The Real Reason Robots Shouldn’t Look Like Humans | Supercut

[@hhsyw]

Dude dropped a movie

[@ArpanDe]

Nah a whole season 🥶🙏🏻

[@randommatrix9]

Worth it though, cant believe they put this much effort in

[@Ginkgostars7]

But pretty sure it's worth watching

[@LuisSierra42]

@PatronaKatkat-r2c ok bot

[@farhanrejwan]

not to mention : better than netflix!

[@lauraluna5117]

In my first semester of engineering school, I had a class called Bio-Inspired Design where the core philosophy behind that is that humans are trying to solve problems that nature has already figured out millennia ago, so instead of re-inventing the wheel and finding a solution through brute force, engineers can look at how nature has adapted to the problem and base their designs off of that. At the time, it felt like a no-brainer and an underrated design philosophy among engineers, especially in America. It made me smile to see how the vine robot was based on that exact principle and hopefully the same could be said for a multitude of other projects after that.

[@Skyl3t0n]

Organic computing is also a thing

[@chriswebster24]

@@Skyl3t0nYour mom is a thing.

[@imacg5]

humans are always trying to create problems, not solutions. nature might not be that useful in this area.

[@fathergoatman]

Thank you for sharing that. This is very valuable information you shared :D Thank you for enriching us as well! :D

[@xertris]

Basically the episode of magic school bus all over again?

[@ScottCalvinsClause]

Veritasium: "WAIT! SO, YOU'RE TELLING ME!!!???" Compliant Engineer: "yup"

[@binaryraptor]

timestamp??

[@MANOFTIME]

​@@binaryraptorme too

[@MissFaerlynn]

The length of this video scares me. This is no longer a "thing to watch while eating" kind of video, this is now a full movie for which I cook to eat while watching it instead...

[@lilacdoe7945]

Your comment saved me from messing up. I was going to watch the 20mins video before work.

[@EpicMatt616]

Thankfully it is divided into segments for each robot, there is a connected message he is putting through, but it's told through several past videos that can be watched in multiple sittings.

[@brunoabreu8437]

That’s why I put it to watch later for the last few days until I finally gave up and watched it lol

[@bricology]

Exactly. This is a trend that I can do without. I'm a big fan of some podcasters, and I will watch most anything they make that's 10 minutes or less in length, but lately they have all been making videos of more than an hour in length. I won't watch them. If they can't say what they want to convey in say, 15 minutes, they get ignored.

[@A-bk5lx]

​​@@bricologyThe incarnation of what is wrong with social media and society. Attention span of a couple minutes then the next dopamin hit. Most explanantions in all detail take more than 15min. May stop watching movie and swap it for a documentary. Helps your brain same as putting that phone away

[@CompuBrains27]

People have been saying "we'll never have humanoid robots, they're impractical" for decades. It just seems like for whatever reason, people really, really, really want humanoid robots and are willing to sacrifice practicality to get them.

[@soup4219]

i wonder why its almost like we have a seemingly irresistible urge to anthropomorphize literally anything we can

[@Slayer666th]

Except for the lower body half, i think humanoid robots are actually practical for us, because the whole world is made to be navigated and operated by humans. Each individual task could probably be easier and more effectivly done by a specialized robot, but almost all tasks can be done 90% as good by a humanoid robot. Thats the real advantage.

[@cooperthedoggo7220]

I used to think like that, but one of the biggest reasons for humanoid robots is the fact is that we have designed our whole world for that form factor. Think about things like having one robot that can climb stairs, cook food, work machinery, sew, etc.

[@rambysophistry1220]

@@soup4219 Because it reminds us of what is familiar, and so, becomes familiar itself. Which is less scary, a thing which is soft and flexible and wiggles around like a snake but you don't know anything about, or a thing that looks like a person made of metal and interacts with the world like humans interact?

[@dshoopy571]

Humanoid robots are actually practical because the worlds we live in was crafted for the humanoid form, including our infrastructure, our tools, out entertainment, ect.

[@johnno4127]

It hurts so much to see Dianna healthy. I hope she either gets better soon, or is able to help others heal from similar conditions.

[@enderchicken1]

It hurts to see her healthy? Wait, wtf is going on?

[@bobfromaccounting1783]

@@enderchicken1 She has long Covid and has been bed ridden for over 2 years now. She is 100% dependent on her caregiver and can't even talk. Simone Gertz gave an update a while ago on her channel.

[@loverofmusic3794]

@@enderchicken1 obviously it a typo

[@enderchicken1]

@loverofmusic3794 Oh, thanks, I thought I was missing something

[@anonymousapproximation8549]

​@@enderchicken1 It's not a typo. They meant that it hurts to see her healthy because it reminds them of the fact that she was _not_ healthy.

[@fredericklehoux7160]

I've seen this argument years ago. We've been making robots for hundreds of years. We just don't make them human shape, we make them the shape that is best suited for their purpose. A dishwashing machine is pretty good at washing dishes compared to humans, but it also doesn't achieve the task by doing it like a human, dishes by dishes scrapping it with a clothe, etc. It just floods it for 45 minutes, it contain all the liquids and detergent. Drain it out. Purpose built robot are just more efficient to do what they do.

