's cool.

Sometimes that's how creativity works, I like it.

Thanks Miss Stephanie.

The problem has got something to do with a feather.

Okay, okay, okay.

I was thinking of what... Oh no, Wimage board, I'm still in the frying pan!

I think we got two problems here!

(Wimmee chuckles) Oh no, the robot says, "Nope, not a problem!".

Okay, okay, okay.

Okay, here we go.

From the top.

I was sitting in the kitchen trying to figure out what to do with my frying pan robot.

Hmm, yeah, this is a tricky one, friends!

You know, sometimes the ideas flow!

Let's see if Wimage board gets some ideas.

I'm wondering if I could ask Brody for help, too.

Brody!

I don't know, I was in the frying pan, then the feathers... What problem could this be with the feather?

What are you thinking?

- Maybe the feather tickles the robot too much?

- Oh, that's perfect!

Thanks for helping me out!

I love it.

Okay, okay, from the top.

I was in the kitchen trying to figure out what to make for dinner with my frying pan robot.

The robot was busy cooking, when somebody started to tickle the robot with a feather, and everything started to fall on the floor!

(Wimmee laughs) Who's tickling that robot?

(laughs) That's a problem!

We need to make sure the robot is not tickled so that the meal turns out!

How do we solve this problem, friends?

We need another word.

We need a word!

How about, hmm, I'm thinking, let's see, if the Wimage board's got a solution.

Hmm, an eagle, an eagle!

It was the Eagle who was doing... Is the Eagle doing the tickling?

Doing the solution?

I think the Eagle's coming in to save the day.

All right, it's part of a mystery.

Maybe in chapter two, we'll find out more about the feathers, where they came from.

So here we go, from the top.

I was sitting in the kitchen deciding what to make for dinner with my frying pan robot.

Somebody started tickling, someone started mysteriously tickling the robot and the dinner went everywhere!

I opened up the window, and my friend, Eagle flew in and used the talons to pick up all the feathers and the robot finished making a grilled cheese sandwich.

The end, woo!

Thanks Eagle.

(chuckles) We'll check back with the later Wimage board to see if you add more ideas as our show continues.

Woo hoo!

Friends, let's find out how we say, robot in some other languages.

It's time for Language Explorers.

(tropical music plays) - In Spanish, Robot is robot, robot.

- In French, 'Robot' is (speaks in foreign language).

- In American Sign Language, robot' is signed, robot, robot.

- In Swahili, robot is (speaks in foreign language).

- In German, 'Robot' is (speaks in foreign language).

- Robot in Haitian Creole is (speaks in foreign language).

(Tropical music) - (chuckles) That was so cool!

I noticed, like all the words, they were so similar.

Some were exact, but pronounced differently.

Some had an extra letter, some removed a letter.

I think this is the most fascinatingly similar words we've ever had, don't you think?

- Yeah, I do.

- Ha, yeah.

Okay, friends, guess what?

It's time for a very exciting edition of today's Explore and Create!

(guitar music) - Hi, we're HF Robotics, and we make robots out of Legos to bring to competitions.

What is a robot?

- A robot is something that can do chores for you around the house, like a dishwasher or a vacuum.

And what does your robot do?

- Our robots completes missions by pushing, (gentle music) pulling, lifting, (gentle music) and dropping.

(gentle music) - These pieces make robot- - Like this.

(gentle music) - We use connectors to connect the different parts together.

(gentle music) - The frame allows us to parts to the robot.

(gentle music) - The gears allow us to raise and lower the arms.

(gentle music) - The wheels allow us to move the robot (gentle music) - Code, tells the robot what to do like move the arms, go forward and go backwards.

We create code using this, the computer.

- We transfer the code from the computer to the brain, which is this.

(gentle music) The brain tells the robot what to do.

(gentle music) (upbeat music) - (chuckles) That was so cool, man.

I wanna go there and maybe they can gimme a little tune up.

(laughs) In fact, we have Cammy, who's from that team here for today's kid chat.

(upbeat music) - Cammy, oh man.

You, you're you're part of the team of that cool robotics team.

