Tiny robots with giant potential | Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin

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    Take a trip down the microworld as roboticists Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin explain how they design and mass-produce microrobots the size of a single cell, powered by atomically thin legs -- and show how these machines could one day be "piloted" to battle crop diseases or study your brain at the level of individual neurons.
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Komentáře • 128

  • @neerajkrishnang3916
    @neerajkrishnang3916 Před 4 lety +17

    Presenters: *breathes*
    Audience: 😂😂😂😂

  • @TheMrmoc7
    @TheMrmoc7 Před 4 lety +27

    "Researchers around the world have taken up the task of trying to build robots that are so small that they can't be seen."
    Ahh, yes, the future, so exciting and horribly terrifying!

    • @jordanhanic2678
      @jordanhanic2678 Před 4 lety +1

      Honestly

    • @ungeschaut
      @ungeschaut Před 4 lety +1

      Ha. It cant work since the earth is flat! Take that scientists!

    • @otisluciano6368
      @otisluciano6368 Před 2 lety

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    • @otisluciano6368
      @otisluciano6368 Před 2 lety

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  • @theencore398
    @theencore398 Před 4 lety +14

    I am a simple person.
    But when i see tiny robots, i jump in.

  • @urvashisharma7415
    @urvashisharma7415 Před 4 lety +33

    another useful tech that can be misused so well by some people

    • @incognitojon902
      @incognitojon902 Před 4 lety +4

      It definitely will military will use it to make better weapons

    • @Dionyzos
      @Dionyzos Před 4 lety +6

      Like almost every other tech

    • @OgaKunieda
      @OgaKunieda Před 4 lety +1

      all tech are like that

    • @advent35
      @advent35 Před 4 lety +1

      we should be terrified by this!

    • @Ninja-iq2xt
      @Ninja-iq2xt Před 4 lety +1

      look at the bright side.

  • @daveporter4667
    @daveporter4667 Před 4 lety +7

    I am an engineer and IT guy. I understand very well electronics.
    We did invented the plastics 50-60-70 years ago, and look now, all the oceans are full of plastics from visible ones to invisible ones (microfibers).
    The whole water on earth is contaminated, in order to drink water you have to filter it.
    Now in top of plastics will build and tiny robots that move in water or in our body. Do we have a way to clean up these micro robot crap we are creating?
    I bet not. Will deal with that later after we mess it up, as usual.
    Yes it does have a great potential, do pollute more the water and the planet.

  • @BobMarley-sp3zm
    @BobMarley-sp3zm Před 4 lety +1

    upload that doesn't suck, i am impressed

  • @ecrusch
    @ecrusch Před 4 lety

    Amazing technology!
    Thank you !

  • @lcifermorningstar191
    @lcifermorningstar191 Před 4 lety +46

    Cool stuff, now unleash them on the corona virus.

    • @mohammed_wari
      @mohammed_wari Před 4 lety +3

      Exactly. Let's see if they can do that

    • @nothingbutthetruth3227
      @nothingbutthetruth3227 Před 4 lety +1

      Oh they’re already there I’m sure. 😂

    • @greatergood6615
      @greatergood6615 Před 4 lety +1

      they're more apt to use them to control us.

    • @lcifermorningstar191
      @lcifermorningstar191 Před 4 lety

      @Don Corl I got the Nano Injection last Oct. 2019, along with my wife and kids.
      None of us got the Corona Cuties eventhough we are surrounded by Zombies.

    • @dyshrunksvideos9661
      @dyshrunksvideos9661 Před 2 lety

      It might be the sourced of the coronavirus

  • @roy.awderby
    @roy.awderby Před 4 lety +1

    I like the innovative ideas ❤✌🏻

  • @rikomagyar7850
    @rikomagyar7850 Před 4 lety +2

    Brilliant.

  • @magneat
    @magneat Před 4 lety +8

    It sounds so cool... until military guys take care of these robots.

