A robot that flies like a bird | Markus Fischer
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2011
- www.ted.com Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.
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suddenly get recommended this 9 years later
it took that long for the military to evaluate it for use, to turn it down and to declassify it. Now you will start to see it in stores being sold as a toy.
Same
Haha. odd
Saaaame
Classic RUclips. This has happened to so many old videos!
2:40 - That face when your dream has become a reality.
Susan Burns-morgado Well can you create something like that? it must be an amazing feeling to know your vision became reality.
lol this couple
Susan Burns-morgado lmao couple goals
@@susanmorgado3472 go to church grandma
@@YoutubSUCKZ she went to the kitchen 2 years ago
Watching this in 2019 and wondering how this bird could have evolved now
It has become a bat ruclips.net/video/zDq4kjY19UU/видео.html
@@marv-ws1rs Bruce Wayne would like to buy that.
Do not trust them birds!!
It is not a Bird!
Drones... Lots of it
Two thoughts....DaVinci would be flabbergasted. And this nice bird cannot shit on us!
You had to use "flabbergasted" :-\
Everything is based on creation, life etc. Look @ some birds in plane design. Look @ some wales in submarine design etc,. And then you have the unknown territory that is still unknown today,... Anyway cool that they can replicate a bird, LOL
Yes it will, and it will be explosive
It should have that capability by now.
I don't think he would be. The designs that he had in mind, were beyond anything remotely possible or conceivable in his time.
incredible - da Vinci would be so proud of this team
+zincink It was Da VInci idea written on his secret book that the government suppressed
+mvpmickey1 It could be Da vinci's idea but I don't think he would have thought of a motor to make it work, it is these guy who did the hard work to make it more efficient and real.
zincink .... Believe me, Leonardo Da Vinci was a myth.... Even so, did he exist, all of his works were irrelevant and baseless.... None of his inventions (if any) has been of any practical help.... Not a single practical use.................................... Archimedes was the real boss, for his screw pump, which works fine even without any modern modifications to the actual model.
@@mvpmickey1 why would DV be proud?
@@mvpmickey1 First of all why the government would even supress a manuscript that is created for all to see for the sake of science? That doesn't make any sense at all. Keeping things without implications to their own intention is just a waste of effort and space. His manuscript would be more fitting in a library for education and heritage purposes. Secondly, knowledge about aerodynamics at that time is still primitive, nobody at that time has the knowledge how to make flight as efficient and effective as today. Did you even see his sketches? There are so many considerations that have been neglected.
And finally, not sure if that's a sarcastic joke your pulling, but if it does, you've done it horribly, no offense.
Why do I want him to say : "i'll be back" so much
I KNEW IT WASN'T WORTH MAKING A GET TO THE CHOPPER JOKE BEFORE SCROLLING DOWN .
But we already had birds.
"Had"
lol too shallow
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LPlxg4 FEZ,BUTYOUHAVE
hahaha.
lmao we better not to name it bird
The guy sounds like a robot more than the bird
German skills. I am officially embarrassed for my country.
@@sebiwiessner deutschland über alles!
@@senatoxxx1470 raus mit die Viecher xD
Like a terminator T-800
He looks like Bill Gates
05:27 "Markus, I feel, we should fly it once more". Kudos to that person asking to fly one more time.
2:41 the look of when your dream comes true :')
Intentions are pure but watch some corporate shill steal his creation and use it for evil.. Bound to happen
Raoul Mendoza he just looks German to me
Now get a bird that flies like a robot
MACHINE_BUILDER what
RUclips 2011: "No one cares about robot Birds"
RUclips 2019: **Recommends this video to me**
This bird could be used in a military warfare for our enemies. We could drop bombs surprisingly our enemies. 🤔
Now when can humans get aboard?
youve been watchin too much Avatar, bro!!
ForceOfWizardry
Hahahah!
ForceOfWizardry not avatars m8 Sky captain and the world of tomorrow. .
I hope you mean hop on the bird not inside
imagine if they turned the bird into "travel with the dragon" as some kind of party elements like carrousels, kart, and things like that IT WOULD BE DOOOOOOPE
Now make a really really big one and make it look like a pterodactyl
that's an albatraoz
dinosaurs dont exist
@@iamf6641 Yeah they don't, but they did
@@batatinhacomlepra6899 ?
@@iamf6641 How did you not understand me? Dinosaurs don't exist, but they did, they went extinct, ya dumbboi
2011: robotic birds
2019: evolved into drones
RUclips is recommending this video to everyone in 2019
Its an agenda
just because of an indian movie "uri"
Yes!
imagine the dude at the end forgot he was the one to catch it and it took him out..
