We might soon be following the logic of animal swarms to help us solve problems like traffic and constructing buildings in dangerous places, like Mars!
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Hey Ten Pin! You should seriously do a study on The way men collect fat on their bodies.It seems like you, for instance,tend to gain weight around your hips and saddlebags! You remind me of a teacher that I had in boarding school.Keep up the good work, You are doing justice to your endangered species, though it can be confusing of what species you actually are. You Are on the cusp of psudohermaphroditism. Speaking scientifically of course, it would be interesting to test your DNA.
Would like to see the usage of swarm inteligence in games or in toys, i just wanna see buncha micro bots toys around with each other XD
Remember ZERO DAWN people!
I hope they kill us all. Then I won't have to be a fuckup among fuckups anymore.
Who’s ready for wallie
But this video got me so hard
Robots are not to be trusted.
Ooooh hive mind…
minions???
"Some people can't even communicate well enough to use their turn signal and they're just sitting there – what are you doing, playing angry birds?!" XD I suddenly recall his sarcastic comment from a much earlier vlog: "If only there was some way to signal your intentions." I feel your pain, Hank. Oh, the frustration of human drivers.
On fb an engineer confidently stated his job couldn't be automated then before this video a commercial advertising a blue collar training scheme for budding construction workers. The revolution is in motion already.
When my husband and I traveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, we learned that they do not have traffic lights. Ok, I think they said that there is a couple in the entire city. People drove in a type of swarm. People would just let others in as needed and didn't try to block anyone out. It all just worked and there was no traffic jams even when the roads were jam packed with cars and motorcycles. It was something I've never experienced before but loved how it just works. We rode around a lot during our visit and never had to stop, but would sometime go in a crawl if crossing an intersection. Just blew my mind. I'm not saying that way is superior or anything like that by any means, but for that culture, it worked really well.
confined to labs…..we hope!
I mean, you could easily throw something like a QR code on parts that contain the instructions that the little robot can read and just do to build lots of things instead of using just position. Why limit yourself to so little actionable data?
Now the question is would less gridlock actually result in people getting from A to B faster?
we do the same swarm thing, it's called traffic jams.
Grey goo here we come!
Robots should be able to climb on each other then.
I found this on Tech Insider :)
Communicating on the road is not in the future anymore!!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ototok-your-voice-on-the-road-car-bluetooth#/
Easy there hank, didn't need to see your dark side there
Terminators will definitely be funded under the guise of "search and rescue".
Can we apply this to actual traffic jams or are humans just too selfish?
"won't it be great if we could make machine do that"
so you have given up on trying to make human do that huh
Skynet!
Human utility is dwindling in the winds. Soon we won't be needed…
irobot pending
No. Swarms and driving will never combine.
The fact is, an ant travels .000002 mph while cars go 80. Not to mention the weight ratio. Weighing just enough so that you are not floating around in the air, collision means nothing and you can brush it off. A car bumping into another car is not as simple. Especially when going fast.
Which brings me to another video idea I had where people like to say bugs are super strong because they can lift 100x their own body weight. I don't like that analogy because when you multiple 0 to x, it is still 0. Saying something that weighs 0.000001 lb is super strong because it can life 0.000070 is stupid. Show me something that is 1.0 lb that can lift 70 lbs, maybe I will give a shit, because at that point, it is ACTUALLY doing something. Where as a bug lifting up 5 bugs doesn't mean shit in the grand scheme of things.
No traffic jams… but a bit of a problem with "antnado" [ant death spiral]
so…..? micro bots? big hero 6?
Confined to labs? You mean workshop ryt?
So, science and Big Hero 6 alike…
Zerg
Swarming . u mean as in the movie "when earth stood still" no thanks
Came for swarm video. Got slide show. :-(
Let me know when they can act like brain cells throughout development.
I actually studied this in my master's! If anyone is interested in playing with some of these techniques, there's a wonderful book called Termites, Turtles, and Traffic Jams that I highly recommend! it's a great introduction to playing with warm techniques, as an introduction to programming, and it's just really fun! Almost everything talked about in this video is also talked about in the book and it shows you how to simulate it yourself and tweak it without prerequisite knowledge.
Go have fun with science!
I was expecting some coment related to John Conway's Game of Life and Von Neumann's machines. Actual researchers and engineers forgot them or don't even know anymore?
the trafic is swarmy enough
You can't have swarm reactions if you have to many rules. like on the roads or in economy nowadays… Learn that programist! to learn simply but efficiently.