  • @3uphoric
    @3uphoric Před 4 lety +9

    Anyone else seen 'The day the earth stood still'?

  • @Ninja-iq2xt
    @Ninja-iq2xt Před 4 lety

    amazing!

  • @abdullahsarahtech2851
    @abdullahsarahtech2851 Před 4 lety +24

    I will use this technology....... I really impressed.....
    o- optical
    w- wireless
    i- integrated
    c- circuit

  • @Gftrrf
    @Gftrrf Před 4 lety

    This is what I call , Fun Easy Learn

  • @buddy77587
    @buddy77587 Před 4 lety

    Amazing

  • @alvarorodriguez1592
    @alvarorodriguez1592 Před 4 lety

    The photovoltaic cell is quite convenient for a semiconductor fabrication process, just not terribly useful (from what I can imagine), but if the energy cell could turn neurochemicals into capacitor loading, their actuators led them to move and stick to high energy sources (a relatively simple control scheme), and they had an ID’d burst radio emitter mimicking neural thresholds, this could turn into an awesome brain mapper (to use on animals).

  • @whocares4592
    @whocares4592 Před 4 lety +3

    I can’t see the potential, without being unreasonably hopeful

    • @TheMrmoc7
      @TheMrmoc7 Před 4 lety +4

      That's a fault of your limited imagination and knowledge.

  • @jhunt5578
    @jhunt5578 Před 4 lety +4

    The dude on the right is like real life Ray Palmer

  • @bayesianlee6447
    @bayesianlee6447 Před 4 lety +3

    rapid reaction : oh that's cute.
    5 years later : They are rulers.

  • @nagamendo5655
    @nagamendo5655 Před 4 lety +1

    Hmm... Is it just me or do these robots look like the „Replicators“ from the Stargate SG1 series...?
    Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭

  • @akash.205
    @akash.205 Před 4 lety

    Great...

  • @nzachariah9669
    @nzachariah9669 Před 4 lety +2

    How do you fire such small concentrated solar beams?🤔

  • @jiblazed
    @jiblazed Před 4 lety

    what's the name of the micro organism in the beginning? I need spelling!

  • @rbkalai
    @rbkalai Před 4 lety

    Create modular robots that can be used as micro robots as well as normal sized one when all those are combined together. Like Transcendence movie

  • @tiosam1426
    @tiosam1426 Před 4 lety

    good to see, you notification

  • @ductuslupus87
    @ductuslupus87 Před 4 lety +1

    Wow, Woody Harrelson and Clark Kent are making some great tech. Keep it up.

  • @puirYorick
    @puirYorick Před 4 lety +5

    You just know that one day the owit will develop a taste for human blood cells and become a robotic microphage because Hollywood has taught us... everything.

  • @tanujambwani4781
    @tanujambwani4781 Před 4 lety +5

    Woah...! So this is happening...the potential of 'Nano-world' is being realized...😇 (...WOC though-beware of Nano-hazards alongside..)🤔

  • @Azwel
    @Azwel Před 4 lety +1

    I see crispin glover in that guy a little

  • @bburnsga
    @bburnsga Před 10 měsíci

    Amazing! He is very excited about the day coming, in which these will be commonplace. But with the corrupt, evil people we have in the upper echelons today, I find it absolutely terrifying.

  • @undertow2142
    @undertow2142 Před 4 lety

    Put those platinum layers in a suit and have super strength.

  • @olyrhys8724
    @olyrhys8724 Před 4 lety +1

    These adorable geeks are how we all ended up with Terminators where our haemoglobin should be 😂

    • @emmanueloluga9770
      @emmanueloluga9770 Před 4 lety

      There is nothing adorable about willful ignorance and complacency towards the bigger picture. Of course, I am not referring particularly to the gentlemen in this video. I am more alluding to these "many scientists all over the world" some of which are too naive and irresponsible o ask the more important questions of WHY? Technology has never really been a threat, as all it is, is a tool. Our use of this tool is a more important topic. Responsibility is paramount whenever delving into new territories. We need to tread more carefully. Sorry for the rant.

