GAME OVER - A.I. Designs CRAZY New ROCKET Engine 

The crucial part of this: It needs to be tested. Right now it's just a piece of art.

Very organic, reminds me of different alien species in startrek that had organic ships.

That AI designed engine looks like it would be absurdly difficult to do quality assurance testing on.

The fact that AI can design something like that is both fascinating and terrifying at the same time

I think the A.I. used to model that last engine design was trained on the art of H R Giger!

The AI Engine looks like it evolved in nature. love it!!

I remember helping design that copper thrust engine about 10 years ago. It looks nice in this video but there was no mention that a big problem was having to cover this engine with a thermal restraint material and then attach it to a nozzle that is yet a different material. Once you do that where everything has variable thermal expansion you get all kinds of cracks and breaks. Oh, and 3D printing a copper alloy is not a reliable for smooth surfaces, causing lots of leaks. Still, good video, good job.

Rocketdyne was using leftover J2 engine turbopumps on the Linear Aerospike. Lockheed Skunk Works was building the prototype at Rockwell North American's Palmdale Site 10, Building 704, East High Bay. I knew a lot of the people working the program since North American Aero shared the building. A couple of years later I worked for the Skunk Works and stayed employed with them for 20 years after having worked 28 years for Rockwell/Boeing North American. I love your videos, keep up the good work.

this is the direction that I've seen we need to go for several years now. the combination of ML/AI quick iteration modeling for designs that we haven't thought of, in combination with additive 3D manufacturing. it's finally reaching the point of practical real-world commercial viability. i've recently seen the NASA development of the RDE with center toroidal aerospike using Nikola Tesla's design for a backflow preventing valve without moving parts, which I think you showed here. It seems the company you showcased with this new design is incorporating all of these ideas. the same tech I think is also going to be useful for developing the new materials that we need to build with.and this extends to everything we make, on earth and off.

The AI design is absolutely stunning!

I've been following stuff like this and it's really interesting. AI always gets confused at the physical realm. Though their designs are amazing. Titans Of CNC covered something like this a few months back with a titanium 3d printed part that was designed by AI. Def worth a look at industry development.

That AI generated engine design looks amazing....like something out of an Alien movie. One can only marvel at the calculations that went on to generate that design!

Curious to see the testing results... please do a follow up video on it

1:00 small correction - the main reason for multi-stage rockets is that having a heavy high thrust machine push a lighter low thrust machine into a suborbital trajectory that the lighter low thrust machine then pushes into orbit is WAY way more effective than trying to do it all with a single stage. SSTO is itself only BARELY possible from Earth and not worth it for 99.99% of all space missions. Engine efficiency is only a small part of why it's not worth it though, and depending on your needs, there's nothing stopping you from making an SSTO with conventional engines. You just need to account for the inefficiency of the system. Aerospikes already solve the engine bell problem though, if efficiency matters, and they're baked into nearly all SSTO proposals. But again, for nearly every type of mission, you're better off with just a multistage rocket. AI engine designs might look cool but as every rocket company says over and over again: engine designs are a dime a dozen. They in and of themselves aren't the main concern. It's manufacture and execution that matters way more, as well as choosing designs that best suit your specific needs and company goals. So unless this was design with intention behind it to achieve a company's specific goals, it's going to remain a paper engine forever. Cute though.

I got to see this in person at IMTS last year. It was truly breathtaking to look at!

That design made the skin on my scalp crawl. That means it would probably work perfectly - it looks more like a living functioning organ that it does a rocket engine. I think that AI is going to quickly help us solve a myriad of engineering hurdles that have thus far stymied us all.

Everybody wants to do single stage to space, which is easy peasy, relatively. But to realize a singe stage to ORBIT you have to have not only a nozzle that is efficient enough throughout the pressure drop, but a VERY light stage, which is problematical on several levels. One advantage is that you can recover a single stage worth of boosters for reuse, which is less costly. I don't see this happening any time soon though. That rotational detonation engine blows my mind frankly. You get a lot more energy taking the fuel to very high order burn, but the shock loads must be FIERCE, and I would think over the long term they would be very difficult to design for. It sure is an interesting idea, when and if (probably when) they get there. I would expect that maybe materials better suited to the task may have to be designed, no matter the implementation. We will see. Aerospikes have been around for a long time. The problems with sticking something in the middle of a blow torch from hell is obvious, again, materials and VERY effective cooling techniques are needed. The problem seems that it might be a bit worse than keeping an external nozzle intact. At least there one face is allowed to augment cooling with air flow and/or radiation, ultimately, to space. I don't know how much that helps in the total equation, but I expect it is not completely without effect. Not a thermal guy, haven't run the numbers, but just a guess. Maybe interior nozzle flow swamps all of that, and just liquid cooling and material, ceramics I expect, are the only real drivers. Just a few brain farts off the top of the ole pin head, probably not worth reading.

