This Ball Can Solve Mazes and Never Gets Stuck!
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- čas přidán 28. 09. 2020
- In this video I show you how a squiggle ball works and how it can actually solve mazes on its own!
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I want someone to buy thousands of these and release them in a city
WoW and lol too!
Sounds good
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You want then to dominate the worl
I’ll do it
Go to New York on Saturday night … the drunks are out in full force and you’ll get exactly your wish
1:13
Seems like a typical question to get in physics test.
"If the ball is placed at the centre of the box, calculate it's probability of leaving the box through 1 possible hole after n contacts with the box walls"
Its also like something i heard somewhere. it says that the photons in the sun kick at so many molecules or whatever and just a loooong time later it find its way out
its*
@@althealligator1467 haaa, thanks
@@leamong8157 no problem
@@althealligator1467 lol good was that grammerly
The illusion of intelligence quickly vanishes once the ball finds a a particular configuration of obstacles that have it bouncing back and forth endlessly.
They used to have toy cars (maybe they still do) that had driving wheels on a rotating plate under the toy, that would do pretty much the same thing - when the toy car hit a wall, the wall's resistance would stop the car, which would cause the rotating drive-wheels disc to rotate and reorient the drive wheels to propel the car in a different direction. This fascinated me, and was one reason my little boy brain started thinking in terms of mechanical cause & effect, which eventually led to my going into mechanical design as an adult.
I'd love to release a load of these with GPS trackers in a town somewhere and just see where on earth they end up
I had the same thought, just have 10k of them and release them on a large flat-ish landmass like Australia and see how far they go. I also wonder if they float/work on water.
In the water.
Never to return again
Probably mostly run over
This is a really intuitive explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. You just need to start with like 20 of these little guys in the maze and show how they disperse throughout the maze and room.
"When we look at it from afar, it seems like it's intelligent." Pretty much sums up humanity. If there are aliens out there observing us, this is exactly how I imagine them speaking about us. 🤣
I love how something so simple, can do such crazy cool things!
"Things"? It rolls.
@@F_L_U_X my point exactly
intelligence is subjective to the beholder
You are good exsample
My anxiety peaked when the ball almost went under the fridge at 1:32
I used to play with hot wheels when I was small, I would throw them and they used to get stuck under and I would have anxiety because I would think there'd be a rat under there
now I'm scared it will fall on me while my hand is under there
Lol same haha
Wasn't really expecting anyone to have the same thing lol
2:22 thats when the ball teleported under the friddge
@@J8den lol
Me too
"We spent years developing this sophisticated artificial intelligence that can make decisions for itself"
The artificial intelligence:
Lol
it works dont question it
What's interesting is that even though it seems like humans take random decisions it's still not really random just like this ball which goes the opposite way.
Actually, in our pursuit for the purposes we don't know where the finish line is, but rather we go through trial and error like this ball until eventually after a fortunate set of events we reach our objective.
Interesting is that randomness still plays a role here. Some balls are going to reach the finish line faster and sometimes the first try, while most of the balls will take a lot of turns until they reach the exit.
*Sad ball noises*
There was a large schism between the fields of Robotics and AI on precisely this issue. Many roboticists felt you didn't need to collect data and build maps of the environment in order to navigate.
This ball is moving as randomly as my youtube's recommendations. :-D
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@@sovietbot6708 I think yours one is actually simple .
I get literally anything recommended buddy .
@@researchers7998 do you watch random stuff?
O-
@@sovietbot6708 naah , just some science and gaming stuff
Cats would have a lot of fun chasing this ball.
Hey, Action Lab: market this as a cat toy!
Others already do. I had one of those with a raccoon tail when I was a kid in the 80's. You put it in something like a potato chip bag with the tail hanging out and watch your mother freak out and beat it with a broom. XDDD
Needs a mapping app to boot, so it can out smart the cat.
I wonder if you let thousands of it in your house...
@@rim2116 @mrbeast
I had one of these as a kid in the 90's... and i actually used it with the cats. They loved it.
