Adam Savage's Maker Tour: MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (Part 2)

In the second part of his tour of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, Adam learns about multiple micron tools and meets BILL-E (Bipedal Isotropic Lattice Locomoting Explorer), an incredible robotic assembler that you're going to have to see to believe.
This series and tour is made possible by The Fab Foundation
(www.fabfoundation.org/) and Chevron (www.chevron.com/).
Produced by Kristen Lomasney
Shot by Burke Doeren and Tyson Call
Edited by Thomas Crenshaw
Sound by Keith McManus
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[@IJudgeYou]

7:48 Student is trying to telepathically explode the teacher

[@theexchipmunk]

This is breaking edge technology. What they basically develop is a completely modular and extremely versatile way to build electronics and structures. The first one is basically a modular system of very small electronic parts, that can be assambled to any device you need. The second is a way to build big but extremely stable structures with robots. Both is especially needed for space travel. You send some robots and a ton of the modules up, and the robots assemble it in orbit.

[@FunkyMonkeyMachine]

TheExplodingChipmunk thanks for the explanation

[@mmseng2]

In the future, there will literally be robot spiders in the walls.

[@ChrisBourkeHello]

You send 'a ton' of components up. A robot or perhaps the same robot assembles components into modules and then the modules into larger rhizomatic structures.

[@Rksager]

Winner of the 2017 interruptathon goes to....

[@EGOS42]

... La La Land!

[@Ionization2020]

If you want to hear the students id recommend watching Vice Season 5 episode 8 entitled "Printing Tomorrow". While the professor does cut the students of a lot its really up to the director and host to edit the video in a way that gives everyone time to talk. There are pros and cons of both. The vice interview was very concise and well balanced, while this interview provided a lot of extra detail play.hbogo.com/episode/urn:hbo:episode:GWtT0DQrkjri8vQEAAABT

[@davidlenz4552]

And here I am printing a coaster on my 3D printer and thinking I'm on the cutting edge of technology...

[@noumenon3020]

I'd just like to thank Professor Gershenfeld, Will, Amanda, Ben and the rest for sharing such cool technology with Adam and the rest of us. You all did an awesome job. I'm not going to judge you for your personal idiosyncrasies. (We all have them. I'd sure be nervous in your shoes.) I'm just grateful for the opportunity to watch this and learn with all of you for free. This stuff is really, really cool. Big hugs, my fellow humans.

[@Ivar_Mennes_]

man i love this channel, way better than some everyday content. actual awesome technology and science.

[@LashingMrX01]

Will that guy ever let anyone else talk to Adam??? XD he's always jumping in cutting off all the grad students XD

[@aquaknot]

He's fully aware that most of the people viewing this video will be too dumb to understand the language a grad student uses.

[@JoshuaRoslansky]

Steve5y True, but I'd bet that most, if not all, of those grad students could explain in layman's terms when Adam asked them to. I appreciate the energy and zeal that the host has, but I'd like to hear more from the people actually working on the projects.

[@VexylObby]

If this doesn't represent the graduate student experience, I don't know what else does.

[@jeric_synergy8581]

Eventually one just starts dreading when he'll jump in. I'm pretty sure Adam would have pulled a good explanation out of every one of those grad students, and we all wouldn't have to be fricken annoyed by the director.

[@commandersprocket]

That "guy" is Neil Gershenfeld, he started the "make anything" class at MIT and he's the director the MIT center for bits and atoms. He might be jumping in and cutting off the grad students because he's likely their advisor. Each of the Grad students can see the piece of the puzzle they're working on, Gershenfeld has the whole picture in his mind and he's trying to explain it...though honestly it's more than likely that the grad students go out and have beers and figure out how to make things work better than Gershenfeld thinks they can and how things *really* work together. Gershenfeld is important because he writes books (FAB, When Things Start To Think, Designing Reality) and gives speeches and networks people with money into the program.

[@fatronix]

7:43 Hey, that's mine!

[@jonahbrame7874]

That is quite possibly one of the most beautiful applications of robotics and modularity I have ever seen.

[@coutinhojon]

I love how at the end of this Adam is lost for words. It truly is amazing what these people are doing; and the possibilities they hold.

[@StoopsyDaisy]

Holy shit, they are doing something incredible! Its a bit hard for me to follow just because of the content, but once I saw the end result and how the robots work. Everything changed. They are building their own living universe.

