Humans aren't designed perfectly, but we need to develop robots to walk around our buildings. It's like QWERTY: it's not optimal, but it's the standard.
Yes, apparently QWERTY was developed for mechanical typewriters to deliberately slow down human typists. Apparently they were fast enough to jam the mechanism on a regular basis. Currently tools and buildings are designed for humans, and that won't likely change in the near future.
We have two points of contact, on a good day. Our legs are pendula. Our ambulatory motion is essentially a constant form of falling forward. We rely on accelerometers inside our auditory canals. We shift our limbs, our superstructures, our very organs just to stay upright. We're a goddamn mess of an animal.
@@blink182bfsftw We know Africa went through a drying event that caused savanna formation. General thought is the shrinkage of forest habitat forced us into the savanna, while our cousins, the chimpanzees and bonobos stayed in the forest. In the savanna the ability to stand and see over the grasses was a huge advantage. Many animals stand on their hind legs to see over things, dogs, squirrels, bears, mink, muskrats, most omnivores and carnivores have some capacity to stand upright. The difference with us is that we were already part way to upright walking. Our cousins can do this, for short distances, though they don’t walk well. If our last common ancestor was fairly similar to the physical layout of chimpanzees, the switch to upright movement wouldn’t have been as big as it would be for canids or felids. Another reason is freeing up hands. Our cousins knuckle walk, which makes carrying things difficult. Babies for example. I personally suspect it wasn’t a single factor, but rather a confluence of several. But I’m a student, and that’s a gut feeling based on experience from another field.
Moravec's paradox highlights the inherent challenges robots face in performing tasks that come naturally to humans, due to their limited sensory and flexibility capabilities. In essence, we are asking robots to carry a plate with only a hammer at their disposal. To enable more adaptable robots, it is crucial to invest in enhancing their sensory input and flexibility, allowing them to better mimic human complexity and versatility.
true, but consider any time a human can do something, a robot should be able to do it too, so then it's more a control algorithm issue. Consider a person driving a diving robots with awkward arms in low visibility and with latency, doing some deep sea repairs or something. Or the remotely controlled humanoid robot on the ISS, or the Davinci surgical robot. Humans can do these things with equally as constrained sensory input as robots. Generally your notion is right, but I think our current robots would be much more capable with the right control algorithms (probably neural network based). Nvidia already had NNs that can animate virtual characters in a very fluid, human-like way, there's also domain randomization that trains NNs to work under many different conditions (such as a motor not working right or more resistance etc). When these are driving our existing hardware, it would be much more capable. I think that's more or less what they're doing with the Tesla bot and Boston Dynamics has experimented with this too afaik.
This is exactly why Tesla is trying to conquer this next. If you can create a humanoid robot, all of the Technologies you would develop along the way will be incredible. Tesla wants to be a premier robotics company and if you can create a humanoid robot then you basically can create any type of robot, if you want
@@Embassy_of_Jupiter doubting Nvidia is dumb. Really really dumb. So, since Nvidia is the one developing the solution... Ya, it's gonna get solved. Nvidia generally beats my expectations or releases things I wasn't even thinking of or was thinking was possible. They probably also enable skynet and get us all killed but well, win some lose some....
@@Embassy_of_Jupiter I don't think is an algorithm issue even if now is both an algorithm and a hardware problem, let's say tomorrow we get the algorithm that allows the robot to perfor actions in the real world, you ask him to clean the dishes, imagine how much data come to your brain when you perform a task like that, how many things your fingers can feel and how incredibly accurate the movements are, you fingers can feel, temperature, pressure, grip, wetness among probably many others, and can perform movements that are very precise, we can't replicate that. To drive a car I think will be done far sooner than we will have robots capable of doing fine delicate tasks, I believe will have to be done biomechanically, we can't even dream of building anything even close to the complexity if a human hand with all its capabilities.
