The BionicBee is small, ultra-light and can fly autonomously in a swarm thanks to an indoor localisation system with ultra-wideband technology. Click here for more information: www.festo.com/bionicbee
You know what separates Festo's from Boston dynamics' videos? The fact that Boston Dynamics makes videos about cool tech without polishing their own musket, if you get what I mean.
@@pavulon5000 Oh yeah, why compare two companies that do bio-mimicry robotics and produce youtube videos. What's to compare? They have nothing in common...
@@pavulon5000 It's a video. The original comment was comparing this video, on this video sharing platform, with another video, on this video sharing platform, by a similar company, presenting similar "products." Comparison of their presentation is relevant and on topic.
Wait... Did they just delete the previous upload of this video because of the comments that were pointing out that all they have showed are blurred renders, multiple cuts that are supposed to mislead the viewer, the movement of the bees is erratic and there is no real demo of the flight that would be longer than 1 second?
It's great to know we can always count on another anonimous genius expert behind a screen telling us what the engineers of a big high-tech company can't do. Thanx 👍🏻
@@SilencedFeelings Sweetie I also happen to work in robotics. This is not uncommon for people from the same field to check out what others are doing. I am not talking about what they can or cannot do, I am saying that they showed absolutely nothing. This video is more like a Kickstarter campaign promo than tech demo and one could wonder why exactly they don't want to show what they achieved. Even bragging about procedural ways to minimize the weight is industry standard for years now. It is not only not new. It is outdated.
@@SilencedFeelings good thing you can hide behind personal attacks instead of addressing any of the arguments made. This video is stock footage, a bunch of "inspirational" quotes that say nothing, and shitty cgi slapped on top. I hope you're not getting paid to shill for this garbage, because you're doing a piss poor job of it lol
@@MapedMod I was also curious at the end of the video as to why the flight shots were so short, and after the buildup to rely so much on renders. I'm still impressed, but it did leave me wondering.....
@@MapedMod While I agree that this video is a pretty bad showcase, the bionic bee itself is extremely impressive and it works great. They showcased it live last week at Hannover Messe and I, as also the many other people visiting, can attest that it can in fact fly way longer than shown in the video (an engineer I talked to that worked on it said roughly ten minutes and at least 4 minutes were showcased live) and the movement is impressively controlled and stable. They flew four of them over the heads of a small crowed of people for five days and like eight times a day so it better be.
@@user-nr7hb7vi6nthey aren't fixing the problem they aren't even delaying the inevitable extinction of honey bee's instead just mimicking / replacing the insects instead of saving what already works they are polluting the air by creating plastic robots that in the end of their lifecycle will end up in landfills
In that example, they were as small as a real bee and included facial scanning so they could [SPOILER]. Here, the bee is a bit bigger and doesn't have facial scanning, but may have IR scanning like they do in the show. However, if everything I say comes true, it'll be quick to note that it's a bad idea. The episode is called "Hated In The Nation" if anyone's interested.
*"According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway, because bees don't care what humans think is impossible."* -The Bee Movie
I notice the actual flight shown are mostly in slowmo and are only for a few seconds. I am guessing the battery must be real small to be light enough and the control must be real rough.
@@PVPnb all this was amazing and innovative maybe 20 years ago. A drone with a 5 minute battery life that barely flies is not innovative or amazing anymore. Ornithopters are not practical or efficient, imagine what just a 5 mph wind would do to that thing, it is just for show.
@@mostfunnestchannel Actually the ornithopters are nice for reduced power management; they make excellent drones. The question currently that you should ask is why you don't see them very often in the industry or even consumer electronics industry. If you can answer this to yourself, please don't answer here, to keep your social credit intact.
Impressive? It looks to be about same size as DJI mavic, but unstable, slow, weak, and can fly for only 4 minutes. But this first I've seen it, maybe it is way better than it looks.
Festo: Nature always works efficiently... Pandas: Hold my bamboo... actually, give it back because I need to eat virtually nonstop to get just enough nutrients to survive.
Which works pwrfectly when its in its natural emviornment not in a fuckin zoo or lab. Creatures and the Enviornment are ONE. Something inefectual fools will never understand, damn Civilized minds never will.
For all of you wondering if this thing really flies that well, YES, I saw it fly through the hall for several minutes at the trade fair in Hanover last week.
Model the bee wing exactly, no need to reinvent the wheel, the real bee is perfect. What makes the bee wing a better design than your robot bee wing, is that it gets a better figure eight by having a thicker, tapering spline on top of the wing that provides inertial weight and rigidity, while the rest of the wrong is super flexible like fabric, more rounded with more surface area and swings into more of an air scoop as the wing flexes back and forth, pushing MORE air down than your rigid wing design. Make the wing super thin and lightweight with branching veins for strength. And make the abdomen oblate spheroid super thin shell, like the real bee, to house more LiPo battery near the center of gravity.
