Robot Insects are Coming. But Can We Trust Them? | TechnoLogic
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2021
- We burrow into the world of robotic insects, a menagerie of mechanical cockroaches, bees, fleas, and flies. Insectile robots might one day accomplish tasks from search-and-rescue operations to pollinating crops. But there’s a dark side, a public paranoia about this tech, as seen in popular fiction that depicts robotic insects as tools for spying, killing, and other nefarious ends-not to mention a history tying this science to the CIA.
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Marvels of design or tiny spy machines? Where do you stand on robotic insects?
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Tuskegee experiments.
"More chocolate covered scorpions over here!"
Poor poor life forms.
"And make me some fresh carrot juice. Baby carrots only! Muahahahaa!"
3:33 - I am not sure that is a good use case for these roboflys. They require direct line of sight at the moment for power. Have you seen the vinerobot from Stanford university? It already past proof of concept and can actually lift large objects.
In fact, a lot of the use cases seem to be better accomplished by other solutions... except for espionage.
People are really naieve if they think this isn't yet possible it's freaking 2021 the government has more developed technology then we could imagine nano technology for example these University people aren't even close they are oblivious as to how far tech has become
@@NoExpert lol yo it's 2021 the government has these capabilities now I mean come on do people realize that the technology we have far surpasses any understanding
This is absolutely amazing wowwwwww😍😍😍😍😍🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
“Will this tech eventually spy on me or kill me?”
Yes. . Just, yes.
Exactly!
No one cares about you as an invidual
the answer is C.....BOTH
Both
@@AmorrSummerstorm you’re missing the point
This reminds me of the episode of Black Mirror where all the Bees were tiny robots due to Bees going extinct or close to extinction, I can’t remember which, and they told the public it was to pollinate flowers. But they were spying on people and used as weapons.
Hated in the nation
The first death is of a journalist at her house during a cake ceremony.
Yes I just thought of that episode too!
yeah if you actually watch this video they mention that show by name. but watching a whole video before commenting is too much to ask I guess.
@@Heterandria4mosa Word🤦🏾♂️
Guess someone didn’t finish watching the video lol
Can we trust them ? Yes Can we trust the people that will use them ? Absolutely not
If it flies, it's spies.
This is the exact thing people said about cameras yet here we are
Key word: "swarm" this will be weaponised AF
What??🤯🤣🤣😂
This might be a stupid concern in comparison to the ones brought up, but I'm wondering about environmental consequences. Like how do you keep them from being eaten by birds and other predators and what would happen to a predator that ate one?
exactly. these fucking nerds arent ecologists - they're engineers. Being an engineer is the first step in becoming an absolute lunatic, in my opinion. I say that partly as a joke but also being an engineer means you end up seeing the world as just a series of problems waiting for technological solutions rather than seeing it for the complex, dynamic system that it is. at the end of the day any good these things could do will be negated by the unimaginable harm that could be caused the surveilance and murder these things will be used for. its deeply horrifying.
Holy crap. Yea. >:/
@@breadfella nah I think we just have brains that function differently and that's a good thing. Some people get so focused on the details they can't see the forest for the trees. I, on the other hand, tend to be good with the big picture but complete shit with the details. We need both. I think it's more about cooperation and celebrating and utilizing diversity.
@@breadfella Then why don’t we get Engineers and Ecologists to work together to make something eco-friendly and revolutionary.
Isn't that why they were trying to make biodegradable ones?
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
But sometimes you should.
I mean if it's badass... Then yes I approve
Dark Metal name checks out
But I will
Totally agree thank you
remotely controlling a real cockroach?!
No one’s going to talk about that????
He’s a real life super villain
PICKLE RICK!
It's already been done. 😂😂
That’s over 10 years old tech it was used after a earthquake in mainland China
Dude, if they can do that to something as small as a cockroach, they can do it to a human.