- Mm hmm.

- Okay, okay, so we saw that cool video.

And earlier in the show we were asking people like what would they want a robot to do?

But you would like actually for real like, program and make robots think and do and figure out, right?

- Mm hmm.

- Okay.

So we saw some examples.

What are some highlights of things that your team has accomplished when programming robots?

- Well, with our robot we completed a lot of missions on our field.

And by completing the missions we got an award called the Championship Award.

And that means we did overall really amazing.

And that got us to the next competition.

- That's so exciting.

And so you said like a mission, like you gotta like go over the river through the woods like drop of balls, that kind of stuff, right?

- Yeah, we pushed a truck onto a bridge, and we pushed a plane.

Yeah, there was a lot of things we did.

- Man, so how did you first get interested in start at learning how to do this?

- My mom and dad started this team and so my brother started doing it.

And with that, I ended up just doing it and because it was fun.

- Oh yeah, totally.

I love it.

And so now it's a team effort, right?

You work in different ways.

Could you tell us about the collaborative of the team?

- Well, there's two different parts of the team.

We all work together.

So there's a programming team.

The programming team makes all of our code and there is a mechanism team that makes the things on our robot that push and pull stuff.

- Wow, do you think... That's so cool.

Do you think you could make a robot hamster?

- Maybe.

- Brody was interested in that.

And do you think you could figure out robots that could like cook dinner and do the dishes and stuff?

- Yeah, with the right programming, definitely.

- Wait a minute.

A dishwasher there's like robotic stuff inside of a dishwasher to begin with, right?

- Yes.

- So someone had to figure that out.

Oh, man, okay.

So what would be like if you were thinking big, anything at all that you could program a robot to do that would like change this?

No, no pressure here, but how could change the world with what you're working on a day at a time?

- I think I would make a robotic... Hmm.

- I put you on the spot here.

- I think I would make a robotic cleaning thing so that people would be able to do other important stuff that they have to do.

And you don't have to worry about their house being dirty.

- Man, Miss Stephanie was talking about that, man.

And I tell you over here, I gotta work on...

I got some... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I can make sometimes.

You know you got me thinking too.

What if the robots could help clean oceans and beaches and nature.

And, but you know what, we also know how to think about it.

We just gotta make sure we don't make a mess, right?

It's kind of that balance between humans and technology.

Yeah, man, you got me thinking, now you got me thinking.

Well, Cammy, thanks so much.

Will you stick around and be part of the show as we do our find it fast and dance party?

- Yeah, sure.

- Ooh, thanks Cammy!

- (chuckles) Friends, I hope you are inspired by Cammy and the team.

Oh man, so good.

So good over at HF robots, robotics.

Okay, friends let's find out what jokes siblings got today.

(kids cheering) - What is a robot's favorite snack?

- I don't know.

What is a robot's favorite snack.

- Computer chips.

(laughs) I wonder what kind dip goes best with that.

(kids cheering) - Well I know the answer to that, it's guacamole.

(laughs) That's my favorite.

Yeah, of coursibly it's guacamole.

Okay, friends, let's take a deep breath.

Breathe in (inhales deeply), hold it, let it loose.

(exhales deeply) It's time for today's slowing down.

(gentle music) Whew, breathe in, (inhales deeply) and let it out slowly.

(exhales) We love books.

It's time for check out this book.

(upbeat music) - Hi Wimmee, hi friends.

I'm glad to be here again to tell you about another great book, robots.

This sure knows a lot about a robot, a very specific robot, right?

We're gonna read a book today or talk about a book today called "How to Make a Friend", written by Steven W. Martin, illustrated by Olivia Esser and published by Clarion Books.

In this book, we meet a girl and you can see she's very industrious and she's going to make a friend.

And since this is about robots and we're talking about robots you might guess that she's making a robot friend.

This book is really cool.

It shows some old fashioned pictures her flicking through books of robots from the past.

And she's just gonna make a friend that's gonna do exactly what she wants it to do.

Whether it's home, work, whatever she wants.

But once she makes the robot, she realizes it's not exactly like a real friend.