The point of this presentation is not only about the robotic bird but to explore new ways of motivation & engineering. These concepts we see in nature can be adapted to fit our needs & help us with what we can possibly achieve in the future.
No, it is, always has been and always will be about the birds. Remember that.
As a Pilot, I think this is a revelation in flight dynamics and is a beautiful inspiration to making flight dreams real. well done all of you involved in the project!
as a physics student i agree with you
but as an engineer i believe this video is fake news and too good to be true ^^
big step for humanity
More like a big flap
In the wrong direction
Jason Axford what do you mean wrong direction lol edgy af
Big step for humanity? Like how?
1965: we will have flying cars in future
2011: ladies and gentlemen there has been a slight change.
Flying Birds?
@@anjanikumar8454 flying metal but yes
I mean, after the falcon heavy launch we now have a flying car in space.
When robotic flying machines were first brought to light, my immediate thought was using them to protect fields of seeding crops from the birds. I imagined 2 or 4 of these docked on charging points around the parameter of the field with sensors that could detect birds that landed into the field. Thus provoking the robotic 'birds' to fly in like a predator, swooping and making the noises of birds of prey, deterring the loss of crops. If these haven't yet been invented...Remember where you heard this first!!!
I imagined them able to sense when they needed recharging and return to it's charging station and would work as a team so there was at least one that was fully charged when needed.
That 1 bird is prolly 5 million
True but they wouldn’t stand a chance against Biosyn’s giant locusts
Truly remarkable to think how much this could have been improved by now. Markus looked extremely proud lol
Imagine flying this to an Eagle and starts a fight
I love this kind of bio-mimetic engineering. The crowds fascinated silence just speaks volumes of how fantastic of a feat this is.
wow a comment from ten years ago
I love TED so much.
JCB Same
JCB Me too! :)
+JCB yeah ted he is a nice guy
It's flying motion is so fluid almost life-like!
This much of wild reaction is usually very rare in Ted talk crowd which tends to be very reserved and classy..........just goes on to tell you the significance of this invention!!!! It is literally 'a dream come true' moment.....man has always dreamt of artificially simulating a bird flight.....and a success FINALLY !!!!
It's amazing to know that after decades of wondering and study, we've finally been able to figure out the great mystery that is the bird's flight.
Standing ovation???? When light was filmed traveling at a billion frames per second the halls were dead silent😅😂😂wow...
A passion of humanity come true. I applaud the engineering team and their tenacity to pay attention to detail.
I can imagine in the future, we can make robotic wings, huge ones, that can be attached at the back of a human, and to fly.
Well that would be incredibly dangerous.
And incredibly amazing.
Plot twist: That bird is wearing an Iron Man suit
The mysterious RUclips algorithm brings us together once again
Chanuka Abeygunasekera True !
Yeah, I just got this video suggested.
Lol
Lol
Die Deutschen und ihr englisch...unverkennbar😂
Hannes ist so 😂 the motor
Der spricht besser englisch als die meisten Ausländer deutsch sprechen.
julius gesa Deutsch ist auch viel schwerer als Englisch
@@juliusgesa5319 Ich bin Franzose und verstehe besser ein english sprechenden Deutchen als einen Englander oder Amerikaner.
julius gesa ausländer haben dir wahrscheinlich dein Pausenbrot abgezockt 😂🤷🏻♂️
Hold on....... I needed to pick my jaw up off of the floor.
This is amazing, in my final year of engineering i chose the same thing to design and did it successfully..
Happy to see that you are reading more books than just that one kitab.
@@pankaja7974 just shut your mouth.
@@pankaja7974 don't spread your filth everywhere.
I too, suddenly get recommended this 8 years later
This was in 2011 and in 2019 what are they doing with this?
S N theyre buliding other robot animals
Well I would assume they have become a prank show.
That’s what I would do with that technology anyway.
Horizon zero dawn
They work with Us army now!i guess, spying
probaly the bird was die,bird can't live more than 5 year chicken
I remember these flying in the malls like 8 years ago
How many here just got URI into the mind while watching ..
No strings attached
Amazing tech. Why haven't I heard of this before, should have been a buzz
8 years later and this video is still useful. Thank you.
And thanks or included it on Cience and technologi category.
I seen this video when it first came out and now RUclips wants to show it to me again after all these years
Nice ! I wonder how big the wing span would need to be to lift 180 pounds off the ground ?
+Magnus Thorensen why do you need to lift 180 pounds?
So I could fly !
+Freier Westphale 100 And balloons don't have wings.
