Robots that fly ... and cooperate | Vijay Kumar

www.ted.com In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more.
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[@LKINTELLIGENCE]

*Big salute to the teacher for acknowledging recognition of his students, giving them importance. Good leadership skill, no doubt his students excel.*

[@francoislechanceux5818]

DJI and other chinese drones makers are NOT acknowledging recognition to anybody. All over the internet, chinese trolls are claiming DJI invented mini-drones

[@JoyoSnooze]

@@francoislechanceux5818 And just like you, all over the internet there are bots.

[@CainanParker]

It's amazing how smart some people are. Hats off to the engineers behind this!

[@freeman8759]

makes you ask yourself, " what am I doing with my life?"

[@Metal3750]

ya thats like what i was gonna say totally

[@isaacisraeldelgadomoctezum3482]

Yeah that's my teacher :) thumps up!

[@ThatManAdrian]

really

[@isaacisraeldelgadomoctezum3482]

of course buddy i am studying what you think enter here www.coursera.com see the course aeronautics whit this teacher good luck!

[@ThatManAdrian]

Lit

[@tammineniharinarayana6978]

thank u..

[@devinjones3350]

He is an Indian also

[@arc1507]

Amazing . Vijay and team has taken robotics to newer levels . I think this can be deployed in many life saving situations .

[@manguy2000]

I think they wanted that tune to be the James Bond theme, but not get hit with a copyright violation.

[@bevvox]

Pure wonder, the "simplicity" of ingenious innovation. This is, quite literally, the most I've been impressed in a very long time... I've seen this before, but I'm so happy to find out that this is available on KZbin as well

[@m.g.phadnis5073]

Congratulations Professor Vijay kumar and your team for this superb achievement. I have been examiner of graduate projects at various Engineering and Technology Institutes in India and I wish that the project guides take clue from your work to go deeper than "toy" level projects. I admire the math analysis done by your team particularly the 12 D analysis. I wish our Labs in India too take the culture of aiming at excellence and do project planning as meticulously as done by you.

[@skyhr]

Absolutely, absolutely amazing...

[@sstrama]

Excellent presentation Mr. Vijay Kumar and excellent work by the engineers. I am sure these technology will make impact in future in many applications where we find hard to reach.

[@gulllars]

The level of skill involved in making this, and making it work so well, is insane. I can't wait till these become avalible to the public to play with. Programming these to do stuff would be great project work for engineering students.

[@lallasahu8429]

The best thing which I loved most in this video is the way of explanation and the example of Ants.

[@rishavkothari1672]

something really amazing last few minutes were something more amazing than i ever saw how could anyone dislike this

[@ShawnD1]

Reminds me of NNBot from counter-strike. It was a unqiue bot program that never needed waypoints. The bots would wander around, learn the map, and get better with time.

[@5treefrogs]

Simply brilliant... a sign of things to come

[@moshashem]

excellent, i was working in something like that since one year

[@ShivrajDhaka]

excellent demonstration of advancement in robotics !!

[@farzeenkm]

Mind blowing. Really great :)

[@JacksHQ]

This is so beautiful.. I can't hold all these feels.

[@beinghuman425]

the beauty of creativity is mind blowing............all 3 of you are amazing creators.....

[@sarahszabo4323]

Epic music at the end. It kind of reminded me of the tanks from Ghost in the Shell.

[@tanmayjoshi108]

That's the only person I've seen using mathematical equations in a TED talk!

[@anitaharpalsaharan2144]

Me to

[@ryanchowdhary965]

True

[@ryanchowdhary965]

True

[@MoyaErick]

Fantastic. The challenges of building these systems are inmense.

[@ahnyoungtae]

really awesome clip that I never had seen before. Last was end of the beautiful

[@sanlistonmadzima]

I for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

[@1MinuteFascination]

+waytoomanyllamas "overloads" = "overlords"?

[@sanlistonmadzima]

+BluePanther3000 Haha, my bad. I meant "overlords". Rookie mistake.

[@FutureAIDev2015]

+BluePanther3000 XD "Traceback (most recent call last): No overloads for method 'Robot()'."

[@samuelyang6463]

waytoomanyllamas don't worry we have people like charpu.. They'll over take the robots if they have to (:

[@bedsidetrash]

simpsons

[@generaltotalwar24x7]

by far the coolest thing i have seen

[@markrennie86]

and probably the most worrying...