It sometimes does what she wants.

Check out how to make, actually make a friend and see if our main character here makes a friend or ends up going out into the world and making a friend, might be both.

Check this book out.

I think you're gonna love it, happy reading.

(upbeat music) - I like the sound of that book a lot.

(chuckles) I'm definitely gonna check that one out.

Friends, we're gonna play a game.

You can play along with us at home.

It's time for, I can find inside my mind.

(gentle music) Miss Stephanie, Brody, are you ready to play?

All right, so I'll start it off.

I can find inside my mind something with wheels.

- Is it a tractor?

- It is a tractor.

You got it.

(chuckles) Awesome.

- I can find inside my mind something that is tall.

- A giraffe.

- Yes.

- I can find inside my mind, something blue.

- Blue, is it a blueberry?

- Yes.

- It's a blue.

(laughs) Nice, ice.

Okay, I can find inside my mind something that sounds like this.

(lip smucks) - That sounds like a chip monk.

- Yes, (laughs) it is a chip monk, good work.

- I can find inside my mind something that is loud.

- Microphone.

- Yes, that is very loud.

- I can find inside my mind something colorful.

- Colorful, a rainbow.

- Yes.

- Rainbow, nice.

Okay, I can find inside my mind something that rhymes with friend.

- End - The end of the game, yes.

(laughs) Ding, ding, ding.

Thanks friends, that's kind of fun.

I like that, I like that.

Hey, let's go back and check out the wimage board and see what's changed.

Hmm, whoa, whoa.

A lot has changed.

We finished cooking.

The Eagle brought the pan up in the air.

We're on a bridge and there's more robots?

Oh, man, this is like inspired, I think, by Cammy and the team 'cause I know they had to bring things over bridges and around and different robots.

Let's bring Cammy on and see what she thinks.

Hey Cammy, how do you feel about the wimage board and the progress there?

- It looks amazing.

- Yeah, because you have bridges, right?

And your team, you gotta go over things and- - Yeah we do.

- Nice, cool.

Well, thanks Cammy.

We're actually ready now to play, find it fast.

(upbeat music) Oh, friends can you find something that starts with R, like a robot, something metal like many robots are and find something colorful.

'Cause you know, robots tend to be kind of colorful.

All right, Stephanie, have you found something?

- Yes, so I have a ring.

Goes in my finger.

- Oh yeah.

- [Both] It starts with R. - Something metal is this ladle.

- Ladle, ladle, nice.

- And something colorful, is this scarf that I have.

- That's beautiful, and nice.

Great job Steph finding all those things so fast.

Let's see what else starts with R. What else could be something metal or colorful?

Cammy, have you found anything?

- Well, I found this robot that starts with R. - Wow.

- That's an epic robot.

- For something with metal, I found some duct tape that's silver.

And for something colorful, I found this Lego chicken.

- (laughs) Lego chicken.

That's awesome, I love the beak.

(wimmee clucking) Nice job, Cammy.

Oh man, friends, what starts with R, oh, your name starts with R, yah hoo!

Brody, what have you found?

Rollercoasters.

Did you find a rollercoaster?

- Well, this is colorful.

- Yeah.

- Starts with R, it's a robot.

And there is a metal screw in it.

- Oh, man, I love it.

(wimmee clucking) I'm pretending to be that robot.

(laughs) Froot Loops are colorful, nice.

Man, let's see.

Rooster starts with R. Red, the color red starts with R. Crayons, the box of crayons.

Oh man, so many possibilities.

Whoa, all right.

What do you think there, Nonobot?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- (chuckles) Yeah, that's funny.

All right, it's time for the dance party.

Friends on the show, friends at home, are you ready to dance?

Let's play the music.

Yeah, woo hoo.

Watch this, I got fancy lights installed.

Are you ready?

(chuckles) Yeah.

(upbeat music) Oh yeah, Cammy, nice job.

Framework on the show today.

Rudy, oh yeah.

- [Narrator] "Wimmee's Words" is brought to you by Acrisure, Consumers Credit Union, Meijer and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

And with additional support from these great partners.

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