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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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Video supplied by Getty Images
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
Kommentarer
Creative Thinker Anik
Beautiful & Informative💋🌹👄
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Everyone: oh thats a nice robot me: a7sIII 👀
4 timer sidenBlair martin
The AI bot doesn’t like it when I mentioned the insanity of not applying the scientific method in a science video to wearing a mask to protect the subjects from covid virus. Big brother is controlling the narrative
4 timer sidenDaniel
This looks like it would be useful in hostile environments
7 timer sidenAledner_LW
An octahedral sausage link soft robot. Nice.
8 timer sidenBatman
I suppose it's safer, but still looks like it can pinch your fingers in the roller things
9 timer sidenPyro
Yep.
6 timer sidenTrope aDope
Mmm flaccid machinery
10 timer sidenМихаил Заворин
Please make a video about solar sail and the principle of light pressure.
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The red arms of the robot fling him 20 ft backwards against the wall. "Oh... yeah, sorry, there's a bug. Unit Tests didn't catch it for some reason."
20 timer sidenDannyDorito33
Yall should make Baymax
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Show me the application.
23 timer sidenLebaneser Scrooge
Will you please do a video explaining how -40 degrees Fahrenheit is also -40 degrees Celsius??? I know the formula, I just don't understand how that one number lines up?
23 timer sidenKyle Murray
ok ngl i was expecting some baymax crap when it said soft robots
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I study physics and you inspired me a lot'(really thank you) could you make us a brief history of nuclear experiment and thanks again Z
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Cool concept. I notice the apexes of the robot are made of metal. Are they sharp enough to hurt a human?
Dag sidenBodie Sands
That pneumatic turtle robot is the cutest thing ever. Like a little elephant :)
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the Baymax conception
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Baymax in real life
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whats that robot movie that is soft?oh he mentioned it as i watched it in the end :)
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Dag sidendouglas coulthard
After talking about the under water exploration I was thinking that you could fill the tubes with water. Then I thought that instead of a rowing motion, instead use a fabric that when rolled through the motors would pull itself through the water. You would have to rotate the tubes into a 3 sided pyramid and have the return part of the tube be blocked by say a corner cone.
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2 dager sidenThe Batch
We're so screwed when the future super AI sees what we've done to robots...
2 dager sidenTrope aDope
@Blair martin please stay on topic. It's AI incase you didn't read OP's comment.
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Why don’t you just admit that mask wearing out doors can not be scientifically justified?
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@Pyro ?
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The Basilisk?
6 timer sidenMax Bantz
NASA looking to explore Europa's oceans with one of these. Exciting!
2 dager sidenGreg Vaillant
En France nous avons David Louapre un vrai physicien puisqu'il est docteur en physique, et bizarrement certain de vos sujets ressemble beaucoup à ceux de notre ami David... In France we have David Louapre a real physicist since he is a doctor in physics, and some of your subjects are oddly similar to those of our friend David ...
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2 dager sidenLászló Isó
I like new concepts... but some wheels would drastically improve that robot... and some arms maybe??? A seat to carry around people??? So
2 dager sidenceerw buty
speed of the pulse = speed of light, even better if the pulse goes at the speed of light then you divide the time you get by half.
2 dager sidenMrMoji
theres a question i have, if you drop a empty metal cup into a lunch box full of water upside down, why does it flip it self to be straight up again?
2 dager sidenSimon W
That's a question that could have a variety of answers and is unclear with a lot of guess work. Could be the shape of the cup how its dropped to the pressure of the air trapped inside the cup when it seals the rim with the water and wants to continue sinking. It's most probably the compression of the air trapped trying to escape forcing the cup over sideways and then finding its resting point then all the forces come to equilibrium.
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2 dager sidenPaul Chang
Throw a sphere container in the center and it can carry objects at any orientation while it is crawling around.
2 dager sidenceerw buty
0:17 "Hey honey, come and look at my soft robot." "If it's not a robot, I'm going to cut it off."
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*Why do we need robots that can bend?* Simple. So we can finally say "What are you doing step-robot?😏"
3 dager sidendatb00
@NO HUMAN it was funny the first couple times, now it's done to death
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Dag sidenatorix
day 51, i keep on hearing step-bro jokes. please help me, its unfunny
2 dager sidenIago Borges
Back in my day robots were made of steel and worked 20h a day. It was not like today where this softies can’t even walk for God sake.
3 dager sidenLászló Isó
:D here where I live robots are soft on the outside, they have a solid bone structure, they are 100% recyclable. They run all day long without electricity. All you need is the lousy paper to run them... and then you just tell them what to do, no programming is needed they have a factory CPU setup.
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3 dager sidenVVindovvZ
they better use them on mars... but hey... elon don't make soft robot
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Can you do a video of the Mandelbrot set
3 dager sidenjacob headworth
1:20- who made that one? I would like to look it up to lean more about it
3 dager sidenbocoy noiu
or type. That’s cool 😎
4 dager sidenThe Hammurabi Chode
Bot? Probably a bot
2 dager sidenEric W.
Do a video on liquid helium super fluid. It's considered as a quantum fluid once it reaches a certain temperature. Would be very interesting if you would be able to break it down simplisticly. Just seen a 1977 video on it and it was a lot to take in. lol 🤕
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4 dager sidenPronto
0:17 "Hey honey, come and look at my soft robot." "If it's not a robot, I'm going to cut it off."
