BMW paid me to visit their factory (specifically their solar farm, new packing boxes, and a training center) but otherwise had no editorial control. They probably didn't expect me to spend most of the episode giving kitchen utensils to research-grade robots!
can you next time pleas put that in the video so that you know that even if you dont read the coments(it is also a legar requerment in a lot of contrys)
How did this man manage to convince BMW to pay and give exclusive access for a video on a channel with like 300 K subscribers. Dont get me wrong, thats incredible from my perspective but surely BMW has access to channels with millions of subscribers.
@@petergerdes1094 Yup! This semester was a bio-inspired robotics class (made a dog that runs on a treadmill), a zero-g flight (the fact they have a course you can do on that is sick), and my first PhD comittee meeting (which went surprisingly ok). And I did 2 marathons (stupid idea, but should make for an interesting video eventually). I wish I was better at balancing it all :(
@@AtomicFrontier Wait did your grad program pay for a zero g flight? Mine wouldn't even pay a stipend big enough to live in the same city. But doing shit like that and not balancing is what grad school is for. Once you have your PhD it's either fight for an academic position all the time or work hard in private sector.
Only James would carry a bunch of random robot arms in the middle of the desert for cool shots in the video. I cant even imagine the insane logistics behind these video, no one tell him about green screens! 😁
For the business, unionization is the bigger risk. Injury or death only take a single worker out of operation, and they can be replaced with minimal if any disruption.
This is some of the highest quality content there is, i love that you actually got some real robots to do the demonstration with. Keep up the good work.
This channel has always been making super high quality videos, you deserve way more subscribers, hopefully more tom scott fans will discover your channel.
This channel has deeper content than Tom Scott, which is great but may reduce the audience. Also, Tom Scott worked his ass off producing a ton of content for over a decade. Not everybody wants that full time RUclipsr lifestyle.
Product engineer from a 3D machine vision company in Michigan here that specifically works with auto companies! You’re right in the 3D camera stuff but there’s always constant improvement in the field too! We’ve done numerous jobs with some really impressive accuracy and repeatability. It’ll be stuff like seam sealing or assembly, always pushing what we can do, finding new use cases, and making usability easier. More recently we’ve branched into material handling for warehouse automation, too, which is what I personally focus on Sorry, not often I see something I specifically work with daily so it’s fun to talk about lol
Holy quality. Subbed, this was very entertaining. I love the way you do the intermissions with explanation, picking a highly naturalistic backdrop or heavily relying on props. At least for this video.
That's a recurring theme through his videos :) honestly this one doesn't go as hard on motion-tracked floating B-roll/captions as some! The camerawork is always excellent.
That's extrinsic calibration and doesn't require machine learning to do. Pattern recognition is used for recognizing what objects are rather than for calibrating equipment.
@kakyoindonut3213 not even close, veritasium has a huge team and is heavily focused on entertainment and marketing of their videos (see: constant title changes to trick the algorithm)
This was an interesting video to see the manufacturing plant through the eyes of the robots and to see what the conssequences are for employment. Nice to see illustrated that robots don't just simply eliminate jobs.
For context, for simpler products: the manufacturing giant Foxconn in China, used to have over a million employees and also a manufacturer and designer of manufacturing robots had it's first lights out factory (so no human workers unless something breaks) in 2016,, they already had 10 that year. These days their margins are a much higher and the number of employees are now about half.
The consistently improving quality of the videos on this channel will never cease to amaze me. Easily one of the best active RUclipsrs today. You deserve millions of subscribers, and it’s only a matter of time.
Just wanted to say that I really like the production quality of your video, like the shadows in desert and the floating signs were you even walk through. Really nice. And even the little tiny things that make the video is so good like Gary. Gary is there only for two seconds and it made my day. Keep up this quality, like bringing out your hardware in to the desert to show how the robot arm works. He put a lot of work into it and I want to Say thank you.
Beautiful and polished video! I's so cool to see you getting more and more professional and now even checking out a massive manifacturing site! I really enjoy your style and the visuals are tasteful while not being too distracting! Thank you for the great video!
