ruclips.net/video/aXrljS7wBic/видео.html Here's something similar Edit: here's something else that I think is closer to what you were talking about ruclips.net/video/TgxibgMO-Vg/видео.html
This topic is studied by several scientific groups in the world. For example, there is a group in France that uses spheres of less size which can create more complex shapes (2019).
May be we are all occasional science watchers? I've subscribed to vsauce, electroboom, action lab, slow mo guys etc; we have anything in common from above subs? may be we can figure it out which led to this.
These modular robots are based on two things, gyro-motor and magnets, Gyro-motor is a poor stability or vectoring motor (due to the air resistance and other factors which makes us unable to predict final position and orientation). If we can orient it better, like relatively using fields around it. Utilizing the fields may help us to overcome the excess of sensors
Hassaan Maqsood cannot you use magnets to repel some edges and attract others to make the cubes "walk" on the structure? The problem is you wouldn't be able to make them jump with magnets, and that is useful when it has been disassembled to assemble it again. I envision these robots as modular robots that can "repair" themselves by reataching separated parts only instead of being made by cubes, have every module serve a purpose.
Alden Hauser yes, it's true. Apparently reaction wheels can provide great precision. Though I don't entirely know how you would fit them into a cube. Apparently they have continued developing these M-Blocks for all these years though I haven't seen a major breakthrough really, other than improvin precision and force. I would love To see them do things other than jump or maintain balance. What do you think this could be used for?
this robots dont seem to do really much except jumping and spinning, but it lays the foundation for other modular robots to be... well... better... Or you can make minecraft farms in real life with them ^^
I think this design is well suited to hazardous environments where exposed moving parts are a liability. They can easily be made water and air-tight. Unlike other designs for extreme environments, the cost of replacing a few of these cubes would be orders of magnitude less than robots using other forms of locomotion. You could use them as inexpensive remote sensory platforms. For example, travelling up skyscrapers to help enforce emf pollution standards. They could be equipped with an inductive charging system. Their size and shape makes them impact resistant, being self-contained makes them environmentally protected, and instantaneous power consumption means you can leave them powered off most of the time. I don't think these would ever be useful with internal AI, but I think a command program installed on a laptop would be a great way to coordinate them. The coolest part is that everything expensive can be in a safe place, and you can send these cheap little units into very dangerous places and not worry too much about losing them. And if you really wanted to, you could recharge them from a distance and try retrieving them a few weeks later.
+Aaron King There is no denying that they are really nice for assembling nice shapes but I guess the point here is that a collection of cubes that can jump around and attach with each other doesn't serve a very wide variety in practical use.
+beevaeeta hahaha i come from greece and i am in the 3 year of learning english. I also learn german and ancient greek. So this is the reason sometimes i misspell words.
@@ahmedhatem4441 I'd say there's a 50/50 chance that it could go either way, intentional or not! Lol (but in all seriousness, I know that a couple of jumping cubes aren't going to become self aware and carry out "Judgement Day")
Perhaps you could incorporate some sort of power transfer between the cubes, so if one runs out of power, it can recharge from the others. Initially I was thinking wireless charging through induction coils, but with all those powerful magnets I'm not sure it'll work. Also, if one cube finds a power source, it can daisychain power to all the attached cubes. What do you think? There are many options, I have lots of ideas.
Inimbrium I like the power retrieval and distribution idea. How would you store and receive it? The magnets might offer a great point of contact between cubes.
Well... the magnets may not work perfectly now but those are just prototypes. They'll be cooler and more unique in the next few decades. Maybe they'll become a new generation for mobile devices (around 7G or beyond.). or probably they are the proto-version of nanites (like Nicole Holo-Lynx)
aswathrce I'll buy that but for gawd's sake... let's not mislead or deceive (lie?) with titles and commercials, etc. If they can't put the blocks down and NOW in THIS VID have them all go hey, our goal is to make a BIG block like a rubik's cube, then the title is still misleading whether it COULD LATER happen or not. Agreed? It's an interesting looking thing but just how it could improve the lives of humans or animals... not sure. I guess it's hit and miss and throw 1000 darts and maybe 3 of them will hit the bullseye.
I don’t really know how this type of tech works, but I do know a thing or 2 and had a suggestion. This probably wont work, but just something: I see that you used magnets in the cubes. What if rather than using the spinning mass in the middle as the main source of movement, you use magnets to guide them. You use an electrical charge to ‘turn on’ the magnets on the desired cubes. Like I said, I have no idea how this works, but it would be really interesting to test the idea.
That would require an electro magnet, which is MUCH bigger, and they can only connect/disconnect, you would need the ability to move the magnets to get the cube anywhere. This would create internal moving mechanisms, which would mean more stuff to break.