4 dager sidenbocoy noiu
These are safer because in the event one gets outta hand, 5.56 will put it down.
4 dager sidenbravojr
Make a SOLID 2 core system, that projects soft noodles out... may be more worth for the soft things protect the core and you can have a stronger core that has all the power localized instead of multiple corners.
4 dager sidenbravojr
Inb4 Soft robots are safe... SHARP METAL IN THE EYE.
4 dager sidengoogleslocik
@Rav Singh Yeah, but here? I wouldnt my hand near that motor, yet alone a kid.
Dag sidenRav Singh
@googleslocik I think safe is supposed to be a relative term. There's definitely things that are classed safe in my industry but wouldn't want a kid around
Dag sidengoogleslocik
Metal? Imagine getting your finger stuck in that roller, it would crush it. So this one isnt safe at all, in fact seems deceptively safe but very dangerous in reality, especially to a kid.
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4 dager sidenRyosuke Takahashi
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4 dager sidenZADO HCG
I don’t know much about 4-d stuff, but couldn’t this be used to simulate a tesseract?
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4 dager sidenwalt bradly
Do they have a shiny metal ass to bite?
4 dager siden02ultraboy
How to go faster than the speed of light :have the first clock send a pulse to the second one, then it starts, when the pulse gets sent back the lazer gets fired. The time it took - speed of the pulse = speed of light, even better if the pulse goes at the speed of light then you divide the time you get by half.
4 dager sidenSeppuKun
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4 dager sidenViq
These are safer because in the event one gets outta hand, 5.56 will put it down.
4 dager sidenMark chaffee
Think I cracked measuring the 'one way speed of light' / I need someone who knows what they're talking about to tell me why it's wrong
4 dager sidenMark chaffee
Wouldn't this give the one way speed of light?
4 dager sidenMark chaffee
With both clocks stopped, could they not be brought back together whereby you'd have the time difference of the clocks. The distance between the clocks was known and exact...
4 dager sidenMark chaffee
Won't then both clocks be synchronized exactly? One clock sits by apparatus designed to emit an identifiable burst of light and is programmed to stop running at the moment this light is emitted. The other clock is designed to stop running when it detects this light.
4 dager sidenMark chaffee
Tether two clocks to a central anchor with two equal and known length...tethers.. Move both the clocks in opposite directions until they reach the limits of the length of the tether. These clocks are designed to begin when they detect a certain (sudden and reducing) change of tension in the tether. Destroy the central anchor.
4 dager sidenMark chaffee
I propose accelerometer or tension clocks. Timers that start when they undergo a certain change in motion or change in tension of a tether.
4 dager sidenYTjndallas
So... You named the robots in racially and culturally appropriated names? 🤪 What are the robots’ pronouns?????
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I googled "Jon Hutchinson gravity" and a low resolution video of a "prepetual motion machine" came up : /
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4 dager sidenAnAnD Y
Hi there.. could you pls explain what is the source of energy behind earth's movement ?
4 dager sidencookiemonster
Sun's gravity
4 dager sidenSiddhesh Rane
Next video : Why Women That Bend Are Better
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4 dager sidenseth seth
These soft Transformers got laughed right out of Cybertron by both the Decepticons and Autobots.
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Cringe
4 dager sidenY H
In video games, you'd be instructed to shoot the joints of these robots
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Shoot the toobs and you pop them
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It's like your my science teacher
5 dager sidenscrofwimey
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
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I can picture a robot uprising with these things, where they aggressively flop against people.
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@Bop bender from futurama
4 dager sidenBop
what
4 dager sidenMistah J
Kiełbasa is actually the word for the "Polish sausage".
5 dager sidenLeRainbow FPV
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.
5 dager sidenAaron M. Lambert, Ph.D.
*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.
5 dager sidenzendiablo
@savantian eccentrian He has 14 thousand subs on his channel with no content. That's why I thought he deleted or moved to private all his content. It's pretty hard to get 14k subs with no content on your channel. Of course, none of this important to me, it was just a casual comment. His comment and the reactions have gotten way to much oxygen as it is.
2 dager sidenTony Smith
Harvard is your profile picture and it’s in every single comment you post. Please stop your ego is through the roof
2 dager sidensavantian eccentrian
@zendiablo No you're confusing the original thread above. John Doe thought he deleted his original COMMENT on this Veritasium video due to trolls and neck beards, which he did not since all the original comments are still there. There was never any talk of the harvard guy's original CONTENT because I don't think he ever had any on his chanel yet. I've seen his comments on other videos for a while now and most people actually like his comments and give positive feedback. So no there is not much hate, just the usual from the typical haters and trolls.
3 dager sidenzendiablo
@savantian eccentrian I clicked on his name/icon and there is zero content on his channel... but has 14k subs.. so he deleted everything or moved it all to private. I'm not really seeing all the hate that is mentioned.
3 dager sidensavantian eccentrian
@Krish Gupta You really don't know how to search for past comments by a user? Use the mobile version of YouTube and click on this harvard guy's profile icon. You can see that he posted this same comment multiple times before and they are all still there. I found them. Think before you type my guy.
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What if they hit something sharp?
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5 dager sidenJoshMaN
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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5 dager sidenIcabod Psillycyberman
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?
5 dager sidenIcabod Psillycyberman
@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?
5 dager sidenOxy Bright Dark
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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