This is honestly some of the highest quality journalism and tech demonstration I have seen on RUclips. You'll be in the millions of subscribers in no time. Keep up the great work!
Yoooooo, this is great. Your videos just keep getting better and better. This video was polished, professional, informative, and kept attention. Good stuff!!
I love the shot with the shadow of your arm flashing back and forth over the succulent leaves, if for no other reason than that it demonstrates you were actually in that real space with the bush, regardless of how good your roto might be otherwise. Cheers mate!
@AtomicFrontier One of your Science&Tech-RUclips colleagues already paid us a visit two months ago reporting on that topic of autonomous driving at the end of the assembly line. But the Video still isn't up.
@@LpSuperdiddy Editing and fact checking can take quite a while, backlogs are a thing, and many youtubers have full time jobs outside of youtube. I know of a number of fairly big channels who do this full time, the turn around time for actually well done videos that require a lot of research and editing can easily be six months or more (and that's when other people are employed to do parts of the job, when the creator is doing everything themselves either the quality drops or it takes even longer).
I ordered a BMW M340i and when I got the VIN, I found out that it was coming from this factory when I started tracking the build on BMW's website. It's in the final assembly stage on the tracker. It's still going to be a few weeks until it arrives at the Port of Brunswick. So excited!
Really one of youtube’s most annoying “features” totally ignoring multilingual people, language specific jokes or the problem of clicking on a video in a language you don’t speak because the title was in one you spoke.
I've got my view right here... so where is the other millions of views that your videos deserve??? I am always in awe at how much effort and quality go into making these...
You explained the limitations of robots really well! Where did you get all of these props and animations from? This video must have taken forever to put together. Well done on producing such a high quality video!
I really enjoyed the (im going to assume very much intentional) extreme contrast between the futuristic hyper techy production facility and the stunning nature!
Great video James. What a shame you never got to go through the Holden, Toyota or Ford plants here in Australia. I was lucky enough to get a tour inside the Holden plant during the VZ model cycle, as one of the members of the Holden Precision Driving Team. At the time, although the vehicle volumes were nothing like a big overseas plant, they were the most flexible line in the world. They were able to run ALL VZ variants down the line 'as ordered' which was amazing to see. (Utes, sedans, long wheel base sedans, Crewman, Monaro, HSV base cars and many versions in both right and left hand drive - all one after the other. Probably the coolest car related thing I've seen actually.
Cheers! For the moment it's just me (with my friends helping with camera and Dad writing the music), but hoping to find someone else to help eventually. You're right, that masking is exhausting! I've been listening to the entire works of Brandon Sanderson to help pass the time :)
@@AtomicFrontierEntire works? I'm just finishing Stormlight 5 and dreading returning to no more Cosmere, are you also realisting Alcatraz and Cytoverse?
Might do! Finished the full cosmere at least (Sunlit man was awesome! Although I also really enjoyed Tress). Taking a break at the moment to read some non-fiction, but will be back! Enjoy Stormlight 5!
Those shadows at around 55 seconds didn't project onto your legs. I wish my brain would just accept visual effects. Fascinating video, thanks for your effort.
I recently finished a scifi book series that included in the background the fact that self-sustainable machines had been solved. So being able to see exactly how machines are used in collaboration with people was super interesting
Looking forward to when James gets replaced by AI, which would be ironic after he did a video celebrating the loss of jobs by doing a corporate video for BMW on robotics (and making it a cute smart-ass remark about no unions).
As a controls engineer and robot programmer, I have to say bravo! I expected to leave this video with some Gell-Mann amnesia, but everything was accurate, if a little high-level. That cobot with the knife was pretty funny... I've seen worse EOATs before. I just wish you'd had the opportunity to go a little deeper!
Thanks for confirming that industrial robots can be built with low-ratio gearboxes and beefier motors for safety. I understand with the situations where it's not strictly necessary will be cheaper to use a simpler motor, but yeah. I wonder if in the future, more dynamic control software/robot applications will require the "cobot" construction to become more common/the new norm.