[@tw8464]

The dishwasher is more like a tool for humans than a wholesale replacement of humans. There's a difference, especially when you get into replacing the human brain.

[@andersjjensen]

Yes, but multi purpose robots are best of shaped somewhat close to humans because the world they will be operating in was build specifically for humans. Being able to use tools made for human hands is an obvious example. Navigating stairs, escalators, elevators, ladders, access hatches and doors are mechanically very different, but they're all designed to work for bipeds with some amount of reach.

[@uddek]

​@@HuckleberryHimNo it doesn't. A robot that is designed to do everything a human can do is going to be vastly more efficient at doing everyday human tasks, than say a dishwasher will. Not only will a humanoid robot wash my 50 plates, cups, and utensils faster than my 3hour cycle on my dishwasher, but it's more efficient at mowing the lawn, folding the laundry, and vacuuming than that same dishwasher... for example.

[@strayiggytv]

@@uddek just admit you're a lonely incel to poor to pay a human maid and be done with it 😂

[@mikewazowski9941]

@@andersjjensenthe thing with this general purpose humanoid robot is that its rare to have a situation where the robot will fully utilize its "all purpose" function. Most of the time, we need robot to do a specific task and the cheap weird looking one always fit the job and is even faster than the expensive humanoid ones. Need a room clean? Just buy a roomba. Need the dishes clean? Buy a dishwasher. Need your clothes clean? Buy a washing machine. Whats more these machine can all do these jobs at the same time. Why bother buying a robot maid when it cant do all 3 jobs above at the same time, is slower and you never need it to use its delicate fingers for playing the piano or its expensive powerful chip to solve cancer

[@rosieposie1760]

My boyfriend saw Diana over my shoulder and looked at the release time of the video and was excited for a moment. I had to break his heart and tell him it was a compilation. I really hope she gets better.

[@HappyBabyOctopus-qu6mf]

wimp

[@wisequigon]

:(

[@mosesjoe3763]

I feel for the long covid patients 🙏😔...

[@homerodysseus4203]

Physics girl has been out for a long time now. I really hope she recovers.

[@emgutter]

@@mosesjoe3763Thank you. It’s terrible. I was perfectly fine until I got sick. Now I’ve had fibromyalgia for four years.

[@seandunn8874]

Something to consider, adding a strip of LED string lights could offer a lot of assistance for search and rescue, illuminating the rubble to make hazards easier to see.

[@1.4142]

New stuff: 15:13 - Vine Robot Update - People’s best ideas 32:15 - Jumper Update - Why it was so hard to build 1:02:15 - The main benefit of non-humanoid robots 1:25:55 - Conclusion

[@svgPhoenix]

Everyone else just complains and you're out here solving problems.

[@PluvioZA]

@@svgPhoenix Facts

[@thechief00]

@@svgPhoenix it's a bot

[@Pro-kesh]

This needs to be at the top of the comments

[@bbbnuy3945]

hero

[@DirefulClamp714]

I came here just to say that I got to watch your videos in jail before I went to prison. I wanted to say thank you. You gave me so much joy and helped me learn about some of my favorite sciences (idk if thats a word) Thank you veritasium for all that you've helped me with. I was in a rough spot with my daughter being 2 months old at the time and me missing so much of her life due to my poor choices. But you gave me a glimmer of joy and happiness. You truly helped me. Thank you so much

[@moonshinershonor202]

You ok b?

[@DirefulClamp714]

@moonshinershonor202 I'm a free man no longer in prison so there's that

[@moonshinershonor202]

@@DirefulClamp714 that's worth good money any day of the week, 😎

[@Tchaikovskythegreat]

@@DirefulClamp714redemption arc, proud of you

[@arcturuslight_]

what they got you for?

[@rory855]

I love veritasium every video is made with tons of effort and research and you can tell Derek genuinely enjoys making these videos

[@DavidLayM]

I watched all the original videos when they came out and was worried about this compilation being a waste of time, but it surprised me how much of it was actually fresh and the reused material was put together in a way that felt fresh enough for me to actually anticipate some parts and see how they will pay out, and they delivered! Amazing work veritasium team!

[@rubarmohammad2390]

I just sat in the train and the trip was 90 minutes. Out of nowhere a notification from Veritasium of a video that 87 minutes long. Played it directly after 1 minute of uploading. Great work.