I've never seen angular momentum utilized as a feature as opposed to an obstacle in kinetic technology. I would have never thought to implement it like this!
+Evi1M4chine The algorithm would need to be able to solve almost an infinite amount of combinations and it would need a ton of storage. It might be able to work in theory but in a very basic form.
The cubes need a type of hive mind AI to be autonomous. These would be practical only if the user would only need to give them a simple instruction, such as "form a pyramid 12 inches high with a 16 inch x 16 inch base". The cubes would have to recognize their individual positions relative to each other, collectively recognize the end configuration, recognize each cube's position in the end configuration, prioritize each cube's movements, etc. A more advanced AI would be able to quickly re-prioritize in changing environmental conditions such as building the pyramid on the deck of a rocking ship. Another advancement for these cubes could be if they could manipulate outside objects. Example: the cubes are in a room with a floor that is 40 feet wide by 40 feet long with a ball. At the end of the room is a cup that is 4 inches tall and just wide enough to hold the ball. The command to give the cubes would be: "put the ball in the cup." The cubes would need to be able to identify the ball and its properties (its round, it rolls, its size, how heavy it is, etc), and the location and size of the cup. For simplicity's sake, the properties of the ball, the location and properties of the cup could be pre-identified. The cubes would have to have some sort of sensory system, such as pressure sensors to identify where the ball is and calculate where it needs to go. Of course, these achievements would take multiple steps and several iterations of modification and it wouldn't be a simple task. To get the ball from one end of the room to the other would necessitate the cubes' ability to become mobile as a unit. More challenges to give them would be: 1. As a group, climb a flight of stairs. 2. As a group, climb onto a table.
Good job! I don't know why youtube took too much time to recommend this to me. Anyway I don't usually comment on videos but I got to share my thoughts on this one 1. High cost due to all electronics in cubes, per cube 2. Misses a feedback, how can I cube know where it is and where to move 3. Takes a lot of time to form 4. Batteries will die fast from all the spinning, and charging each single cube alone is a struggle 5. Mistakes can happen during reformation 6. Can't be built in nano size due to a lot of restrictions, and if done, think about the huge cost of having a million nano cubes to do some formation 7. Those are just a bunch of cubes with motors, what tasks can this do other than teaching 7yo kids about electronics? 8. Getting different robots for tasks is still cheaper, more accurate, solid and better 9. Do these even have a memory? good luck programming a robot task to cubes and using distributed computing and multi tasking to make them work together, sounds impossible, and even if done, the software alone will cost sht load of money and will be impractical 10. What tasks are you gonna do? I see no sensors, no actuators, no nothing! If we want to attach sensors to these they will lose ability to reform, and a lot of sensors cant be built in cubes due to: a. no space in cubes b. some sensors need to be outside to sense c. reformation will become limited as specific sensor cubes need to always be in specific places Only practical use I can think of is a kids toy to teach them about electronics, but it will still be very overpriced in comparison of amount of knowledge it provides, so I'd give this 1/10 just for the effort
And now nearly 6 years later in the futur the Developement and Research really paid off, they are literally everywhere, in production with vast ever changing Assemblylines and in everyday life.
I wonder whether the magnets have fixed poles or can be directed/changed through electricity as well in case that two equal poles land on each other when e. g. jumping. Furthermore it could make sense to be able to control magnetism at the edges, because if the ability to move and rotate is not only intended for moving but actually doing a task (if future robots consists of way more than... 5 or 6 cubes), then it might be the case that you need less power to rotate/move when you do not have to "break" the connection between the magnetes at the edges of each cube
I'm betting this was recommended because it was recently featured in a popular blog somewhere online where it got a lot of traction and alerted the algorithm to promote it on site.
It would be cool if the robot can use electromagnetic coils to turn some of the permanent magnet off (generate a field that cancels that of the magnets) in addition to having flywheels
David layne I'm on mobile so I can't directly reply to you but you do realize the transformers universe including galvatron has been around for more than 30 years now?
Te Amasin Spoderman bruh im talking about the movie, galvatron is megatron in a dif body, so basically it's just megatron no one cares about the freaking transformers "universe" just the movies really
David Layne A lot of people don't care about the movies either... And obviously some people care about the transformers universe, David is apparently one of them. I'm personally not a fan of Transformers, but claiming something as fact about a franchise you don't even care about is so upsetting I had to butt in here. I mean really, why say anything about it if you don't know, AND you don't care? That's just a waste of your energy, and for what, just to spark an argument with someone you'll probably never even meet?