3:26
*How my parents introduce me to their colleagues*
😂They introduce you by saying unintelligent device.
@@_Cfocus yeah on the good days
These have been kids' toys in Finland for several decades. I remember how we used to laugh at these as kids, and im already middle aged man. Good video tho! ^^ Thanks for the nostalgia
no is not ,is not made of wood
@@feralferret4451 wood? yes these have been a thing for decades already. They are nothing new. They simply have a small motor inside that goes around the ball. Nothing special.
@@joonashannila8751 Yeah i had one of these as a kid and I'm american
Oh if it never stops then one day that may come up rolling outta nowhere in My house...
Yeah but that would take a few... years.
if only this thing could figure out my life
Maybe it helps differently..like not allowing to get stuck in life or something. 🙄
This ball is smarter than many of the people around me
The A-maze-ing Ball
Squishy Spikez that shxt was weak asf😂😂
Lolll
great pun
ap1jp Animations no not great
Nice
That’s why aliens never stay on Earth. From afar we look inteligente, but when they get here........
🤣🤣🤣
This is how life started. It didn't know it would reach the finish line for the beginning of life, but it did unintelligently.
Great at-home demonstration of entropy and how the very disorder and imperfections in the object's orientation are causing it to take a random path. If any aspect of the system were in perfect alignment in any instance, the very next instance would succumb to the entropy. If this were untrue, then the ball would go in the same path over and over again. The reality is that entropy is making no two runs ever the same, for eternity.
1:00 my life actually
you can't get stuck in any corner?
Nice
You're a box ? a ball ? You're intelligent ?
U know like gets trapped but still finding a way
@@suryans2653 ahhhhhhh
(I was about to wooosh you but when i understood that you're not like "haaaa i'm dépression" and that it's pretty poetic i didn't)
"When you look at it from afar, it seems as if it is intelligent".... same thing with professors and neighbors.
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That thing has a horrible short-term memory 😂😂
Sometimes this is why I feel I can't be successful in life. I was completely aware of this mechanism but never really thought about using it in this way. This is so simple and yet so cool. Love it
Just imagine you’re trying to find it, just because you lost it, you’re never gonna be able to find it LIKE IT KEEPS MOVING!
Put a rat like covering over it and release in your house and enjoy.
How will it move🤦♂️
@@mesf430 by rolling under the covering.
I'll suggest to paint it rather than covering 🤘🤘
@@mesf430 didn't you just watch the video? lol
@@_chappie_ what?
0:59 The dvd logo hits the corner
I want to play with this ball even though I am an adult
I doubt you’re an adult with that name
you can play with anything at any age - you shouldn't let a number stop you from having fun.
@@baweep5172 Or that profile pic
Michael Zimmermann it’s not that I doubt because he wants to play with the ball I doubt because the profile pic and name
@@baweep5172my reply was intended at him, not you :) I know it can be confusing with the way youtube displays comments.
No one:
James dropping sick beats: 02:05
The interesting thing is that similar methods are used to solve very difficult optimization problems in science and engineering. You basically have a function with different parameters that you can adjust. There are better and worse combinations, but effectively that parameterspace is as complex as you want it to be. Many statistical methods like particle swarm optimization or simulated annealing exist, that more or less use a random component. The demonstration here is very simple because its only two dimensions. You cant even imagine how difficult it would be to find a solution through a 5D maze!
Exactly what I was thinking... looks to be an instance of a drunken-mans walk, so a fair bit more random than say particle swarm, genetic algorithms or some local search methods like best-first hill climbing, but such a search is guaranteed to find the answer given an enough time. Using rigourous mathematical techniques with no random elements, I'd say the closest model to this example is gradient-descent (but even then it's not an exact analogy).
Still... a fantastic real world demonstration for sure, one I'll be sure to use with my students
What would theoretically happen if it gets stuck in an area with nothing at all to bump into and make it change its center of mass (e.g. walls, obstacles, or assuming it can be perfectly flat and have no elevation change)?
