How taking a second look can change your everything

This message comes from Capital One with the Capital One Savor card. Earn unlimited 3% cash back on dining and entertainment. Capital One, what's in your wallet? Terms apply. Details at capital1.com. This is the TED Radio Hour. Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks Our job now is to dream big. Delivered at TED conferences To bring about the future we want to see around the world. To understand who we are. From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you. You just don't know what you're gonna find. Challenge you. We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy? And even change you. I literally feel like I'm a different person. Yes. Do you feel that way? Ideas worth spreading. From TED and NPR. I'm Manoush Zomorodi. On the show today, double takes, ideas that dare us to take a second look. The other day, I went for a walk in my neighborhood with a new friend and her dog. Her name is Varsha. You can call her Varsha. Hi, Varshaa. So sometimes little kids at first gonna have a moment of hesitation, but then curiosity wins, and they're always gonna see it. This is artist Agnishka Pilat. And as we strolled with her dog, Varshaa, we turned a lot of heads. What the hell is that? Oh, my God. This is Boscha. She's just hanging out with us. Because Boscha is not just any dog. She's a robot dog who came from the company Boston Dynamics and cost around $200,000. Yeah. You can touch her. Just don't put your fingers in the joints. Oh, yeah. No. Do people ever get scared? Small kids sometimes are a little uneasy for a second. People will ask questions, how fast can it run? Okay. Or What's the answer? I don't know because it's like, it's not a running dog for me. So Right. The factory name for these four legged robots is Spot. They can run up to 11 miles per hour and were built to enter dangerous places like collapse buildings and to help patrol areas. Maybe you've seen the video of one monitoring President Trump's Mar A Lago residence or the reports of them assisting New York City Police with a raid. Critics say they are simply tools of a burgeoning surveillance state. But as an artist, Agnieszka says people's response to Basha shows it's more complicated than that. It's a Rasha test. You saw this a little bit, right? How different people arrive differently. It tells you a lot about the person, how they react towards Basha, which I think is kind of cool. This is literally the route that I take my dog on every single day, and she doesn't listen to me like Vasha likes. Vasha? Yeah. There you go. Another advantage of a robot dog. What is that? Vasha? Robot, Vasha? Do you wanna Oh, my god. Vasha can be trained to move autonomously. But today, engineer Glenn Gartner and …