Initially these looked awkward, but as it progressed, it became more obvious that as their capabilities are explored, that if you had enough of these, they could be told to scale a structure, like a building or tree or something and snake their way around the various obstacles to get to the top, say. In time it will get more fluid and organic looking. Assuming they have enough internal power
Mishael Martin so your saying humans were a bad idea because we are an emergent property of this practical idea applied over several different conformation and energy levels? Well, then that's because of you. LoL
@@maximaleffort well this was a joke. But since you brought it up. Are you saying that humans a similar in the fact that we were single cells that eventually came together. And now that I am this huge mass of cells, it is my fault if these cells do something to cause harm to others ?
Mishael Martin I was LoL, still. The similarities are self evident in all complex systems. The correlation between abundance or ubiquitous building blocks being directly proportional to useful emergent properties are evident at every level. Harm is irrelevant to the point but a perception, from your emphasis, in the mind of the programmer, either intentional or not. Bottom line is that the ratio of volume to utility is exponentially enhanced by being able to reorder the substance of tools. 1 box of blocks can reorder into a 1000 tools, for example. The revelation of this has been under construction for quite some time, although not on RUclips yet, and is an evolutionary inevitability.
Could each cube be assigned an ID that can be viewed by every other cube? You could use that to help determine where each cube should go in an autonomous system. After feeding in the design the "hive" decides that block 1 is in the first position, block 2 goes to the second, etc. or any other configuration and order of block IDs that would prevent the blocks from trying to position themselves in the same spot and essentially fighting each other for dominance.
in order to make this into nanobot shapeshifter stuff, you need a huge amount of communication and tech sharing from the following areas: Dudes that make actuator motor things, AI dudes, dudes who make machines that build smaller machines, dudes who can optimize smaller machines that build machines and combine them into cube bots, magnetism dudes who can calculate magnetic relationships on large scale means while determining how magnetic the nodes need to be in order to not screw up the other bots, Nikola Tesla crazy dudes who find a better means of controllable on/off adhesive outside of magnetism, military scientist dudes who find a means to lock these forms together to keep them functional in case of an EMP attack, and thinking ahead element compounder dudes who find a way to make a non-toxic metal that meshes well with bio-organic materials in case we can use this for prosthesis or bodily upgrades and finally loooooots of funding. Potentially, in the future, you could use these little guys for something, ranging from medical tech to full body robots, to transformable prosthesis, to FULL BODY prosthesis, to starting a robot apocalypse, to space exploration, to Dyson Sphere esque shit, to terraforming, to object building molecule by molecule, to object deconstruction, to horrifying weapon due to prior thing ala dynamite but you can't get rid of it because it's really really useful, to loads of other stuff that I can't comprehend at the moment. Right now we have silly little cubes. But this is the base work for potential future technologies that could revolutionize humanity's humanity. Great things come from humble and silly origins. We were once little amoeba eating ocean soup, and so we see mechanical amoeba here.
We wanted to cut down on moving parts in our robots, so we turned every cubic inch of our robot into separate moving parts that flop around for 10 minutes before they get to the desired configuration.
There can be shelves and drawers that assemble themselves or rearrange themselves if they can build and program such machines. The MIT team could make it easier for themselves if their drawers, tool-boxes, and cases assisted them if their machines can accomplish such feats shown in the video. Of course there is a time and place for such things later on.
Fast forward a hundred years, we have nano modules like these.. as pixels in an image, they can change their position entirely, shape shift and take shape of anything they want. Fucking awesome and scary at the same time.
A good first step to self assemblies that could come together as a single entity perform a task none could do without the others then disassembly. The Second iteration the power could be distributed across all the block to lift more for example.
Autobots: assemble!
+Sebastian “Fatal Gravity” Roll I bet it is one of their commands XD
+Sebastian “Fatal Gravity” Roll Transformers movie.
*Dramatic horn intensifies*
*Explosions everywhere*
*i like beans*
RUclips:
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Haha unoriginal comment
So original
Lmao
It's been recommended before...
@@weckar oh I didn't know thanks for this info
Little cuticubebot : *jump*
Entire manking : Doom is upon us.
Ha. When the guy was talking about discovering the jumping possibilities his face said that.
You typed MANKING i stead of MANKIND.
all hail manking of the cubes
@@theoriginal7845 you typed I STEAD instead of INSTEAD
@@i-trippie82 YOU TYPED TYPED INSTEAD OF typed
now just make them nano size and they can make anything
Well, not sure how small you can get if you are using magnets.
thats how big hero 5 started
nanobot
Nathanael Yoel That crap is so unrealistic I couldn't get over it when I saw the movie.
you cant put logic into animated film or fiction film lmao TheRealToaster2
I wonder how much progress they've made since this video was released
ruclips.net/video/aXrljS7wBic/видео.html
Here's something similar
Edit: here's something else that I think is closer to what you were talking about
ruclips.net/video/TgxibgMO-Vg/видео.html
lordmegacom, well, they painted them to look like dice, went to Las Vegas, and dropped out of MIT. Screw college, we just broke the gambling house!