True, but consider the sheer computational power of the human mind. From what I’ve read, only the largest supercomputers on the planet are able to match it in calculations per second. Unless computation gets much faster, lighter and cheaper we likely won’t be able to have an average machine running on the same quantity of information the human mind processes. If that’s the case, we will have to figure out how to make the hammer perform brain surgery, which should be possible albeit extremely difficult.
Trivia for all here: The word "robot" was first coined in the Czech play "Rossum's Universal Robots" by Karel Čapek which premiered on 2 January 1921. In the play, the "robots" are biological rather than mechanical (kind of like Replicants from the Blade Runner movie).
Fun fact: The word itself derives from the Czech word “robota,” or forced labor, as done by serfs. Its Slavic linguistic root, “rab,” means “slave.” Therefore, robot is a slur for robots.
Imagine how surprised the robot will be when it understands that it's not supposed to become a professional pianist, but a doctor, and all that learning the piano was just so their creator should show off to the other creators
I propose a robotics version of the Turing test, which I call the Pooing test. To past the Pooing test a robot must be able to change the nappy on a human without traumatising them or getting a mess all over the place, then they would have proven that they can replace humans in the lowest paid menial work.
I'm not sure that's the most menial work robots do, but it would be a critical milestone never the less. The most menial and dangerous work some robots do includes sewer systems inspection like the Redzone Solo, working within the bowels of the Chernobyl and Fukishima Daiichi Power Plants, and performing full GI endoscopies like Ryukoku University's camera pill robot dubbed the 'Mermaid.'
@@PaigeWylderOwO I don't know if menial is the right word. Changing a nappy is a REALLY hard problem for a robot. So is folding laundry. These things are non-trivial for humans, even.
Post spine surgery, in the ICU for 3 weeks, bless the hospital staff for changing my nappies four or five times during day & night... I'll never forget them for their gracious and kind care.
@@0neIntangible Yes, it is no joke, a very important task, not just for infants either. Imagine having that sort of robotic help at home if you are a quadraplegic. It would be life changing.
Soft robots are a research toy. Humans are somewhere in between rigid and soft. A hand is basically like a rubber glove but with calcium rods and plates embedded in it to give it rigidity. Also, if you make a force actuator weak and soft (compliant) you can also use it for feedback detection, like a spring scale with an adjustable strength spring.
That only concerning grip and movement but a human hand is far more complex that that, just your fingertips can give your brain all sorts of different data from pressure, to temperature, grip level, texture, shape etc. You need all that information if you want to manipulate the world around you and I don't think what we see today ( hands grabbing something) is even close to good enough to be useful
@@dumyjobby Indeed, I am only providing a brief description in a youtube comment. Simulation of skin touch would likely utilize tiny piezoelectric stress elements to detect distortion of an otherwise flat silicone "skin" sheet, and tiny thermocouples to detect temperature. Thermocouples have a hot and cold side, and our bodies work similar. We generally only detect heat and cold relative to our inner core temperature. The body can be fooled by putting one hand in very warm water and the other in ice water for a few minutes. Then place both hands in lukewarm water. The hand that was hot will feel cold, and the hand that was cold will feel hot.
Nice intro with Astro boy. Arguably the first popular version of this story is Pinocchio. Then again earlier still by a few millennia is the Greek myth Pygmalion. An artist creates a beautiful sculpture of a woman, brings it to life, falls in love with it and being a Greek myth, things go badly, and tragedy ensues.
its fascinating how the concept of a synthetic companion goes back so far in history. Even in some ancient mythologies Gods would create Golems, Titans o Giants from inhert materials to serve a purpose.
As a person in robotics research, gotta say a well made short summary of where we're at! It's still a open question if some one the method you described at the end will work for humanoid robots by just "scaling it up" like we've seen for Deep Learning. Simulation training and using that (Sim2Real) have been around for about 8 years now since Domain-randomization seemed to show some promise, but so far have had limited success for task that is inherently complex to simulate. It sure is an interesting time. Yann LeCun (Head of Research at Meta) claimed that in the future we can make a robot work in the real-world by just training it on youtube videos and create a "world model" from the physics it sees. Slightly skeptical if vision-only will lead to this capacity but if it does, more generalist robots might happen in our lifetime.
