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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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
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Am I the only one who thinks that he looks like Elon Musk when he's wearing a mask?
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NANI
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Of course robots that bend are better. Personally I prefer fire bending robots but people can have their own opinions
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Is there such thing as flat? I do not think that such a thing exists. What is the flattest thing we have made?
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Why Robots That Bend Are Benders?
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We are one step away from making a bender bot
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A camera man, I see.
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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
Daniel
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This looks like it would be useful in hostile environments
Aledner_LW
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An octahedral sausage link soft robot. Nice.
Batman
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I suppose it's safer, but still looks like it can pinch your fingers in the roller things
Pyro
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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."
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Yall should make Baymax
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Show me the application.
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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?
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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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icekk007
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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?
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That pneumatic turtle robot is the cutest thing ever. Like a little elephant :)
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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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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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We're so screwed when the future super AI sees what we've done to robots...
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NASA looking to explore Europa's oceans with one of these. Exciting!
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I like new concepts... but some wheels would drastically improve that robot... and some arms maybe??? A seat to carry around people??? So
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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.
MrMoji
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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?
Simon W
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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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Throw a sphere container in the center and it can carry objects at any orientation while it is crawling around.
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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?😏"
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@NO HUMAN it was funny the first couple times, now it's done to death
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atorix
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day 51, i keep on hearing step-bro jokes. please help me, its unfunny
Iago Borges
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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.
László Isó
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: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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VVindovvZ
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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
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1:20- who made that one? I would like to look it up to lean more about it
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or type. That’s cool 😎
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Bot? Probably a bot
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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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Kiss my shiny metal ... !
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0:17 "Hey honey, come and look at my soft robot." "If it's not a robot, I'm going to cut it off."
bocoy noiu
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These are safer because in the event one gets outta hand, 5.56 will put it down.
bravojr
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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.
bravojr
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Inb4 Soft robots are safe... SHARP METAL IN THE EYE.
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@Rav Singh Yeah, but here? I wouldnt my hand near that motor, yet alone a kid.
Rav Singh
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@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
googleslocik
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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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This is why everyone likes bender
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I don’t know much about 4-d stuff, but couldn’t this be used to simulate a tesseract?
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Do they have a shiny metal ass to bite?
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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.
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Can you use your science to prove that there are only 2 genders and that any other genders is just cultural Marxism pushed by modern day communists?
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Impact . net
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What
Don David
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9:57 Is Mark Rober who is talking? i didnt know that you boys were friends, 2 of my favority chanels
Viq
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These are safer because in the event one gets outta hand, 5.56 will put it down.
Mark chaffee
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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
Mark chaffee
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Wouldn't this give the one way speed of light?
Mark chaffee
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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...
Mark chaffee
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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.
Mark chaffee
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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.
Mark chaffee
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I propose accelerometer or tension clocks. Timers that start when they undergo a certain change in motion or change in tension of a tether.
YTjndallas
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So... You named the robots in racially and culturally appropriated names? 🤪 What are the robots’ pronouns?????
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Finally this video came out, i already watch the other one so many times!!
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editor/consultant. Cheers.