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
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Animation by Ivan Tello
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These soft Transformers got laughed right out of Cybertron by both the Decepticons and Autobots.
In video games, you'd be instructed to shoot the joints of these robots
It's like your my science teacher
Names of these robots are gold, imagine like police department using them to rescue drowning people "Smith on scene, there's a kid drowning" DEPLOY KIELBASA
I can picture a robot uprising with these things, where they aggressively flop against people.
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honestly, I understand why you are wearing masks when so close, but man, isn't it time to understand that when standing so close even a mask won't do anything? You might as well just take it off. You're just wearing the mask for the camera anyway, when it is off every one 'disregards' "corona law" anyway.
*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.
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That's pretty deep stuff. I never heard of central pattern generators before. Sounds really complex. Subbed!
What if they hit something sharp?
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Can you help with a problem. Lets say, Im standing near the sun and say a charge q+ is on the earth, from my point of view the charge q+ is moving as the earth revolves around the sun and as moving charges are suppose to produce a magnetic field it dosnt seem to.While the person on the earth with the charge q+ it is stationary. So, at what point does the charge chose to produce the magnetic field. lets say normaly u pass a current through wire, it produces a magnetic field, but if you were to move along with the charge, would it produce any magnetic field.
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Is this comment made by an ai? This is gibberish
Got an off topic question for you. Lots of sci fi uses rotatating structures in space to provide gravity inside them. Does this actually work-my head tells me it shouldn't?
@Oxy Bright Dark But those big spinning devices are on earth where there is already gravity-the centrifugal force then works towards the circumference of the device.i dont get how centrifugal force would work where there is no gravity. The people in the space station (or whatever) are not held to the surface of the thing that is spinning unlike the example of water in a bucket?
If you spin a bucket round and round, the water contained won’t fall out, because it’s sent constantly backwards into the bucket, rather than into the earth. Centrifugal force, which is actually a combination of forces, would work in space. But when you go towards the middle of the ship, it’ll spin faster and the gravity would be stronger. This means that the ship would need to be quite big, and the middle compartment not liveable, or in the shape of a donut or frisbee, spinning so that the outside is faster. They use big spinning devices to test G forces. Tom Scott made a video about it.
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That d8 is looking mighty fine
Why not use pool noodles?
If you bend a pool noodle too much it snaps
Soft Robots = gay robots. Give me steel, fuel and fire any day of the week.
i dont know, i watched the Boston Dynamic robots. this is lame AF
I wanna see this piece of crap "roll" through a freaking forest! :D
its like baymax
"Scientists" wearing masks outside, smh.
Thats because you are confusing "scientist" with "Scientist ©".
bendable robots sounds like commie gobbledigook garbage akin to "eat the bugs" or soylent. Its like calling electric scooters "hover boards". It reeks of civilizational decline and coping.
@THYCR3ATOR Not an argument
You forget to take your meds today bud?
Seems like everything that bends is better. Seems true in physics engines too, if done correctly.. and by bend, you mean flex. Swords that flex are usually also better.
That's kinda cool I guess.
Robot that bends are better.. and here I am looking at myself. Am I a robot?
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If we take this to Mars, why do we have to inflate a balloon. Why cant we use another material that is flexible and soft. It has no risk to pop
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Iss traveling at the speed of 8km/s ,but why they don't feel gravity inside?.
The best bendy robot is Bender!!! There is no alternative!!!!
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i really thought he said last "we will see more sex robots in the future" XD
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I mean this could be perfect safe robot, i mean of course it will need stronger motors and everything but if you could crawl in, and i don't know imagine that building is in fire and you can't really get out this fella could do this.
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Cool... I still prefer Gundam.
It’s less scary than atlas
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There’s a joke to be made there somewhere...
Take a shot everytime he says compliance
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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.
@Huzufu yes, 30 yrs, then 15 years, then 6.5 yrs, etc.
Keep in mind these are still very early stages. It's worth exploring weird ideas like this because that's what science is all about. Even if it isnt very useful, at least it was explored fully. Only by trying and testing a ton of ideas can we stumble on revolutionary ones.
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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've been watching a ton of battlebots recently. although i don't think a bendy, poppable robot would do well there!
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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@commenty commenter That would be someone like Jeff Bezos. Elon is actually chief engineer at SpaceX. Does he delegate and have amazing teams of people who are also brilliant? Of couse, but he's far from just a rich owner.
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?
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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.
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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.
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@iLearnCode exactly. it's really hard to even get into any phd program, let alone finish it and ever end up at Harvard.
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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.
Just watched it again mars was the name of the robot it reminded me of him too
tecnicly electricty are difine robot we more toclking about air autaton
6:09 In inches? Ew. This is a joke.
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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?
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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: 😁
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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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