Imagine the crazy destruction this can bring in the wrong hands
It's already in the wrong hands it's called the government
@@zippozip4375 🤔
@Jacob Damato 😒alone?
Imagine a termites doing coordinated destruction.
They ALWAYS attach noble intentions to their evil creations
Right! Great statement!!!! A robot can only pollinate another robot. So the plant has to be a robot. Only magnets with the SAME attraction match.
@@Prince_of_the_South What do you mean, all it would need to do is collect small amounts of pollen or seed. An be able to carry that sample over to a plant that needs pollination.
Or they can use genetic modification to try an create "self pollinating" plants, which already exist. But out of plants that aren't self pollinating, which I'm sure can be done. Although who knows the outcome, we've already got freakish GMO foods and plants, that seem to cause cancer and I'm sure other issues or lacking what the plant originally has.
But the robotic bee thing send very possible, both for pollinating and for weaponized used or spying.
@@JB-pb9xv the robotic bee can only pollinated another robotic thing. Look at us as people. We create the robots to assist US in many things. But this is completely foolish. Think about it? If we need to pick a fruit from a tree and the tree is tall what will you do? Will you tell a monkey to climb the tree and grab that fruit? Will you tell a giraffe to grab that fruit? or will you create some robot to do the job? A robot is useless. You can tell it good job and rub its head to make it FEEL GOOD. We have animals for a reason!
@@JB-pb9xv Logically and physically a robot cannot assist natural resources. ALL computers built objects are LOGICALLY made. So therefore can only assist in helping another logical thing which is US. Plants don't have the ability to think. Robots are made from a thinking process and only do what it was program to do. So you can't insert a conscious in a robot. Only electricity and minerals ie copper gold etc etc.
@@JB-pb9xv Robots are for personal uses not global uses. And especially not for natural use cases. Don't be dumb and naïve. Its easy to understand. A robot bee will damage and destroy a plant. also it will be incompatible with natural bee. A robot be will also not be able to determine what is good or bad except what MAN program it to do. Also a robot be is not made out of the habit of the earth itself but made in a air conditioned lab. NOT THE ENVIRONMENT. So how can it relate to the environment? We as people relate to all environments because we are made from it.
How can we trust machines when we struggle to trust the minds behind them?
The road to hell is always paved with good intention
Indeed
So then we want to attach those things to humans...you know to help them...
“good intention” 😂🤣 aka a cover up
That's Deep lol
@@deanag8457 not how that work lol
When he said “We’re not at that point YET”. ................. key word: yet
Remember the spy flies that were made in 2013 or 2015 and we suddenly stopped hearing about it🤔?
Shuuuuu
Now that you mention it. Have you watched black mirror?
They are still being developed. They are not out there.
we’re 10 years away from BIG BAD BEATLE BORGS
I’ll come back to this comment after 10 years 🤔
@@topgoldexchange8283 me too.
These technologies have been in use for decades now.
All these gizmos you enjoy today are what falls off the military complex dinner table.
Spot on I remember them cockroaches with sensors stuck on them was used after a earthquake in mainland China around 10 years ago.
Maybe the tech has moved on big time like the bees in black mirror
@@sko1beer oh it has… robot roaches have been a thing for years…. And with today’s technological advancements, they could probably do more than we think
This one was particularly terrifying
It can reduce crimes
Humankind will one day deeply regret playing with mother nature like this. Only due to the few crazy ones many people will suffer.
We are not animals, this is what you need understand.
Yea I'm sure thats a technology that will be used for our benefit
Imagine a scifi movie about a country that uses robotic flys to spy on its sitizens and terroris developing countries. A world where no word is private and no movement go unnoticed. Welcome to America in 10 years 🙂👍
SIKE!!!
Sarcasm at its finest
"OUR" which is not lower class human 🤣
@@whome9470 can’t wait to live in this dystopia 😂😂😵💫🤢
What about if each citizen had to carry on of these live it was our ID or social security everywhere we go
At night, day, afternoon, bathrooms etc and it was monitored by A.I 😷
It’s going the future in a couple decades
This tech can potentially be devastating. This can destabilize farmland all over the world.