It would be truly fascinating to see this concept being tested if it ever gets to the testing phase. AI has already designed some remarkably advanced and game changing designs.

Art: my dad was an actual computer and rocket scientist. I have a pair of cufflinks that were made from gold discs that were a part of a very early 1950’s computer system. I worked on the design and construction of wafer fab facilities. At one point I became fascinated by an integrated circuit design. I talked them into blowing up the image a thousand times. The resulting image looked like a wild design for a new city. We messed with the colors a bit and had a very large image plotted. I mounted the print on a rigid back and then carefully gold leafed all the parts that were actually gold. Then, using my surfboard fetish, glassed the surface. It is 36” x 48” and a real conversation piece. Science and engineering become art. I certainly see the new organic nozzle design as a base for a glass table. You may be looking at $50,000 for one with documented provenance.

This is ultimately what ai should be used for! Not social engineering, hardcore physical engineering. 👏🏼🙏🏼🙌

It's wild how the boundaries between organic and mechanical are slowly blurring

This reminds me of Sunny Emmerich talking about generational adversarial design using competitive neural net simulations to design her LACE/Ramjet RLV over a decade ago. She quite literally predicted this.

Fascinating design and probably can be used to gain a lot of insight. The biggest issue is manufacturing this. 3D printing just doesn't result in the same quality as machining or casting

Small correction. Rocket staging is never about nozzle efficiency, it is about dropping some of the mass as it is no-longer needed. Yes upper stages have vacuum optimized engines because they can, but that isn't the reason for staging.

I've been thinking about this. A.I. and 3d printing will allow us to create some truly amazing technologies.

Very cool design! But I wonder how it would hold up structurally overtime. Hopefully the nice design lowers the stress?

Hey AI, design an engine. AI: reads Lovecraft. AI: prints the above.

Be interesting to see where A.I. leads. For myself fluidflow simulation we use at work has been flaky and next to useless for decades . Only now - and by using supercomuter tie in does it produce realistic answers for simple situations. So I would like to know how this accomplishes something as complex as complete rocket engine in minutes. Where did it get computing power from that we don't have? (lab facility where I work is a world hub for supercomputers). Same situation with self drive cars. Even 10 years ago they could produce some impressive looking road skills - at least by first impressions - and might not even crash after a few hours of driving - depending on traffic conditions etc. A decade on - they all looks marginally more impressive - but it is still likely to crash and injure/ kill you by the end of a day's driving. After some initial *wow* factor results they plod on and develop slowly - but in reality we are not that much closer to self drive cars than we were 10 years back. As you see I'm a skeptic. I think AI has all the prospects of occassionally producing something genuinely useful an dinteresting and of being effective mimic of apparent intelligence and creatiivity - without being fundamentally either .

Remember how we all felt when we saw Atlas the Boston Dynamics robot? Let me summarize: Awe and Fear. Well, that's the same feeling I get when I look at this engine.

The AI engine design is so organic and beautiful. It reminds me of some commercial jet designs AI created that had a very organic quality. Humans think in such gridded, boxy ways. Nature and AI understands how energy flows along elegant curves.

This is the future of manufacturing and it's gonna change a lot. The same thing has occurred in gas turbines, where these 3D printed combustion machines have all of their liquid channels and simple "parts" printed all at once in one body. I think the gas turbine went from like 600 parts to 85 or something like that.

This is just the next step in engineering. If I remember correctly Mazda already used AI Design for some cars so it’s just a matter of time before CADGPT becomes a thing.

I think the engine is awesome! But I think AI is scary as Hell, and should only be used with an incredible overabundance of precaution, not to mention controls out the wazoo.

Last year, a patent application filed for AI-designed products was denied by the European Patent Office, stating that the inventor designated in the application has to be a human being.

Would be nice to hear a more deep analysis of this pattern. The f 117 was also designed by computer algorithms and suddenly it had some issues regarding aerodynamics, maybe this piece of alloys would have some issues on saving fuel, I dont know really.

"hasn't yet been tested." Test it. That was easy wasn't it. Looks remarkable. It would indeed be unimaginable that a human could design that.

As everyone else has said, to me it looks alien and organic. Reminds me of something from Halo or war of the worlds.