+Freier Westphale 100 200 years ago they used hot air to lift the balloons, the principle of hot air being lighter than cold air. Balloons dont need wings. On top of that, Balloons do not use air pressure, where Birds (and planes) do, to create lift.
Well I'm gonna make a really crude approximation but:
450grams and 2 m wing span, 1 meter long, lets estimate the wing surface at 200cm minus 30cm (the body in the middle)and then multiply that by 30cm for the width of the wing, so roughly half a square meter of wing surface is used to lift 0.45 kg.
So using that ratio, it would take about 70 square meters to lift 80 kg (about 180 lb). If we keep the same aspect ratio for the wings, each wing has a length of 14.15 meters and out total wingspan including out body in between would be about 29 meters, or 95 feet.
For comparison, in a baseball diamond, distance between bases is 90 feet.
This is a really crude approximation and it doesn't even account for the fact that the wings themselves would also have weight, so you'd be heavier, but I guess you could always flap a little faster :P
"We'll have flying cars"
*BRO WE NEED FLYING ROBOTIC BIRDS BRUHH*
Robotic birds, the future of this planet
8 years later still impressive.
I agree :)
People in there are amazed by a machine imitating nature. Man in some years we’ll have tears I’m telling you
That was incredible!
Absolutely amazing engineering. :)
Think about all the little birds outside your window spying on you now
This was 8 years ago and I am feeling disappointed that this bird can't do underwater dive hunt yet...
All you have to do is strap a camera on it and you have the most incognito spy drone. NSA approved.
The military applications I can imagine this being used for makes me sad... (because I know that's gonna happen)
However... The evolution of the birdsuit, that would be cool. Who needs a jetpack when you can fly like a bird?
this can not be evolved into a bird suit.your ignoring weight and mass.
this is a big object that weighs a small amount. the wings on a human suit would be gigantic.
400 grams is 6 feet of wing. up that to a human of say 180 pounds would be 1240 feet. give or take. make the wings smaller it would need to move much faster. at that time your needing a motor for propulsion cause the wings would not work. now we are talking about ridged wings nothing like a bird might as well be in a plane.
Oh I realized this, but it's ok to dream, right? It's not impossible for the weight obstacle to be overcome in the future.
Bird suit already invented. Just need lift energy supplied by falling from high altitudes. Going the other way requires energy from external source (propeller wings or jet).
Cestarian Inhabitant this is true but you would have to create antigravity. yes it would be cool and dreams are useful but its probably never going to happen.
Eustacius but now your back to a jet pack that's not a bird suit. falling from a height is the speed creating lift but creating lift then diminishes the speed still forcing extra propulsion. wings will not work and your yet again back to a jet pack
I love how it stops in the end.
So RUclips waited for 8 years before sending me this?
I dont think birds sound like electric motors whilst flying.
No, I’m pretty sure they do...
@IamTOXIC ML Good innovation for what? Why the need to create a fake bird when God has already created real ones? Why create a parallel universe to the real one? Smh
@IamTOXIC ML All that hard work only to mimic, and poorly at that, what God the creator made.
Everyone is laughing, but one day that bird robot will be spying on you, it is coming.
they already are this video is from 2011 let that sink in
Why didn't RUclips recommend me this video 8 yrs ago?
Also Me: I didn't have a phone back then
I saw this years ago. It’s odd that I didn’t give it a thumbs up back then. Still very cool. It flies the same as every ornithopter I’ve seen before or since. The mechanism doesn’t seem too different but is still impressive.
will we see a bird flying like a robot in the future?
Lex conversation with Max Tegmark brought me here
Same here. Did he talked about this or something more recent?
@@TMracer73 He mentioned this robotic flight thing briefly in their interview. I had to see it myself
Same here
All he needs is make that thing fly around and is done, best presentation ever 😆
I can already imagine these robot type birds or insects being popular in a few more years... this video is already 10 years old and in another 10, they will be even more sophisticated.
I want I mini one
it's so interesting if a mini one flys around in our beadroom
If it gets released into the public then it's a choking hazard because it can basically fly into your mouth while you're sleeping.
+GearzMC
And it's like someone's gonna have it fly at night
tbh, if I had a mini one I would have it follow me on midnight strolls just because. but who would be sleeping in public with their mouths open tho?
Da Vinci be jelly
I'm rarely amazed... but that was amazing! ❤️ Bravo! 👏
For some reason, this is recommended to me in 2020.
oh my goodness It's really impresive....
get to the choppaaaa!!!
The last planing was awesome!
6:02 I want to see this picture, good catch!