8:33 The insides of the robot do not expirience a million times more force. They expirience 1000x more acceleration, which I guess can be damaging. But since work done on the outside is equal to one done on the insides, and the insides move 1000x more distance, the forces are 1000x smaller. The insides having a million times more inertia mean the internal components of the robot appear a million times heavier than they are, and so can transfer a lot of momentum into whatever the the robot is hitting.
BMW paid me to visit their factory (specifically their solar farm, new packing boxes, and a training center) but otherwise had no editorial control. They probably didn't expect me to spend most of the episode giving kitchen utensils to research-grade robots!
Thanks for being honest and transparent with paid sponsorships
can you next time pleas put that in the video so that you know that even if you dont read the coments(it is also a legar requerment in a lot of contrys)
How did this man manage to convince BMW to pay and give exclusive access for a video on a channel with like 300 K subscribers. Dont get me wrong, thats incredible from my perspective but surely BMW has access to channels with millions of subscribers.
awesome you got to visit their factory and get paid and make a awesome video out of it!
Great to know, these videos are great and the information in the should stay unbiased, thank you and stay independent!
This guy disappears for a few months then drops a super interesting video out of nowhere, and then the cycle repeats
Sure she doesn't identify as a woman?
Doesn't he still need to go to school? I presumed he was busy with his classes.
@@petergerdes1094 Yup! This semester was a bio-inspired robotics class (made a dog that runs on a treadmill), a zero-g flight (the fact they have a course you can do on that is sick), and my first PhD comittee meeting (which went surprisingly ok). And I did 2 marathons (stupid idea, but should make for an interesting video eventually). I wish I was better at balancing it all :(
@@AtomicFrontier Wait did your grad program pay for a zero g flight? Mine wouldn't even pay a stipend big enough to live in the same city.
But doing shit like that and not balancing is what grad school is for. Once you have your PhD it's either fight for an academic position all the time or work hard in private sector.
@@petergerdes1094 great, you just confirmed academics don t work hard
11:45 That one Gary is holding everything together
7:45 is this loss
oh no
good spotting
Sure is
Looool I got caught lacking
Good think it prevent _loss_ of position track 😁
Only James would carry a bunch of random robot arms in the middle of the desert for cool shots in the video.
I cant even imagine the insane logistics behind these video, no one tell him about green screens! 😁
Recording a behind the scenes / podcast for the Patreon. Not sure if you're a supporter, but if not just send me an email and I'll send you a link!
@@AtomicFrontier Thank you James! I have submitted a form on your website with my email
@@AtomicFrontier Super wholesome!
@@AtomicFrontier Why the hell would someone pay to watch advertisements!?
"Who wants a boring steel-colored car anyway?"
Heh, I see what you did there.
By that you certainly don't mean cybertruck. :)
It's fine. Delorean has stanless steel body
@@myronkipa2530and it sold very poorly😅
@@aadarshktofficialyes he did. Its the ugliest vehicle ever😂
@@myronkipa2530 what is wrong with stan?, why do they not include him :(
“Injury, death, or unionization” has the same vibes as “We could be killed, or worse, EXPELLED”
For the business, unionization is the bigger risk. Injury or death only take a single worker out of operation, and they can be replaced with minimal if any disruption.
@@vylbird8014in Germany the unions work with the company and vice versa and they still make the best cars in the world.
@@vylbird8014I hell yeah, more unions, plox
This is some of the highest quality content there is, i love that you actually got some real robots to do the demonstration with. Keep up the good work.
This channel has always been making super high quality videos, you deserve way more subscribers, hopefully more tom scott fans will discover your channel.
Tom Scott is a much better orator. I can't follow Atomic Frontier without reading the subtitles.
@@p1mrxMaybe clean out your ears then because I, as an American, can understand him perfectly fine.
This channel has deeper content than Tom Scott, which is great but may reduce the audience. Also, Tom Scott worked his ass off producing a ton of content for over a decade. Not everybody wants that full time RUclipsr lifestyle.