[@dph49]

this guy is the representation of how the smarter someone gets the less socially capable they get and not allowing themselves to adjust and catch up with the world around them.

[@magiclegend1501]

We have a name for this; Autism (Aspergers to be more specific) :p

[@7fxcyndershade]

No on both accounts, not caring about social skills is not the same as autism, and asberger's is no longer a medical distinction.

[@lilt6241]

"[...]asberger's is no longer a medical distinction." Source?

[@magiclegend1501]

Aspergers is no longer in the DSM books; from V and on it's removed. Really stupid, caused a lot of trouble, but yeah, that's how the world works I guess ;) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5

[@jordanweimer788]

Says internet rando using no punctuation or capital letters. Still receives five comments.

[@Aegis23]

This series really deserves A LOT more views.

[@jwilbrahamford]

so amazing!! thanks for letting us in

[@GregsGarage]

Incredibly complex problems but simple and straight forward solutions. VERY cool.

[@AWARHERO]

Man... This is the second video i see Adam's eye and mind go blank as he's trying to process too much information... lol And boy, can i relate! We've all been there... ;) This place is Genius level. AWESOME! Let the "Replicators" and self maintaining structures be born! :D

[@PinballMan]

In the future they can probably use Bill-E to send him to the Moon or Mars to build strong support structures to make a small town before people try to inhabit the area to make assembly or start up faster. I wish I had some of these tools to tinker with :)

[@ShinobiEngineer]

AMAZING (PART 2) ! ! !

[@funkyhomosapien1]

Wow. This is huge. Why isn't this kind of information on the news or at least publicised more! The future is going to be awesome with guys like these innovating and experimenting. Science rules! 🤖

[@Bonzulac]

Remember when a Tested video featuring Adam was something to brighten your day?

[@matt0611]

I never want there to be a final part, please just have endlessly toured MIT.

[@owenlebolloch5655]

Does anyone notice the guy in the background staring at Adam at 7:46

[@dethklok21]

I really enjoy these videos! I hope there are many more to come.

[@fabriziolicious9634]

Gotta love Adam's excitement in the beginning ;D

[@vidskitkid]

What a brilliant and exciting concept.....Making something simple yet very effective is no easy task! WOW! Thanks Adam and Tested for showing this to use!

[@Electronzap]

Great stuff! Love these MIT videos :D

[@AldoOjeda]

Those kids are doing amazing things!

[@ExopMan]

The BILL-E/structure combo is very cool.

[@djkoch65]

the future is going to be crazy cool!

[@Myndness]

incredible.

[@bcostell69]

Fantastic seeing something that will enable the equipments we've read about in science fiction

[@Davinci-jj5kw]

Totally the little robots from seveneves. Very cool.

[@kennymorris1427]

joe m when he said kilometer scale that's exactly what I thought of.

[@bittertea]

Great work. Deeply inspiring creatively.

[@jessiepapabear4272]

Amazing

[@ketandesai5326]

This is so cool

[@amargnwalkr]

Please! Make more videos like these. I love one day builds, but this shit is fascinating.

[@Niggoification]

incredibly interesting

[@drumzone5]

Holy Sh*t! That is so INTENSE! All of this tech is way beyond science fiction. I LOVE it!

[@ItsFuckingMeOkey]

Since you are getting into so many maker spaces it would be lovely to see you around at the ISAM (International Symposium for Academic Makerspaces) Adam.

[@CDRaff]

Mojo and Billy remind me of Dinah's robots in Seveneves. Super cool stuff.

[@DeusExAstra]

This is very cool technology. The potential for building large things in space alone is tremendous.

[@leonmrks]

Adams mind is constantly blown :D

[@josenar145]

I am a senior aerospace engineering student and I have never felt so stupid in my life! These researchers are on another level.

[@garrettfitzsimmons59]

josenar145 they are also likely grad students. Don't be too hard on yourself now!!!

[@josenar145]

I hang out with some grad students. I do volunteer research in the materials lab from time to time. I still stand by my previous comment. Thanks for the comment though!

[@nopppee7960]

The VR simulation was one very amazing tool! and for someone that never did FEM analysis it seems like it's nothing special, but in fact it is! I've never seen a interactive dynamic structural stress sim in my life! It's quite amazing!

[@gavinsullivan9015]

That was feckin awesome👍

[@geoff4l]

Wow! My brain is on fire so cool.

[@matthewmoss1589]

I haven't got a clue what they're talking about, and clearly neither does Adam, but I love it. Adam is basically representing all of us here haha.