[@rockydutta5958]

I'm speechless.... really greatest!!

[@MNation69]

Priceless

[@DAVIDSDIEGO]

7:29 was intriguing...

[@captaincaption]

Please don't edit this comment.

[@rajivkrishnatr]

That was mind boggling! I'd love to get hold of the algorithm for that last vid, though I know I wouldn't understand! :)

[@pradeeps1987]

amazing work and really should appreciate their hard work in doing all these :)

[@srideve88]

Wov..this is sri from India...really gr8 minds...Hats Off

[@royzen2]

Power of A.I.

[@dezmoanded]

this was four years ago? jesus christ imagine what the military must have by now

[@boredforlife88]

3-ring binders that still brake after 50 uses.

[@giacomopamio1191]

an inexpensive iPhone

[@deepsaha6676]

Sadly all of you are wrong:D:D

[@Ankitgoyal_ankit_topcoder]

amazing...amazing, with great imagination one can create any thing, salute to creators..!!

[@pk709394]

hats off for this one

[@owaisAlam23]

APPLAUSE - BEST OF LUCK SIR FOR FUTURE (GREAT TEACHER)

[@MohammedYASSINE]

Terminator: the Beginning

[@parswanatha]

its impressive, we need people like vijaykumar

[@mbsap07]

fantastic work. great effort. this is a breakthrough to a new era. excellent job, good luck to you team. simply loved it.

[@Grejegando]

It is deceptive that he mentioned all those applications which I believe are not the driving force behind such advanced technology. Scary what governments can do when employing such technology against its own citizens.

[@Digiscat]

Except it probably is their driving force. Just because it's capable of being used for bad things doesn't mean that those bad things are the reason for it being made. People, time and time again, have driven their government back down if they collectively felt it was doing a specific thing incorrectly. If the government ever advanced this technology and uses it poorly, it will get thoroughly destroyed by hackers, engineers, and generic patriotic people alike.

[@Grejegando]

Pinkie Pie :) I wish you knew what's really happening in the world and what the future holds for us. Tell me something, do you know what happened to Occupy Wall Street protesters? Those spy planes were there by the way.

[@Digiscat]

Grejegando Yes yes, have you taken your Abilify today?

[@TomiixStarslasher]

Oh put your fucking tin foil hat back on man. This is a cool feet of engineering. This stuff isn't inherintly made or used for bad things. Sure lots of inventions are misused, but arent inherently evil. Don't stunt enginuity or hate on it just because you feel like today the government is trying to steal from you. Don't criminilize the engineer for a crime he isn't committing. If you want to make anyone look like the bad guy, how about the people you are so sure are going to use this against you.

[@sparkloweb]

Pinkie Pie Eh, the driving force is Army Research Office grant W911NF-05-1-0219, Office of Naval Research grants N00014-08-1-0696 and N00014-07-1-0829, Army Research Laboratory grant W911NF-08-2-0004, NSF grant CSR-CPS 0720801, DARPA Defense Sciences Office grant HR0011-05-1-0008, etc. etc. Not a conspiracy theory, just simple reality.

[@F1ashingblade]

"Sarah Conner?" "Yesss" ..............

[@davidsirmons]

+Michael Smith I know, right? My first thought. This is amazing tech. I just hope it's not whistling in the graveyard.

[@Fat_Catt]

+davidsirmons dw. This will be used by the military (lots of tactical applications) before the public can get their hands on it. Since its been 4 years since the reveal, I wouldn't be surprised if they already bought his ideas for use

[@standaway1]

Absolutely brilliant.

[@tahitinui2010]

Mind blowing.

[@MaxLohMusic]

too bad the notes at the end are straight up wrong. The James Bond theme is E G D# D not E G D C#. There are many better music videos made by these same robots though.

[@pranayshanbhag]

Lol

[@jamesram4869]

***** haahhaahahhahhahhahahaahahahhaahhahahaahah

[@BMCHK1234]

proud to be an indian

[@ritviksingh4650]

He isn't

[@pragadeeshsv6596]

He Hindu not indian

[@godblessamerica4025]

Wonderful speech by Mr. Kumar, very well done indeed.

[@littleheron1]

15:03 AWSOME

[@davidpham8486]

ok...now arm these machine guns and start human hunting campaign ----SKYNET !!-+__+-!!

[@sagarchandgadkar7908]

ME:It was 4 years ago where is it now? huh? INNER ME:Dropping bombs autonomously in Pakistan.

