One of those, "Why didn't I think of that?" things
@MusicByNumbersUK Жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was about to say! :) seems so obvious when you see it! Lol
@Eduardo_Espinoza Жыл бұрын
I thought of stuff like this when i was a kid, not good on very cars.
@vaisakhkm783 Жыл бұрын
@@Eduardo_Espinoza yes.. me too... not like this, but changing tiers of car to become propeller...
@questmarq7901 Жыл бұрын
Anyone that spends time thinking the future could predict this, myself included of course
@takudzwamashamba7453 Жыл бұрын
Definitely! Like whattt
@Atmos_Glitch Жыл бұрын
It wasn't until the end where I realised just how big it was lol, I just thought it was a tad bigger than your average rc vehicle, kinda impressive now seeing how big it is!
Жыл бұрын
For situations of search and rescue in extreme multi-modal scenarios, like the Thai cave rescue a robot like this would be perfect. Especially if it can be adapted to be waterproof. Imagine a bigger version of this bot: a swarm of them could have mapped the cave pretty reliably and even take provisions to the trapped kids
@bunnatang-ue8lp Жыл бұрын
electric powered is efficient for small body and light weight. heavy duty and heavy loading is not efficient as gas powered like helicopters and trucks.
@elgracko Жыл бұрын
Plus you got to give this 360 cameras and lidar, right?
@titaniumtemplar3560 Жыл бұрын
one maybe, for scouting, but i cant envision a swarm being anything other than a mess, plus you would likely run into issue with the connection to the drone due to it being underground, and as has already been stated a drone like this would likely not be able to carry much, but a small amount of sustenance is better than nothing i suppose, what would probably be best for cave rescue would be some kind of tethered tread based drone system, their may be a way to do underground wireless, but its probably a niche technology and not going to be very reliable. with cave rescue humans are probably currently the best bet unfortunately. Hopefully we will get some purpose built cave robots someday, but its such a harsh environment for robots, and they likely would never see much use anyway. I hate to be a naysayer like this, especially since they are all to common when it comes to new ideas, but its just my honest opinion.
@chrisalbertson5838 Жыл бұрын
Haulng supplies and searching are at cross purposes. For a search you might want thousands of tiny bug-like devices so that you can look at many places at once. Then you use a "message flooding" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooding_(computer_networking)network for getting data out. (I think this is provably optimal.) But for hauling supplies to a known location bigger is bettr as long as the device can fit into where it needs to go. Volume to size ration improve with size. as volume is "size cubed" so doubling the dimension gets you 8X the payload of energy storage.
@StoneyVintson Жыл бұрын
@@bunnatang-ue8lp Heavy locomotive trains use electric 3 phase AC induction motos which have high torque at low velocities. They use a smaller diesel motor to generate electricity. The challenge is to store enough energy. Hydrocarbons store much energy per weight and space that they consume. So, it is the challenge of carrying enough energy onboard a vehicle and not the ability of an electric motor to propel a heavy load. Much of the energy consumed by an ICE yields heat ( transfer of energy ).
@gmasterdude Жыл бұрын
That's fantastic, imagine having an off-road vehicle like that.
@zx3215 Жыл бұрын
Oh yeah. Just drive once over some mud and this thing will not fly again.
@lawlcake8788 Жыл бұрын
@@zx3215 How? with how fast those wheels spin up i think it would just need a "mud slinging" sequence to get rid of the mud from the wheels and the just fly off like normal
@xbox70333 Жыл бұрын
@@lawlcake8788mud solidifies get out more, larger tires cannot spin as fast
@Turdfergusen382 Жыл бұрын
45° incline climb was a unique solution for sure
@foxtrotunit1269 Жыл бұрын
If waterproofed the props could spin slower and allow swimming too! The potential of this bot is insane, especially once better batteries and AI-optimized electronics emerge.
@footfault1941 Жыл бұрын
A unique kind of locomotion coined WAIR (wing assisted incline running) might inspire researchers, but its concept/mechanism is not precisely translated into robot's performance here. (This is less relevant to the main issue of the footage though.) Nature mimicry has progressed this great! Wonderful!