[@timothychinye6008]

Should've bought a lottery ticket

[@rubarmohammad2390]

@@timothychinye6008 it's not usual that my luck is good 😅

[@floria-loubunda7303]

I work in the medical field. As appealing as those robots sound. It would be pretty risky to try and intubate someone with that kind of robot. Even more if you use them in the dark or with your patient in a complicated position. You got to take into account the person distress and the time window you got to work with. Furthermore, if there is some bleeding in the trachea, you need to suck up the blood first before intubation, which the robots can not do yet. So very nice in theory, but a lot of work before getting those in ambulances and hospitals. Awsome video, much love ❤

[@MsZeeZed]

15:30 - makes sense because one way of clearing straight paths across minefields is to use an air mortar to throw a line of plastic explosive across a minefield. One thing that become a method is to use drones with thermal cameras to identify mines at dusk as they hold their heat longer than the ground as the sun sets. You could map them at dusk, load the locations into a computer map, send the direct-able line charge across the minefield picking out the mines in the dark based on its stored pattern. Then you can detonate the charge at dawn and spend the rest if day using hard robots or armored vehicles that find any mines missed in the old way - by running over them. Combining all the techniques could render large areas fit for civilian use again more rapidly.

[@ashish.pakabear]

rainforests enter the chat. Infrared and other spectral analysis like the predator

[@MidWitPride]

Such methods will very likely be used for military applications, rather than civilian purposes. Blowing explosives up is highly disruptive and risks sending all kinds of shrapnel around. When clearing old minefields for civilians you are not in such a hurry that you can't spend a few days going through the minefield with detectors to not cause disruption. Same cannot be said when you are in middle of an armored offensive with strict schedules the entire operation hinges on and you need to push through a minefield, that's when the explosives go in. Kinda funny that in the video he switched topics from "civilian mine clearing" to other applications when asked why not to use metal detectors or something. I think the vine robot guys might be eyeing for some juicy defense contracts. Not blaming them, as those can totally make or break a company, but I doubt clearing old minefields in Africa is the intended purpose of such a design.

[@LabGecko]

If a cheap drone can map them though, why not map and then use the vine robot to disarm or disable each mine without blowing up entire sections with even more risk?

[@protoborg]

@@LabGecko Because the first mine would simply destroy the "robot" adn render it impossible to continue.

[@LabGecko]

@@protoborg those vine robots are cheap too, right? So cheap that it's less expensive to even use 1 per mine, or just repair (sew) the sections that need it. But I was talking about disarming, not exploding them. Anti-vehicle mines aren't too sensitive to small electronics.

[@victzegopterix2]

"And what else can you think of to do with it." _Tries very hard to not imagine weird sextoys._

[@charlestaylor3195]

And they totally failed to mention what it was originally made for more than 20 years ago, repairing sewer lines.

[@Xiiki]

I mean, the clip before showed it going into a throat. …I might be too gay for this video lmao.

[@MaticTheProto]

I am looking forward to the future then lol

[@Deletirium]

​@@Xiiki🤣 I'm 🤮, but that was actually epically hilarious.

[@rickwatkins7285]

out of the sewer please ;)

[@speed488]

Watching Dr. Elliot Hawkes talk about robots with that excitement and engagement brings me back to my university days. Sometimes I wish I could go back and study/work on projects like these.

[@12gabriel3]

This expanding tube technique is used at least since the 70s for repairing tubes (sewage, water distribution), it's called cured-in-place pipe (CIPP). They're research is pretty interesting, but it is funny how they talk about it as if they invented the concept of that expanding tube.

[@itsClaptrap]

Its more like musings over unintuitive revelations. Some of the best breakthroughs came about because of other, seemingly unrelated pieces of technology, culture, or nature I saw an interesting video about the relation between Vaccines, Batteries, and how Napoleon Bonaparte might've been the first recorded instance of targeted vaccination. If I find it I'll post it here Edit: I can't post links but search on YT "Where do New Ideas really come from?" from the channel Be Smart

[@GigaDanMan]

Came here to say the same.

[@catagris]

I was going to leave the same comment. Also I mean plumbing cameras are close to what they are talking about as well.

[@KydneyStone]

I'd like one to help clear road culverts, it might work faster than a tire on a chain 😂

[@nipunagunarathne4882]

The first steam engine was invented 200 years before the invention of the version that fueled the industrial revolution, but its inventor just used it to rotate kebab and so it didn't go any further than that. Sometimes the value of an invention is not intrinsic and depends more on how well it was marketed. Entrepreneurship matters a LOT.

[@dil6969]

Watching Interstellar made me think their vision of future robots is more accurate than the concepts we always see online and in the media. There are so many compromises being made to fit the humanoid mold without much thought as to whether or not it's even necessary for the sorts of tasks we'd use robots for. In general, simpler designs almost always win out over complex and flashy designs.

[@strayiggytv]

I mean it makes sense when you see who's making those crappy humanoid bots. Elon musk and his fans just want a slave but won't say that cause they know it's gauche lol

[@caylatesner5739]

Absolutely. "Occam's Razor".

[@ShaneetSaha]

The materials used to make the robot, and it’s own surface area, volume, etc. all features used to make the robot should lead to an increase in its durability in unfavourable conditions.