Product engineer from a 3D machine vision company in Michigan here that specifically works with auto companies! You’re right in the 3D camera stuff but there’s always constant improvement in the field too! We’ve done numerous jobs with some really impressive accuracy and repeatability. It’ll be stuff like seam sealing or assembly, always pushing what we can do, finding new use cases, and making usability easier. More recently we’ve branched into material handling for warehouse automation, too, which is what I personally focus on
Sorry, not often I see something I specifically work with daily so it’s fun to talk about lol
In an era of overedited, rapid-cut videos that feel more like flicker collages, this is a breath of fresh air. Thanks for keeping it watchable!
Holy quality.
Subbed, this was very entertaining.
I love the way you do the intermissions with explanation, picking a highly naturalistic backdrop or heavily relying on props. At least for this video.
Thanks! The world is too awesome looking not to go use it as a backdrop!
That's a recurring theme through his videos :) honestly this one doesn't go as hard on motion-tracked floating B-roll/captions as some! The camerawork is always excellent.
COMPLETE BANGER. studying engineering currently with several optionals in manufacturing automation, so this was a blessing.
The landscape in the outdoor shots is gorgeous, great video!
7:45 pattern recognition
LOSS
That's extrinsic calibration and doesn't require machine learning to do. Pattern recognition is used for recognizing what objects are rather than for calibrating equipment.
@@BlakeEM Not what I meant man
@@BlakeEM yes but where did he get the pattern from?
@@sayorancode Cross, not pattern recognition.
Now that they're not active anymore, I think Atomic Frontier is the only true successor to Tom Scott
veritasium:
@kakyoindonut3213 not even close, veritasium has a huge team and is heavily focused on entertainment and marketing of their videos (see: constant title changes to trick the algorithm)
They?
@@jurgennicht4626 Tom Scott
This was an interesting video to see the manufacturing plant through the eyes of the robots and to see what the conssequences are for employment. Nice to see illustrated that robots don't just simply eliminate jobs.
"Yet." If you've thought of it, then certainly the same question is being posed by top execs.
For context, for simpler products: the manufacturing giant Foxconn in China, used to have over a million employees and also a manufacturer and designer of manufacturing robots had it's first lights out factory (so no human workers unless something breaks) in 2016,, they already had 10 that year. These days their margins are a much higher and the number of employees are now about half.
Yes they do, the only reason there's still humans there is because the robots aren't good enough yet.
The consistently improving quality of the videos on this channel will never cease to amaze me. Easily one of the best active RUclipsrs today. You deserve millions of subscribers, and it’s only a matter of time.
Just wanted to say that I really like the production quality of your video, like the shadows in desert and the floating signs were you even walk through. Really nice. And even the little tiny things that make the video is so good like Gary. Gary is there only for two seconds and it made my day. Keep up this quality, like bringing out your hardware in to the desert to show how the robot arm works. He put a lot of work into it and I want to Say thank you.
7:45 pattern recognition and its consequences
2:45 I wouldn't stand so close to a robotic arm with a knife, if I were you!
No worries, it's a cobot. What do you mean we need to run a risk analysis?
It's a lens trick, he's actually quite far behind the robot, probably well out of reach of it
What a masterpiece of educational filmmaking. Please do keep up the amazing work!
what an amazing, in-depth but simple and visually explained video. As someone from the automation industry, I really enjoyed to watch it!
Beautiful and polished video! I's so cool to see you getting more and more professional and now even checking out a massive manifacturing site! I really enjoy your style and the visuals are tasteful while not being too distracting! Thank you for the great video!
You could have turned this into a series! Body shop, paint shop, assembly could have each been their own 10-15 min video!
This is honestly some of the highest quality journalism and tech demonstration I have seen on RUclips. You'll be in the millions of subscribers in no time. Keep up the great work!
This is actually a real banger episode, good job James!
James, your presentation ability is unmatched. Love your videos!
Yoooooo, this is great.
Your videos just keep getting better and better.
This video was polished, professional, informative, and kept attention. Good stuff!!
7:48 is this loss?
There's a second one somewhere too if Mr Steal Yo Memes wishes to steal yo memes
I've seen this comment a few times. I'm not a regular viewer of the channel. Am I just missing an inside joke or something?
@@AdrenalineRu5h It’s an old internet joke referencing a web comic strip.