For some reason, I was thinking there would be more depth in this video considering the vast history of humanoid robots, but I learned about obstacles I didn't know about in locomotion like Zero Moment Points, and appreciate this video never the less. For future essays offering further details on humanoid robotics throughout history, you might want to look at the DARPA Robotics Challenge between 2012-2015, the Nasa Robonauts, and in the indie development sphere, the MaSiRo Project, among others.
@@brodriguez11000 "ChatGPT, write an essay on the development and challenges of robotics and make it understandable for low-knowledge youtube crowd". There.
Very nice overview of the field and its evolution, but why no mention at all about an important new player Tesla’s Optimus. It would also have been very interesting to find the reason behind Honda stopping the Asimo project. They were not far from succeeding and their platform with the recent AI developments would have made it a very strong contender to the house assistant job.
I thought omitting Optimus was an odd choice, as Tesla has already major strides (heh) in its development, including demonstrating working around humans and the soft touch that he mentions being a necessity. Still, there are SO many players in the field right now that it would be impossible to name them all.
My personal benchmark on when we will have solved Moravec's paradox is when we can build a successful "rummage robot". Such a robot could, when presented with a pocket full of small items of varying shapes, sizes, and textures (keys, wallet, cards, gumstick, earbuds, etc...), reach into the pocket, rummage around, and pull out a specific item while leaving the other objects in place. Such an act, simple for a human, requires a massive combination of different capabilities that robots are currently many years/decades away from being able to accomplish.
@@MegaChickenPunch I'm talking a realistic pocket like what humans have on their clothing; pressed against the body and full of junk. A camera isn't going to do you much good jammed into the pocket and pushed up against the items, not to mention that doesn't solve any of the grabbing and actuation side of things.
Simulations have come a long way, so I imagine the field of robotics will be moving quite fast. Better aligned language models should help train and make robots safe around people... I sure hope these come out soon. There's housework to be done.
12:53 This robot is now better than a toddler. Go ahead and tell me how many toddlers will pick up and put away all their toys, especially the first time you ask?
14:54 The code in the example actually makes a big mistakes. The instruction is move "while keeping 12m away", but the code ONLY sets the FINAL target position to 12m away, which would totally allow to pass much closer to the turbine while in transit in certain spatial arrangements, even leading to a crash.
Astroboy... There's been Metropolis (Fritz Lang) before. And the word "robot" comes from a novel by Karel Čapek, RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920). The Golem, from the Hebraic tradition is somehow a humanoid robot. We've had many humanoid automata during the 18th century in Europe too. So, indeed, the Japanese have become very inventive and enthusiast with the robot companions, but the concept comes from the Western world.
Why not use a claw-machine style grabbing, holding, and moving motions with suction/rubber technology maintaining the 'hand' balance? Instead of soft or rigid grabbing?
They have things like Isaac Gym to train machine learning models for robotics control within a physics simulated virtual environment. This scales like crazy.
My best examples i give people when they say, more automation is, I ask them, what would it take to lift, open and dump a 20kg bag of flour into an industrial mixer. Gentle. Meaning you first drop the so it covers the surface, wait for the mixer to mix that flour then repeat until the flour bag is empty. Needs to be able to handle a flour bag that gradually gets lighter, it needs to know how to stop, it needs to never drop the bag into the mixer, it needs to do so many different things. So it is cheaper and easier to simple hire a man to do it.
It really sounds like a new generation of analog computers are gonna be needed. You could get all the computing power you need in a small and energy efficient package.
