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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2022
  • Researchers at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms have made significant progress toward creating robots that could build nearly anything, including things much larger than themselves, from vehicles to buildings to larger robots. (Learn more: news.mit.edu/2...)
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  • @amelialikesfrogs5778
    @amelialikesfrogs5778 Год назад +288

    oh no they're multiplying!

  • @sunsen226
    @sunsen226 Год назад +251

    This tech is gonna be used in building space bases for sure. Hope the system will become usable soon.

    • @joelface
      @joelface Год назад +6

      My thoughts exactly. But it could also have widespread uses on earth as well, if the tech develops enough. However, this tech shows the voxels moving and re-configuring other voxels, but it doesn't show them creating voxels themselves, let alone any possible applications for these voxels in their current form (configured into a form that does what? It's a lot of wires and machinery if the end result is just to build a bridge or a dome). Still, very cool!

    • @quasa0
      @quasa0 Год назад +9

      Nope. This stuff is super limited unnecessarily. You can have a fleet of different robots all dedicated to their own job that they can do well. So that they then can mine and forge resources, build factories and create new robots for their fleet. Future is definitely not lead by such simple self-assessmling structures.

    • @aliomercansizoglu6719
      @aliomercansizoglu6719 Год назад

      Of course my man, I will remind you when this is possible for about 37 years later.

    • @conorstewart2214
      @conorstewart2214 Год назад

      @@joelface the thing assembling the voxels doesn’t have to be made of voxels, even having a separate manufacturing module would be a very useful, maybe it could assemble the voxels from the individual side panels so that they can be flat packed for transport or storage. The manufacturing module takes the flat packed voxels and assembled them and outputs them for the robots to pick up. I like the idea of self replicating robots but it does have issues, like to be good at everything you can’t be great at many things, so I am more interested is different robots with different purposes collaborating than just using a single robot for everything.

    • @conorstewart2214
      @conorstewart2214 Год назад +1

      @@quasa0 very true, it’s like the saying, “jack of all trades, master of none”, a robot needs to make sacrifices to be more versatile, like increased weight and even increased cost for the microcontroller and control since it needs to be able to do more. You also can’t optimise for every task the robot will do, that’s why if you look at a factory each robot is designed for it’s specific purpose, they don’t use general purpose robots each doing different tasks. You can think about it in terms of people too, different jobs have different required tools, no one is going around carrying the tools for every job, it would cost too much, there would be too much to carry or transport and it would take up too much space, so everyone specialises what they carry with them and tailors it based on their specific needs. A robot that can mine, climb, build and manufacture would require the tools to do all those jobs, so it either needs to carry all that on it or use tool changers so it only needs to carry what it is going to use which brings us back somewhat to using different robots rather than all the same, it also loses its versatility only carrying one specific tool at a time.
      General purpose robots are good for versatility where you don’t know exactly how or where they will be used. If you know what they are going to do and where they are going to operate you are much better designing a robot for that specific purpose. It would probably be simpler to control and program to do that specific purpose too since it doesn’t contain any unnecessary features or actuators.

  • @MeriaDuck
    @MeriaDuck Год назад +113

    I dreamt about building something like this when I was a teenager (like 30+ years ago). But computer science got me more interested and motivated so never got there. Love the fact that it is possible at all in terms of computation, wireless communication and mechanisation. Very cool!
    (Edited to hide my inital understanding where power comes from)

    • @adamj2683
      @adamj2683 Год назад +3

      Have you seen Big Hero Six? 😄

  • @AaronBecker
    @AaronBecker Год назад +131

    Here is the paper: Self-replicating hierarchical modular robotic swarms
    Amira Abdel-Rahman, Christopher Cameron, Benjamin Jenett, Miana Smith & Neil Gershenfeld
    Communications Engineering volume 1, Article number: 35 (2022)

    • @gaslampnation735
      @gaslampnation735 Год назад +1

      When we're swarms ever a good thing?

    • @AaronBecker
      @AaronBecker Год назад +30

      @@gaslampnation735 🐝 making honey? Search and rescue? Building a new hospital quickly? Swarms of platelets stopping blood from leaking out of your body?

    • @ianmeade7441
      @ianmeade7441 Год назад

      @@gaslampnation735 swarms of cells, bacteria, and motor protiens are doing a pretty good job keeping you alive right now. Probably.

    • @Soma2501
      @Soma2501 Год назад +4

      @@gaslampnation735 drone light shows are great

    • @WillPreston3D
      @WillPreston3D 2 месяца назад +1

      @@AaronBecker retrieving plastic bottles from dolphin's stomach

  • @Arominit
    @Arominit Год назад +14

    Robots that can build bigger robots by themselves: This seems like a very good idea!