[@brendankendall41]

@@strayiggytv They're unironically the people in Detroit: Become Human who thought it would be a great idea to give androids the ability to feel miserable as slaves instead of letting them just mindlessly work like Siri or Alexa lmao

[@AnotherFreakingDude]

Average sci-fi writer: Human (or dog) looking robot. *Cool* SciFi writers: _RECTANGLE_ _ROBOT_

[@MrMartinSchou]

15:29 - Once you've found all the mines you want to detonate, you deflate the vine robot, reinflate it with a stoichiometrically balanced acetylene and oxygen and set that off. If that doesn't set off the mines, it should at least move them well out of the way.

[@Talon3000]

Sounds like the explosive rope used by Pioneers

[@kingbinchicken8229]

Reminds me of a MICLIC but many times more precise

[@j.j.2953]

I assume they considered using water instead of air and then maybe rolling it around a bit to set off the mines? Too much water? Maybe a dual tube with the outside tube containing water which is pushed in front by the inner tube? Or a completely separate front water tube, "reversing" interface tube then main tube? Or a vibrating tip to set off the mines... Hmm.. what happens when they mention their research in polite company?

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

Or have some way of pulling det cord alongside them.

[@bigdatapimp]

Bangalore tube mine 3.0😂

[@gorilladisco9108]

Rescue team : use vine robot to find people buried inside collapsed mine The victims : "Aaaaaaaaa, alien! We are invaded by aliens!!!"

[@TheGrinningViking]

Rescuer: "We should have emerged from a hole in the floor and instead we are in a windy tunnel filled with dirt." Rescuer: "Ahhh! My colon!"

[@andytruong4757]

0:29 “Bunellenbellanell” such inspiring word

[@littlelynx243]

Nothing brings me as much joy as Big Hero 6 being recognised as the masterpiece in speculative tech it is

[@LimeyLassen]

Soft robot fans 🤝 Pixar mom fans

[@AHeroWith1000Names]

The creators of the movie did get their inspiration for Baymax after visiting a real robotics institution, so it's an awesome feedback loop of reality influencing fiction and vise-versa!

[@littlelynx243]

@@AHeroWith1000Names Science truly is beautiful

[@marktyler3381]

My mum, a retired nurse practitioner, was very impressed

[@riuphane]

Kind of wild seeing Dianna from before COVID...

[@vulcanfeline]

i really hope she gets better soon

[@LabGecko]

@@vulcanfeline said _"i really hope she gets better soon"_ So say we all

[@asitallfallsdown5914]

*Vax-Injured

[@CRUZY_MC]

@@LabGeckowho is dianna? Is she dead ?

[@JaredMeadows]

@@CRUZY_MC She ran the channel "Physics Girl" and she's awesome! She's suffering from debilitating Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) set on by Long COVID 😢

[@tejeshshrestha21]

Gotta say, really fascinated by the micromouse section! Would love another separate video dedicated to it!

[@LostButMakingGoodTime]

Medical vine robot becomes sentient in the middle of a colonoscopy and decides the patient’s fate in a microsecond.

[@maxmordon7295]

It might be the most appropriate scenario to speak about "a [gigantic] pain in the ass"... it sounds like an extremely shιττγ situation to be in.

[@bigdatapimp]

Thanks... Now Im never getting a colonoscopy.

[@Crazed-Rat]

i dont know if having ai on them is necessary though, plus even if they do there isnt much damage their soft bodies are capable off.

[@masterdon3821]

The ai sees the hemorrhoids and decide to wipe out humanity

[@Anonymous-sb9rr]

Now we need a robot cat that tries to catch the robot mouse.

[@maxmordon7295]

But not before having enough humanoid robots to be enslaved by the Kitty robots...

[@Ham-fg2vx]

And not before they've created robot monkeys to evolve into robot humans

[@ratvomit874]

Doraemon

[@al3xb0t2]

This Is litterally how the cold war started lmao

[@I_Rasool]

I can make them and want to make them. But need funding. My university won't let me do it if I can't publish a paper on it.

[@lukasmihara]

I've watched all the robot videos from before, but it was nice to revisit these topics with this video, and I'm looking forward to seeing more updates in the future as well!

[@JarheadCrayonEater]

"Cadaver Lab". My grandfather was a Professor of Advanced Biology from the time he got out of WWII until the 1990's, and he pioneered Cadaver Labs, pushing for them to be adopted into colleges and universities.

[@theflaggeddragon9472]

Awesome! I have a friend who's studying to be a PT and he spends lots of time in the cadaver lab and tells me so much about anatomy. As a climber it's very helpful! Your grandfather's work is much appreciated

[@JunnoStromboli]

No way mine too

[@JarheadCrayonEater]

@@theflaggeddragon9472, awesome! My ex-wife is a PR and she mentioned that at one point.

[@JarheadCrayonEater]

@@JunnoStromboli, sweet! Small world!

[@CageyJ0nnY]

Okay okay, that Micromouse segment was absoloutley fascinating, and I can 100% see how it becomes a hobby and or obsession!

[@Elexender]

I have to say I love the length of this video! I'm always looking for long videos to watch and listen to while I work or while I wind down. Especially videos that don't have loud jarring noises. Like say I find a good science or physics channel. Has great info with a great narrator. But videos are short and at the beginning and end of the videos had a loud intro/outro. It's very deterring for me.

