Swarmanoid, the movie
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- čas přidán 10. 08. 2011
- Swarmanoid is a heterogeneous robot swarm in which different groups of robots have different capabilities: some robots are specialized in manipulating objects and climbing, some in moving on the ground and transporting objects, and some in flying and observing the environment from above. This video presents the Swarmanoid project, a 4 year research project coordinated by Marco Dorigo and funded by the Commission of the European Union.
This video won the Best Video Award at the AAAI-11 AI Video Competition.
More information at: www.swarmanoid.org/ - Věda a technologie
I always find myself coming back to this video. I remember being in the 5th grade keeping up with the project because it was the coolest implementation of robotics I had ever seen at the time. Even to this day, the Swarmanoid project has a special place in my heart, it inspires me.
3:06 shooting the grapple at the ceiling is awesome!
The exercise is not about efficiency, that would be a single purpose built bot. The idea is a parallel distributed network that exicutes a task by discovery and planning like we do.
Excellent exicution and a lot to learn from.
Think of what you go through to go from one room to another to retrieve an item and return, now write the code to exicute that task considering that you might not know exactly where the item will be located in the other room.
We take a lot for grantid.
so thats how i can never find my book where i leave it. thank you!
Every time I see this video, I just go: "Wow." I want all of those robots! I think the whole idea is a very clever one, rather than having one large robot that can do everything and isn't highly adaptable, have lots of specialised smaller robots which can group together to finish any task, and the number of each type of robot can be varied for different tasks. I am SO building my own one of these. (Even if it is only two robots working together )
This is one of the most amazing things I have recently seen!
i must say, i was VERY impressed by the suction cup for grabby, I also like how they used several IR sensors spaced out and then rotated them to take a 360 degree scan much faster than one could alone.
Haha! XD The retrieved book had characters from Dragonball emblazoned on it (Giran and Lunch). No surprise that a robot swarm would seek out Japanese comics.
Amazing work, bravo!
Fantastic!
Absolutely mindblowing.
This is so cool!
Amazing job!
This is pretty cool!
AWESOME!
That is really amazing!
It's... beautiful.
Robotics at large... great video.
Wonderful video, narrated by Prince William no less, music by my little sister after eating a bath full of skittles.
Amazing !
Most people obviously have no idea how mutch time and effort it takes to program and build robots like these. I would love to see them make something better themselves
Holy crap!, i can't close my mouth. It's impressive!
This is awesome.
The idea of parallel distributed computing has been a theory and desireable goal for years. All experimentation takes the path of uslessness to get to usable. The robots on Mars have a much longer evolution than the infant system in this video. This is bleeding edge experimentation and application. Your PC started out with gears, pulleys and hand cranks and nobody thought it would ever get anywhere.
This is amazing at least O_O THIS IS INFUCKINGCREDIBLE!! :D Congratulations to anyone involved in the project.
The video looks quite amazing to whom who don't know robotics. But many questions can be raised regarding the truthfulness as well usefulness of this video:
1. Computer Vision (CV) problem: how the last EyeBot can recognize the book? If it could find the book using modern image processing algorithms, the EyeBots could have easily mapped the environment and guided the ground bots to the target without needs of other beacon (red) LegBots along the corridor.
2. to be continued
Brilliant :)
When that hand bot shot that grappling hook, i new i needed to have one!
AWSOME
I am thoroughly terrified.
That's simply AMAZING.. I'd really like to know more about it..
So clever!
how cool!
Hahahah! I love it! There's something oddly cute about those bots.
communication and co-ordination in a real 3D environment - its very cool, the aim / goal /task of getting the book is irrelivant.
@quaek you can also see the shelves and book spine are colour coded for them.
You deploy the eyebots once, they communicate once. The groundbots deploy and take over navigation. If you were only running one composite foot/hand bot for a minute, that might work. If you need 40 composite bots to do 40 repeated tasks, it would seem a design limitation to put a battery large enough to communicate that much on an eye bot.
Goes great with the Mission Impossible theme.
The flying Eye-Bot reminds me so much of the sentry robots from Bioshock.
I don't think the people over here understand what this movie is about. It's not about how good the robots are, like speed or having a grabber on the flybot or anything, it's about the robots communicating with each other to perform a task they couldn't have done alone.
Think about the powers of robots doing teamwork when it are superrobots....
fits perfectly :D
cool !!!
reminds me of Bruce Sterling's 'Taklamakan'
MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS!!!! THE GETH APPROACH!!!!
communication and co-ordination in a real 3D environment - its very cool, the aim / goal /task of getting the book is irrelinat.
And so... It begins.
Where can I get one?! The things you can do with this is like :O
And these are just the robots that they are allowed to show the public, imagine what's behind closed doors.
I love the creepy background music!!
The three 'Dislikes' thought the thumbs-down logo meant "Download' and the thumbs-up logo "Upload'.
Think about the powers of robots doing teamwork when it are superrobots, indeed
@Trisket Right but when those things you mentioned were created there were no alternatives unless you were to use a bow and arrow instead of a gun, a horse and buggy instead of a car, etc..... meaning however inefficient they were they were better than nothing. There are many alternatives to getting a book off the shelf that are more convenient.
I for one welcome our new Swarmanoid overlords.
