Mr. Beans The dream was that I was dreaming that someone peed on my face then I woke up in the dream to se my cat peeing in my face then I woke up in real life like WTF
So, in the future when I'm trapped under a collapsed building, I can die while being entertained by one robot that keeps crashing into walls, and another that flops around while changing colors.
+Sierra Nanotube batteries, cheaper, longer lasting, and not as temperature sensitive spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/nanotubebased-liion-batteries-can-charge-to-near-maximum-in-two-minutes
Those are evolutionary advancements and most are focused on recharge time due to market demand. However, storage capacity hasn't really jumped all that much. It's fine when we are talking about phones and electric cars that is idle for long periods, but complex independent robots would require large capacity batteries too for extended use away from a charging point.
One of the most interesting parts of this video was that a team of Chinese scientists at a Japanese university called their creation “Swumanoid” which is indeed a kick ass name but shows a pretty sophisticated understanding of the “malleability” of the English language…and it makes me wonder if Chinese and Japanese don’t have the same flexibility, or humor or it was simply a marketing (or start up capital) tactic?
When you see a bug flying round a light clumsily, I read once that they get really confused because they assume that the bright light is the moon, and navigate around it like that. This messes them up a lot
As a BIG fan of SciShow, I think it would be great if as a follow-up to this video, SciShow could do an episode with Janine Benyus who is the Co-founder of Biomimicry Institute. That way, SciShow could present the newest in biomimicry.
Imagine being stuck under rubble with the airburr flying just out of reach bumping into things and getting back up just to bump into something else knowing that your only salvation was that dumb robot
I wish you guys would show more to help us visualize what these robots are. You talk and talk and talk. And you have word slides that might as well be subtitles. It is fascinating. All of it. But why not show what the Sumanoid looks like? Why not include a clip of a Boston Dynamics robot?
+DLiciousCrabMeat They wouldn't even need to be humanoid. Pick any appropriately frightening animal (or even a mythical creature like a dragon or a griffin) for the same (or even greater) effect.
Hey guys watch this video of Hank talking about cool stuff with links that dont work and we dont ever show anythibg we are talking about! Guess you'll have to take our word for it, 😉....
Show and Tell, Hank. I think that would improve this video and videos like it. So much of the time you are describing robots and concepts that could just as easily be shown us while you are explaining them. You have footage, but you only show a few seconds at the end of a lengthy description. This seems to be more of a flaw with the editing than anything you are doing, Hank. I'm not sure why you are unable to provide a more visual experience here. I'm guessing it may be a copyright issue.
Okay again in group of KOREAN PHYSICISTS there is s polish person, I'm sorry it's just really important for me that you guys here know I mean I'm sure you do just yeah as a Pole I feel like I need to point it out
"Insects aren't that good at flying" Are you kidding me? Hover flies are one of the most advanced flyers on all of planet earth. Sure moths, butterflies, and beetles are lazy at flying but by no means are all insects that way. Dragonflies and hover flies are able to maneuver while flying far better than any other animal or human invention. Saying they aren't that good at flying is like saying fish aren't that good at swimming. The statement is just ridiculous. I usually love SciShow videos but the ignorance on this one in the beginning pissed me off.
Just because they can do a few tricks doesn't mean that they're flying is good. Their flying is inefficient and as you've said, sloppy. There are many better flyer such as Eagles or hummingbirds who do the same with less energy relatively with more control.
AAaargh you never actually SHOWED the Swumanoid at. freaking. ALL! :( If there was a copyright reason or something why you couldn't, you should've at least said.
Homeopathic physics. That's where the future lies! If you want something to fly then you take something that can't fly, dilute it 30,000 times in water and then spray the water on the thing you want to fly. I would caution you not to dilute it _more_ than 30,000 times because the potency could shoot the object right through your roof. Also, make sure you don't start using homeopathic chemistry unless you really know what you're doing. It's far too dangerous. A statistically non-existant molecule of any kind would be disasterous in the hands of the uninitiated.
+Tim Rohwer Octopuses is "more correct" due to where the word octopus comes from. I'm literally in the comment section just to look for these comments.