[@pastaalalamborghini]

So much tip talk but no innuendo is killing me 😂

[@kenneth2519]

I must be a robot the way i grow from the tip and keep getting punctured on my tube

[@Nae_Ayy]

@@kenneth2519 bro what

[@MeCooper]

Yeah what a tease, Never giving the full shaft.

[@kenneth2519]

@@Nae_Ayy last time i fell and scraped some of my tube skin off and got some nails in it but the pressure was enough for it to keep growing 👍

[@masterChiZhee]

Watched the whole video and yep... all things, she said!

[@AlphaGeneral]

They say the idea came from a a vine, but, this inflatable tubing has been done in Plumbing for years

[@ErnieZee]

decades even

[@welcometoshush]

You seem not to understand what he is saying. The idea to make a robot like that. He is not saying the technology or method is new all he is saying is, that is what inspired him to work on it. Jeez

[@Magic-Conk]

I agree, yes. This inflatable tubing is not a new idea. But the way they make it controlled and the applied application certainly is new.

[@moonshinershonor202]

All the micro plastics!

[@welcometoshush]

@@moonshinershonor202 trying to say something? What has microplastics got to do with this?

[@postitnotez]

Your videos on soft robotics inspired me to make my own vine robot for a competition and influenced me to study robotics. Amazing work!

[@EnergeticTK]

I didn’t think I would feel so much emotion seeing Diana like her excited self again

[@hustlesprouts]

who is Dianna

[@EnergeticTK]

@@hustlesprouts shes the woman that derek shows the plastic things to. Her channel is the physics girl, and shes been sick for over a year now, she can only sleep in bed.

[@hustlesprouts]

@@EnergeticTK thanks, i noticed a lot of comments sharing their thoughts about her. Could you please give me a timestamp of when she is in the video

[@Emm1738]

​@@hustlesprouts1 hour 9 minutes in

[@kaurkelt2390]

An hour long video, I am so ready Frick it's a compilation

[@matrix3305]

Sad life 😢

[@Colour_beaks]

I still love veritasium videos

[@DragonProtector174]

Someone who is not a content creator should not critique others content, I like The channel @Veritasium I have learned many things from it and it is very entertaining. I'm rather longer Videos over shorter videos. They contain more information. @Kaurkelt2390 I don't think you understand how difficult and how much time it actually takes 2 to edit videos. Even putting compilations together. It takes a lot of time and experience. Some things you need to cut out of the video or reRecord because of a "bluper". Which can even happen in major studios like Marvel. Or DC. Creating content is accessibly difficult and time consuming. So don't shoot down the length of someone's video. If you don't have time for it, put it in safe for later. But you're probably too lazy to read this comment. @Kaurkelt

[@PatrickAndFriendsPRO]

Slow day at the Veritasium offices I see.

[@ryangerber6743]

I usually never leave comments, but this is an amazing video! Great job.

[@ravikrishnareddy5009]

ONE AND HALF HOUR FROM VERITASIUM??? THE LORDS HAVE SPOKEN

[@ArpanDe]

God have mercy, I'm about to bust with knowledge

[@ulricklopez]

The grow at the where?!?!

[@LuisSierra42]

@@ArpanDe hold up

[@mmmdawe]

It's just a recap

[@hpcuthulu6249]

It's just a compliation of previous videos...

[@revingstonemwalugha148]

Bro, your videos are so detailed and satisfying. You're a blessing to engineering

[@MrHerodoto]

It's so good to see Diana so well in the video. I hope she gets better like this again as soon as possible.

[@jeffhidalgo6037]

So excited to see the Veritasium notification!

[@TestaTestable]

When you realize this video is a compilation 😢

[@yurisich]

The only forgivable form of clickbait.

[@Imbatmn57]

I think they included updates

[@justice_w6]

like at least 50% of it was new info that wasn't included in the other videos, it did feel like a recap tho

[@dl373]

Looks like he’s making most of the long-format watching sleep-tubers 😉

[@thomasdemaio53]

The chin-diapers did it for me

[@NakedSageAstrology]

Amazing information! I feel so grateful to live in an age of such freely available knowledge. Thank you so much for sharing this, I am going to use the idea with the thruster compliant mechanism in a humanoid robot to control joint movement.

[@steverichmond7142]

10 years ago we built a robot that was a house to care for the residents. It knew where each person was and would react if anybody fell or hurt themselves. It would initiate conversations to stop people feeling lonely and provide reassurance.

[@cate9541]

What was it called

[@steverichmond7142]

@@cate9541 Nirvana and the system was called HAL (Holistic Automated Living)

[@iankrasnow5383]

No, I definitely saw a Disney Channel original movie about this around 25 years ago.

[@steverichmond7142]

@@iankrasnow5383 It really is easy with off the shelf products. Food handling systems are the hardest - transferring food from fridges to cooking devices.