I haven't thought about this recently but I think AI training will do a lot to help robots mature in their complexity of movements. Just show the training super computer a bunch of videos of humans doing a task and they will figure it out. Then you can install the optimized program in all robots and its basically a solved problem. Will be much faster than a kid learning it eventually. Thats where things get really scary. In the matrix they could download programs in their brain to learn things but IRL it will be robots that get this ability, not us.
Quite possible, though your training method is a bit off. Wrong sort of data, too much noise. A better way would be to first write a program to simulate a body - that's a fairly simple task, basic rigid-body physics model. Used all the time in computer games. Now you have a source of limitless training data, which can be easily adjusted to your particular robot's body shape and dimensions.
I love your work, there's something very important about being curious of the world. Most ppl I meet day to day aren't bothered and that's a shame Indeed.
excellent video . Before it came up at the end of the video, I was thinking "Why not make a 4 legged robot with some sort of arms on top ?" Looks like Boston Dynamics are already doing something like that ! I guess humans wouldn't mind in their homes a robot that is like a dog with arms on it's body, or maybe like the Greek mythological creature of Centaur, half horse, half human. The feet could have rubber tyred wheels on them, why bother with all the leg movements when a wheel would be better in some situations. The wheels could be braked for when leg movements are needed to overcome an obstacle. I guess someone has already thought of that too !
Hey buddy i love your videos. I err, was fastened by robots when i was younger. I always drempt of designing one or building one. Watching this video i am still amazed at how Permittive some of the designs still are. A human uses the liquid i the inner ear to keep their ballance, why don't they implement this into moden robot design and use it as active feedback Stabilisation to help with the balance? I get they are hard to build but maybe not everything has to be solved with software. Love the channel, keep up the outstanding work!!
look, im sorry but as someone who plays music and has done alot of carpentry and small technical work with electronics, I have oftern longed for the third arm heak, sometimes with small electronics you'll actually use thoughs little arms with the magnafying glass to hold your items while you work on them. this to me is why the whole two arm thing dosent make sense?? like, we came from mamals with 4 limbs so we had no choice, and 2 legs dose seem to do us well but why not an extra arm or 2??
I find it amusing that the current spate of news about AI almost always uses images of robots, even though the two are not the same. Certainly we hope to have an AI that will run a robot (i. e. Tesla's Optimus), but currently the most mechanically advanced robots are not autonomous at all, so why conflate the images?
09:40 Rookie mistake! I spit into my hand to wet it, place the flat palm onto the plate followed by creating a suction cap effect with it in order to lift the plate off the table! Checkmate!
I believe the biggest challenge will be in making anything scaled down to a human size. And you know what that means? We're getting a real Gundam sooner than later!
I feel like with time humanoid robots will help us out with projects like: Buildings Factory working And even exploration. I just hope things don’t turn out like Detroit become human
Why do we need humanoid form as opposed to ideal functional form? The automobile looked nothing like the horse and yet everyone got used to it. We would be better off letting form follow function.
This is why India is lagging behind the rest of the world in humanoid robotics. Can you imagine the mechanical complexity in recreating all that head motion!
So the robot will be telling the humans of the future " that is impossible you cannot walk on a tight rope across a waterfall ". Then we do it. Great update the walking section was fun that's gotta be tough goal.
I’d heard hours of discussions on AI on my recent trip from SoCal to Starbase TX. There are several AGI Golems already competing for dominance. Pandora’s Box has been opened wide & we can only but adapt, if they are to be prevented from convincing us to destroy ourselves at their least whim. When will we begin to see the first “anti-Golems” & what will their “battles” look like & appear as front page news? Too late to matter? Stopping things will only slow efforts at deterrents & allow the malefactors to forge ahead, unabated. Methinks the situation is already much worse than the “slow it” crew are willing to acknowledge.
The solution is not using a robot. It's like trying to solve every problem with a hammer. We have to modify another animal and create new one to set the table
Humans aren't designed perfectly, but we need to develop robots to walk around our buildings.