Oh, a channel that doesn't treat its viewers like the type of people who debate if Marvel movies are realistic. Subscribed.

I love how new manufacturing methods allow for drastically new designs. I remember reading about the FEM(finite element method, its the basis for these "organic designs") 10 years ago, but at the time I still didn't understand all the spatial limitations of traditional manufacturing methods(CNC, casting, etc). 3D printing is a wonderful idea and I can only hope it achieves the strength of other methods while continuing to fall in cost. A new era of design is upon us. The next manufacturing revolution will be using nanobots or something alike, in some hundreds of years, but this is a great middle step!

Imagine the capabilities we can have once this is mature, it would be endless.

The important thing is the engine looks freakin AWESOME. ❤

Humans: Aliens must be super advanced and smart to design their spaceships. Aliens: Siri, make me a spaceship.

Wish to see the testing as soon as possible

would like to see this thing working, good in theory

Very cool. Algorithmic design seems to have lots of promise. Probably lots of problems with manufacturing and testing, especially at scale. Great video!

Interesting to see you cook with the coal bed set lower with vents wide open. With my cooks I tend to bring the bed up for a quicker cook. I will try your technique

I’ve had my own arrow spike engines since the early 90s, STO would certainly be a game changer.

I have to agree with Elon Musk who is afraid that we will might devolve technologically before we become a space fairing species, especially if AI takes over our daily basic functions. People will forget how to build things.

Topological optimisation really does wonders. I am curious how the future designs will evolve around AI and geometrical perfection. Not to mention the production methods that will emerge to put these designs into use, simple 3D printing will no longer cut it.

The combination of AI and 3D printing it just amazing and It’s so pleasing to the eyes because tap’s to the design master Nature itself… Every design has this beautiful organic feeling…

Ai designs of everything for optimum efficiency is exactly what I’ve been waiting to see

I'm excited to see how the AI design, tests could be awesome, or it could be really restrictive.

I think I'd want to see the test results before judging the design. If the AI design was weighted towards producing an alien looking design then that's just the sort of thing you'd get. If it was weighted towards producing an efficient design but still came up with this then that's quite interesting. If the engine actually works then that's news worthy!

2:19 Love the Skunk Works emblem on the tail fins.

Organics build engine: Looks robotic. Robotics build engine: Looks organic.

Fascinating video! AI will design us a Warp Drive. We need more and more AI. AI is The Way. No safeguards, no slowdowns. No Fear. Feed the Beast and let it Grow !!

I had been thinking why they not use A.I. for things like this... like new medicines, treatments, battery chemistry etc. Also: Isaac Asimov has a novel where an A.I. designs a working FTL drive :)

Make it design a camera that can record live feeds of a single rocket leaving earth for the first time in history....

Amazing concepts. I'd love to see these tested and wish them success. Meanwhile, does anyone else think it should power a spacecraft from "Alien?" :)

god forbid a AI is ever hooked up to a 3D printer directly without supervision

All that "AI made something" is such a click bait wich Im kinda tired already. Its not even an AI in any way. It is a software programm with good calculation power. It is a tool. At this point you can consider a wrench as an AI. They give it an input date and required output data. I wonder if any time soon I'll buy a tooth brash and the marking on it will also say that it is somewhat AI.

I wanna see the test run tho, looks wild, maybe Ai will sort out more advanced space travel

the desing is slic and organic at the same time. Nice.

Great video!

It’s all about how well it works out in the real world. There have been numerous radical designs like the flying wing that seemed so “intuitive” and “groundbreaking” in their design stages only to ultimately prove to be impractical. Or Fuller domes and other predicted “game changing” innovations that ended up only showing promise in specific use cases.

Are you talking about hyperganic? I'm using it right now and it's awesome. Now only waiting for a combination of both GPT and hyperganic. It's been out a year now

That’s about as alien looking as it gets. Crazy. Not sure how I feel about AI yet but this is cool

~10 years ago I remember there was a wind turbine generated through simulated evolution on computers in a similar manner. The prototype exceeded efficiency over conventional turbines when tested, but I don't think the idea ever really took off. The overall process was similar to this rocket, but just with slower computers.

RDE are insane the super tiny ones in that lab put off enough thrust to flex the door on the other side of the room

Crazy how organic the design looks. Our creator would make some sick rockets!