Definitely getting this for my cat
This Guy: My ball can never get stuck
Me:Hold my super-stick T1000
Thats kinda misleading🥴
what is a "super-stick T1000" ?
@@DendrocnideMoroides
Duct Tape.
I love your videos man keep the good work up :))
Imagine having like 20 of these in your living room with kids running around, how crazy would that be.... xD
2:00 It's like the "Wall follower" technique, mixed with the "Pledge algorithm", and 6 shots of whiskey.
-Do you have a pet?
-Yeah I have a ball
I got one of these for Christmas as a little kid in the 90s! Pretty fun! Never realized it could solve a maze!
The Action Lab @ 3:27: "What's interesting about this is that even though it is a completely unintelligent device, when we look at it from a far it seems like it's intelligent."
Me: Yep, that's humans and humanity right there.
Imagine putting that ball in a complex maze and after certain years it solves the maze.
Hi! Really interensting item! Would have been nice to get a little bit of explanation on how this squiggle ball can actually get out of the maze. The first things that comes to my mind are "random walk" and Ergodicity (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity). A deep dive on these subjects might be very interesting. Keep up the good work!
introducing the iBall
Is it just me, or is this inanimate ball super cute?
Reminds me of an experiment where scientists placed pieces of food on a petri dish that corresponded to stops along the Tokyo subway line, and a slime mold on the dish adapted its body to create "channels" between the food that closely matched the paths of the actual railways. This isn't intelligence; the mold was just naturally gravitating towards the shortest routes between the food sources. It's *human engineers* that imitate the mold's logic, not the other way around.
Pysarum polycephalom ?
Nifty ball ! Very interesting,great vid ! Thanks,Sir !
Me: OK,now I am sleeping
CZcams:There is a remote control ball in the market.
Me: Fine. I'll watch it
the best way out of a maze is just pick one side and keep following it. It is less random this way. It might not be the shortest way, but it will get you out.
The thing is that, because it is based on randomness, the time to finish a maze is also almost random. It can escape any maze, but it can also take eternity to solve only one
That is true, depending on the maze
So far the best one of you I have seen..😍 Congratulations..🤝👍😇
The ball scarily looks living
So these extra boxes due to Covid prepping came in handy 😁
Petition to bring this as pet in Among Us that helps complete maze in Polus
Cringe
@@willcrump bro u cant make an game lol
Thumbnail: Smart Ball
The ball: Moving randomly af
Him: "It's not solving the maze intellegently"
Me: So... It's a Dumb Ball then 😂
Exactly that its still fun though
Well its smart for a ball
its a analog guidance powered by randomness
1:11 made me feel happy for that plastic ball... weird.
Pixar: we have wall-E
The action Lab: hold my Ball-E
I want this as a pet. This thing should have a self-charge pad, but it will never find it!
Fun video as always! 👍👍
Hi, The Action Lab! I wonder how many times did you record this ball to solve the maze? Or if it did solve it from the first, is it by chance? I mean, the ball could also go the opposite direction to start, but it did not do that on the video completely. Yes, it went a little bit back, but not the actual start. Is there any prove that ball will not go to the star when it's nearly the finish line (imagine not a straight exit from the maze with obstacles)?
In india they sell power driven toy cars which do the same as the ball , when the car hits something it moves away to a random direction . I always wanted to know more about those 👍🏼
I had this toy when I was a kid..
You made me remember by childhood ❤️❤️❤️
I feel a little baited, but you still get a thumbs-up. Keep on!
0:07 "got this robotic hamster here"
Me: *why not make a trail of hamster food and make a REAL hamster solve the maze*
This is brilliant.
My god there's so many places you can go with that concept.... For one, I would like to have a little more dialogue with examples of how people see "intelligence" in random (even pseudorandom) events. Another aspect: randomness- what is it, how is it manifested, a clear definition of it.
Don't get me wrong, I love your vids and the consistency with which you create, I just feel this was the perfect vehicle to show people what they "think" sometimes isn't correct.