@superpeople
Efficiency is relative. Firearms were inefficient, combustion engines were inefficient, computer processing was inefficient, and compared to future advancements they still are. Practicality increases over time. Your position is tantamount to complaining about the Wright Brothers not being able to create an F-22 in 1903. You have to learn to walk before you can run. This is a vast improvement in AI compared to 10 years ago when heavily funded NASA was struggling to do just this.
brilliant !! ROS ?
Now I want the Swarmanoid to read the damned book to me.
Welp, we're fucked. It's been nice knowing y'all.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
One day when robots take over, we'll look back on this and say that this was the day it all started.
I, for one, welcome, and embrace our new robotic overlords...But for realsies, I thought this was awesome. I've always loved robotics and how they operate. But for all of you people worrying about the robotic uprising, we should be good as long as we don't teach them how to build eachother.
Can you make a video/tutorial in which you show how the communikation works and which parts are used?
TheStein100 The communication is based on LEDs. It's a type of implicit communication
Boy would I ever like to see their code.
This needs to run in fast motion.
my god, they've taken another step towards skynet!
@allexcosta
Could put the wheels on the bok instead. If that was the point sure.
I could do all that in a matter of seconds and look cool while doing it... YOU FAIL SWARMANOID!
I agree with the sentiment but not at all for the reason you specified.
It took organic life billions of years to RANDOMLY develop a nucleus. And humans would not be able to assemble a nucleus themselves. It took transistors even longer to develop, because first sentient life had to randomly occur, and only THEN could the robotic cycle even *begin*. It's just much easier to systematically improve robots quickly, which can only be done over large time periods with breeding in organic life.
I wonder, how autonomous they are? Are they given a task, and "decide" which units are needed, or, is this merely a video showing the mechanical abilities of the indivdual units?
Just think: the swarms of robots which ultimately destroy us all will be born with these skills, they won't have to learn them at all!
The music is from Robot Hell
How do you get the handbot hook thing to stick to the ceiling?
Add in a docking station for charging their batteries, and I would let these guys clean up my house when I'm on vacation..
So, when can i buy some, and how much would they cost?
@Soban33 Truth. I don't know if you're familiar with the VEX robotics competitions, but my bot from last year took several hundred lines of code to do simple tasks that pale in comparison to what Swarminoid does. And don't even get me started on the debugging and fine-tuning process.
@zashima well said! :))
Why are the footbots so incredibly slow? Processing power limitations of the system, or do they just have slow drivetrains?
Best bank robbing team ever :D all we need now is one that can dig it's way into the vault x3
"in hazardous environments"
like at Black Mesa, no more need for Gordon Freeman pushing crystals into lazers
Today Swarmanoid,
tomorrow Skynet!!!
I don't understand. I may agree that "eye" bots that evaluate work environment may and should sacrifice their ability to do anything else except scouting, because they need to be as light and maneuverable as possible. But why detach transporting function from "manipulator" bot? The only logical application to this scheme is a rare situation when that bot could be left in one place to do some repetitive work that doesn't require him to move around, while "transport" bots do some other stuff at the same time elsewhere. However, what would he do if situation suddenly changes and he needs to transport to another place while "transport" bots are nowhere near to be found? And what would he do if first he needs to climb somewhere "transport" bots can't go and only then additionally transport himself somewhere?
Hazardous environments, especially those that are changing circumstances relatively quickly, usually require characters to be semi-autonomous to survive and continue function. Example of most common hazardous environment which could use some robot help is a collapsing building on fire. You can't just casually plan routes there with robots, with debris falling around and other stuff.
I think the intention was to demonstrate co-operation in the swarm as well as modularity. A 'Hand Bot' that is mobile would have better suited the task in this case, hell give it the ability to fly also, but this wasn't the point of the Swarm, it was to demonstrate that the robots, although completely individual, can work as a single unit.
That is my belief anyway.
you should check their website
It's amazing, but why do you need so many legbots, and theese flying things? Wouldn't 1 of each be enough with some radio/bluetooth etc. connection?
They just have to make it quicker :D!
Amazing!
@superpeople do you scale?
That's the future...
Umm. you wouldn't want the swarmanoid to make you and fetch a cup of tea. I think it would be ice cold by the time they deliver it!
I for one welcome our robotic overlords.
@adhdkoen sarcasm obviously doesn't travel well in the written word! anyway, how many books are radioactive or explode?
Yeah, they will dominate till the battery charge holds.
Precursor to Terminator's SkyNet?
2. How the HandBot could see and manipulate accurately the book? This action requires a combination of image processing ability of HandBot, 3D localization ability of EyeBot and continuous coordination between HandBot and EyeBot.
3. The way HandBot attached to the ceiling is very funny. So the HandBot can't climb at all without that supporting cable, can it?? If so, I really doubt about the usefulness of this HandBot in other normal tasks.
1 word, skynet!
*halfway through phase 3* oh fuck it i'll get the fucking book myself
Now, imagine each one smaller than a mosquito....
now, insect bots, Tomorrow, VOLTRON!
1:11 R2D2 and 3CPO!
But will it blend?
Continuation from comment: The head of IBM once said that he didn't think there would ever be a need for more than 10 of their Main Frame computers in the entire world! As you play games on your mobile device aren't you glad for all the "wasted experiments" that followed?
@richepworth
listen to what they say at the end
@goname31
I had to think about skynet :D
Can I arm them and have them guard my home?
It could certainly be made faster with more multitasking