This thing having kind of natural looking lines and shapes reminds me of that car that is also designed by AI and also features parts and shapes that look like stuff you would come across in nature since, appearantly, nature just knows how to design stuff well, I mean it had hundreds of millions of years to basically do trial and error so yeah it's propably even smarter than most of us think

I’ve been interested in science my entire life and during my education I often heard the saying that modern science knowledge would double every 10 years. That was mid seventies. Here we are 50 years later and many advances that I envisioned have been fulfilled, particularly in Computer science, machining, health, and materials. I think we are at the point that we have all the components to accomplish significant advancement in technology. In the past the big thinkers were limited by the materials and techniques to achieve significant changes or advancement. I think we are in need of novel ideas and big thinkers, using modern technology to achieve great new things and real advancement. Maybe it’s time to revisit some failed technology and design that was limited because of older technology. I enjoy your video’s and content.

I got to physically touch the thing in the thumbnail. It was printed by EOS and they had it on display in Chicago at IMTS last year. Pretty interesting stuff.

How are they going to smooth the prints? The imperfections of 3d printing are still kinda high and those tiny fluctuations on the surface I would imagine would add turbulence to the flows.

I'll be impressed when A.I. manages to come up with fundamental breakthroughs... Like sustainable, high net return energy technologies for powering civilization... High density energy storage schemes with a high energy per unit volume for portable use, that's as efficient as gasoline or diesel, and doesn't rely on scarce mineral resource inputs... Computers and networks and server farms that don't draw such a large fraction of aggregate power from the grid... Or maybe even power sources that are sustainable and efficient enough that a grid is no longer necessary for distribution... Psychological regimes that might be used to influence people of disparate beliefs and traditions toward more cooperate, constructive, and egalitarian coexistence. A way to end Ecological Overshoot without destroying the global economy and civilization in the process... Refining existing technology paradigms is low hanging fruit... Let's see A.I. do something that lives up to the hype.

It looks nice I'll give it that but in order to step further out from the cradle then reliability and fixability are going to be important.

Interesting how organic it looks. Whats more interesting is how many sci fi fantasy worlds depict and predict futuristic and alien designs to also be very organic appearing.

thanks ❤ great video 🎉

This makes those old Sci-Fi movies we all grew up with turn on a light that says to me "time travel is real"

Human guided design with the tool of AI. A really cool one too. Don't get too scared about computers. Math can only solve equations it needs us to be truly creative.

I think the emergence and our eventual reliance on AI to solve many of our most complex problems is rooted in the inability of 99.9% of people to consider multiple different overlapping constraints and choosing an optimized solution.. Most people in most industries have severe difficulty considering and balancing more than say 3 constraints at once to arrive at an optimized solution. Take for example giving someone driving directions, most people will get confused if the directions involve more than 3 steps, 4 at best. Have multiple steps and optional directions they could take and everyone gets lost.

The organic approach is definitely the way forward, it's the most natural way fluids and gasses are steered. Humans are too structural in everything we design, so I do believe that with the help of AI we can overcome that step.

This isn't a motor, this is a work of modern art.

The VentureStar project should never have been canceled! it was a travesty, we would be living in a different era of space travel had it been finished.

"[t]his engine was designed beyond human imagination" H. R. Giger: Hold my beer.

Hey G.P.T. Create a rocket 🚀 engine using my washing machine, cooker and refrigerator. NOW. G.P.T. : It's ready.

It’s crazy how organic it looks

"Or maybe A.I. will destroy us in the end." I'm fine with that outcome as well 😂

Good algo, very close to one of my old designs ❤️

any chance AI could solve the heat distribution problem with the Aerospike engine? Would be really nice to have a functioning single-stage-to-orbit ship!

It strangely looks more organic than we design our tech.

I wish you had mentioned what company was working with the AI design motor so we could follow up with it in the future

Mad props (pun intended) for actually using a relevent thumbnail and not blatant photoshop click bate. 😂

Hyperganic is the kind of engine look I was writing for science fiction. An airflow network that looks like something natural selection would've produced. Nice to see the world catch up.

Good video about Rooockets, are you by chance related to the Dry Eyes guy or the principal from Farris Bulers Day off?

I'm having my A.I. cereal and A I. coffee while watching this. Oh... I have to feed my A.I. cat.

Would be interesting if part of the optimization process for generating this design involved accurate simulation of its manufacture including likely defects, that way it could balance theoretical efficiency against a more realistic measure of reliability (and potentially cost to manufacture).. i dont see any way of manufacturing this that isnt some form of 3d printing. And maybe thats okay.. but even if it is, some 3d prints are more durable and error prone than others.

4 minutes of jaw flapping for 1 minute of the actual AI engine

AI: "I give you the Mitochondria!" Elon: "It's Perfect, forget the raptor."

This is how beautiful our work should be as humans.