This topic is studied by several scientific groups in the world.
For example, there is a group in France that uses spheres of less size which can create more complex shapes (2019).
I wonder more
When u realize this video was 3 years ago
Season 3 of Cubix looks great, the old early 2000's animation has been revamped for a more realistic feel. incredible.
i dont think enough people remenber cubix :D
@@khhnator All that matters is there are those who do remember. Cubix shall live on, in our hearts. :D
*Wants less moving parts*
*Makes every part move*
*OUTSTANDING MOVE*
@@MrSamvirk r/whooosh
@@TheSystemBrick r/wooooshwith4os
@@MrSamvirk r/whooosh
"Published in 2013"
RUclips:
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LOL, welcome to the late recommendation club
Lol right?! I was like wtf why is this here?
But why today for all of us???!!
May be we are all occasional science watchers? I've subscribed to vsauce, electroboom, action lab, slow mo guys etc;
we have anything in common from above subs? may be we can figure it out which led to this.
It got recommended to me a few years ago. RUclips seems to be recycling old videos
Edit: , you will never know how I got this many likes
Kinda odd when you think about it, that we all got recommended this at the same time... 6 years later...
same I only just got this now and its an actual video that interests me
ditto
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same
Don't need to wait for Transformers to visit us
Just make them
Marcos Socram optimus? or soundwave?
Even they can't wait, so they make themselves. :)
They have taken over the MIT labs
SLAM Music : it acutally past 3 years !
SLAM Music self assembling waterproof powder robots wait a little longer then it's like liquid
These modular robots are based on two things, gyro-motor and magnets,
Gyro-motor is a poor stability or vectoring motor (due to the air resistance and other factors which makes us unable to predict final position and orientation). If we can orient it better, like relatively using fields around it.
Utilizing the fields may help us to overcome the excess of sensors
Reaction wheels
r/iamverysmart
Hassaan Maqsood cannot you use magnets to repel some edges and attract others to make the cubes "walk" on the structure?
The problem is you wouldn't be able to make them jump with magnets, and that is useful when it has been disassembled to assemble it again.
I envision these robots as modular robots that can "repair" themselves by reataching separated parts only instead of being made by cubes, have every module serve a purpose.
Noriel Sylvire that would make it only work on metal magnetic surfaces. Reaction wheels are more versatile on what environment they can be used in.
Alden Hauser yes, it's true. Apparently reaction wheels can provide great precision.
Though I don't entirely know how you would fit them into a cube.
Apparently they have continued developing these M-Blocks for all these years though I haven't seen a major breakthrough really, other than improvin precision and force. I would love To see them do things other than jump or maintain balance.
What do you think this could be used for?
I think Hiro Hamada will be proud of this one....
Still hard to imagine these robots doing anything other than look cool. But damn do they look cool
this robots dont seem to do really much except jumping and spinning, but it lays the foundation for other modular robots to be... well... better... Or you can make minecraft farms in real life with them ^^
I think this design is well suited to hazardous environments where exposed moving parts are a liability. They can easily be made water and air-tight. Unlike other designs for extreme environments, the cost of replacing a few of these cubes would be orders of magnitude less than robots using other forms of locomotion. You could use them as inexpensive remote sensory platforms. For example, travelling up skyscrapers to help enforce emf pollution standards.
They could be equipped with an inductive charging system. Their size and shape makes them impact resistant, being self-contained makes them environmentally protected, and instantaneous power consumption means you can leave them powered off most of the time.
I don't think these would ever be useful with internal AI, but I think a command program installed on a laptop would be a great way to coordinate them. The coolest part is that everything expensive can be in a safe place, and you can send these cheap little units into very dangerous places and not worry too much about losing them. And if you really wanted to, you could recharge them from a distance and try retrieving them a few weeks later.
Aaron King okay you won the point ^^
+Aaron King There is no denying that they are really nice for assembling nice shapes but I guess the point here is that a collection of cubes that can jump around and attach with each other doesn't serve a very wide variety in practical use.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Once they perfect this, they can apply it to other things. :)
Theoretically this could become self-building homes, stairs, stools(household use), and so on. This is very cool. I'd love to do this kind of stuff.
So how far has it gone in 6 years?
**proceeds to use technology created from the refinement of university research**
You have to wait 6 more years to get an “update”
It's in the hand s of area51 aliens!
reminds me of big hero 6
A man in a kabbooqy mask attacked you with blocks?