People have collectively been taught to hate everything that's boring, and to crave entertainment and digital technology. Oh, and (they say) science. Lured away from various important aspects of life which are natural, subtle, complex, hence boring, people's vocabulary has shrunk dramatically. As we "evolve" everything is sold and spoken of with impressiveness qualifiers like "holy shit, it's fucking awesome!!!!" or (falsely)scientific reinforcing terms like "intelligent".
So with a vocabulary reduced to: "awesome", "intelligent", "smart", "cool", "love", "like", "fun" etc. up to not more than 200 words one can live in a never ending climax, blissfully ever after.
And more on topic, "random" is a synonym for "non-deterministic". But we both know there's not such thing "non-deterministic".
Is it possible to measure to ensure it's movement is random?
How does it pick a new heading is the question, I suppose?
Why is this ball actually cute? 😂
There's actually a drunk hamster in that thing.
It’s just like an ultrasonic sound sensor equipped vehicle for obstacle detection but a very simpler version. 👍
Yea, and those vehicles have onboard sensors like encoders, gyroscopes, accelerometers, an onboard computer with software, etc. and this ball can still "solve a maze" with none of that!
True
From what I heard, this toy was invented by a fireman in the Pacific NE 30 years ago or so. The basic concept has since been used for cat toys and (really cheap and simple ) floor cleaners!
You could easily put some circuitry in there and use out to map out floor plans useful for other robotics.
good job as always
A weighted motor inside a sphere... Smarter than some people I know.
It looks a lot like the "random walk" that a bacterium might make, or a photon being produced in the sun. Cool!
Perfect companion for my puppy dog ☺
imagine the military jumps on this to produce cheap "smart" -handgrenades ;D
A hand grenade that can go back to its source and blow up don't sound too smart to me.
@@MrT------5743 usually Handgrenades explode several seconds after activation, this would prevent this come back like in the video. The military has its own researchers to figure out the optimal delay time.
@@hyperhektor7733 I still say a wandering at random explosive is bad. No matter how much time you have it set to, cause random can hit anyone, friend or foe.
Instead they can use a mini robot which i guess they must already have. A non intelligent ball which just reflects from obstacles doesnt sounds good to me with an explosive. It might never reach its target in time and enemies can easily deflect it.
2:21 the ball is not only smart but can also teleport
It despawned
I love ur educational vids
Finally a toy that wont get stuck under the sofa
Humm...great toys for the pets and a scarecrow for the pest!!
Once started....will it go on forever?
Cats will love this sphere
It's like a DFS search without a closed list .
If the ball never stops, then it looks like you just discovered perpetual motion machine
It still takes energy to rotate the motor inside
Amazing 🔥
if you put a magnet there and a head attached to the magnet, you make a BB-8 that can solve a maze
2:22 ball found its way into the fourth dimension.
Every time we would get one of those as a kid we would let it run and forget about it and then find it somewhere years later.
People taking notes onto how to prank with these!
This makes you rethink the definition of intelligence! Like how many examples of this are out there in nature that we might have mistaken for intelligence when something far simpler is happening! 😱😱😱
wow amazing l loved it and so crazy too
For all I know... that's how life emerged.
Great full ideas.
I wonder - is this the same 'technology 'used by various floor robot vacuums such as the Roomba?!
No, this just has a weight in it that spins in circles since it's basically a sphere. Roombas have wheels, motors, sensors etc. that help it navigate around your house better.
@@tunalad I would assume they also are able to map where they have been and if they have covered all the area of a defined zone, yes?
@@chadwarren9677 Exactly, it wouldn't be that useful if it kept on going back and forth, vacuuming the same part of the floor.
1:12
1 cut a hole in the box
2 put your junk in the box
3 make her open the box
Looks like one of those weasel ball toys I used to see all the time at gift shops.
It's the same toy without the weasel.
@@TheftTv figured as much since it moves just like it.
WoW.I want a gadget like this too.
This is so cool
First a liquid, now a ball....what's next??