Imagine if we can create huge models of this. instead of the torso of the bird, use a human. In theory it would be possible to fly like thit. ( in theory)
Yeah we can even create dragons who spits fire and can pickup humans.(and burns them)
Suharsh Tyagi Can we have Emilia Clarke ride them?
even better, ride them yourself and make a 'flying dragons battle' type of world sport.
Yes we all got it recommended stop spamming that unoriginal bs
This man is from the future. His voice alone hints that he's secretly the Terminator.
This is the definition of a real alien for real birds.
Just don't let them stuff it with bombs and missiles (inappropriate joke warning).
***** "drones didnt kill any talbin"
RUclips is full of videos of drones blowing up Taliban.
wow....
its only a matter of time for the giant robots to conquer the skies ..
a real falcon maybe
Sleep with one eye open
2:41 that face says "ah look at him go" 😂
We can finally blend in with the birds to see what they are plotting
Шёл 2019 год. В России, с перерезанием ленточки, открыли мусорные баки и остановку.
Why to make a flying bird when there are already real birds?
É para compreender exactamente como funciona biologicamente e aerodinamicamente um passaro.
***** in that case they should invent FLYING WIVES.
that robot will be use by military to spy naked peopleXD
Adi Lone Wolf Tell me more about those..."military purpouses"...
the military will be take this flaying bird more further. military will resize this robot bird to size like a flaying bird an also all stuff that bird have and then miliitary will spy all citizen, another country, a terorist camp or another country military base. this bird can be on your garden to spy on you to if military want to. but this only what i have in my mind, i hope only be hoax and not to be true. sorry if my english not so well
how was this 8 years ago? I had MTV filth recommended by RUclips to me for the last 8 years and this was sitting there all the time! What in the world!
My dad always said man will be able to personally fly
And i saw it in real life!
"Birds Aren't Real" movement credibility increased , lol
Sleep with one eye open
This guy sounds like he just ran a 5k and started the TED talk immediately.
I want a life sized flying Toothless robot using this kind of robotics.
The US government join the chat😂
Preis ?
Dollar ?
Euro?
Wo kann ich es kaufen ?
My faith restored. Now I can go back play Flappy bird.
I bet the dude who caught it while landing was puckering for a sec there haha
Nice to watch men reproducing something that nature mastered millions of years ago.
Takes nature millions of years to design the perfect anatomy for flight while it took just a couple of decades for humans to do the same.
A better version of this now is the most advanced drone😉2019..
Correct
Cool, almost a decade after the fact on something in a closely connected professional field to mine.
You're nailing it, RUclips. Keep it up.
at the end, that guy in white shirt shoud hold the bird for a while to milk that applause, would have been like: "thank you :v"
Standing ovation for a flying bird robot. But we still cant cure cancer. Good to see we are funding the stuff that matters.
I suppose you don't understand the implications of this sort of research in the field of, say bio-mechanics. Different scientific disciplines affect drastically different areas of life, especially in medicine. Does a robot with more natural flight affect our knowledge of cancer, probably not. Does it have potential medical implications for amputee victims? The answer is absolutely.
The best way to cure cancer is not to get it in the first place. 95+% of all the cancer cases are self inflicted because of an unhealthy lifestyle.
Tacks Given Lol, That is a completely made up statistic. 95% of everything you say is total bullshit.
ramsey2314 It is, but what you said was total bullshit too.
The amount of funding going towards this flying robot is a drop in the bucket compared to cancer research funding. We're still not even fully sure that we actually can cure cancer. It might be the case that the answer to fighting cancer is early detection and complete replacement of the organs via growing new ones with stem cells. A problem is not solved by simply throwing more money into it, and putting all human energy into one problem would be catastrophic.
In the end, though, the real question I have for you: Are *you* devoting anything to cancer research? If not, are *you* donating your idle cpu time to folding@home? If not, why not? You seem to feel adamant on the subject.
I'm not sure what all the fusz is about. You can buy flying birds. And they fly by flapping.
And, hy is this a robot? There's a man who launches it and latet catches it again. While the man on his right has the remote control transmitter.
It looks like a RC flapping bird to me. So, what makes this a robot?
Do you even know the definition of robot? omfg. lol
A toaster is a robot, you fucking crap-eater.
Sorry but you aren't smart enough to understand why this is brilliant.
You have a valid question. The new thing this guy claims to have done is that the robot is flying through flapping its wings. The toys fly through their inbuilt motors and the wings are only for showoff. Hope that helps.
MrAmitkr007 You really shouldn't be commenting on this item. You clearly know nothing about radio-controlled aircraft in general and ornithopters in particular.
There is definitely a military application for this robot bird technology, like it or not.
I have to live for future technologies ..to fly like bird ..