    • @surronzak8154
      @surronzak8154 Год назад +3

      Yes it is, why are you so afraid ?

  • @sriharsha9286
    @sriharsha9286 Год назад +42

    As always...very inspiring work @MIT

  • @prenticedarlington2720
    @prenticedarlington2720 Год назад +35

    At last, a serious, informative video. Just a shame it's so short.

    • @gaslampnation735
      @gaslampnation735 Год назад

      They just want you to feed the beast by investing in stocks. And if you are on the fence, replace your god with paganism.

    • @Geeksmithing
      @Geeksmithing Год назад +1

      That's what she said.

  • @saveplanet3977
    @saveplanet3977 Год назад +13

    I frequently used to play this game on paper before, but geometry differences are there. This is interesting

  • @nineofspades4701
    @nineofspades4701 Год назад +9

    Big hero six flashbacks

  • @christiancarter6724
    @christiancarter6724 Год назад +8

    Basically large scale programable matter. Cool as hell

  • @szebike
    @szebike Год назад +9

    I like the concept it is similar to the biologic "robots" in our body. So we learn from the best.

  • @SchopenhauerVsCamus
    @SchopenhauerVsCamus Год назад +6

    Really the worst case scenario is that AI + self assembling, self repairing, self replicating and self evolving robots will just take up all the robot maintenance and repair jobs. So we’ll just have to adapt and find new jobs. It’s fine.

  • @parthgoel1084
    @parthgoel1084 Год назад +8

    this is ultron all over again

    • @gaslampnation735
      @gaslampnation735 Год назад +2

      Yeah, but this time we will own nothing and love the cybernetic crap out of it.

  • @andrewphilip3308
    @andrewphilip3308 Год назад +3

    voxels are geometrically cuboctahedra which is a kind of mean shape between the cube and octahedron. Join the centre points of the edges of either and this same shape results.

  • @karlkastor
    @karlkastor Год назад +23

    Very cool. I hope something like this will lead to von neumann probes in my lifetime

  • @Si-annMusic
    @Si-annMusic Год назад +2

    "Aperture science, we do what we must, because, we can"

    • @NishimotoBricks
      @NishimotoBricks Год назад +1

      "For the good of all of us. Except the one who are dead."

    • @mastershooter64
      @mastershooter64 Год назад +1

      @@NishimotoBricks "But there's no sense crying over every mistake, we just keep on trying till we run out of cake"

  • @Kids_Scissors
    @Kids_Scissors Год назад +6

    Imagine seeing a massive unmanned fortress made of these machines, constantly reconfiguring and rolling forward on the horizon

    • @doublecell966
      @doublecell966 Год назад +2

      They'll take over before dawn

    • @surronzak8154
      @surronzak8154 Год назад +1

      @@doublecell966 TAKE OVER WHAT, For what reason ?

    • @doublecell966
      @doublecell966 Год назад +2

      @@surronzak8154 it was just a cringy play on a game called horizon zero dawn lol

  • @isalutfi
    @isalutfi Год назад +5

    Multiplying innovation

  • @jmg9509
    @jmg9509 Год назад +7

    1:27 😱As someone who is learning Three.JS 3D Library, it warms my heart to see Dat.GUI here, even if the libarary used to render the models is not Three.JS 😊

  • @MythionVR
    @MythionVR Год назад +5

    Has nobody watched Stargate SG-1? have we learned nothing?! You're making replicators!

    • @gaslampnation735
      @gaslampnation735 Год назад +1

      Most fiction becomes reality. I think Elesium mixed with terminator has the mark.

    • @hootsmin
      @hootsmin Год назад

      @@gaslampnation735 You want to mix Terminator with Transcendence, Upgrade, Bloodshot, Johnny Mnemonic, Strange Days, Colossus the Forbin Project, Eagle Eye, Gamer, Listening, Virtual Nightmare, 2047 Virtual Revolution, Ready Player One and Star Trek First Contact.

  • @riyadhuddin
    @riyadhuddin Год назад +8

    Will they crush things in between or have sense to go way around

  • @lyndaengler7753
    @lyndaengler7753 Год назад +5

    Replicators! Time to take a field trip to Antarctica and dig up that second Stargate. 😜

  • @dalechenoweth915
    @dalechenoweth915 Год назад +1

    When they can build a Rick style portal gun, I'll take two.

  • @tanchienhao
    @tanchienhao Год назад +23

    does anyone have the paper on this? i would like to see the technical details!