  • @leon4558
    @leon4558 Před 4 lety

    Such a big channel, but so less people watch it

  • @ausnetting
    @ausnetting Před 4 lety +1

    Now - how to power them off lipids in the bloodstream?

  • @123melody
    @123melody Před 4 lety

    Ok now I'm paranoid and feel there are tiny robots around me...

  • @iliakaplan
    @iliakaplan Před 4 lety

    I'm in semiconductors.... The his is amazing

  • @pls.protect.free.speechuns5528

    Robots inside robots inside robots. Life 2.0.

  • @TokenBlackman7
    @TokenBlackman7 Před 4 lety +2

    Nanomachines, son!

  • @bertharius9518
    @bertharius9518 Před 4 lety

    There must be something wrong with me. A whole room of people are laughing - but I cannot see or hear what they're laughing at.

    • @emmanueloluga9770
      @emmanueloluga9770 Před 4 lety

      It's just an attempt and a form of engagement in today's "reciprocation is more important than listening" world

  • @youcanfindrace
    @youcanfindrace Před 4 lety

    So no one here is going to talk about Superman teaching us about invisible robots?

  • @juragansupian611
    @juragansupian611 Před 4 lety +1

    Good bless 🤝 AI Afiliasi intelegensi to omega the world 🌍🌎🌏👍

  • @bigblockchevy200
    @bigblockchevy200 Před 4 lety

    My question is, how would the human body's immune system react to tiny robots in the system?

  • @enegm3749
    @enegm3749 Před 4 lety

    مش مترجم ؟

  • @invox9490
    @invox9490 Před 4 lety

    The guy in the right looks like a young Dr. Hank Pym. #antman

  • @tuandang7352
    @tuandang7352 Před 4 lety

    How tiny is the robot?

  • @AmyDentata
    @AmyDentata Před 4 lety +2

    TED was filmed in front of a live studio audience

  • @UNSRIPTEDBS
    @UNSRIPTEDBS Před 4 lety +1

    Demons, man

  • @jomjohny
    @jomjohny Před 4 lety +3

    Here we goooo== Mark of the beast

    • @neilpatton7174
      @neilpatton7174 Před 4 lety

      Jomon Johny as in grey goo? I see what you did there;)

  • @jhunt5578
    @jhunt5578 Před 4 lety

    Meesed up cutting the mouse's skull off.

  • @hashfifadhillah8126
    @hashfifadhillah8126 Před 4 lety

    Waw

  • @mordorofmntdoom2295
    @mordorofmntdoom2295 Před 4 lety +1

    So, what's to stop them from being used against mankind? There is just too much evil for it to be used for good.

  • @WildHorseProductions
    @WildHorseProductions Před 4 lety

    Nanomachines son!

  • @sunshinebreeze1
    @sunshinebreeze1 Před 4 lety

    This is not the answer to our Huna. Dilemma. We need to expand human potential robotic.
    Its like giving toys to 3 year olds. The human needs to master itself first!!

  • @georgeaura
    @georgeaura Před 4 lety

    How were you eight years old when you saw that?

    • @rayjukenl3497
      @rayjukenl3497 Před 4 lety +2

      GAproductions his eyes were really good back then

    • @healthya7975
      @healthya7975 Před 4 lety

      He just squinted hard enough

  • @Kaydin66
    @Kaydin66 Před 4 lety

    does that guy not have eyebrows?

  • @nguyenvanquyet2883
    @nguyenvanquyet2883 Před 4 lety +1

  • @ajcarpy2005
    @ajcarpy2005 Před 4 lety

    Cool but doesn't seem very practical. In the bloodstream swimming would be better than walking in my opinion.