They actually captured a frequency from one bee, to try figure out what she thinks, and the bee was like bzz bzz
Was this an attempt at humor?
So dumb.
These bleepy crawlies look kinda scary but no need to worry as they are probably buggy
Underrated comment lol
Lame dad joke
A rhetorical question to temper the hype: if these are deployed en mass to monitor and pollinate plants, what happens to the food chain when predators begin ingesting them?
More than likely the first one they eat, darwinism will take over.
Just like dart frogs. Imagine how many animals are those and their entire species either dies off or learns from it. Animals/insects are smarter than you think.
Hope they don't have any bugs in their code! GET IT!?
if a Bee can come into your house and give you an injection, one day one of these robots will too
A number of good points and interviews, but let us not forget that it's not just Government Bodies looking to use this. The video had value but it was pointed in a single idea of government or corporate misuse.
Nowdays we pay VPNs to have some privacy online, soon we'll have to pay for services to have privacy in our own homes.
I've been terrified of how China spies on it's people, but we aren't really that far away from that if you think about it.
Sounds like "1984" where they would spy on you through radio, TV, your neighbors, and your own thoughts.
Haha yes…
A VPN isn't that secure. The ability for us to be spied on every moment of the day is already here and been here.
VPNs do very very little for mass data harvesting.
Tbh China spies on its people just as much as any other government.
Harvard University was engineering electronic bees in 2013 to export for agricultural pollination in China. Reeks of covert CIA funding. The general public had no idea.
Imagine.
These getting so so outta hand and all over the place, blending in with real bugs. Shit
As amazing as this is, thinking about the implications really 'bugs' me.
The laser powered robot can't be sent into a close and confined space because, you know... line of sight...
That’s so weird, I just caugh a bee jumping around on my keyboard, going to facebook and then to the signup section….
I don't know about insect robotics, but the little guy on the thumbnail sure has quite the chip on his shoulder
😂
It's like the black mirror episode with the bees. Bad idea.
Cockroaches are fucking scary, but now imagine that cockroach is being remotely controlled by the smartest animal on the planet
Technology watching half of what we do? More like 99% (in industrialized countries at least)
This is the infancy of Cyberdyne systems. We're all screwed.
If your new product has no practical use whatsoever, just say "search and rescue". Pretty much works every time.
i knew someone else thought of that
About five years ago, during a work break, I postulated to a colleague the idea of killer nano-robots that simply drift on the wind in swarms at various locations around the globe. Each nano-robot would be explosive, capable of say, destroying something the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. So these tiny, tiny robots would drift on the wind, until such time that they were activated, in any quantity necessary, to seek out and destroy a target The mission might not require the whole swarm. A hundred nano-robots might be all that is required. Or a thousand. Or ten thousand. Anyway, you get the idea. So here we are five years later, and this idea does not seem so far-fetched as it did back then.
Smart dust.
Everybody with a smartphone is spied on today! It's just the average person is being spied on for the purpose to get you to spend all your money with certain companies.
I knew it bruh, cause these mosquitos just got 3x bigger outta nowhere
10:14 We’re at this point. Except its using a programmed quadrottors that are larger than robot flies
Insects really do have a lot of energy in them
In normally hate roaches, and I think I'm terrified of them now.
I think we all know these robots are not going to be used in any beneficial way.
This thumbnail had me thinking they LS swapped a damn beetle
There are always pros & cons in every new inventions.
Who knew geeks would now be the ones to fear?
That's the big joke on the bullies!
Yes, technology is great when it’s used for the good. Somebody will always use the good for evil. Smh
This is another way of them telling us that they are spying us 😂
Oh the poor nerds.. they have good intentions but they don’t understand how this technology may be the demise of humans
They know exactly what they're doing.
they are going to be poor you will be
Ohh they know
@@rho992 … if you knew basic English you’d know I wasn’t talking about that definition of poor.