I'm so enthralled by this! This has applications in electric vertical and take-off and landing vehicles. Propellers are way too inefficient. This is inspiring!
I mean the cool thing about this is that it's actually oscillating wings instead of spinning blades. As well, since it's so light it may have a few different possible uses. Not that I claim to know what those might be. I definitely would've preferred to see a more toned down video with more footage and possible uses rather than the overhyped marketing advertisement they put out.
People WAKEUP! They're not making this bee for fun. There's an hidden agenda behind it like all the other not good inventions they're creating. They're against humanity & are demonstrating it thru all that's happening in the world! People STOP being brainwashed and gullible! They need to be stopped & shutdown!! Why aren't they helping the poor & less fortunate? Why aren't they creating solutions to make the world better- hunger, poverty etc..Why aren't they using quality control to protect our foods, why are the creating robots that are replacing humans, why create an EV vehicle where the battery is over priced & not a good source for transportation? People ASK questions, take action & spread awareness! Don't trust ANY of their inventions- it's not to protect us!!!
People WAKEUP! They're not making this bee for fun. There's an hidden agenda behind it like all the other not good inventions they're creating. They're against humanity & are demonstrating it thru all that's happening in the world! People STOP being brainwashed and gullible! They need to be stopped & shutdown!! Why aren't they helping the poor & less fortunate? Why aren't they creating solutions to make the world better- hunger, poverty etc..Why aren't they using quality control to protect our foods, why are the creating robots that are replacing humans, why create an EV vehicle where the battery is over priced & not a good source for transportation? People ASK questions, take action & spread awareness! Don't trust ANY of their inventions- it's not to protect us!!!
Inspiration makes a difference only to the minds that look and understand, but the rest is of no use to them! This is what these researchers excelled at
That's so cool to see it fly! Sigh... I'm jealous! Unfortunately I didn't have the same success, and failed at accomplishing such a feat due to coupling of my pitch and yaw axis. I've recognized the many components used from servos, motors, and even 3D printed material. Wondering if its possible to reach out to your team that made this amazing machine!
Glad it’s not the size of a fingernail but I feel like that’s coming. Reminds me of Black Mirror episode Most Hated in the Nation with the swarm of bee bots.
One of the most amazing things I have ever seen in my life 😍!! Now we know what comes next!! Flying insect drones with speed and precision video capabilities
an ornithopter will never carry a lot of weight. this type of design can barely carry it's own weight, and only works at a small scale and very small cube wing loading. Or cube arc loading in the case of a VTOL ornithopter. Festo makes only bio inspired designs, which have many uses which are almost all not blowing stuff up.
Maybe it's not that ideal, maybe it's even useless and crazy, but just keep in mind how "aesthetic" first image generations with AI were also considered nonsense and rubbish, but, in a matter of two years how things changed :D Technology keeps growing, and we don't know what it is capable of until we try.
You know, deleting this video and re-uploading it does not add more footage of the bee or removes all the silly build-up and overly dramatic VO. The comments pointing out how silly this video is just get worse when you delete it and upload it again. You should have deleted the last video, trim out 2:30 to 2:50 and we would have all given you a bit thumbs up for the upload. Don't let Chat GPT write your scripts for you.
take 5 cents and buy a life.... Maybe you feel very important because you think a video has been deleted for your hate-filled opinions without having any idea of the goal of Festo Bionics...They do not intend to manufacture any commercial product, nor prove anything to anyone. They have a budget to design a "robotic" animal every year, and they just do it. Some are more spectacular than others, but there is no purpose behind it other than to do some marketing and create cool things to make some videos, take them to 4 fairs and 4 TV shows. Live and let others live, if you don't like the videos, pass them, or even block them, it's that simple.
@@robertoalonso3484 I must have really hit a nerve here. Do you see my comment as hate? Because I see it as criticism. The reason people are criticizing in the first place is not because we hate, the very opposite, we love and anticipate. We comment because we care, because we have watched your videos in the past and have been amazed. And the bee is great... but the presentation is RIDICLOUS! Dont you see that? It would help to reflect and learn from it instead of getting offended. "if you dont like the videos, pass them" not sure if you are asking me to shut up, but if you dont want feedback you can turn off the comment section. /shrug.
most people have no clue how difficult it is to create a vTOL ornithopter. Too bad it's also very impractical, but it's an amazing feat of engineering.
I don't want to be pessimistic, but I'm preparing myself for any eventuality. it's a technology that could have potential. after drones, these things could be great toys for children, for example. But remember. Black Mirror, season 3 episode 6. When they manage to miniaturise this, I don't want this technology to replace our beloved bees in 10-20 years' time.