    • @AaronBecker
      @AaronBecker Год назад +19

      Self-replicating hierarchical modular robotic swarms
      Amira Abdel-Rahman, Christopher Cameron, Benjamin Jenett, Miana Smith & Neil Gershenfeld
      Communications Engineering volume 1, Article number: 35 (2022)

    • @tinotibaldo
      @tinotibaldo Год назад +5

      @@AaronBecker my man

    • @CitizenCayne
      @CitizenCayne Год назад

      It's all experimental and conceptual. Not capable up maintain load balance and independent without human mathematical intervention and input. THIS should have NEVER being made public until it is viable. So it modern "science" these days. It is ridiculous that they have to "publish" in scienfic journal FIRST before they are accepted by the communicity for validation AND so that enemies can know what's being invnted.

    • @Blayzeing
      @Blayzeing Год назад +4

      You may also be interested in this similar work from 2018 that has more of a focus on the physical structure of such robots: "HyMod: A 3-DOF hybrid mobile and self-reconfigurable modular robot and its extensions", by Christopher Parrott et al.

  • @rickkowalchuk6391
    @rickkowalchuk6391 Год назад +3

    Intriguing to think ahead 20 years about the possibilities!

  • @dirtydeedsdirtcheep3007
    @dirtydeedsdirtcheep3007 Год назад +2

    We are slowly reaching the Horizon timeline... ROBOT DINOSAURS!

  • @daviddickey9832
    @daviddickey9832 Год назад +2

    Can't wait for these little guys to be building my new house on Mars

    • @neuromancer8796
      @neuromancer8796 Год назад

      I guess in the first years of colonization, all surface building will be a mix between modular building and 3 printing, instead of bricks u 3d and molding your parts then having robots assemble them, and assembly lines will play a big role in the colony building, instead of thinking every bit of the colony, have a successful design then produce it at scale and in different sizes, you can automate the whole process

  • @Dlowr7
    @Dlowr7 Год назад +1

    And that is how skynet was born

  • @liberty99ca
    @liberty99ca 6 месяцев назад

    If they make them into nano bots this is essentially the Liquid Metal in Terminator 2

  • @jghifiversveiws8729
    @jghifiversveiws8729 9 месяцев назад

    Imagine this but scaled down to the form of macrons (macroscopic particles: basically dust). You could produce macrons that are hollow in pretty much any shape you want from spheres, to cylinders, to cubes, to voxels out of any material you want. And the different faces of individual macron voxels could even be configured to carry electric charges of opposite polarities allowing for the attachment of each macron voxel magnetically to one another and the creation of a scaled down version of this potentially leading to full programmable matter.

  • @bartibv
    @bartibv Год назад +3

    Mit is playing factorio in real life 😆

  • @romansobczyk6073
    @romansobczyk6073 Год назад +1

    Świetny pomysł na drogi w fabrykach na Księżycu dla robotów aby zachowywały równowagę przy przenoszeniu ciężkich materiałów w zmniejszonej grawitacji Księżyca.

  • @cxsey8587
    @cxsey8587 Год назад

    “Honey! The house is walking again!”

  • @iam_anand
    @iam_anand Год назад +2

    It's like multicellular organism .

  • @stickbugstickbug6320
    @stickbugstickbug6320 6 месяцев назад

    Imagine if you just threw a bunch of these things at a construction site and told them to build a building, and they did.

  • @satchelsieniewicz5824
    @satchelsieniewicz5824 Год назад

    wana know why it they show so many simulations.... because they dont work beyond a few movements they operate open loop

  • @m.d2491
    @m.d2491 Год назад

    0:35 .. hell nah, to the nah^4 - Bishop Bullwinkle

  • @alexandrep4913
    @alexandrep4913 Год назад +2

    I do not see how this specific iteration or mode is going anywhere for assembly. Maybe this is an issue of MIT media not understanding what they're actually used for.

    • @penguinista
      @penguinista Год назад

      It seems more likely that they didn't get that across to you in the couple minute long presentation than that they don't understand what it is used for.
      The paper will go into much more detail. Here is the source info:
      Self-replicating hierarchical modular robotic swarms
      Amira Abdel-Rahman, Christopher Cameron, Benjamin Jenett, Miana Smith & Neil Gershenfeld
      Communications Engineering volume 1, Article number: 35 (2022)

  • @D3adP00I
    @D3adP00I Год назад +3

    Sounds ideal for creating a Dyson sphere

  • @oscaryuen311
    @oscaryuen311 Год назад

    this reminds me of the magnets from big hero 6

  • @KeitelDOG
    @KeitelDOG Год назад +5

    The AI mind almost there, now prepare their physical replicating system.