@-Anubhab Жыл бұрын
This was one of my dream projects when I was a kid and it is real😅
@yaarmaarkarda Жыл бұрын
This is amazing. Two things I would like to see in the next gen. 1. Waterproof so that it can float or submerge. 2. All the rotors or wheels acting independently, so it can perform more maneuvers.
@NealFosterHD Жыл бұрын
Fairly sure the rotors move independently as otherwise it wouldn't be able to fly
Жыл бұрын
Very impressive. I first thought they used the same motors for props as for wheels, and I could not figure out how they made that ever work, sicne brushless motors normally don't have such a huge span of RPMs. But it does look like 2 independent set of motors.
@arcknightmc7486 Жыл бұрын
That’s from the lab I’m working at! It’s a cross collab between CalTech and Ramezani’s lab at Northeastern!!!
@TheNitroG1 Жыл бұрын
1:20 That boat car is driving with a wake just a few feet from swimmers. It just screams "this is why we needed the labels on stuff."
@yajawstin Жыл бұрын
Yes better than having a small child wrapped around your rear axle
@dapz Жыл бұрын
When I was little I had a similar idea as this, but instead of flying the wheels could transition into propellers for swimming
@mimansasingh34816 ай бұрын
hii .. I also thought of the same thing .. so did you come up with any idea ?.if you are comfortable in sharing your idea it will be helpful.
@IdealIdeas100 Жыл бұрын
"those who use redundancy, they have wheels and propellers but this one is different" Um no, the drone clearly has propellers and wheels, they are just designed in such a way that you can make the parts overlap in the same area.
@VIJAYzk Жыл бұрын
all this would be practical the day batteries can store a significant amount of energy
@benwillvv Жыл бұрын
Amazing work, bravo to the team involved.
@OMNI_INFINITY Жыл бұрын
NICE! Although "space missions"...maybe not that one so much. Drones fly in AIR.
@intellectualcat4000 Жыл бұрын
For me, this is primarily a drone. Thin wheels will not be able to withstand heavy loads. They can only be used to save energy when driving on a flat surface. This drone is very useful on Mars.
@martinsimeonov1563 Жыл бұрын
If you ever came across a game called "besiege" you'll know this drone is much behind their players 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is entry level stuff over there luoul. Anyways its amazing someone actually took it into reality and its hella well done
@megamaser Жыл бұрын
Developing a product that can interact with the real world and efficiently climb over any obstacle is a huge challenge. The US military spent billions of dollars developing a robot that was just intended to walk and carry supplies where normal wheeled vehicles can't reach, but ultimately the project was a failure and they're using horses instead.
@martinsimeonov1563 Жыл бұрын
@@megamaser mine was a remark about the shape of it. Irl is a matter of materials.. u gotta make it work with the materials available in nature. It just surprised me to see something that similar to the stuff i saw over there 🤣
@PoeticSonic Жыл бұрын
bruh, you can't just throw us a video like this out of nowhere, this is not a gimick, this is actually revelutionary! you don't even see such creativity in sci fi...
@Kimchi_Studios Жыл бұрын
Ghost Recon Future Soldier had this back in 2012. Just finished the game.
@arborsamurai Жыл бұрын
I love this and thought for many years now that at some point we will see pocket cellphone-drones, so that people would be able to take really good selfies 😁
@MarioAGzzL Жыл бұрын
Remember Ghost Recon Future Soilder? This is dope indeed!
@supersmart671 Жыл бұрын
Looks like Nature is more designed that this robot!!
@Dartheomus Жыл бұрын
Pretty neat first pass, but those gears on the wheels are a huge liability. They will easily get imbedded with dirt/sand which will quickly halt all motorized movement. Also, I'm not really convinced that much energy was saved by doing two wheels and two rotors. The general movement required much more time vs. simply flying over the hurdle. I like the concept, but I doubt the practicality.
@Catiadr Жыл бұрын
The next challenge is to make it cheap enough for the general population and include remote ID to satisfy the FAA.