Spelling NOT grammar, Bro
grammar natzi!!!!
Phoebius Owais nazi*
More like Pokemon: Destiny Deoxys
Self solving Rubik's Cube.
+baileyboy125 hehe nice , then i can get to school and pretend that i am a genious that solves the cube in 4 secs
+MChris GM Not before you learn to spell 'genius' though :D
+beevaeeta hahaha i come from greece and i am in the 3 year of learning english. I also learn german and ancient greek. So this is the reason sometimes i misspell words.
Came from Rubik's cube video
Not only that, but a wizard's rubik's cube, maybe it floats in the air above your hand and solves itself in seconds. Imagine that.
Remeber these faces. These will be the people that give Skynet life.
I was thinking the same thing! Like, do these people want to create Terminators? 'Cause that's how you get Terminators! Lol
But did you consider the fact that these faces will save humanity one day ?
These guys with the liquid metal video guys.
@@ahmedhatem4441 I'd say there's a 50/50 chance that it could go either way, intentional or not! Lol (but in all seriousness, I know that a couple of jumping cubes aren't going to become self aware and carry out "Judgement Day")
@@NitroJunkie626 agreed
I've been waiting this robot to be released...
Its already 3 Years now... COME ON!
Potato22 Its a prototype of a university, I dont think they will sell it.
cem dilekci OH COME ON!
It could be such a big product though
it cant do power tasks
Its just for science. Not a toy.
now build me a companion cube!
***** I thought the people inside the companion cubes were alive, no?
***** But that's just a Theory!
Jam Usagi (I know you were waiting for this) A Game Theory!
***** but it was an episode of GT where they said the companion cube may be evil (I think).
But that's just a theory!
Alternative response: media3.giphy.com/media/Nx2Lx1RmLadtC/giphy.gif
How to get your video into recomendet section in just six years.
Step 1: Upload a video
Step 2: Wait
Perhaps you could incorporate some sort of power transfer between the cubes, so if one runs out of power, it can recharge from the others. Initially I was thinking wireless charging through induction coils, but with all those powerful magnets I'm not sure it'll work. Also, if one cube finds a power source, it can daisychain power to all the attached cubes. What do you think? There are many options, I have lots of ideas.
Inimbrium I like the power retrieval and distribution idea. How would you store and receive it? The magnets might offer a great point of contact between cubes.
Well... the magnets may not work perfectly now but those are just prototypes. They'll be cooler and more unique in the next few decades. Maybe they'll become a new generation for mobile devices (around 7G or beyond.). or probably they are the proto-version of nanites (like Nicole Holo-Lynx)
This idea reminds me of the Big Hero 6 movie.
I know
+Hank Hill finally i found you!
Yeah... I still want those nanobots
Absolutely amazing. Can't imagine what it's like now 6 years later.
Seems like soon we will be able to play Tetris in real life :)
Hephep
oh my god.
Ha ha, found one more!
People be like my Rubik's cube is alive.
Saral Thakur A Rubik's Cube would be an amazing demonstration of the potential of these guys...
+DeadPan A calculator can solve a rubik's cube. It's extremely simple for a machine to do . Even for people who aren't extremely stupid.
Amir-Hossein Jeddian yeah but a cube itself cant move each peice until we saw these cubes.
+Amir-Hossein Jeddian The beauty from this would be derived in how something is accomplished, not necessarily what.
+Saral Thakur Look, I can do the Rubik's cube.
I feel like this would be so satisfying to watch on a large scale
3:30 so they're NOT self-assembling. Need to change the title of the vid.
TruthSurge once modularity is achieved, i think it should be pretty simple to code to implement different cases
aswathrce I'll buy that but for gawd's sake... let's not mislead or deceive (lie?) with titles and commercials, etc. If they can't put the blocks down and NOW in THIS VID have them all go hey, our goal is to make a BIG block like a rubik's cube, then the title is still misleading whether it COULD LATER happen or not. Agreed?
It's an interesting looking thing but just how it could improve the lives of humans or animals... not sure. I guess it's hit and miss and throw 1000 darts and maybe 3 of them will hit the bullseye.
TruthSurge Not every single robot experiment is meant to "improve the lives of humans".
Gotmilk0112 Then what is MIT spending its funding on this for?
Since when does every single bit of research need to be "improving lives of humans" ?
Troll harder.
Red cube: " Are you the legal guardian of John Connor?"
*jumps into scalding tea, splashing victim*
Black cube: I'll be back! (flips around pile of cubes)
I don’t really know how this type of tech works, but I do know a thing or 2 and had a suggestion. This probably wont work, but just something:
I see that you used magnets in the cubes. What if rather than using the spinning mass in the middle as the main source of movement, you use magnets to guide them. You use an electrical charge to ‘turn on’ the magnets on the desired cubes. Like I said, I have no idea how this works, but it would be really interesting to test the idea.