    • @gaslampnation735
      @gaslampnation735 Год назад +1

      The portal is open, Baal is here. Most will worship this as pagans. Once our house is divided, the others will come.

  • @user-cj4fu8qq9b
    @user-cj4fu8qq9b Год назад +2

    r.i.p humans

  • @johnnywright8920
    @johnnywright8920 Год назад +2

    Let’s go Big hero 6

  • @1.4142
    @1.4142 Год назад +1

    Walks like Kinesin

  • @gaslampnation735
    @gaslampnation735 Год назад +3

    MasterMold from X-MEN. Who wouldn't want drones making drones who all follow centralized commands. It's not that machines will ever be more wise then humans, it's the fact that they will be able to communicate and activate at a higher rate. Just think of a person clicking a mouse that does something, then think of a computer that can click 20k mice simultaneously. Humans are lazy, this will be autonomous in no time.

  • @bee_irl
    @bee_irl Год назад +3

    I have played Horizon and I'm afraid

  • @gneugneu6253
    @gneugneu6253 Год назад +4

    So the bots themselves are also part of the structure that's being built? Sort of like a human cell?

  • @therealjagsnfl
    @therealjagsnfl Год назад +1

    Mfs watched big hero 6 and said “we can do that”

  • @chicoxiba
    @chicoxiba Год назад

    this sounds like a plausible way to startup in mars

  • @sophiehsu6740
    @sophiehsu6740 Год назад +1

    omg is this real life microbots

  • @artazgang1807
    @artazgang1807 Год назад

    The same concept with Microbots from Big Hero 6 (2014) movie.

  • @tjpprojects7192
    @tjpprojects7192 Год назад

    SIVA here we come!

  • @RandomAmbles
    @RandomAmbles Год назад +1

    Why cuboctohedra? That's what I want to know.

  • @teediaries1773
    @teediaries1773 Год назад

    Important just to understand that these robots are useless for materials used in current construction, but open the door for completely new construction which is better in many ways

  • @vpatel_
    @vpatel_ Год назад +1

    @mit bruh use a servoblock to increase the strength of the joints

  • @helsayana5873
    @helsayana5873 Год назад +1

    Awesome Job !

  • @fahadthgt7240
    @fahadthgt7240 Год назад +1

    Amazing work

  • @MountainMan-ri2lr
    @MountainMan-ri2lr Год назад

    Oh boy another meaning for the word "voxel" that won't confuse any people who don't know what they're talking about.

  • @nsudam
    @nsudam Год назад

    It will be the most innovative technology of this world.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @mikestaub
    @mikestaub Год назад +1

    Did they get this idea from Big Hero 6?

  • @luckysoul5863
    @luckysoul5863 Год назад

    These are like the robots from Big Hero 6.

  • @kristinabegail
    @kristinabegail Год назад

    Am wondering why they can’t have a big arm the can reach one place to another

  • @Echap15
    @Echap15 Год назад

    Getting Blame! flashbacks right now

  • @Khairulanwar-lh7nh
    @Khairulanwar-lh7nh 26 дней назад

    i cann't imagine if the robot size at molecular level...

  • @Bubbamacomb
    @Bubbamacomb Год назад +2

    Good stuff

    • @gaslampnation735
      @gaslampnation735 Год назад

      Actually in the seven days God made everything, this wasn't one of those things, nor did he say "and it was good". But by all means, if we are all to still believe things will get exponentially better if we just suffer more hardship indefinitely, sign right up!

  • @wompstopm123
    @wompstopm123 Год назад +1

    they need to use a motor that drives an embedded bolt that matches up with an embedded nut on the voxel. magnets are wasteful.

  • @elihill3082
    @elihill3082 Год назад

    I'll take the whole stock

  • @questtech2698
    @questtech2698 Год назад

    Agent Smith: Moreeeee
    Robot: Moreeeee

  • @d4rthpunk-908
    @d4rthpunk-908 Год назад

    I dont want to sound negative... but...
    this may look cool but i dont really see any practical aplication for this. At the most probably building a space station (where that kind of communication and power connections will make sense. And at least just a gimmicky toy. Any other structure with such a high power and communication redundancy would not be cost effective. So to run that kind of data and power on larger systems is not feasible. Also, you dont build large structures with magnets so it would need some kind of automated bots or industrial clips. Things with actuators or motors to connect each part. The connection needs to be able to be: safe, secure, non-permanent, and repeatable/ware resistant etc... so i dont see this becoming anything more than a cool science project.

  • @grimstrife4338
    @grimstrife4338 Год назад

    Is some guy in a Kabuki mask gonna steal them for his revenge plot?