It's like QWERTY: it's not optimal, but it's the standard.
Yes, apparently QWERTY was developed for mechanical typewriters to deliberately slow down human typists. Apparently they were fast enough to jam the mechanism on a regular basis. Currently tools and buildings are designed for humans, and that won't likely change in the near future.
@@john_in_phoenix that is just a myth, it's not true.
@@john_in_phoenix actually, that is a myth. It was more.
buildings (and everything else) are designed for humans. so, it's easier to design our robots to be like humans.
So it's like JavaScript or regular expressions. It's not the best but it's everywhere. 💀
We have two points of contact, on a good day.
Our legs are pendula. Our ambulatory motion is essentially a constant form of falling forward.
We rely on accelerometers inside our auditory canals. We shift our limbs, our superstructures, our very organs just to stay upright.
We're a goddamn mess of an animal.
Exactly why our ancestors decided on upright locomotion, well let’s just say that as a student anthropologist it’s one of the things I’m focused on.
@@waynesworldofsci-techwhat are the leading theories for the advantages for it
@@blink182bfsftw
We know Africa went through a drying event that caused savanna formation. General thought is the shrinkage of forest habitat forced us into the savanna, while our cousins, the chimpanzees and bonobos stayed in the forest.
In the savanna the ability to stand and see over the grasses was a huge advantage. Many animals stand on their hind legs to see over things, dogs, squirrels, bears, mink, muskrats, most omnivores and carnivores have some capacity to stand upright.
The difference with us is that we were already part way to upright walking. Our cousins can do this, for short distances, though they don’t walk well.
If our last common ancestor was fairly similar to the physical layout of chimpanzees, the switch to upright movement wouldn’t have been as big as it would be for canids or felids.
Another reason is freeing up hands. Our cousins knuckle walk, which makes carrying things difficult. Babies for example.
I personally suspect it wasn’t a single factor, but rather a confluence of several. But I’m a student, and that’s a gut feeling based on experience from another field.
Life has always been a 'goddamn mess', that *_works_* for just long enough to have replaced itself. There was never a plan . . .
What you described is a wonder of an animal. Your conclusion surprised me.
Moravec's paradox highlights the inherent challenges robots face in performing tasks that come naturally to humans, due to their limited sensory and flexibility capabilities. In essence, we are asking robots to carry a plate with only a hammer at their disposal. To enable more adaptable robots, it is crucial to invest in enhancing their sensory input and flexibility, allowing them to better mimic human complexity and versatility.
true, but consider any time a human can do something, a robot should be able to do it too, so then it's more a control algorithm issue. Consider a person driving a diving robots with awkward arms in low visibility and with latency, doing some deep sea repairs or something. Or the remotely controlled humanoid robot on the ISS, or the Davinci surgical robot.
Humans can do these things with equally as constrained sensory input as robots.
Generally your notion is right, but I think our current robots would be much more capable with the right control algorithms (probably neural network based). Nvidia already had NNs that can animate virtual characters in a very fluid, human-like way, there's also domain randomization that trains NNs to work under many different conditions (such as a motor not working right or more resistance etc). When these are driving our existing hardware, it would be much more capable. I think that's more or less what they're doing with the Tesla bot and Boston Dynamics has experimented with this too afaik.
This is exactly why Tesla is trying to conquer this next. If you can create a humanoid robot, all of the Technologies you would develop along the way will be incredible. Tesla wants to be a premier robotics company and if you can create a humanoid robot then you basically can create any type of robot, if you want
@@Embassy_of_Jupiter doubting Nvidia is dumb. Really really dumb. So, since Nvidia is the one developing the solution... Ya, it's gonna get solved. Nvidia generally beats my expectations or releases things I wasn't even thinking of or was thinking was possible. They probably also enable skynet and get us all killed but well, win some lose some....