That would require an electro magnet, which is MUCH bigger, and they can only connect/disconnect, you would need the ability to move the magnets to get the cube anywhere. This would create internal moving mechanisms, which would mean more stuff to break.
@@FieryCoal yeah true ,If we are making something big ,then electromagnet will be beneficial
I've never seen angular momentum utilized as a feature as opposed to an obstacle in kinetic technology. I would have never thought to implement it like this!
1:50 that beard is incredibly well groomed
What is my purpose?
- You pass butter.
**Looks at itself** Oh my god.
-Yeah. Welcome to the club, pal.
I accept our robot overlords.
#FirstReplyHere
#SecondReplyHere
Should have used submit instead of accept
I will submit
Aditya Kumar "he will be made to learn!!" 🤖👾🤖👾🤖
If you had billions of these, would you be able to program a giant monster that moves bit-by-bit?
I need this information for..... reasons.
+Furry It all depends on how strong you build those blocks
This is actually super freaking cool
So how many years before I can buy my own transformer?
right now, just go to Walmart
I think you'll have to go somewhere a little more industrial to buy a transformer xD (Physics joke haha).
DJ Case Matpat from the film theorist has an answer
DJ Case ...have a look on fb for bmw transformer...it's pretty cool
Hello Tars, Hello Case.
It took RUclips 6 years to recommend this to us.And all those years I thought this platform is crap!
Thanks RUclips to prove it.
These look like they could compete with Lego as children toys
Yes, because in a matter of years, infants will know how to code like a pro...
+You use your imagination, I never mentioned a single line of code but I'm sure an infant could code better than you
+Joshua McSorley maybe, but I am taking coding classes and next semester I will take college programming so...
+You that's pretty cool, I'm currently enrolled in my BS in CS
Inb4 someone sues them because they jumped on their kid and it triggered them :/
how 'bout selfsolving rubik cube.
oh you mean cheat codes
+Evi1M4chine The algorithm would need to be able to solve almost an infinite amount of combinations and it would need a ton of storage. It might be able to work in theory but in a very basic form.
lol there are a ton of rubik's cube solving machines XD
It already exists. cflmath.com/Rubik/optimal_solver.html
He does not necessarily want a Rubik's cube solving machone, but rather a Rubik's cube that would solve itself after you shuffle it.
The cubes need a type of hive mind AI to be autonomous. These would be practical only if the user would only need to give them a simple instruction, such as "form a pyramid 12 inches high with a 16 inch x 16 inch base". The cubes would have to recognize their individual positions relative to each other, collectively recognize the end configuration, recognize each cube's position in the end configuration, prioritize each cube's movements, etc. A more advanced AI would be able to quickly re-prioritize in changing environmental conditions such as building the pyramid on the deck of a rocking ship.
Another advancement for these cubes could be if they could manipulate outside objects. Example: the cubes are in a room with a floor that is 40 feet wide by 40 feet long with a ball. At the end of the room is a cup that is 4 inches tall and just wide enough to hold the ball. The command to give the cubes would be: "put the ball in the cup." The cubes would need to be able to identify the ball and its properties (its round, it rolls, its size, how heavy it is, etc), and the location and size of the cup. For simplicity's sake, the properties of the ball, the location and properties of the cup could be pre-identified. The cubes would have to have some sort of sensory system, such as pressure sensors to identify where the ball is and calculate where it needs to go.
Of course, these achievements would take multiple steps and several iterations of modification and it wouldn't be a simple task. To get the ball from one end of the room to the other would necessitate the cubes' ability to become mobile as a unit. More challenges to give them would be:
1. As a group, climb a flight of stairs.
2. As a group, climb onto a table.
MAke them so tiny that they look like a metallic liquid.
Haas nano technology
T 1000
Great but how do we save bees?
Good job! I don't know why youtube took too much time to recommend this to me. Anyway I don't usually comment on videos but I got to share my thoughts on this one
1. High cost due to all electronics in cubes, per cube
2. Misses a feedback, how can I cube know where it is and where to move
3. Takes a lot of time to form
4. Batteries will die fast from all the spinning, and charging each single cube alone is a struggle
5. Mistakes can happen during reformation
6. Can't be built in nano size due to a lot of restrictions, and if done, think about the huge cost of having a million nano cubes to do some formation
7. Those are just a bunch of cubes with motors, what tasks can this do other than teaching 7yo kids about electronics?
8. Getting different robots for tasks is still cheaper, more accurate, solid and better
9. Do these even have a memory? good luck programming a robot task to cubes and using distributed computing and multi tasking to make them work together, sounds impossible, and even if done, the software alone will cost sht load of money and will be impractical
10. What tasks are you gonna do? I see no sensors, no actuators, no nothing! If we want to attach sensors to these they will lose ability to reform, and a lot of sensors cant be built in cubes due to:
a. no space in cubes
b. some sensors need to be outside to sense
c. reformation will become limited as specific sensor cubes need to always be in specific places
Only practical use I can think of is a kids toy to teach them about electronics, but it will still be very overpriced in comparison of amount of knowledge it provides, so I'd give this 1/10 just for the effort
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"How did you get this strong?"