  • @Nines_Rodriguez
    @Nines_Rodriguez Год назад +1

    John Connor was right...

  • @porcorosso4330
    @porcorosso4330 Год назад

    maybe a skyscraper built with modular parts and two dozen or hundreds of modular moving robots.

  • @heribertohernandez2910
    @heribertohernandez2910 Год назад

    Smashing alot of polygons here

  • @charlespackwood
    @charlespackwood Год назад

    This tech info should be given to NASA. Stuff could be built on the moon, prior to Matt Damon's arrival.

  • @kaltenbach.alexander
    @kaltenbach.alexander Год назад +2

    RUclips gotta make a purely academical algorithm.

  • @georgeshepard5744
    @georgeshepard5744 Год назад

    “Ahhhh” Skynet sez.

  • @yyusuf.22
    @yyusuf.22 Год назад +2

    Date: 23.11.2022
    my last year in high school. I'm preparing for university
    I hope to be a software engineer in this university next year.

    • @rubenverster250
      @rubenverster250 Год назад +1

      I work for them now ^-^
      It takes hard work, but you can achieve it with persistence
      If you meet Olu, tell him I say 'Hi' :D

    • @gaslampnation735
      @gaslampnation735 Год назад

      If you build it they will come.

    • @yyusuf.22
      @yyusuf.22 Год назад +1

      ​@@rubenverster250 ıf ı meet you, of course ı tell.
      I'am doing best for my dreams

    • @rubenverster250
      @rubenverster250 Год назад +1

      @@yyusuf.22 I promise you, they effort you put into this is well worth it :)
      You must just be consistent in improvement ^-^

    • @yyusuf.22
      @yyusuf.22 Год назад

      @@rubenverster250 I have a tough year ahead of me. If I can get through this year well, I think I will be good in the future and I am consistent in development.

  • @spolo123
    @spolo123 Год назад

    A prequel to Rendezvous with Rama...

  • @CosmicAggressor
    @CosmicAggressor Год назад

    Well. Someone was reading the bob books.

  • @ericrodano7951
    @ericrodano7951 Год назад

    Good work : )

  • @MrCzto
    @MrCzto Год назад

    Skynet is happy!

  • @thepm517
    @thepm517 Год назад

    I got to know that you mit is looking for me from a century.
    Now i m here.
    Wanna take in?

  • @user-tp9kq8gr8h
    @user-tp9kq8gr8h Год назад

    it looks like honeycomb makes itself without honeybees 😁

  • @trihasta4229
    @trihasta4229 Год назад

    I can read your mind
    I am reading your mind now
    I am learn it from everyone

  • @21st44
    @21st44 Год назад

    You should hire me I would do it in a day

  • @JOlivier2011
    @JOlivier2011 Год назад

    make everything paperclips!

  • @ivegotsomevids.foryou2047
    @ivegotsomevids.foryou2047 Год назад +1

    Can it build me a friend?

  • @Waltyworld
    @Waltyworld Год назад

    Wow no I definitely need these

  • @CBWP
    @CBWP Год назад +1

    it's future littlebits...

  • @shadow.banned
    @shadow.banned Год назад

    Reminds me of Starcraft for some reason.

  • @ryomichael
    @ryomichael Год назад

    Wow! Welcome to 1986! The year "Engines of Creation" (Eric K. Drexler) was published.

  • @TheI3lacky
    @TheI3lacky Год назад

    I wish i was smarter... lol.
    Would have loved to be at MiT... the things you Guys do, are just amazing.

  • @kedan808
    @kedan808 Год назад

    yall seen that movie..

  • @swimmyricky
    @swimmyricky Год назад

    Wonder if they modelled two leg movement after vesicle transport proteins in cells!

  • @timhofstetter5654
    @timhofstetter5654 Год назад

    No.
    They can't.
    It's stupid to think that they could.
    The interlocks between them are far too weak for that, and strong ones would require a huge amount of power, which would be heinously inefficient.
    It's far more efficient to just use conventional methods to make stuff. Nobody needs automated objects.

  • @shirishjadav1725
    @shirishjadav1725 Год назад

    Promising

  • @danielan962
    @danielan962 Год назад

    gust of wind or 5 lb rock: see ya

  • @hassansaad6536
    @hassansaad6536 Год назад

    Clearly big hero 6 is the inspiration here !

  • @premanandsahoo4549
    @premanandsahoo4549 Год назад

    This a couple generations away from big hero 6

  • @nerdyPanda7288
    @nerdyPanda7288 Год назад

    Have you guys tried using plant design, more specifically how plants react to light.