@multiverse-mechagodzilla-3584 Жыл бұрын
*everybody gangsta till’ that thing transforms into a Decepticon*
@Dev1nci Жыл бұрын
It rolls, wiggles, flies and cheats 😂😂😂
@VladimirKostek Жыл бұрын
This is so cool, if they could waterproof it the drone fans could work as little props too in the right orientation!
@DrChaoticEvil Жыл бұрын
And once again, search and rescue is the justification of choice. It's really quite simple: If you end up in the field of robotics, it's because you think robots are awesome. You don't any excuse to build a cool new robot, that's a goal in and of itself. If people like these gets to build a cool robot that does cool stuff, then mission accomplished. If they get a salary for doing so, then that is great, but that's really besides the point to them. However, taxpayers, journalists, luddites, politicians, concerned wives and so on invariably require some sort of justification for building robots, and these figures need to be appeased. If they are not, then at best the breakthroughs are met with indifference, at worst, money stops flowing or restrictions are imposed. Consequently, some some sort of justification is needed to sell the research to the muggles. S&R is a great justification, because everyone can agree that saving people is morally good. Also, no matter how outlandish the locomotion or sensory array, you can trivially find some use case in S&R where it will be perfect. Of course, in reality, there is little money for actual S&R robot development, and the need for these weird robots are typically limited in reality. Even the ones that are genuinely good has to be universal enough to see widespread development in order to get cheap enough and user friendly enough to reach application. Quadcopters has gotten to that point, snake robots and so on - not so much. But that doesn't matter, because the aforementioned people latch onto the idea and are satisfied. Then, if the idea is actually good, for real, the military comes in quietly and nudges the project forward.
@TOPSHOOTAS Жыл бұрын
Now just mount a Domina Gunilda on it and we're ready for human vs bot warfare
@souravmj8667 Жыл бұрын
This is almost perfect, all it needs is a powerful motors and Powerful Al and Processor
@CDHfilms Жыл бұрын
This reminds me of an old airhogs toy I always wanted. It had the power to drive on land and water and even fly
@Eduardo_Espinoza Жыл бұрын
This is like the next step in evolution.
@justanotherperson2960 Жыл бұрын
Is anyone else reminded of Ghost Recon Future Soldier pocket drone??? Kinda feels the same, actually much close to the one in GRFS, minus the fancy casing and emp stuff and all.
@nichy7734 Жыл бұрын
Was looking for a comment like this
@Shattered3582 Жыл бұрын
ingenuity has demonstrated that flight on mars is possible, and imagine if this technology is upgraded to be used on mars. it could travel much further, save battery power, and give greater flexibility when it comes to remote exploration.
@orpheuscreativeco9236 Жыл бұрын
... and it has a runtime of 20 minutes 😜👍 Just don't get lost too far from a back-up battery. J/K Very cool design and concept ✌️
@dyrectory_com Жыл бұрын
Congratulations to the team that came up with this idea! 👏🏻
@lastofthebest5102 Жыл бұрын
Thank you, i didn't have a team though.
@mikegps1004 ай бұрын
@@lastofthebest5102 are the plans opensourced? how do I build one?
@alexjgilpin Жыл бұрын
While the variability in locomotion is interesting the wear on something intended to use the same parts when driving, flying and crawling would be extreme... and so would the maintenance. I suspect that drones purpose-built to fly/drive/crawl will always be the better option than this device in nearly any application *except* for when more than one type of movement is absolutely necessary. And 2:35 energy isn't particularly expensive, so flying drones that would simply fly over the obstacle will still dominate the market.
@pbase36 Жыл бұрын
The surge in A.I., "go anywhere" drones... Yes, It's all coming together nicely! - Skynet
@yodaheabebe3756 Жыл бұрын
Why do I feel like this should be the new direction for future cars!!! Like cars that can fly, roll, tumble or a whole bunch of things!! This could be big!
@TheBananaJoint Жыл бұрын
Very interesting design. Would be interesting to see the range difference between flying and driving, though.