@@Embassy_of_Jupiter I don't think is an algorithm issue even if now is both an algorithm and a hardware problem, let's say tomorrow we get the algorithm that allows the robot to perfor actions in the real world, you ask him to clean the dishes, imagine how much data come to your brain when you perform a task like that, how many things your fingers can feel and how incredibly accurate the movements are, you fingers can feel, temperature, pressure, grip, wetness among probably many others, and can perform movements that are very precise, we can't replicate that. To drive a car I think will be done far sooner than we will have robots capable of doing fine delicate tasks, I believe will have to be done biomechanically, we can't even dream of building anything even close to the complexity if a human hand with all its capabilities.
True, but consider the sheer computational power of the human mind. From what I’ve read, only the largest supercomputers on the planet are able to match it in calculations per second. Unless computation gets much faster, lighter and cheaper we likely won’t be able to have an average machine running on the same quantity of information the human mind processes.
If that’s the case, we will have to figure out how to make the hammer perform brain surgery, which should be possible albeit extremely difficult.
Trivia for all here: The word "robot" was first coined in the Czech play "Rossum's Universal Robots" by Karel Čapek which premiered on 2 January 1921. In the play, the "robots" are biological rather than mechanical (kind of like Replicants from the Blade Runner movie).
Fun fact: The word itself derives from the Czech word “robota,” or forced labor, as done by serfs. Its Slavic linguistic root, “rab,” means “slave.” Therefore, robot is a slur for robots.
Imagine how surprised the robot will be when it understands that it's not supposed to become a professional pianist, but a doctor, and all that learning the piano was just so their creator should show off to the other creators
"Your purpose is to pass the butter"
I see what you did there
Talk to your parents...
I feel you ma human 🫶
It’s okay these robots aren’t made in China
I propose a robotics version of the Turing test, which I call the Pooing test. To past the Pooing test a robot must be able to change the nappy on a human without traumatising them or getting a mess all over the place, then they would have proven that they can replace humans in the lowest paid menial work.
I'm not sure that's the most menial work robots do, but it would be a critical milestone never the less. The most menial and dangerous work some robots do includes sewer systems inspection like the Redzone Solo, working within the bowels of the Chernobyl and Fukishima Daiichi Power Plants, and performing full GI endoscopies like Ryukoku University's camera pill robot dubbed the 'Mermaid.'
@@PaigeWylderOwO I don't know if menial is the right word. Changing a nappy is a REALLY hard problem for a robot. So is folding laundry. These things are non-trivial for humans, even.
Post spine surgery, in the ICU for 3 weeks, bless the hospital staff for changing my nappies four or five times during day & night... I'll never forget them for their gracious and kind care.
@@0neIntangible Yes, it is no joke, a very important task, not just for infants either. Imagine having that sort of robotic help at home if you are a quadraplegic. It would be life changing.
You first.
Soft robots are a research toy. Humans are somewhere in between rigid and soft. A hand is basically like a rubber glove but with calcium rods and plates embedded in it to give it rigidity. Also, if you make a force actuator weak and soft (compliant) you can also use it for feedback detection, like a spring scale with an adjustable strength spring.
That only concerning grip and movement but a human hand is far more complex that that, just your fingertips can give your brain all sorts of different data from pressure, to temperature, grip level, texture, shape etc. You need all that information if you want to manipulate the world around you and I don't think what we see today ( hands grabbing something) is even close to good enough to be useful
@@dumyjobby Indeed, I am only providing a brief description in a youtube comment. Simulation of skin touch would likely utilize tiny piezoelectric stress elements to detect distortion of an otherwise flat silicone "skin" sheet, and tiny thermocouples to detect temperature. Thermocouples have a hot and cold side, and our bodies work similar.
We generally only detect heat and cold relative to our inner core temperature. The body can be fooled by putting one hand in very warm water and the other in ice water for a few minutes. Then place both hands in lukewarm water. The hand that was hot will feel cold, and the hand that was cold will feel hot.