[@s_mores]

I love this

[@ArchfaeMD]

As much as the director is interjecting and correcting, he clearly sees the world in a very different way and it would be fascinating to have a one on one with him

[@dandanmien]

everybody is complaining about the old dude showing adam around, but can we take a second to appreciate his passion, excitement and that he probably hardly gets to share this sorta stuff with "normal" non academics

[@mechadense]

10:27 reversibly constructed high modulus carbon fiber loop spaceframes 12:00 GSWT (graduate student with tweezers) 13:00 BILL-E ... bipedal isotropic lattice locomoting explorer ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20170006219.pdf 16:03 MOJO ... Multi-Orthogonal Jaunting rObot in Microgravity flightopportunities.nasa.gov/media/technology/164/163-summarychart.pdf

[@shinnn7617]

Amanda Ghassaei

[@SpydersByte]

haha the last dude.... finally someone who talked over the professor instead of the reverse. Really though, those two robots were amazing. Though I wonder why they had to show video of them working when they had the machines right there.

[@lukay6230]

I want to go on holiday to this company

[@RoelfvanderMerwe]

I love how awkwardly enthusiastic this guy is

[@farukbalc598]

Billy was awesome!

[@haydenfisher5712]

so cool btw I love your videos

[@prokillergrape5823]

That guy in the background tho

[@dece4547]

Will likes to be in frame

[@kneesturnedvelvet3725]

He's quite cute... (Will, I mean)

[@claymore609]

Always wanted to go to MIT...

[@TheJttv]

"emerging field of structural origami" also known as packaging and has been around for ever.

[@ya64]

If you look closely, you can see Adam's mind exploding!

[@roundballrolls2762]

wow!!

[@legomasterkyle1017]

Me exploring more of tested instead of only watching Adam savage's one day build on tested.

[@gabiballetje]

Billy and his buddies, that's how you make space stations, space ships, or giant mirrors, and eventually dyson spheres, out in space. It is almost certainly THE way to go. Before replicating Star Trek style.

[@rjc0234]

oh man i need a copy of that game. reminds me of a BBC program about battling virtual robots.

[@BenCrews]

Those bots make a lot more sense for space construction than aviation structures. Modern composites are really thin and perfectly oriented for the loads they take. Why would anyone want to make a jumbo jet out of that thick lattice structure? Sure, it's lightweight and strong, but it's also quite voluminous.

[@LunchboxDOTinc]

this is purely at a prototype stage, at a scale which is easy to work with... my understanding is that the "end goal" based on the two videos, would be at a molecular level... at the atomic level, particles could be transformed into the required material, bonded and used as the building supplies for the molecular assembler which is bill-e... remembering that every piece of matter is made out of atoms, and every atom has it's own building blocks, so rather than using a material like carbon fibre, which you need to work with, you could simply create for example, a jumbo jet, fully "painted" and furnished and all, out of nothing more than atomic building blocks.... purely as an understandable example.... using essentially precision lasers you could tear 2x water molecules (h2o, (two hydrogen atoms, one oxygen, times two for the two molecules)) apart, passing off the two spare hydrogen atoms, and reforming the 2 remaining hydrogen atoms along with the now 2 oxygen atoms, and create h2o2, which is hydrogen peroxide as well as a single hydrogen molecule....... literally changing the molecular structure, into what is needed at any given time, and using something like Bill-e to assemble these molecules into a structure.... hopefully thats kind of a strait forward way of explaining what they're trying to do... some of my terminology is off, purposely for simple understanding....

[@bornamansoormoayad2885]

Billy reminded me of the microscopic robots in transformers series that their job was to fix Megatron in every movie :))) btw y'all should do more videos like these go to university labs and discover the projects students are working on!!!

[@mechadense]

10:27 As far as I see this is not a full octet-truss (only octahedrons no tetrahedrons - only eight incoming edges per node). I guess they decided to sacrifice some (quite a lot actually) structural strength to prevent node congestion since in a full octet-truss every node has exactly 12 incoming edges edges meeting together.

[@ianthehunter3532]

Early Btw 15:26 worse internet connection that here at home xD

[@itstommynutter7088]

7:17 i just got that "oh shit" feelin. This man wants to build an evil self replicating swarm of digital ribose spiders?

