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China's Autonomous Self-Driving Toilet
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Eddie brings out the episode's tech story: U-Ban, a Chinese technology firm, has built an autonomous self-driving toilet for people with limited mobility. It comes to your bed, washes and wipes you, uses ultraviolet sterilization to kill bacteria, has Roomba-like navigation technology, and empties itself into an actual toilet. Henry is immediately obsessed, imagining riding it in loops while doing the mail. Then the bomb drops: it can't process solid waste, only urine. Henry is furious. He's willing to pay $13,000 — even the higher end of the price range — if it can handle poop and climb stairs. Eddie points out that it has a grinder, but apparently not for that purpose. The segment ends with a spiraling discussion about urine particles, toilet lid etiquette, and a developmentally disabled man whose family wraps the bed in layers of rubber sheets to manage nighttime urine — all somehow connected.
Chinese tech firm U-Ban created an autonomous self-driving toilet for people with limited mobility that comes to your bed and washes and wipes — but it cannot handle solid waste, only urine.
Chinese tech firm U-Ban built an autonomous self-driving toilet that navigates to your bed and cleans you — but it only handles urine, not solid waste. Henry is livid. He'd pay $13,000 if it could handle poop and climb stairs.