[@ahmadnawaz6612]

watching diana was a so emotional, get well soon

[@LabGecko]

Seconding this

[@spikarooni6391]

💯💯 29:17 most valuable summary of the whole video 🙌🙌

[@nsxdarin]

You should've had huge explosions in the background when you said you are working on exciting things 😂

[@hikarustarr]

better title: "The Real Reason Not All Robots Need to Look Like Humans"

[@bigdmcgee101mikwilla7]

Thanks for the link in the description

[@RadialMedal]

Can't believe i caught a Veritasium video 2 minutes after upload. You can bet I'm about to watch this whole thing.

[@timberhoff]

6 minutes here 🤪

[@kwisin1337]

I got 6 minutes from post

[@hmmm6200]

@@timberhoff 11 here

[@dexterrity]

hmm how many times did you blink though? better go back and watch it a few more times if you want to be certain you watched the whole thing

[@GeoplexMCX]

2 hours >:)

[@thefireman3476]

I can't wait for something like TARS from Interstellar, although it is not a soft material, there is a principle there which I think robots benefit from, a simple design which can expand into complexity. That robot from the movie when you look at it is just a block of metal, but it then can with help of electronics and software, change it shapes into smaller blocks which can then move in coordination with each other, which can create many unique shapes, and make it be able to perform many different things. Whether it is from a soft or hard material, robots like these might be our future, the ones that are so stupidly simple that it ends up working so well, because the simplicity allows for so much creativity and space to move, change, and do almost anything you want.

[@makerofthingsunique]

This was brilliant, well worth all the effort

[@ivanthesmash4642]

What an incredible video, you're doing us a favour not only with the length of it but also the production quality and information in it.

[@Chris_2806]

"Robots will never be ballin'- " 1:24:34

[@southflorida2step287]

I love the idea of a long form veritasium, but the ads every 4 minutes are making it almost impossible for me to make it to the end

[@kevinhorrell4144]

Bro called a wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man an inflatable play-doh like structure.

[@stevencuenca1980]

Plumbers use a tool exactly like this to line old concrete pipes..

[@waynelynch1]

🤣🤣 Brilliant!

[@iamdave84]

​@@stevencuenca1980that was my first thought when I saw it. Oh cool, they've found another use for pipe liner.

[@EDG-r7t]

Lots of compliance in this video

[@monoO733]

at 0:10 i really thought they let a robot go around in the background :D

[@roachy72]

what do you mean, that *is* a robot

[@NinjaKatzKool]

​@@roachy72 Fr, I see a huge robot

[@JonnyFortino]

This felt like watching NOVA on PBS as a kid again. Love the long format!

[@johndoyle2347]

Best video I've seen in a while. Excellent.

[@EverXFun]

So I am 3 minutes in and I just realized, that blowing a long balloon is building a robot.

[@jjamespacbell]

Specialized tasks may and will require specialized robots to accomplish them but the reason to have humanoid robots is to replace tasks currently being routinely done by humans today. Form follows function is the guiding rule.

[@GeeEee75]

Yes, but it's much more feasible to design task by task rather than making one robot that can do everything a human can do.

[@faizalsomani9121]

So happy to see Dianna back!

[@BierBart12]

3:39 This is honestly the best example of most of the best ideas springing from years of occasional, casual contemplation of one's surroundings. I live for the idea that all kinds of little gizmos utilizing features of all of these could be used to explore other planets at the same time. A probe lands on an unexplored habitable world, and out of it comes a flood of gazing springy sprangy wheely whizmos

[@JannickVerburg]

2:13 the Whacky Waving Inflatable Arm Tube Man of the future has arrived

[@123risekenny]

You forgot Flailing 😂.

[@varunramakrishnan7676]

Whacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man

[@MrHutchhh]

What an inspiring video - showing off incredibly interesting and novel technology and great work by passionate people.

[@jasdeepsinghjonty9604]

Been waiting for your video for long time 👌

[@I_leave_mean_comments]

Plumbers have been using the same "vine robot" technology for years now. It's an epoxy coated pipe re-liner that moves in the same exact way, using compressed air.

[@fx1738]

I feel like these guys are just running an elaborate funding scam (if they are funded)

[@NikhilMenon-m3w]

The C-3PO clip caught me off guard 😂

[@scottlozon4255]

Very Nice! Love the depth of topic! Outstanding!

[@ManImTheVoid]

That's funny because people are going to make human looking robots regardless. However factory robots, medical robots and rescue robots will definitely not be humanoid.

[@NexGen-3D]

Over the years Ive seen most of these the things this "robot" does, but its nice to see all of these things come together in one robotic organism.

[@metafuel]

Hats off to the persons who do the animation to all this excellent information.

[@lividboar]

Gotta grab some popcorn and a drink for this one

[@Werzion]

Send all our love to Dianna “the physics girl” Cowern !!

[@bommijn]

Really like all these updates :) Its good to see everything is still being developed

[@matheuscabral9618]

1:27? LETS GOOOO

[@Albertandearthie]

that's 1 min, 27 secs, and what you're trying to imply is that that should suddenly mean 1 hour and 27 mins. please.