"Nanomachines, son."
Lmaoooo bruh i almost threw my back out
and this meme revives once again
these guys need to work with the makers of cubli
And now nearly 6 years later in the futur the Developement and Research really paid off, they are literally everywhere, in production with vast ever changing Assemblylines and in everyday life.
1:15 talking about auto assembly as cube flies off table XP
Alright now let's make that maximum armour, maximum strength suit. Make sure it's integrated with voice. And that it says it while activation. 😂
that's so cool, especially the end where he said that in the future you just send the structure you want and the cubes decide how to build it
"and this is exciting"... The most inexpressive face i've ever seen! good job though
Me: why is has this been out for so long, yet I haven’t seen it?
RUclips: so no head?
I wonder whether the magnets have fixed poles or can be directed/changed through electricity as well in case that two equal poles land on each other when e. g. jumping. Furthermore it could make sense to be able to control magnetism at the edges, because if the ability to move and rotate is not only intended for moving but actually doing a task (if future robots consists of way more than... 5 or 6 cubes), then it might be the case that you need less power to rotate/move when you do not have to "break" the connection between the magnetes at the edges of each cube
Ok RUclips,you won.
I'll se the video...
It's the begin to build terminator II, it isn't?
I'm betting this was recommended because it was recently featured in a popular blog somewhere online where it got a lot of traction and alerted the algorithm to promote it on site.
95% Talk, 5% Small cubes that self-assemble
Dumbness 99%
The magic robot beans! Plant these into your background and soon you can see a giant!
It'd be nice to have an updated version of this video, in 6 years they either gave up or have something amazing by now!
If (robot.isnotAttached)
assemble();
else if(!robot.isnotAttached)
{
return;
}
for bot in blocks:
bot.findSarahConnor()
Gotta work on your camelCase
Lmao
void main() {
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Return 0
}
20 more years,the cube will be a smaller ball, thousands of silver micro pellets,ergo,,,the T-1000.... Good job gang....(edit) 14 more years..
I don't see where these cubes serve any pragmatic purpose, but they make a really neat toy or novelty device.
Anyone get a certain Big Hero 6 feel from this?
Congratulations, you have invented Mexican Jumping Robots.
Basically reaction wheels inside a cube with magnets on the corners. Very clever!
why not use this to make a self solving rubix cube
Only thing that comes to my mind looking at this is self assembling Iron Man armour.
Yo this is actually really cool, if only RUclips recommended this to me 6 years before
Replicators! What could go wrong?
Immediately thought the same thing. Save us Sam Carter!
Next project is...how to make a terminator.
It would be cool if the robot can use electromagnetic coils to turn some of the permanent magnet off (generate a field that cancels that of the magnets) in addition to having flywheels
I've seen this Doctor Who episode already.
reminds me of the movie transformers when they assemble together
... The day when we can finally say "Friday, give me some juice." and the suit reconfigures itself into a giant thruster!
6 years later, what happened to these? AI could really make the swarm function much easier
Inspired by Galvatron
jervis jagroop Cubix dude. Cubix
jervis jagroop Technically his name is still megatron, just because he has a different body doesn't change his name.
David layne I'm on mobile so I can't directly reply to you but you do realize the transformers universe including galvatron has been around for more than 30 years now?
Te Amasin Spoderman bruh im talking about the movie, galvatron is megatron in a dif body, so basically it's just megatron
no one cares about the freaking transformers "universe" just the movies really
David Layne A lot of people don't care about the movies either... And obviously some people care about the transformers universe, David is apparently one of them. I'm personally not a fan of Transformers, but claiming something as fact about a franchise you don't even care about is so upsetting I had to butt in here. I mean really, why say anything about it if you don't know, AND you don't care? That's just a waste of your energy, and for what, just to spark an argument with someone you'll probably never even meet?
Initially these looked awkward, but as it progressed, it became more obvious that as their capabilities are explored, that if you had enough of these, they could be told to scale a structure, like a building or tree or something and snake their way around the various obstacles to get to the top, say. In time it will get more fluid and organic looking. Assuming they have enough internal power
so, this is Minecraft 3?
