Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

It's true, a researcher at Purdue University and her team trained four pigs on how to use a joystick and play a video game. Pigs are pretty smart, after all. Plus: if you're in need of hugs these days but aren't able to get them safely from other humans, the robot named HuggieBot 2.0 might be able to help.  Pigs show potential for ‘remarkable’ level of behavioral, mental flexibility in new study (Frontiers Science News) Soft, Human-Sized Robot Gives Excellent Hugs (Interesting Engineering) We're sending virtual hugs to all our backers on Patreon --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message