@jarivuorinen3878 Жыл бұрын
These kinds of Swiss Army Knife approaches have more than one flaw, but the biggest problem is poor efficiency. Driving is probably pretty efficient on this, but certainly heavy and bulky rotors like that cause all kinds of unwanted turbulent flows, and the extra weight leads to hysteresis in controlling the drone. The range when flying is probably quite poor on this.
@TheBananaJoint Жыл бұрын
@@jarivuorinen3878 Yes, that's the point I was wondering about. An efficient flying drone might have a higher range than this hybrid.
@megamaser Жыл бұрын
Think of this as a car that can hop over any obstacle. In that category, it has great potential. For work that requires from extended air time, you're better off with a normal drone. That is until we get huge advances in battery technology, then who knows.
@chrisalbertson5838 Жыл бұрын
@@megamaser No, if huge air time is the goal then we want either a fixed wing airplane or a lighter then air "blimp". The drone wins only if maneuverability in the air is the main goal. I actually own and have built a bunch of different kinds of small robot-like machines and I tend to use the same lipo batteries for each. In terms of range, I think a specialized aircraft can win, hands down. They can go 100+ MPH. A normal drone can be out of sight and lost VERY quickly if you are not careful. The drones have about 2X more thrust than weight, may as well call it an "electric rocket".
@jarivuorinen3878 Жыл бұрын
@@chrisalbertson5838 Exactly this. And even maneuverability argument is somewhat questionable for the future, as we're seeing drones that mimic birds and they are already more efficient than quad-rotor drones. They are not as maneuverable yet, but if we can mimic bird movements well enough, there's potential for high degree of maneuverability, speed and efficiency. We can observe how agile and efficient some birds are. And fast.
@martin-gaming Жыл бұрын
now make: Efficient on Water and Land: Swim, Drive Difficult Terrain or Air: Fly And diving like a submarine
@rjung_ch Жыл бұрын
2:38 glad EPFL is part of this collaboration. Super interesting.
@MesoScale Жыл бұрын
I wonder how the designers will solve all the dirt issues in real world scenarios: rotors covered in mud. Dust in the ankle mechanics. A cover to prevent the body from getting dirt in (heavy, therefore negative impact on flying capabilities)
@AlarkiusJay Жыл бұрын
One step closer to reviving Megatron....huh. I'm all for it
@elgracko Жыл бұрын
This is sooo amazing, inspirational! If they could make it waterproof and increase the torque on the propellers for sailing and and diving! Or they could rotate the propellers 45 degrees and have the propellers go as well as the wheels, so it can climb up walls, though, i imagine the same motors that run the wheels run the propellers? This is some next-gen DARPA shet!
@Stopinvadingmyhardware Жыл бұрын
That's one heck of an antenna. That ML algo must be pretty intricate. I presume it's multiple ones talking to each other.
@KwatuistM9 ай бұрын
When everyone is thinking of humanoid robots, here's a practical robot.
@Profit4Hondo Жыл бұрын
M4 sounds like a Star Wars astromech droid. DARPA will just make it large enough to add some 556 like it’s namesake. Next thing you know they’ll have a T-1000.
@derek2593 Жыл бұрын
Considering that the extra weight from the rim and tire treads create more momentum, you should figure out how to autorotate that when the battery gets too low to run the motors. Totally not necessary, and might not be practical, but it might be fun to try. You could add another segment to the arms, so the rotors could actually go under the vehicle, to reverse the pitch of the blades. Not as efficient as variable pitch blades, but might get the job done.
@Roughneck7712 Жыл бұрын
This would be great in those Star Wars situations where they have to land their ship 5 miles away and then walk to the target area
@1.4142 Жыл бұрын
Genius.
@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79 Жыл бұрын
This bot is going places.
@bananieldiamonds1921 Жыл бұрын
it has so much personality potential. like the MGS4 Mk 2 and mk 3
@conorstewart2214 Жыл бұрын
This is just redundancy. It has servos for moving the legs and motors for the wheels and propellers. It’s not like you are using the movement of the legs to also flap wings, the propellers are just used as propellers, the wheels are just used as wheels and the legs are just used as legs. Just three separate independent systems that are being used together. It’s not like the turtle example where the exact same body part and mechanism is being used for both crawling and swimming.