[@LunchboxDOTinc]

just to get this strait, this is purely at a prototype stage, at a scale which is easy to work with, but my understanding is that the "end goal" based on the two videos, at the atomic level, particles could be transformed into the required material, bonded and used as the building supplies for the molecular assembler which is bill-e... remembering that every piece of matter is made out of atoms, and every atom has it's own building blocks, so rather than using a material like carbon fibre, which you need to work with, you could simply create for example, a jumbo jet, fully "painted" and furnished and all, out of nothing more than atomic building blocks, pieced together in the right order.... purely as an understandable example.... using essentially precision lasers you could tear 2x water molecules (h2o, (two hydrogen atoms, one oxygen, times two for the two molecules)) apart, passing off the two spare hydrogen atoms, and reforming the 2 remaining hydrogen atoms along with the now 2 oxygen atoms, and create h2o2, which is hydrogen peroxide as well as a single hydrogen molecule....... literally changing the molecular structure, into what is needed at any given time, and using something like Bill-e to assemble these molecules into a structure.... hopefully thats kind of a strait forward way of explaining what they're trying to do, and thats if i'm understanding correctly...... some of my terminology is off, for simple understanding.... but am i on the right path?!

[@adsb4187]

understood 1% loved it 100% give me more!!!!! :D

[@wi11y1960]

replicators anyone?

[@JakubKotyza]

wi11y1960 smartdust predecessor

[@WildAnimalChannel]

Smooth 10:25

[@BlooJooce]

has to be awesome to make Adam beep out a few times in one sentence 😂

[@blacklight0304]

Crazy stuff they can build a Death star that is insane shit!

[@Mireaze]

I really believe that GSWT is going to be the future of construction.

[@connorfarrell9661]

This guy is intense

[@bobbyrandomguy1489]

Holy fuck these people are smart. Incredible stuff

[@Mr59Kenzo]

the proffesor directing Adam seems like the real life doc brown from BTF

[@voteforninjas]

Kind sir in the yellow shirt, please do not interrupt people when they speak.

[@eHappie]

This is way over my head

[@Lion_McLionhead]

That guy is the scientist from Independence Day who said "they don't let us out much".

[@saringaclose]

i dont know wtf they are saying but i am still watching

[@jamesvoos2432]

Adam, it would be cool if you watched your language, because it would be great to play some of these videos for kids without the explitives! I know it sounds parochial, but for young kids, they can gleen some stuff off of this. This stuff is truly amazing, thanks for bringing it to us.

[@NeonsStyleHD]

So effectively what they are making up to before the structure stuff, is grey goo.

[@Theexplorographer]

Smart girls RULE!!

[@RoyceBarber]

I want one, any of them, I'd love to marry a super smart wholesome woman.

[@attikaifinch]

I think the professor rambles and doesnt let anyone else speak or have the spotlight for a moment. It's like, let the grad students speak man, they're the ones doing the research. You're sitting in an office rambling all day. That said, he does have some interesting ideas when you wade through all the unnecessary verbiage. The facility and research going on seem amazing for the most part, very forward looking. Some of it borders on gimmicky or just why? but definitely unique and interesting. Would be interesting to learn what real world problems have been solved in this facility

[@drewshine627]

If I'm honest I understood between 1/3 or 1/10 of what was said I think I'll have to watch this video about 8 more times to get most of it

[@Ale-ef6qi]

I just see the video about your home office and want to ask if you show how to make a thermal detonater and if you can show the walls wenn didn't see in that video

[@t.b.m.5718]

How close are they in making the first von neumann machine?

[@StingrayOfficial]

My luck I will end up stepping on one of those nano Legos.

[@mjp0815]

the ribosome assembles and proteases disassemble.

[@davidgreen3723]

The part missing for me was how is material fed to the robots building the lattice? All well and good the robot can move around on its own but it wasn't carrying any spare material. Still what an awesome concept

[@theexchipmunk]

It is in the concept. Did you see them passing the element? Imagine a cain of hundreds of these simple robots basically making a bucket chain.

[@ahmetpekbas459]

How exactly do the modules of carbon fiber connect? I don't see any joints or latches.

[@benwall3902]

Tbh wishing I applied my self so I could have done more science stuff like this lol

[@TheMike91393]

Bleeping doesn't really work too well if you don't cut the original audio.

[@publicprofile1]

7:47 background guy

[@ExopMan]

7:47 Kid in background -- Who dares step into my nerd kindgom??

[@jeric_synergy8581]

11:35 -- Where can I get those connectors??? PLEASE!