+nate hickman Octopuses is "more correct" due to where the word octopus comes from. I'm literally in the comment section just to look for these comments.
I don't understand why human joins are difficult to mimick... Aside from the tongue, all muscles should just be linear actuators... Or did I sleep too much in biology class?
+d3rrial i don't think the issue is actuation as much as fine motor control. sure it's easy enough to make an elbow joint move up and down like a human elbow but the difficult part is getting it to make small movements or move fluidly with other joints so that the motion is more "organic"
treeperble It's funny too cause the elbow doesn't just move up and down, the radius rotates around too. When you rotate your wrist you're rotating your whole forearm from the elbow.. a lot of robotic arms just rotate the wrist at the wrist, the swumanoid thing rotates above the elbow I think. Don't know if it makes a difference
+KevinDoesMC Wait Who is this Hey-zeus chris? Is it a close friend of yours? So anti-Chris would be like your opposite friend, eh? And what does 666 views have to do with anything? Is that like The opposite of your friends favorite number or something, eh?
the flying robot that bumps into things and has minimal navigation... am I the only person who though of manhacks from Half-Life? Just attach some spinning blades to that thing and you pretty much got one.
+Jimera0 general rule of thumb. dont invent anything that half-life did. I should have headed that advice when I invented headcrabs... also that thing in your backyard isnt a cat... its a head crab
+Des Well, he has a very symmetric face, and humans are known to find another human's face more attractive the more symmetric it is. Add personal preference and cultural imprint of what is considered attractive in your neck of the woods and that is probably as scientific as I can get in a short youtube comment.
Nobody calls it biomimicry, because that is the general term for mimicing biology. It's called Biomimetics when referring to the field of study in robotics.
doing a quick google search and looking at the first 5 or so results shows that biomimicry and biomimetics are interchangeable. Dictionary definition from webster for biomimetics: "the study of the formation, structure, or function of biologically produced substances and materials (such as enzymes or silk) and biological mechanisms and processes (such as protein synthesis or photosynthesis) especially for the purpose of synthesizing similar products by artificial mechanisms which mimic natural ones" Nature ("International Journal of Science") magazine search turns up non-robotic results: www.nature.com/subjects/biomimetics
It's amazing what we are able to do today. I'm looking forward to seeing how robotics and nature mix together in the future. What an amazing time to be alive.
_"Learn about the robots inspired by animals with Hank!"_ >.< at first glance, I read that as "Learn about the robots _inspired by Hank!"_ I was all excited for a brief moment
+xXPyroTimeXx Nah, he wouldn't. He'd love it, and praise the companies who were doing it because they were being economical and smart. Because in the world we live in, It's okay when robots do it: They don't have dark skin.
The robot knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the robot from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
+chinito77 Nope a nuke would be far better than any robot could be. The initial explosion from a Hydrogen bomb, would take out only a few million of people if detonated on a large populace area, but the radiation would stretch far beyond the city's boarders. Proving Humans are Humans ultimate threat!
+chinito77 That's a pretty dark way of looking at it, an even darker way would be like the novel written in the 20th century I think called " I have no mouth and I must scream". I like to hope robots turn out to be more like Isaac Asimov's idea with the three laws of robotics, where robots actually are the reasons human's don't go extinct on several occasions and help them reach utopia, which is at the end of one of his series I think.
My personal favorite is robots designed around augmenting human abilities. Ekso Bionics makes a robotic suit that can fit under military clothes and transfer loads to the ground via steadycam like technology mixed with custom build hydraulic systems that minimize effort bearing. This suit has been being worked on for years now, but is still actively being granted funds as it is the main component of the SOCOM Talos suit. They also sell their tech to Otto Bock more recently. I think the best part about the company now is their rehab suit. A UCLA study on 'neuromodulation' actually showed someone being delivered non-invasive spinal cord stimulation while walking in this suit - and then they later WERE NO LONGER FULLY PARALYZED and got some motor control of their legs back. The UCLA study only came out less than a month ago. I believe the ramifications of this will be realized soon; it will change the world.