The only form of bugs I can stay calm with
Hopefully soon I'll have my very "PICKLE RICK!"🤣
Imagine driving on your motorcycle at 60 mph and catching a robotic fly with your face, that would be f*cked
I don't think it's that much different from catching a natural one tho, maybe an oily taste instead ?
Wirelessly charge the fly with a laser
Witaf
We are doomed
its cool and becomes sci fi once the laser thing is no longer needed.
The story to Simpsons hit and run is about to become a reality
You'll get your rent when you fix this damn door!
Intelligence without wisdom is like a ape with keys to a nuclear launch…. Yeah we’re fk’d
Surely a small gust of wind would take away any control of it.
This reminds me of the kid’s pet bug from spy kids!!
How laser can send energy through the debris or not straight tunnels?
Yeah I want you teach some of these little microrobots to kill bed bugs and cockroaches we'd all be happy
Now you got to Ask Yourself?
Is that a mosquito or your wall? Or is it big brother spying in on you?
Did he just say that they had a flying insect during the Cold war?
Power, weight & outside conditions would be the biggest hurdles. Using the insects own body may be the key ?
Not a bad idea to keep pollination going and also provide more job security.
can they be detected by any radar system
privacy is becoming a thing of the past.
Skynet looks different in this timeline
Watched a similar breakdown on TLC back in the 90s when it was called "The Learning Channel" cyber controlled insects is a decades old boondoggle.
Scary
Keep a few cats in house to catch them.
they're making this place a beautiful hell
Remember the episode from black mirror on the killer bees😂😂😂
He has said all the positives in using robo flies but whatare the negatives ?
Wow, what an incredibly terrible idea for the common man.
There is no such thing as the common man. There is only one common man. All other man are not common to the common man.
@@Prince_of_the_South I think my head just exploded
@@moosemilk8956 Lol. It's true though. Colors are common right? In every country red is significant for ALERT. So that means it's common all around. Black and white clothing is common in weddings and funerals. So what about BROWN????? Brown is COMMON WHERE?? In the earth right? The dirt is brown in IN EVERY LAND! So my skin is brown. I AM THE COMMON MAN. So where do Caucasian people get there skin from?
2:58 looks like she's checking herself out on her screen or she thinks he's cute... anyone else see that cute smirk she got on.
Yea if this gets out to the public no one is gonna be able to have privacy. Your gonna worry if a fly or spider is in the bathroom lol. Heck we dont even really have any now everything is on camera.
This flie violated my GDPR
Really interesting very cool
Imagine being a cockroach lifting tech on our back.
Cockroach : This fucking humans
I thought this video was going to put a nano camera on insects so i can see what they do and how they behave. But i assume these technologies are expensive so it needs a gps so when the bug dies you can retrieve the cameras
The wrong question"what were those insects thinking"
A servitor cockroach? The omnissiash is pleased.
If they ever do use them for survalence then I'm building a signal jammer
Talk about all the bugs...
Cobra commander will love this
Minority Report days are getting closer
Just shows how badass nature is Dragonflies, beetles with their own brain, senses n power
I for one welcome our new robot insect overlords
So you plan to fly them into all kinds of spaces while targeting them with a laser beam? Good luck with that
Or even lace your drink with poison.
🤔
I just watched the first matrix yesterday again as an adult. An aware adult... this is scary. How much is too much? This is the beginning of the end folks.
Fascinating
Why isn't this tech being stopped??
In Florida where they released genetically engineered mosquito's, there's a strange disease spreading..
Contact Netflix! This is awesome!
FLIES ARE ANNOYING ENOUGH
That cock roach under complete control was stunning. This will Part in the fun
Electronic bugs eh? Electronic Frontier Foundation has entered the chat.