Robots to the rescue - High-Tech helpers | DW Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- From drones supplying remote villages with medication to robots taking on dangerous jobs: smart technology is helping people to go higher, faster and further. When lives are at stake, high-tech can often outperform humans.
Tom Plümmer's "Wingcopter" is half helicopter, half airplane. The drone with a two-meter wingspan has started delivering parcels in Germany and is already ferrying crucially needed medication supplies in Malawi. Drone stations being set up there by the inventor receive emergency calls from remote villages. The Wingcopters are then loaded up with vaccines, medication and other supplies before being guided via GPS to their destinations - which are difficult and time-consuming to reach by car.
Swiss engineer Péter Fankhauser built his first autonomous robot in 2018. "ANYmal" resembles a large, metal dog and learns continuously: climbing stairs, analyzing data from its thermal-imaging camera, and navigating its way through smoke with the help of laser sensors. That skill set makes it attractive for use in the chemical industry and oil and gas refineries with their vulnerability to accidents involving fires and explosions. "We can operate the plant safely and remove individuals from the danger area", says the engineer. "In an indirect sense, the robot saves lives." ANYmal is now set to demonstrate its talents at the world's biggest chemical company.
Stefan Sosnowski and his fellow-researchers have custom-built a boat fitted with artificial intelligence and underwater robots to clear up the millions of tons of waste polluting the seabed - for humans, a risky environment to venture into. An initial deployment in Hamburg docks will determine the feasibility of "SeaClear" being used in challenging conditions elsewhere. "If we can make it here with the poor visibility underwater," says Sosnowski, "then we'll make it everywhere."
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Another superb eye opening documentary.
This is how drones should be used. Not as a weapon, but to save lives.
Locals are very thankful for this technology in my country..
Congratulations Tom Plümmer's !! Thanks DW for another amazing documentary.
Great documentary, with an element of ubuntu, showcasing how technology can making a huge positive impact when placed in suitable environments and use cases.
It was a wonderful documentary shared by an amazing ( DW) documentary channel 👍🏻🙏. It was a great work & welcoming effort to rescue humans and utilize drones and robots 🤖 for good purposes ... God bless their minds and theirs works ....
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The transformative power of high-tech innovations like the "Wingcopter," "ANYmal," and "SeaClear" is truly awe-inspiring. They're not just machines; they're life-savers, making the impossible possible. Thanks to the documentary for showcasing these incredible advancements that have the potential to save countless lives.
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Isn't Tom so happy and exudes kindness?! I love that! Well done Tom❤️
Thank you Tom!
Robots are our guardians - like the assembly line robot in South Korea which, earlier this month, mistook a worker for a box of vegetables . . . and killed him. True story. 😳
Just sounds like greed to me. That robot should have undergone more thorough testing. Still terrifying; reminds me the sci-fi trope of killer robot mines which end up killing more than just the enemy.
I agree. Besides it's too early into this "robot stuff" to know whether they will enslave and destroy humanity - or merely become sentient so they can go on strike for better working conditions and vacation pay. 🤔
Best wishes from Vermont 🍁
For $500 worth of cameras and $1000 software work, we could set up remote cameras to monitor all the robot did. And save $8000/month leasing fee. lol
Godspeed ❤
9:30 On September 21, 1921, there was an explosion in that BASF factory area. More than 500 people died. They can sure use some robots to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Tom that's wonderful. I'm a community nurse on farm area
Hopefully we can benefit from your developments
I'm in South Africa, Eastern Cape region
Outstanding
Good news!!! ❤️ Great vid!!
Really good stuff have just one big Q: Anymal bears a whole lot of similarities to what Boston Dynamics been up to for up to 4 decades now, what's the advantage in theirs in oppose to BD's multi-functional robots?
“That corner would be a perfect hub”. Nothing in sight in a 5km radius
Good stuff 😊
Not to mention using drones instead of cars or helicopters they can massively reduce costs of transporting medical or supplies
That dilivery drone how far it can go ? If below 20KM , off-road bike can do with more payload
thank tom work hard good job
I can't watch this documentary as the robotic voiceover is annoying. There's one type of robot not covered: Medical soft robots. There's a soft robot being developed that will eventually completely replace intubation.
15:36 Regarding the robot system that was being tested in a German harbor to clean out trash sunk in the silt and mud and covered with dark murky water - the approach they were testing appears to be totally impractical EVEN if it did work reasonably well. Clearning trash one item at a time is never going to be a real-world solution with or without robots so the testing seems a waste of effort.
Maybe Im missing the point??..in the robot that cleans the ocean..why not just use a diver? It seems to me a diver could easily pick up a few items and put them into the basket. The robot seemed slow and could only do one item at a time the way I saw it.
Then next question is WHERE do they put all the junk they take out of the ocean? Maybe they will recycle the plastics,if still possible,the rest of the rubbish must make more landfill? I am wondering how it all works. 😮
it's research. they're working on a prototype. the point is to perfect the technology so that it becomes easier and cheaper in the future
In the U.S. most of our stuffs are built by the lowest bidder. I'm a government employee, and we can't afford to employ the cream of the crop.
God bless technology
Or how the human lost the most important : social. The human is social.....
Great video, amazing how technology could help people from poor countries if a little will from the rich countries exist. This is not only to help rich or poor countries but to save the world. What's more valuable for Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos to buy in a single life than building a legacy?
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I got to be honest. Can that drone carry anywhere near the amount the truck can.
Of course it can´t, its use is delivering small amounts of life-saving medicine to places where trucks can´t get due to flooding. Not to carry large amounts of cargo. Different transport, different uses.
Except soon nobody will have any jobs.
If you do the math in the amount of cargo and the time spent. The truck is much more efficient. But I guess you have to pay the people operating it. And pay for its fuel? Maybe after some refinement this will be viable alternative. But right now it cannot transport the amount a truck can in the same amount of time.
It's human operated and monitored.
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