Why Robots That Bend Are Better
Robots of the future may be softer, squishier and bendier than robots today. This could make them ideal for space exploration. Check out kiwico.com/Veritasium50 for 50% off your first month of any subscription!
On Thursday February 18th, 2021 the NASA Perseverance Rover will land on Mars. It is a wonderful robot, made out of steel and wire - but will future robots look like Perseverance? There is an emerging field of research on "soft robots", where the machines are flexible. These soft robots have many advantages over traditional robots - they're safer, lighter, more flexible and can change their shape and size.
NASA is investigating the use of soft robots for space missions. For future visits to Enceladus or Europa, a lander could cut a hole in the ice and then insert a compliant robot through the hole. This robot could then grow and change shape on the other side.
References:
N. S. Usevitch, Z. M. Hammond, M. Schwager, A. M. Okamura, E. W. Hawkes, S. Follmer, An untethered isoperimetric soft robot. Sci. Robot. 4,
ve42.co/Hammond2020 - paper about the truss robot
ve42.co/Usevitch2020 - press release and video about the truss robot
Electronics-free pneumatic circuits for controlling soft-legged robots
Dylan Drotman1, Saurabh Jadhav, David Sharp, Christian Chan, Michael T. Tolley Sci. Robot. 6, eaay2627 (2021)
ve42.co/Drotman - paper about the turtle robot
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Thanks to Zachary Hammond for showing me the soft truss robot
Filmed by Derek Muller
Edited and GFX by Trenton Oliver
Animation by Ivan Tello
Music by Jonny Hyman
Thumbnail by Ignat Berbeci, Dan Meyer
Hello sir.. Can you make video on why planets revolve in elliptical orbit (considering general relativity)
From what I know, nothing of any use has been produced by soft robotics research for as long as people have been working on them. They're just useless university projects that go nowhere, just like those absolutely useless self-assembling cube robots that can do jack all. After the last Asimo, Boston Dynamics Atlus is the biggest advancemt we've made in the feild of robotics in the last 30 years.
Bravo et merci
0:08 Prototype of a freaking 'A.T.A.T.'
There is absolutely no point in trying. To stop this technology it is inevitable. The end of mankind by robotics is inevitable. Not in our lifetime or our children... But its 100% guaranteed
I love that this video showed up in my recs after a long string of Combat robotics videos xD
I don't think they'll ever be more capable than hard, rigid robots. I think hard robots will just get smarter A.I. and more joints and rotation points, thereby giving them a wider range of applications they can handle and being better at not hurting humans. Maybe some specific situations where they have to directly deal with people, but I think advanced A.I. and maybe a squishy shell applied to a hard robot would more than make up for that.
tecnicly electricty are difine robot we more toclking about air autaton
i like this style of video a lot more. not that design-by-committee network tv video like last time. small robot! soft submarines my g
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It's just dawned on me you could tell people you're Elon Musk with that mask on
yeah except elon is not a genius, he's just a rich guy who owns the work of a bunch of scientists
How about making a video on air pressure? specifically testing if higher air pressure stops projectiles, what pressure humans could fly at without any power assistance if it makes a difference, and see if higher pressure would reduce terminal velocity so humans could survive any drop. Im interested for video game purposes rather than wanting humans injured lol.
what if u make the tubes out of sponge or permanent soft material?
Kiełbasa xD
I am satisfied with my care
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I don´t find any of the Boston Dynamics robots creepy or terrifying, by the contrary I find them really astonishing, epic and gives me hope for a better future. All those comments about creppyness are the actual creepy stuf about human intelligence imo, also cringy and repetitive.
what a loser
Does it blend
*Many robots (including soft robots) are programmed for locomotion and other forms of motor control based upon the wiring principles of central pattern generators* (CPGs)-neural circuits that produce a wide frequency range of oscillatory rhythmic outputs even in the absence of sensory feedback-that have been adapted by evolution over hundreds of millions of years across the animal kingdom for axial, quadrupedal, and bipedal locomotion, as well as many other peculiar forms of locomotion, including rolling locomotion akin to that of the robot showcased in this video here. After several months of preparation, I'll soon be posting vids from my perspective as a Harvard neurobiologist and scientific editor/consultant. Cheers.
Fascinating my guy. Subbed!
After seeing this I could remember the robot in the interstellar movie. That was a great robot really. Change my entire visualisation of a robot.
tecnicly electricty are difine robot we more toclking about air autaton
6:09 In inches? Ew. This is a joke.
next title: why female robots that bend are better
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*Just built different*
Reminds me of the IROBOT chembot
these bots are built different
That background noise is his beard scratching isn’t it?
Maaannnnn....... I love this guy
I suppose you could call them... Bender robots
Solution looking for a problem
how tf would u pressurize the tubes in space without air
Air is inside the tubes, not outside. Compressed air cans and closed loops
it useless, and worthless............defeats the purpose of a robot,,,,,,,,you cant mount anything to it.
Robot: *Bends* Humans: "Its better!"
Pretty much y'all are gay
I am severely disappointed in the lack of hard robot jokes.
How about a robot built out of fluids or even magnetic fields 😯
just take a body shaped balloon bit the same mechanics on the in side and sow it up easy someone do this plz
Let's think this through, Rog. Body shaped balloon is a great framework. Imagine compliant 'muscle' tubing on the underside of the skin. The pneumatic driver could be in the hip area, and processing in the head. Assuming you could maintain air pressure effectively with a strong fabric and expandable lining, that doesn't seem like an impossible task.
nvm that wouldent work idk
Very nice.........SOFT?, just stay away from those sharp corners for now, until they develop blowup motors, aluminum, electricity, bots, nuts, you get my drift!
