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
Why Robots That Bend Are Better
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gio 59
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."
DannyDorito33
Yall should make Baymax
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Lebaneser 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?
Kyle 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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icekk007
Cool concept. I notice the apexes of the robot are made of metal. Are they sharp enough to hurt a human?
Bodie Sands
That pneumatic turtle robot is the cutest thing ever. Like a little elephant :)
Rama Kirkol
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Is there any proof that time is 4th dimension
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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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douglas 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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Do a video about where time passes the slowest.
If we lived near a black hole, like in Interstellar, time would pass a lot faster.
A civilization in the slowest ticking time, would have more time to advance and survive to the end of the universe compared to one living near a black hole. Is the edge of the galaxy the place where time passes the slowest?
The Batch
We're so screwed when the future super AI sees what we've done to robots...
Max Bantz
NASA looking to explore Europa's oceans with one of these. Exciting!
Greg 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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László Isó
I like new concepts... but some wheels would drastically improve that robot... and some arms maybe??? A seat to carry around people??? So
ceerw 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.
MrMoji
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?
ajvark
Yeah I've seen into the spider verse
Paul Chang
Throw a sphere container in the center and it can carry objects at any orientation while it is crawling around.
ceerw 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."
Luca Pasa
Finally, the sequel to my favorite of Veritassium's videos
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Gay a*s robot
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Kunwar
*Why do we need robots that can bend?*
Simple. So we can finally say "What are you doing step-robot?😏"
datb00
@NO HUMAN it was funny the first couple times, now it's done to death
atorix
@NO HUMAN your name explains your entire existence
NO HUMAN
@atorix it's funny
atorix
day 51, i keep on hearing step-bro jokes. please help me, its unfunny
Iago 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.
László 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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Игорь Фадеев
All this is interesting, but there are more interesting things.
Modern ideas about the universe are too superficial. For just one billion euros, I am ready to tell everyone interested how the universe was actually born and what matter is made of. And also, what is wrong with the Einstein formula (A. Poincare) and how to overcome the speed of light using a reasonable supply of energy. I almost forgot why all the measurements of the speed of light carried out so far cannot be considered correct and why different photons must have different speeds, the speed of light is not a constant. And also, why black holes are black (hint-the reason is not that light can't escape because of gravity, everything is more complicated here).
VVindovvZ
they better use them on mars...
but hey... elon don't make soft robot
Hunter h
Can you do a video of the Mandelbrot set
jacob headworth
1:20- who made that one? I would like to look it up to lean more about it
bocoy noiu
or type. That’s cool 😎
The Hammurabi Chode
Bot? Probably a bot
Eric 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 🤕
Foobar Deadbeef
Kiss my shiny metal ... !
Pronto
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
These are safer because in the event one gets outta hand, 5.56 will put it down.
bravojr
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
Inb4 Soft robots are safe... SHARP METAL IN THE EYE.
googleslocik
@Rav Singh Yeah, but here? I wouldnt my hand near that motor, yet alone a kid.
Rav 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
googleslocik
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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ZADO HCG
I don’t know much about 4-d stuff, but couldn’t this be used to simulate a tesseract?
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walt bradly
Do they have a shiny metal ass to bite?
02ultraboy
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.
SeppuKun
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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
These are safer because in the event one gets outta hand, 5.56 will put it down.
Mark 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
Mark chaffee
Wouldn't this give the one way speed of light?
Mark 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...
Mark 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.
Mark 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.
Mark 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.
YTjndallas
So... You named the robots in racially and culturally appropriated names? 🤪
What are the robots’ pronouns?????
eioshen boboi
Finally this video came out, i already watch the other one so many times!!
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I googled "Jon Hutchinson gravity" and a low resolution video of a "prepetual motion machine" came up : /
Jacob Daley
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AnAnD Y
Hi there.. could you pls explain what is the source of energy behind earth's movement ?
cookiemonster
Sun's gravity
Siddhesh Rane
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john medeiros
I am Bender Please Insert girder
seth seth
These soft Transformers got laughed right out of Cybertron by both the Decepticons and Autobots.
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Y 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
little doggo
It's like your my science teacher
scrofwimey
Names of these robots are gold, imagine like police department using them to rescue drowning people
"Smith on scene, there's a kid drowning"
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I can picture a robot uprising with these things, where they aggressively flop against people.
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Kiełbasa is actually the word for the "Polish sausage".
LeRainbow 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.
Aaron 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.
zendiablo
@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.
Tony Smith
Harvard is your profile picture and it’s in every single comment you post. Please stop your ego is through the roof
savantian 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.
zendiablo
@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.
savantian eccentrian
@Krish Gupta You really don't know how to search for past comments by a user? Use the mobile version of IDvision 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.
Oxy Bright Dark
What if they hit something sharp?
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JoshMaN
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
Icabod 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?
Icabod 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?
Oxy 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.
Absolute Fireworks
Made veritasium videos dubbed in Hindi also.
Habatrosha
Can you please make realistic a custom T-Rex design and go to wild animals tigers, lions, gorillas, Elephants, etc... I wanna see their reaction, thank you so much, I will give you a like of you do this.
Hot Choco
That d8 is looking mighty fine
Crystal Dragon
Why not use pool noodles?
Oxy Bright Dark
If you bend a pool noodle too much it snaps
Marty Lynchian
Soft Robots = gay robots. Give me steel, fuel and fire any day of the week.
Daniel Thorne
i dont know, i watched the Boston Dynamic robots. this is lame AF
Ultima Ratio
I wanna see this piece of crap "roll" through a freaking forest! :D