[@LKINTELLIGENCE]

*Pakistan terrorists deserve this for humanity and peace.*

[@99davinci]

that is the coolest thing ever those robots playing instruments

[@roiferreach100]

I am blown away now that I know drones are not just for playing only. Nature is the best inspiration.

[@Minhpham-gk7nk]

just amazing technology, I want to create one like that.

[@mendezdman]

WOW!!!! I am totally blown away!!! really great work guys!!!

[@codebeat4192]

Just one word: AMAZING! I am speechless. You deserve some applause (and much more), incredible, I can't believe this is true but is, so much admiration, unbelievable, no words to describe it, I am proud to be human when I see these humans. You make my day!

[@Atarix777]

wow... That was just amazing to watch!

[@Noval01rd]

Amazing!!!!! the music at the end was just a fantastic work...!!!! good work guys!!

[@akashrana5637]

WOW you guys are amazing, are you using optitrack for positioning and commanding ?

[@munnypoltric]

the perfect application!

[@TheProjectionist21]

Thank you for edifying us about Philip Emeagwali.

[@sachinsalgaokar1638]

AWESOME MUSIC......! 15:00

[@Reaperaxe9]

I could watch this video all day.

[@moiseslobo6136]

this could be the first robot that can be useful in our real word in the future, the specialization of it was really amazing,..technology and knowledge grow fast it was spontaneously moving forward.

[@tennisprogreg]

This is so exciting.

[@kthorsen253]

like the mid 90's video game music at the end... brilliant lol

[@Anshul248870]

Amazing. It can really change our future!

[@LiberationMusik]

I just watched that part with that playing... and it freaked me the hell out!!

[@rosetruglio]

Truly inspiring and great work!

[@_zoesh]

that was amazing, considering that is 5 years ago

[@themichaelshawshow]

Wow, that's amazing. Even up to the point where they play the music with the airbots. Fascinating. This opens up quite a bit of imaginary thinking as to what can be accomplished with these type of airbots ( my personal little name). Music not being very efficient probably. But these inventor/developers deserve a lot of credit for what they've accomplished. I'll bet some day we see a lot more of this kind of thing. Thanks for sharing.

[@jagpunk86]

It's both terrifying and exciting at the same time.

[@savarin_yt]

That last musical video was AMAZING

[@AkshayJaintechzen]

A musical end ... incredible :)

[@Tmtm282]

very impressive....hope it all doesnt go out of control..

[@batangkankalooo]

Watching the performance of the robots in the end of the presentation reminds me of the 90's movie Batteries Not Included :)

[@Jaswanthsure]

Seriously this is grt ..,simply ...... Hats off to their inteligence ..! !

[@DrewDAMNIT]

I can't wait to see the potential that these little bots possess come to fruition. Very awesome.

[@TheDeanvaz]

yes it is!!

[@rohannarang9213]

That is the same thing that came to my mind when I saw that!

[@saurabh.bhargava]

ultimate...

[@mbreckenridge2]

I am amazed at the mathematics of N-space and the rapidity of the calculations necessary to make robots to fly, communicate and work together. The applications of this technology has incredible dimensions that go far beyond war.

[@kuzmanovic2D]

Fantastic!

[@vkomma]

Ingenious!

[@Ozimbat]

wow thats jus amazing

[@manolete197813]

terrific

[@avinashkharche152]

Mind blowing!!

[@77777xxx77777]

Wow. I am amazed! Well done! :) Congratulations!

[@1234iwantthis]

Mind blowing!

[@xm1332]

This was 10 years ago Excited to know where we're at today at 2023

[@LeoGwizdala]

sensational !

[@ganeshchakravarthy584]

Its really a great work... Hats off to Mr.Vijay kumar and his team...

[@AngryNinjah]

Blew my mind the whole time

[@aakashagrawal2554]

dis is jst awesomely grt

[@nandakumargovindarajulueth4867]

mind blowing efforts :-) ccongrats to vijay kumar and his team

[@MrSidney9]

mind blowing!

[@pandurangpatil4]

Its terrific .. Outstanding efforts in bringing robotic technology to music..

[@MSVHYBRIDZ]

amazing

[@y2jscotty]

Amazing team, You are my idols :D

[@hebercook]

MIND BLOWING!!

[@FeederForLife]

This is seriously awesome.