@@mcmadness110 Old internet joke 🥲
I love the shot with the shadow of your arm flashing back and forth over the succulent leaves, if for no other reason than that it demonstrates you were actually in that real space with the bush, regardless of how good your roto might be otherwise. Cheers mate!
2160p@60Hz?! Daaamn boyyyy, I'm starting to love more and more for the professionalism of your channel every time I click! 😊👌
This is beautifully produced and explained. Really top quality content. Thank you.
Great video James!
"to get a car drive itself off the assembly line"? That's actually already done in the BMW Plant in Dingolfing. Will you come over for a visit?
I'd love to!
@AtomicFrontier
One of your Science&Tech-RUclips colleagues already paid us a visit two months ago reporting on that topic of autonomous driving at the end of the assembly line. But the Video still isn't up.
@@LpSuperdiddy Editing and fact checking can take quite a while, backlogs are a thing, and many youtubers have full time jobs outside of youtube. I know of a number of fairly big channels who do this full time, the turn around time for actually well done videos that require a lot of research and editing can easily be six months or more (and that's when other people are employed to do parts of the job, when the creator is doing everything themselves either the quality drops or it takes even longer).
Bravo. Incredibly well researched and presented. A really good overview of the limits and challenges of robotics in manufacturing.
I ordered a BMW M340i and when I got the VIN, I found out that it was coming from this factory when I started tracking the build on BMW's website. It's in the final assembly stage on the tracker. It's still going to be a few weeks until it arrives at the Port of Brunswick. So excited!
The kukua robotic arms are the highest quality in the industry.
The production quality on these videos is always exceptional
time 2:04 , hiill behind is very nice
another excellent video ✌
your videos are about the only ones I regularly wish were longer (and more frequent!)
What a banger my guy. Love the channel
Pls disable the automatic translation of the title for your Video!
What does it translate to.
Looks like youtube is doing that automatically now. Yup going to try disable all that, weird. Sorry!
@@FrIoSrHy It translates to whatever your accounts native language is. Just... badly, usually.
Really one of youtube’s most annoying “features” totally ignoring multilingual people, language specific jokes or the problem of clicking on a video in a language you don’t speak because the title was in one you spoke.
Amazing FX blending your footage with 3D animation! You've got to make a video on how you created these
this video is insanely good, first time seeing ur channel, subbed!!
I've got my view right here... so where is the other millions of views that your videos deserve??? I am always in awe at how much effort and quality go into making these...
You explained the limitations of robots really well!
Where did you get all of these props and animations from? This video must have taken forever to put together. Well done on producing such a high quality video!
This Video is AMAZING. kudos James 👏
Really nice visuals!
im so glad tom scott never stopped making videos!
9:00 Nice teleportation demo. Most don’t use “real world” objects to demonstrate the forces on each end.
can't believe I get to see the next big science documentary youtuber origin
That video was really cool, congratulations on your exclusive visit. Just don't forget to warn that on the video next time!
8:44 I recognize those mini-cheetah leg assemblies! Nice to see Ben Katz's fleet being used for great things!
I learned a lot about robotics here. Thank you!
Super impressive production quality!
This channel is great, deserves wayyyyyyyyyy more subscribers :>
Props to whoever is doing the shadows of the on screen popups
I really enjoyed the (im going to assume very much intentional) extreme contrast between the futuristic hyper techy production facility and the stunning nature!
Very well produced, awesome video
Top vid. Nice to see some Las Cruces scenery here.
this new season of how its made is kinda dope
Great video James.
What a shame you never got to go through the Holden, Toyota or Ford plants here in Australia.
I was lucky enough to get a tour inside the Holden plant during the VZ model cycle, as one of the members of the Holden Precision Driving Team.
At the time, although the vehicle volumes were nothing like a big overseas plant, they were the most flexible line in the world.
They were able to run ALL VZ variants down the line 'as ordered' which was amazing to see.
(Utes, sedans, long wheel base sedans, Crewman, Monaro, HSV base cars and many versions in both right and left hand drive - all one after the other.
Probably the coolest car related thing I've seen actually.
7:46 is this...
I’m at a Loss.
Yooo, that was cool to watch, amazing job
Shoutout to the editor, must have been hours of masking...