That compressed air robot looked like stop motion. But all it would take is one of those flimsy rods on that inflatable robots to snap and its useless.
All these so called 'smart guys' wearing face diapers for a bs flu with 99.97 survival. guess none of them read their savior fauchis paper on why the spanish flu was compounded and got so bad (hint masks)
But Betamax is a hard robot. It just has an inflated balloon around it. The core and its movement is all hard structure.
So its soft, and can change shape....great?
"Why robots that bend are better" Bender: 😁
This is baymax's great grandad
Hm... Rigid robot uses: Manufacturing, Building, warfare, secondary phases of colonization. Soft robot uses: Medicine, direct human contact usage, rescue, first phases of colonization.
Thought you meant bend like Bender Rodriguez
bender agrees
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Dit is er aan de hand. Sars-CoV-2 A Weaponized Prion Disorder Disquised as Respiratory Disease. Hier werken groot machten als China, Rusland en Amerika al jaren in het geheim aan en is helaas ontsnapt uit een biolab in Wohan.
This is awkward
Its like the strandbeests
there's no air in space
That compressed air robot looked like stop motion. But all it would take is one of those flimsy rods on that inflatable robots to snap and its useless.
"Why Rockets that Bend are Better"
These are nicer than humanoid, because a human like machine that can move, interact and talk is creepy
8:46 Bay Max from Big-Hero 6 came to mind when he said that.
Nevermind he mentioned it lol.
only thing i didnt like about this video is that your voice keeps changing sides
FROM YOUR GRAVITY VIDEO EVERYTHING ACCELERATES UPWARDS THEN IN THE CASE OF NEWTON AND APPLE INITIALLY THE APPLE AND NEWTON WERE ACCELERATING UPWARDS AT THE SAME RATE THEN IT GETS RELEASED FROM THE TREE AND HITS NEWTON. BUT HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN IF THEY BOTH WERE ACCELERATING AT THE SAME RATE?
The apple was attached to the tree by its stem while accelerating. The stem broke from this force and stopped accelerated while everyone around it (including Newton) continued to accelerate.
no comments or jokes about Futurama's Bender? im disappointed in y'all
>its soft, so its safe around humans ...
kielbasa :D
good video
Why I cant even see the sub button? Serious Question.
i preffer my robot stiff
We now have the ability to create Baymax irl
Nice stats
Baymax is my favorite soft robot
half of boston robot dynamic videos are cgi anyways lmfao!!
Michael Rosen called it, guys ***bendy bendy bendy! Bendyy bendyy***
nice pfp 👍
TRY TO VISIT BOSTON DYNAMICS AND EXPLORE THE THINGS THERE WHAT ACTUALLY THEY ARE DOING IN MAKING INCREDIBLE ROBOTS
we're one step closer to having a real life baymax
TARS? is that you?
Oh dang! Kiełbasa right there!!!♥️
Every one the robots will take over the world..... the robots haha soft robots go bbbbrrrrr
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Hey Derek, I have a physics question for you, its kind of hard to explain while typing but it concerns controlling gravity. I think I have a 33% chance of this theory being correct, if you are interested I can give you my email later. Thanks, Josh.
Yea ikr it has to do with Einstein's theory of relativity and curved spacetime
lol what? hahahhaha
I love this video as a high schooler and a software lead and a captain of an FRC robotics team who loves and adored robots and robot making!
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Who wants to bet which will come first Robot anime girls or colonization on mars
Cool, so instead of having your skull crushed by a terminator you get smothered by a sentient jumping castle.
It's just a hop, a skip, and a jump away from needing a leg up.
just put some stans tire sealant inside the bot in case it springs a leak it'll seal itself
the compressed air robot at 1:03 looks like a sea pig hehe
we're one step closer to having a real life baymax
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I’m here before this gets 100 likes
Okay Nerd 💀😆
nice stuff!
Bender: Shut up baby I know it!
looks pretty useless at that dev. level.
I see BIG HERO in the future
Soft robots yeah
Wasn't the T-1000 a soft robot? You know, when it wanted to be.
Will you still call a robot to something that doesn't integrate electronics?
Is there a video of that tour/visit to Kiwi Co? I'm fascinated by their work and would love to see more from that teaser.
F...ng masks on your faces...?!?!?!?!??! REALLY?!?!?!?!?!
problem is we cant make a soft robot that is actually strong. so why dont we just build normal machines, that dont crush people?
but it can pick up basketballs! How many basketballs are on mars though...
Hey Derek, how about the explanation of the " Center of the Universe " on Tulsa, Oklahoma ?? It's fascinatingly mysterious
kiełbasa ❤
Do they work at the bottom of the sea
Seems like they are pretty worthless because they have no inherent strength to complete tasks except perhaps to entertain children or to carry cameras on the meatal joints.
Hi, Derek. I want to watch your documentaries but don't know how to download them, can you help me?
Hey Derek, here's a video suggestion. How much does the 'Path of least resistance dictate your life?' Everything from putting a dirty plate into the sink less full to selecting the lane with the least amount of cars at a red light. Love the work you do! Thanks.