@peterjohansson1828 Жыл бұрын
While this thing is really cool and certainly an engineering achievement, I can't help but wonder in what situation is this thing would actually be practical. I don't know what is and isn't useful on this robot but i get the feeling that a real practical robot would be much simpler and more rugged / reliable.
Жыл бұрын
Maybe search and rescue in caves
@peterjohansson1828 Жыл бұрын
@ Maybe... but in that case I wonder how long it can operate because the battery capacity looks pretty limited. When i talk about how practical it is i'm mainly referring to how cost effective it is when compared to other options.
@theterminaldave Жыл бұрын
Search and rescue in damaged buildings where a flying drone wouldn't be able to maneuver. Rolling is also dramatically quieter, so even sneakier for surveillance purposes Drone camera footage is a mainstay in modern videography now, and getting footage from flying and then from a slow rolling position on the ground would make for interesting scene transitions. Not to mention that drones are being used to throw grenades at russian soldiers in Ukraine, this device would be perfect to get into a bunker. The possibilities are endless. This design would have been utilized at some point eventually, it was an inevitable configuration.
@peterjohansson1828 Жыл бұрын
@@theterminaldave The thing is that the same robot rarely needs to be able to fly and roll around. usually it only needs to be good at either. For example in damaged buildings you don't need to fly around much because you're looking for poeple under the rubble. in cases where you need to fly like aerial photography then you don't need to roll around much. The most practical military drone is one that is effective at its designed job at the smallest price to produce, because the more you can produce the more you can harm your enemy. Specialization is often better than being good at everything because of the extra resources you have to spend to be good at everything. This robot probably has some niche use case, I'm simply stating that I can't think of a usage where this extra complexity is warranted.
@theterminaldave Жыл бұрын
@@peterjohansson1828 Every building collapse is different. Maybe the only way into the upper floors in a half collapsed building is through an elevator, so you could then fly up a shaft, then sit down and maneuver through a small hole and keep flying again. I guess it really doesn't matter if i convince you or not, this is a brilliant idea, and if you can't imagine use cases for it, that's just your lack of imagination.
@MewtwoStar Жыл бұрын
Great work. ❤🎉
@Tripp111 Жыл бұрын
Love the 80s synth intro.
@Silent1Majority Жыл бұрын
"Dear family; next Father's Day I want this" ❣❣
@msbudmsbud7593 Жыл бұрын
Amazing ! I want one as my future both otomobil and helicopter !
@boneybone8123 Жыл бұрын
God damn it why didn't I think of this! It's right there, the wheel, propeller, servo... Damnit!
@tyrell1984 Жыл бұрын
This has to be the next bat mobile
@user-aRb00d3r Жыл бұрын
okay Marty, now we're finally back to the future!
@benjidaniel5595 Жыл бұрын
And it can do all this with a battery life of multiple seconds!
@abrarmohamed3351 Жыл бұрын
can't wait to see this being used in the military
@entokyado568 Жыл бұрын
the crawl thing for sure need a optimization but it is alredy very intresting to see a versitile robot like this one
@rtofreak4306 Жыл бұрын
can't wait for the real car version
@LaidBackAI Жыл бұрын
Move over, Optimus Prime! We've got a bio-inspired 'transformer' taking multitasking to a whole new level! 🤖🚀😄
@justonyx6721 Жыл бұрын
This is some goofy Besiege shit and I love it
@JoeOvercoat Жыл бұрын
Dig the transformer aspect. it’s clearly not rugged enough to be used reliably as a recovery aid but pretty cool.