  • @utkarsh22smart
    @utkarsh22smart Před 4 lety

    I really liked it. I now do believe in India 2000 rupee currency might have them. Still wondering ! Amazing tech!!

  • @Harshit-vu6ky
    @Harshit-vu6ky Před 4 lety +1

    CORANAVIRUS

  • @rainbowwarpig3536
    @rainbowwarpig3536 Před 4 lety +1

    Humanity’s downfall

  • @mrmike2119
    @mrmike2119 Před 4 lety +2

    I seriously fear artificial intelligence ultimately taking over. Glad I know how to grow food naturally when the global electronic grid fails. True, technology is interesting, but playing God is not acceptably to me. Sorry guys.

  • @ChideNorms
    @ChideNorms Před 4 lety

    MORGELLONS DISCLOSURE.

  • @pondholloworchards
    @pondholloworchards Před 4 lety +1

    It wont be long before the take over. The Beast will sit in The Temple

  • @neilpatton7174
    @neilpatton7174 Před 4 lety

    While the lithography has progressed along Moore’s Law, the premise here hasn’t changed since Drexler’s “Engines of Creation”. Also, instead of plagiarizing the semiconductor industry to build bottom up, why not adapt what nature has provided after billions of years of R&D?

    • @nolan412
      @nolan412 Před 4 lety

      First you need microbot fingers.

  • @AarontheGreatXCII-kn4gj
    @AarontheGreatXCII-kn4gj Před 4 lety +1

    *Life consciousness doesn't come from stagnant inanimate biomatter on the ground naturally. Life exclusively comes from life.* 💯

  • @remancyrodill4474
    @remancyrodill4474 Před 4 lety +3

    Whatabout when skynet goes online. We dead.

  • @jojaseentha9060
    @jojaseentha9060 Před 4 lety

    2nd comment huhu

  • @abdullthe1651
    @abdullthe1651 Před 4 lety +1

    This is so cool, until:
    1. Humans began its application as micro weapons.
    2. Skynet takes control and/or kill every living things, CELL by CELL.
    Bravo to y'all😎

  • @user-mr8ns9vs5t
    @user-mr8ns9vs5t Před 4 lety

    I really wanted to focus on what he’s saying, but he’s really hot..😳🥵

  • @mikemartin1200
    @mikemartin1200 Před 4 lety

    ......nnnnnnnanobots

  • @victorcampuzano6627
    @victorcampuzano6627 Před 4 lety +2

    Nothing new. What they show us is old tech.

  • @Gala_
    @Gala_ Před 4 lety +5

    "Nature can do it. Why can't we?"
    Oh yeah, we a so brilliant that can perfectly and in short terms do the things that nature had been working for thousands of years!
    Ridiculously and too arrogantly
    Can you at least suppose for a tiny moment that there is probably no need to do this?
    Or you want to earn the fame anyway, despite all the possible negative effects of your actions?
    Isn't there other vital issues to solve in modern world?

    • @ZwergDesign
      @ZwergDesign Před 4 lety

      It seems like you are not able to grasp the significance of research like this. This might be able to cure many diseases, save lifes and also take care of our food. These are some of the MOST vital issues we need to solve as a human species.

    • @udaykadam5455
      @udaykadam5455 Před 4 lety

      We are also an output of that thousands of years of process.
      We are as natural as we can be, we are a way for universe to see itself, discover itself.
      So things we do and choices we make is indirectly a natural selection process but instead of it being random selection process which could've killed us all without hesitation,we choose to take control.
      Corona is showing us we should be ready for more intense pandemic situations , Nature can't be labelled as cruel but it doesn't care about life and poses danger (look thousands of planets that doesn't support life) and life is all about survival and we are getting ready for it.
      And if people like these don't distribute this knowledge with public then government will be the only one with power.

  • @sonjak8265
    @sonjak8265 Před 3 lety

    Why do scientist lack a sense of humor?