Computing with Soft Robots - Computerphile
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- Even the most impressive soft robots have an external control system. What if the software could be running on soft hardware? - Associate Professor Perla Maiolino explains the soft logic in soft robots.
ORI Soft Robots group:
Perla Maiolino (speaker)
Liang He
Sihan Wang (Demonstrator)
Francesco Grella
Peizhi Zhang
Oliver Shorthose
ORI Soft Robots Group Website: bit.ly/C_Oxfor...
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Lovely to see steam age technology in action, those spool valves were also known as double beat or equilibrium valves, you find them in beam engines and Victorian steam locomitives , they facilitate fine control against a high pressure difference by putting the high pressure above and below the valve
I enjoy hearing an Italian accent for the very first time on this channel ☺️
I came into the video thinking it was like a euphemism for a type of pattern but no, you legit mean soft robots lol. Great video.
Personally feel soft robots have been around for a bit but trying to scale them is really hard…
casually dropping "shrinking down to cellular size to use in Biology" as a stretch goal after talking about "handling of produce" first ... talk about burying the lede! fascinating area of research, would love to learn more on the subject.
A clock based architecture would have a heartbeat!
That soft arm with the 3 fingers is just the prototype. In under a thousand years, that'll become the arms of Bender.
After 1 second of play: "She is italian".
Talking about soft robots that have valves makes me curious if heart valves for valve replacement can be printed.
Very cool technology. I'd be interested to see how they implement closed loop control for those situations where the cool logic needs to change depending on world state.
Great video, thanks Computerphile!
The soft buttons remind me of the soft button console of the alien space jockey console from the movie Prometheus.
several, material, mechanical ... an italian accent on this channel: I love it ! great video Perla, saluti dall'Italia :-)
This kind of comupter could be interesting for future Venus missions!
Haha I thought I was first to think of it. Very cool.
fantastic soft circuits... but a hybrid would be a more realistic approach... most animals have some form of electric signals in them... but we do have plants that functions without electricity(?) so a pure approach is also necessary! great job!
I realized that on Venus you could make soft robotics out of metal lol. Pretty cool.
Shunk already made electric actuated hands. Festo has also done something with pneumatics. For embedded sensors at least, Molex has already something in their catalog. It seams that the industry isn't that far away from University research. At least in this case.
Damn I miss Shirts like that from the 90's
Does the stickers on the monitor compromize the lab security or is it offline?
I would love to work with you guys.
Questa è italiana sicuro!
Mrs Maiolino, I love your accent! 🙂
Great. Can you please post of the research paper If it's available. Thanks
I love this channel! And this Video.
This lab coat is cool
It's not a lab coat, it's an oversized shirt.
Lab coat have to be white/monochrome to better spot contaminants(spots)
This reminds me of the fluidic circuit research I saw at ICRA 2022.
as soon as the prof said "SR latch" I exclaimed "whoah!" out loud. this is amazing work. i wonder if eventually we will be capable of MEMS-style manufacture of tiny compliant mechanical computers
the way he said equilibrium 😂
Much of these problems were solved in 1923, by Alfred Munro. Nearly 100 years ago!
I believe the previous video was digitally synthesized, to address the video Mike made about sentience a couple of weeks before. The video was forced onto the channel. Sorry about the channel Nottingham! It wasn't me :(
I kind've need subtitles for a lot of what she's saying... the auto generated subs aren't good enough, and neither are my ears, apparently!
yeah it can be difficult. it's funny how academia combines a higher chance of encountering new & complicated terminology, with a higher chance of encountering people with perfect, even advanced English that retain very strong accents from non-English-speaking countries
@@gloverelaxis Thank you ever so much for your kind and considered response.
This type of technology seems like it might be useful for a Venus rover, where the harsh conditions quickly destroy electronics.
So the goal is kind of like soft MEMS ?
Where can I get on of those treddyprinters?
Is anyone using fluidics rather than pneumatics for soft robots control? Seems you could 3d print quite complex logic without having to worry about the fit of any sliding parts.
You have to be careful when you make the robo-cell. If it's too soft, it can clog it's transport tube.
STL file?
This was WOW after WOW, great news. Revolutionary for my ignorance
wow this is very rudimentary kinda like trying to code in a very limited platform like a video game. i can imagine this being incredibly complicated to do simple tasks like addition.
Weird, I have the same drawer cabinets, and they have my initials on theirs.
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Skipping because probably no mention of Tilden.
"Safe human robot interaction." That phase is super scary to me.
Second.
it took me a while to understand that she was saying "3D printer"
the woman in the first clip is 100% italian
I like Italian accent :)
i thought soft robots were what we call the average consumer/citizen.
slowly we are going though the phases of evelution to only end up in man made robot that is just like human down to tge atom
Well if they're hurting for softbot related research to do, they could try replicating the stomach and the energy extraction from that, without it those softbots are never gonna be portable and I imagine making them so would, at the very least, get buyers from the search & rescue market since would not have to send people into dangerous rubble heaps looking for people, instead only need to send them in if the robot is not enough to get people out after finding them.
Very difficult to follow without captions.
I am struggling to imagine a use for this...
they describe and literally show several in the video. i wouldn't admit such a below-par level of imagination in public if I were you
I get the impression that the only use case for soft robots is that we can make them with 3D printers, so they're a solution in search of a problem.
She looks like Yulia Nova
Arnold Schwarzenegger playing a scientist. Glorious.
zeroth
NOT COMPUTER RELATED
really? computer controlled robots are not related to computers, ok...
A solution looking for a problem. Those buttons are very hard to press. Looks like the guy's thumb is about to break off. Looks like a pile of expensive equipment and a bunch of people playing with it. She talks about applications for this junk but the reality is that it's not going to be used for any of those things she mentioned. Moreover, it's not going to be used for anything at all. These people are making progress towards nothing at all. This soft computing stuff is utter junk. A cheap processor can do billions of ops per second. Their silly soft computer can do 2 or 3. It's not viable which is why it's never going to be used in any application at all. This is essentially just a propaganda video trying to sell us on something that's nonsensical, non-viable and not useful in any way. I bet it's funded by grants. Now business person would put money into this.