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0:00 – Intro
2:04 – Unstoppable Vine Robot
15:13 – Update on Vine Robot!
20:24 – Highest Jumping Robot
32:15 – Update on the Jumper!
38:26 – Micromouse Competition
1:02:15 – Benefit of non-humanoid robots
1:02:48 – Brilliant
1:04:24 – Bendy Machines
1:16:26 – Soft Robots
1:25:55 – Conclusion
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1:04:54
Ben Dover is gonna have a field that with that one , chief
jump and then gliding with collapsible wings that open and catch when the the descent starts would be cool
An specialized robot is a key that can open only 1 or 2 door very well.
A humanoid is a key that works to open every door it watches.
Why? Because Powerful Brains are Expensive. A family will be able to pay for 1 to 3 powerful AI brains, and those powerful brains must be on the most versatile hardware, the humanoid.
8:14 me explaining to my gf every time
machine learning is the product, ai is the advert
6:25 Wearing masks in the open air baffles me. This so called “scientists” are not that intelligent at all.
So at the time I'm writing this the title of this video is "The Real Reason Robots Shouldn't Look Like Humans". And I sat there for like 3 minutes trying to think of fake reasons robots shouldnt look like humans but I couldnt think of any. So we're probably ok
They tubes have been used to line drains with a resin filled liner, so you dont have to replace the drain. Smart guys
2:32
The most suspicious 10 seconds of a Veritasium video ever. "They grow from the tip", " Allowing thrm to pass through tight spaces".
Humans are capable of everything we put our minds to, but even we devote ourselves to what we're best at. You don't need an all in one capable robot. They would have to be more capable/intelligent than any humans. Not a good combination. And just unnecessary. If it's for factory work, they design machines that do the specific job. Like a machine that pumps out donuts. You don't need cyborgs doing it inefficiently by hand. Even they would know making a specific machine for it would be more efficient. The only real use i can imagine for humanoid robots would be as soldiers. Like how sometimes they send a drone into a house to see if it's safe or around some corner to neutralize a threat. And they could of course use VR to control such robots themselves, you wouldn't need A.I. involved. Like how they use VR with flying drones now too.
How stupid.. And I’m willing to bet it cost an arm and a leg.. It’s not to help people out.. it is 2 get rich..
Ok and wearing a mask outside??
Nope these are stupid people. Case closed!!
Eehhhhhhh no. Gimme Data from Star Trek any day. Stop being weird…
This was brilliant, well worth all the effort
SOFT ROBOTICS IS THE WAY
um, not to sound like a dingleberry, but what is the terrain underneath the puzzle, can we just turn on a magnet beneath? Are we allowed to have a dual racer thing on the flip side of the board?
1:36 What kind of psycho puts settings in the FIRST SPOT
I'm far too horny for this
The robots in my anime always has boobs… why?
By combining the jumping robot and the anchor robot they're working on, we've never been closer to an actual functional grappling hook! Or if they scale it up 10x, someone with massive amounts of bravery and little regard for their own life could potentially ride it up to the top of a building!
Is anyone used knot theory in solving maze competition….
Gotta say, really fascinated by the micromouse section! Would love another separate video dedicated to it!
Wow, from the title I was expecting a philosophical discussion on the "uncanny valley" effect. Nope, we ended up with a cool practical video about engineering decisions.
To the archaeology girl: I love you
dude drop this like 6 years later
Calling it now that the jumping robot without springs is gonna use a sling
3:40 😏😏😏😏😏😏😏
Me checking the link in the description and becoming Doctor Octavio
I don't trust any robot until it's in a form I can purchase while unable to look anyone at the store in the eye and hide in my house, desperately hoping none of my friends or family ever know I purchased it.
1:10:38 The downside of compliant mechanism is material fatigue. They don't last nearly as long ans if you bend a material. And that's any material. That material eventually breaks. some sooner some later. Mostly sooner, though.
21:45 Wrong. Only so much energy can exerted by muscles in a given time. If you use muscles directly only a small percentage of the total muscle power can be used. That is why we use bows, as we can store power in the box, than we could exert on the arrow by throwing. Most animals use that too. They lock their joint into place and store the energy in the tendon. Then release it. Kangaroos also store power in their tendon. The one from landing a jump. Then they add their muscle power to it.
21:13 "No mass can be lost" So nothing can participate? Aside from that oil evaporates metal rubbing against metal grinds off a tiny but. There is also the thing that even a full capacitor is heavier than an empty one. As the energy stored has mass. (unmeasurably tiny, but still)
That is even more true for batteries. Unless you use zinc-air batteries. Yes, total mass still reduces. But that is if you also factor in the oxygen. But that is factually added to the mass of the robot.
2:38 not a robot. Also not new. I had in the 80 A gimmick magazine novelty toy that worked on the same principle.
That first robot must be used for real life nokia snake game
12:37 SHAI’HULUD! SHAI’HULUD!
11:42 it's a p**
LOL masks.
I want Tars
Is physics girl feeling better. ? ❤
Amazing information! I feel so grateful to live in an age of such freely available knowledge. Thank you so much for sharing this, I am going to use the idea with the thruster compliant mechanism in a humanoid robot to control joint movement.
I even didnt try garlic today
And i feel like i ate too much garlic
if the robot uprising is thousands of Baymaxs taking over the world, I could live with that.
Mapping cave systems. Dry or underwater. To help locate missing people.