Nice intro with Astro boy. Arguably the first popular version of this story is Pinocchio. Then again earlier still by a few millennia is the Greek myth Pygmalion. An artist creates a beautiful sculpture of a woman, brings it to life, falls in love with it and being a Greek myth, things go badly, and tragedy ensues.
its fascinating how the concept of a synthetic companion goes back so far in history. Even in some ancient mythologies Gods would create Golems, Titans o Giants from inhert materials to serve a purpose.
@@TheSniper2477 The Golem is from Judaism.
There are several AGI Golems already competing for dominance.
@@Barnaclebeard Yeah, so? Titans are from Greek mythology, and Giants are from Norse and many other mythologies. So?
As a person in robotics research, gotta say a well made short summary of where we're at!
It's still a open question if some one the method you described at the end will work for humanoid robots by just "scaling it up" like we've seen for Deep Learning. Simulation training and using that (Sim2Real) have been around for about 8 years now since Domain-randomization seemed to show some promise, but so far have had limited success for task that is inherently complex to simulate.
It sure is an interesting time. Yann LeCun (Head of Research at Meta) claimed that in the future we can make a robot work in the real-world by just training it on youtube videos and create a "world model" from the physics it sees. Slightly skeptical if vision-only will lead to this capacity but if it does, more generalist robots might happen in our lifetime.
For some reason, I was thinking there would be more depth in this video considering the vast history of humanoid robots, but I learned about obstacles I didn't know about in locomotion like Zero Moment Points, and appreciate this video never the less. For future essays offering further details on humanoid robotics throughout history, you might want to look at the DARPA Robotics Challenge between 2012-2015, the Nasa Robonauts, and in the indie development sphere, the MaSiRo Project, among others.
The problem with technical subjects is keeping everything manageable and understandable.
It’s a start. If the video does well then there’ll be more.
@@brodriguez11000 "ChatGPT, write an essay on the development and challenges of robotics and make it understandable for low-knowledge youtube crowd". There.
Very nice overview of the field and its evolution, but why no mention at all about an important new player Tesla’s Optimus. It would also have been very interesting to find the reason behind Honda stopping the Asimo project. They were not far from succeeding and their platform with the recent AI developments would have made it a very strong contender to the house assistant job.
I thought omitting Optimus was an odd choice, as Tesla has already major strides (heh) in its development, including demonstrating working around humans and the soft touch that he mentions being a necessity. Still, there are SO many players in the field right now that it would be impossible to name them all.
Your voice and narration style is very comforting.
My personal benchmark on when we will have solved Moravec's paradox is when we can build a successful "rummage robot".
Such a robot could, when presented with a pocket full of small items of varying shapes, sizes, and textures (keys, wallet, cards, gumstick, earbuds, etc...), reach into the pocket, rummage around, and pull out a specific item while leaving the other objects in place. Such an act, simple for a human, requires a massive combination of different capabilities that robots are currently many years/decades away from being able to accomplish.
all you need is a camera and machine learning of items, doesn't even need to touch it
@@MegaChickenPunch I'm talking a realistic pocket like what humans have on their clothing; pressed against the body and full of junk. A camera isn't going to do you much good jammed into the pocket and pushed up against the items, not to mention that doesn't solve any of the grabbing and actuation side of things.
Simulations have come a long way, so I imagine the field of robotics will be moving quite fast. Better aligned language models should help train and make robots safe around people... I sure hope these come out soon. There's housework to be done.
The comedy in this episode is gold!
Not sure if this was just because of the subject matter, but your dry commentary this video was hilarious, haha! Great content as always.
My man! The Killer Instinct reference got you a sub! ... And the video was great too. lol.
I did not expect that you bring up and explain so many details. I learned some new things. Very good.
Good Video, Jon! I had to laugh out loud a couple times. I always look forward to an Asianometry video.