Ioseph Stalin What was 2?
Minecraft blocks can't move on them own.
Zetsuke4 'Cough...' Lava, Cough water, Cough, enderman
I am talking about fucking square cubes like the ones in the video, not liquid blocks.
Zetsuke4 use red stones and they will move!
I have seen Stargate. This is a bad idea.
Mishael Martin so your saying humans were a bad idea because we are an emergent property of this practical idea applied over several different conformation and energy levels? Well, then that's because of you. LoL
@@maximaleffort well this was a joke. But since you brought it up.
Are you saying that humans a similar in the fact that we were single cells that eventually came together. And now that I am this huge mass of cells, it is my fault if these cells do something to cause harm to others ?
Mishael Martin I was LoL, still. The similarities are self evident in all complex systems. The correlation between abundance or ubiquitous building blocks being directly proportional to useful emergent properties are evident at every level. Harm is irrelevant to the point but a perception, from your emphasis, in the mind of the programmer, either intentional or not. Bottom line is that the ratio of volume to utility is exponentially enhanced by being able to reorder the substance of tools. 1 box of blocks can reorder into a 1000 tools, for example. The revelation of this has been under construction for quite some time, although not on RUclips yet, and is an evolutionary inevitability.
Could each cube be assigned an ID that can be viewed by every other cube? You could use that to help determine where each cube should go in an autonomous system. After feeding in the design the "hive" decides that block 1 is in the first position, block 2 goes to the second, etc. or any other configuration and order of block IDs that would prevent the blocks from trying to position themselves in the same spot and essentially fighting each other for dominance.
So... we can play real life tetris XD
Transformium anyone?
This is my dream college because of the equipments that can help me to create what I want to create
Mini Terminators!!!
Why Won't this fucking Rubik's Cube stay still?
T-1000 is nigh!
there is just one axis on which the motor can spin right?
BIG HERO 6 ANYONE
balalala
5 years later
stranger : why didn't we see nano bots yet
marvel geek : oh its in titan thanos smash it all
stranger left the chat
What is the latest update of this project? I am really interested in the cube technology.
She needs a self-combing hair
Question: How are the permanent magnets aligned? There must be positions, where they just repulse. They cannot always in any position attract.
in order to make this into nanobot shapeshifter stuff, you need a huge amount of communication and tech sharing from the following areas: Dudes that make actuator motor things, AI dudes, dudes who make machines that build smaller machines, dudes who can optimize smaller machines that build machines and combine them into cube bots, magnetism dudes who can calculate magnetic relationships on large scale means while determining how magnetic the nodes need to be in order to not screw up the other bots, Nikola Tesla crazy dudes who find a better means of controllable on/off adhesive outside of magnetism, military scientist dudes who find a means to lock these forms together to keep them functional in case of an EMP attack, and thinking ahead element compounder dudes who find a way to make a non-toxic metal that meshes well with bio-organic materials in case we can use this for prosthesis or bodily upgrades and finally loooooots of funding.
Potentially, in the future, you could use these little guys for something, ranging from medical tech to full body robots, to transformable prosthesis, to FULL BODY prosthesis, to starting a robot apocalypse, to space exploration, to Dyson Sphere esque shit, to terraforming, to object building molecule by molecule, to object deconstruction, to horrifying weapon due to prior thing ala dynamite but you can't get rid of it because it's really really useful, to loads of other stuff that I can't comprehend at the moment.
Right now we have silly little cubes. But this is the base work for potential future technologies that could revolutionize humanity's humanity. Great things come from humble and silly origins. We were once little amoeba eating ocean soup, and so we see mechanical amoeba here.
We wanted to cut down on moving parts in our robots, so we turned every cubic inch of our robot into separate moving parts that flop around for 10 minutes before they get to the desired configuration.
Imagine attaching a camera module to it and making it climb up a metal building. Seems like something from a Bond movie.
There can be shelves and drawers that assemble themselves or rearrange themselves if they can build and program such machines. The MIT team could make it easier for themselves if their drawers, tool-boxes, and cases assisted them if their machines can accomplish such feats shown in the video.
Of course there is a time and place for such things later on.
Fast forward a hundred years, we have nano modules like these.. as pixels in an image, they can change their position entirely, shape shift and take shape of anything they want. Fucking awesome and scary at the same time.
3:56 What happened after that?
A good first step to self assemblies that could come together as a single entity perform a task none could do without the others then disassembly. The Second iteration the power could be distributed across all the block to lift more for example.
if you were able to let the square distinguish center of gravity when combine you may be able to get the formed shaped to move together?