Cheers! For the moment it's just me (with my friends helping with camera and Dad writing the music), but hoping to find someone else to help eventually. You're right, that masking is exhausting! I've been listening to the entire works of Brandon Sanderson to help pass the time :)
@@AtomicFrontierEntire works? I'm just finishing Stormlight 5 and dreading returning to no more Cosmere, are you also realisting Alcatraz and Cytoverse?
Might do! Finished the full cosmere at least (Sunlit man was awesome! Although I also really enjoyed Tress). Taking a break at the moment to read some non-fiction, but will be back! Enjoy Stormlight 5!
Wow it's an incredible commitment to the grind for bro to go to the Mojave Wasteland just for a sick video backdrop 👏👏👏
Those shadows at around 55 seconds didn't project onto your legs. I wish my brain would just accept visual effects. Fascinating video, thanks for your effort.
- But why does this place still need humans?
0:18 [Random explosion in the background]
And thank You for the Lego references.
Very nice video!! This is fascinating stuff!!!
11:45 Gary 😂
I think I'm missing the joke. Who's Gary?
@@BomberFletch31
Logistics = 440
Monitoring = 420
Assembly = 1680
Engineering = 510
Site support = 350
Management = 300
Gary = 1
Brilliant as usual!
Very well done! I am thoroughly impressed! It was extremely inspirational! This is the kind of video that STEM students in Jr. High should be seeing!
Absolute master piece of a video
I don’t even like cars, but I admit the manufacturing process is pretty impressive. Great video
Subscribed. Exceptional video, well done!
I recently finished a scifi book series that included in the background the fact that self-sustainable machines had been solved. So being able to see exactly how machines are used in collaboration with people was super interesting
Thankyou for another amazing video James. There isn't and adjective worthy..... 🤩
why are we going along with this and happy about this .. ?
The first mass produced car built on an assembly line with interchangeable parts was not in 1913, it was the 1903 Curved Dash Oldsmobile.
This video is (extraordinary) perfect.
Great vid again
Cannot wait to get replaced.
Looking forward to when James gets replaced by AI, which would be ironic after he did a video celebrating the loss of jobs by doing a corporate video for BMW on robotics (and making it a cute smart-ass remark about no unions).
I will see a new Atomic Frontier video and say hell yeah
Good stuff James
this is so cool
Wow, incredibly planned, shot, presented, and edited video! Super engaging, absolutely loved it. Sub from me!
As a controls engineer and robot programmer, I have to say bravo! I expected to leave this video with some Gell-Mann amnesia, but everything was accurate, if a little high-level. That cobot with the knife was pretty funny... I've seen worse EOATs before. I just wish you'd had the opportunity to go a little deeper!
Well done, James!
It is very inflexible set up
7:45 YOU-!
Ughh, i really can't escape it
Very cool bro
The ostrich feather duster really surprised me. High tech facility, yet the best material apparently is the old feather duster.
Awesome video! Thx for your effort!
9:44 that is an iiwa14 from kuka if people want to know, another interesting cobot is the abb yumi if you are curious
Crazy bunnings snag call out 😂🇦🇺
Well made and a little bit crazy
Thanks for confirming that industrial robots can be built with low-ratio gearboxes and beefier motors for safety. I understand with the situations where it's not strictly necessary will be cheaper to use a simpler motor, but yeah. I wonder if in the future, more dynamic control software/robot applications will require the "cobot" construction to become more common/the new norm.
This is almost everything i learned fkr a module at university in 12 weeks summarised into 12 minutes
We love a Bunnings Snag shout out
He knows how to grab the attention of the Australian audience, lol.
My local Bunnings sausage sanga is getting prohibitively expensive.
8:33 The insides of the robot do not expirience a million times more force. They expirience 1000x more acceleration, which I guess can be damaging. But since work done on the outside is equal to one done on the insides, and the insides move 1000x more distance, the forces are 1000x smaller. The insides having a million times more inertia mean the internal components of the robot appear a million times heavier than they are, and so can transfer a lot of momentum into whatever the the robot is hitting.
yes thank youuu!