[@eliaskjrbo8142]

@@Albertandearthie The condescension in your reply comes through, even through text! Incredible writing!

[@matheuscabral9618]

@@Albertandearthie no, I'm talking about the sponsor in that segment. I really like brilliant

[@ponygirl.lover.28]

​@@matheuscabral9618 same!! it's awesome!

[@TehF0cus]

Its 1:27:19 Quite the different length

[@thedorito5434]

Can't they combine the jumping robot with another? So something can fling both the jumping robot attached to a platform into the air and then the jumping robot jumps mid flight on the platform for double jump? (This way it already has momentum)

[@rulo4taciudad]

Only 1 and a half hour of this content is not enough. Thanks to the whole team for creating this

[@migueltovarguerrero2582]

The vine robot is 100% going to be used to pump explosives through ventilation systems for war.

[@grimmertwin2148]

Done

[@SnailHatan]

That would be unnecessary. We literally have bombs and missiles so precise that they can be shot through windows or roofs and be detonated so specifically that they only destroy one particular interior room, leaving everything else undamaged.

[@ufffd]

if you’re close enough and safe enough to attach a robot to their ventilation system you have quite a few options already

[@gamingtherapy8918]

​​@@SnailHatanthis thing will be cheap

[@konserv]

Jumping one looks like a good and cheap explosives delivery system.

[@adityakiranbhattacharya2225]

is it a compilation of your previous robot videos?

[@Im_Sight]

pretty sure it is felt like ive seen these before

[@lasjames7516]

description says its a supercut; has a few new segments as well

[@freeman9586]

he explains it in the first few minutes

[@Imnotgm-u5x]

I know the micro mouse was already made since I just watched it a few days ago but not sure about the other ones

[@svgPhoenix]

He literally said it's a supercut in the intro

[@yasmin21354]

I’m so glad I decided to watch this 😅 I usually can’t sit through an hour long video but this was exceptionally entertaining and informative to watch!

[@leverticeboyd4021]

In the near future, they call this "Infiniboner technology"

[@_GLXC]

I was waiting for someone to make that joke...

[@Sharky-1507]

Commenting here before this blows up.

[@PNWMan]

@@Sharky-1507 before it what

[@kadmow]

Yes, the limited length tube has long been used for the erectile deficiencies of member's.

[@Sharky-1507]

Before the comme​nt gets popular @@PNWMan

[@tiagotiagot]

Soft and weak robots will have less uses; terminator endoskeletons will not be just in factories and construction sites; people are.gonna want robots that can carry their groceries, react fast enough to avoid letting a vase they bumped fall of the table etc. Compliant mechanisms can't be passive, domestic robots must have the ability to use at least human-level power (strength and/or speed) in order to do many of the tasks people would want them to perform.

[@timux7610]

Bruh, you watched too many sci-fi movies my guy...

[@tiagotiagot]

@@timux7610 How will a robot that's not strong enough to hurt you perform useful tasks that require the strength/speed that would hurt if applied to you?

[@calithyde5346]

​@@tiagotiagot did you watch the video? The first robot is designed to be squishy on the small scale but apply hundreds of newtons of force on the large scale

[@tiagotiagot]

@@calithyde5346 Yeah, and to do that it needs to occupy more space, and possibly be designed specifically for working as a jack with very limited ability to manipulate the heavy material; meanwhile a humanoid robot would occupy at most a little more space than human, and possibly even less, and be able to handle bags of groceries, placing the individual items in the pantry and fridge shelves without much trouble etc.

[@adamharoon6021]

I'm really proud to be in such an exciting and diverse field. I started studying robotics 2 years ago and I have only barely scratched the surface. Thank you so much Veritasium for making these incredible videos. You keep my passion for science ignited.

[@GetMoGaming]

Isn't it strange how we mimic nature. I suppose it's inevitable, it being the only master designer we see.

[@Cangaca777]

It's one of the reasons that I believe in a higher power. I mean, you absolutely cannot look at nature, a plant, an insect, an animal, the human body, our eyes, our brains, atomic particles, the universe, time itself. and say that its faulty or dumb, uninteresting, uninspiring or that is not complex or devoid of beauty. There is inherent intelligence in everything around us and it's beyond all of us.

[@albejaine]

​@@Cangaca777 I think higher without implying intent or purpose is OK.

[@GetMoGaming]

@@Cangaca777 Maybe. But maybe we're a product of our environment, that's why we find it all beautiful, because if we didn't, we wouldn't survive as well. Maybe those that find beauty in things breed more. Maybe if the atom wasn't perfectly balanced and the cosmological constant wasn't perfect, we wouldn't be here to marvel at the design. That's called the (Weak) Anthropic Principle; we are here because this universe is the way it is (in balance and complexity). There's nobody to marvel in the universe that failed to inflate, or the one that was a hot mess. I'm agnostic, btw. Logical as you can probably tell :) What amazes me is the fact that we apes have evolved to a point where we can ask ourselves these fundamental questions of design.