@satriadibasuki Жыл бұрын
beautiful, a nice design for flying cars too it can fly as well as navigate on road or even narrower alley where the population is quite dense
@DeimosSaturn Жыл бұрын
First, that's a CONVERTABLE, not a transformer. second, It would make much more sense for a big drone to just carry a bunch of baby drones in a payload compartment and deploy them for more specific tasks. Like a pelican or a marsupial. The big mother drone is able to travel fast, efficiently, over long distance, but it can't maneuver in tight spaces, and it can't conserve power for longer missions the way a wheeled rover can. So it carries an assortment of smaller drones of different types. Transforming is just being fancy for no practical gain. Transformation is only functionally necessary for disguise. True fundamental transformation from one thing into a completely different thing (kinda like the T-1000) would have almost no downside or compromise the way that this CONVERTABLE does. It has to sacrifice so much in terms of complexity and weight to achieve flight, and then it can't be as nimble while walking, nor can it have the same stability as a wheeled robot. It has to compromise a lot, and lose out on being a good wheeled robot, a good walking robot, a good flying robot, just so it can be a not good combination of all three. It's an interesting concept but I just don't see any real application for something like this other than maybe sport or as a very expensive toy.
@vygag Жыл бұрын
didn't realize how big it was until very end when some guy picked it up
@juaneorlandi Жыл бұрын
So basically the back to the future Delorean. It was about time!
@dustywilson5461 Жыл бұрын
love how the video length is 3:14 .... or perhaps this perceived easter egg is just a result of my pareidolia...
@megatronreaction12 күн бұрын
you mean because 314 is PI?
@megatronreaction12 күн бұрын
3,14
@sidarthg2477 Жыл бұрын
Make it watertight and it can even swim with the rotors
@vice.nor.virtue Жыл бұрын
20 years from, now where we have these militarised drones armmed to the teeth, but the size of an Osprey or Sedan enemies facing it on the battlefield will absolutely need a new pair of pants (if they live long enough to actually witness it)// .
@scivirus3563 Жыл бұрын
the grand father of the morphing nano particle plaque was born
@philippe-lebel Жыл бұрын
Je ne sais pas si c'est aussi utile que ça mais c'est très malin.
@bakedlotus3150 Жыл бұрын
my first thought was Martian exploration.
@fredpenner5667Ай бұрын
ya, ya, ya.....it's all great until you get the message "battery low, return to base".
@luispiros Жыл бұрын
We called them “triple-changers” in my day.
@rikudouray Жыл бұрын
Great start! I believe the sector search will benefit a lot from this as well as space expo.
@darylbrown8834 Жыл бұрын
Mars (plover?😊) The size of a car with all kinds of sensors and samplers!
@kwinter2541 Жыл бұрын
Don·t be surprised if my next incarnation is one of those .
@MBeLike Жыл бұрын
next step: the thing can also swim, too
@danimerlyn9844 Жыл бұрын
Now if they could make it big enough to ride. It would be the sickest skateboard on Earth.
@thetoymanator7723 Жыл бұрын
Wow! Add some solar recharging and it's Ideal for Mars-type rovers.
@rampagephoenix173511 ай бұрын
Better yet (my idea): What if they adapted this as a one-man vehicle, sorta in the same sense as a motorcycle? Simply, hop on and take it for a spin in wheel mode, then it transforms into a drone with you still in it, and you can just fly to where you need to go.
@albertsitoe7340 Жыл бұрын
The ball was a stretch 😂 but the rest was really cool 😎
@user-mb9ni4no6x Жыл бұрын
Problem is same as always, power source, battery will overturned the counter weight balance or smaller battery will make it useless to perform multiple task in detail manner.
@saurabhyadav5408 Жыл бұрын
I'm excited about how it's applicable in other planet's mission.
@SmartGadgetShow Жыл бұрын
It's ALIVE !!! just like some predator insect from the jarassic
@seanocansey56737 ай бұрын
Chances are the M4 has an ARM Cortex M4 somewhere in the design lol
@USBEN. Жыл бұрын
Its missing spider legs for efficient rough terrain travel.
@Oakbeast Жыл бұрын
incredible design
@freeman3467 Жыл бұрын
Nice synthwave man!
@Kaimifune Жыл бұрын
Now make it dive and swim to search for Submersibles