[@Cangaca777]

@@albejaine Imo, purpose is intrinsically linked and cannot be separated from a higher power. or at least the notion of something like that. and why I say that. Well, because the universe and everything inside it works! everything is unfathomably correct and follows the right course on every single dimension of calculation imaginable. so you could at least say that, Yes. it has a purpose, and the purpose is ( at bare minimum ) to function on pristine levels across trillions and billions of years. Also, why are you afraid of a higher power judging you and deciding to be kinda nihilistic? this already happens to everybody or will inevitably happen to somebody at some point in their life: Every ideal is a judge and we all fall short of it. ..but we can all try to be better, as crazy as it seems; yes. we actually have a choice. you can actually choose to see the glass half empty or half full and this alone can literally change your whole life. you just can't do that on the presupposition that you and/or everything around you has no purpose. and that's just sad to say the least man.. please dont do that.

[@Cangaca777]

​@@GetMoGaming Maybe the fact that the atom is actually perfectly balanced and that because of that we can now finally gaze at it's ridiculous and almost impossible complexity presupposes something even more ineffable being the 'artist' behhind it. ramdom clashing chaos alone cannot create the Mona Liza painting for example, or Photoshop's source code. those things come out of nothingness but they require inteligence first to be conceivable and ultimately realized on a meaningful form. I think you could say that this is also logical right? To me beauty ( and maybe this could be the true ultimate form of beauty ) can also be trancendent. like: - How can you prove that your wife, husband or kid loves you? - go search your environment for it, you will not find it absolutely anywhere in the entire galaxy.. but you just know it exists, and it's beaultiful. ..or like a piece of art. yes it's a physical object right in front of you, but what about all the questions that it's asking you, all the meaning that emanates from it inviting you, challenging you, questioning you, sometimes even jugding you. those things are not material in nature but they can be just as real as the object, maybe even more real I would say; a different kind of real. much more 'refined' and 'subtle'. a reality that cannot be destroyed. Anyway.. I love to talk about those crazy fundamental things too haha, it's so fascinating.

[@Gewehr-98]

If a jumping spider wasn't enough, we now have slingshot spiders. Absolute nightmare.

[@SnailHatan]

Somehow you turn a badass literal Spider-man spider into a nightmare 🙄 god humans are annoying

[@KennethDavid-n8n]

Absolutely brilliant design!

[@dominokos]

Why would we need humanoid robots when we have humans? We need robots that do the things humans can't do the most.

[@garrett6064]

I imagine a world where robots do all the work. From mining metals, forging them into usable parts, building the world, while humans collect a check every month and spend their time on leisure activities. Basically the government (we the people) collectively own everything. Nobody owns a McDonald's anymore, they are all state owned, everything is state owned. So when you buy anything, that money goes back into the government coffers to be redistributed the next month. The whole communism thing is hard to swallow, but once ya get past that this is a communism that can work because all people are the treated the same.

[@flanderg123]

Ya bud, hindsight is at least 20/20. If you woulda done it, then it woulda been deep.

[@asgacc8789]

To replace the humans. For doing work at very low cost

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@asgacc8789 Eventually. They're going to be very expensive for a very long time to come.

[@downwithputube]

11:42 it's a p****

[@adcraziness1501]

@15:15 you ask for other applications - how about emergency hazmat safe zones? If you are in a building and it is filled with hazardous materials, let's say toxic dust. You have a 2m wide "vine robot" enter through a typical entry door, and it tunnels its way into the bad environment and gives responders or whoever safe access into the building. It tunnels its way in with a Tyvek fabric or similar, tightly woven enough to be an effective barrier to a hazardous environment and tough enough to be walked on.

[@keithhill9901]

One of these vine robots could be used to drill a hole under a road or driveway in order to run a tube or wiring for fluid or electrical

[@randommatrix9]

Bro dropped a whole trilogy 💀

[@Soren9302]

I love the beautiful showcase of out of the box thinking, and showing us how you could make the box move if it is compliant enough

[@kevinyancey958]

The "Vine Robot" is the same principle in use for sewer relining, except the material is impregnated with epoxy and hardens into a fiber reinforced plastic.

[@catagris]

Also I mean plumbing cameras are close to what they are talking about as well.

[@JohnLbalunye]

😂i was like , I have nothing good to watch on KZbin....oohh let me see if veritasium has posted something new.....and now we are here together... should probably turn my notifications on....if you are reading this, I hope you have a great day...

[@DrollerSteam13]

Absolutely love this style of video, I think I learned a lot more than normal from this

[@EvxrblazeWrites]

So you can say I’m not a robot?

[@hugegamer5988]

They have been using this “robot” since the 80’s where it is used to resurface sewer pipes and to perform other types of pipe repair. It’s just slightly thicker and uses adhesive on the outside, otherwise it’s identical.

[@jims.3987]

No no, it's new tech invented by some nerd watching a plant