The video reminded me of a 1980s movie called Short Circuit with Johnny5 who used tracks instead of legs to solve the "balance" issue.
Thank you so much for the amazing quality of the video!
Excellent videos. Love your channel. I've learned so much. Cheers!
I too loved Killer Instinct. My best move was with Riptor, he ate the other character. That was SNES back in the day.
That was great, I hope you can go many episodes deeper🤩
Many Thanks for your very synthetic and precise video about the challenges and ways of progress. Very instructive and interesting !
👍👍👍
Very good summary of the problems and solutions in the field. I'm trying to build an humanoid robot myself for years now.
Really? Using what technology??
@@Retrofire-47 Mostly 3d printing, the videos are on my CZcams channel and the files on thingiverse.
12:53 This robot is now better than a toddler. Go ahead and tell me how many toddlers will pick up and put away all their toys, especially the first time you ask?
14:54 The code in the example actually makes a big mistakes. The instruction is move "while keeping 12m away", but the code ONLY sets the FINAL target position to 12m away, which would totally allow to pass much closer to the turbine while in transit in certain spatial arrangements, even leading to a crash.
Astroboy... There's been Metropolis (Fritz Lang) before. And the word "robot" comes from a novel by Karel Čapek, RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920). The Golem, from the Hebraic tradition is somehow a humanoid robot. We've had many humanoid automata during the 18th century in Europe too. So, indeed, the Japanese have become very inventive and enthusiast with the robot companions, but the concept comes from the Western world.
Why not use a claw-machine style grabbing, holding, and moving motions with suction/rubber technology maintaining the 'hand' balance? Instead of soft or rigid grabbing?
Boston Dynamics has a warehouse bot that does this.
They have things like Isaac Gym to train machine learning models for robotics control within a physics simulated virtual environment. This scales like crazy.
8:53 ah, yes, what a calming scene those guys running from a life-size robotic Utah Raptor.
Props for given Da Vinci credit for his intellectual property.
but ignored book which first use word Robot.
@@m_sedziwoj Was the book shown in the video?
@@answerman9933 no
He doesn't need the help.
My best examples i give people when they say, more automation is, I ask them, what would it take to lift, open and dump a 20kg bag of flour into an industrial mixer. Gentle. Meaning you first drop the so it covers the surface, wait for the mixer to mix that flour then repeat until the flour bag is empty. Needs to be able to handle a flour bag that gradually gets lighter, it needs to know how to stop, it needs to never drop the bag into the mixer, it needs to do so many different things. So it is cheaper and easier to simple hire a man to do it.
I can't wait for the day when I can ask Alexa to take out the trash. Hopefully, the humanoid robot can wear snow boots, lol.
Another video on price and economics please?
the cassie legs look freaking awesome
It really sounds like a new generation of analog computers are gonna be needed. You could get all the computing power you need in a small and energy efficient package.
GO Analog!
No digital is just fine, really.
If you clean a spill with a vacuum cleaner you are definitely a bot!
Could you consider making a video about NIL lithography?
Robots are becoming more human-like
and (some) humans are becoming more robot-like.
It's a strange world we live in!
I haven't thought about this recently but I think AI training will do a lot to help robots mature in their complexity of movements. Just show the training super computer a bunch of videos of humans doing a task and they will figure it out. Then you can install the optimized program in all robots and its basically a solved problem. Will be much faster than a kid learning it eventually. Thats where things get really scary. In the matrix they could download programs in their brain to learn things but IRL it will be robots that get this ability, not us.
Quite possible, though your training method is a bit off. Wrong sort of data, too much noise. A better way would be to first write a program to simulate a body - that's a fairly simple task, basic rigid-body physics model. Used all the time in computer games. Now you have a source of limitless training data, which can be easily adjusted to your particular robot's body shape and dimensions.
If we had a team of Transformers, imagine the construction work that could be done. 😂
This reminds me, the only thing in Terminator not existing today, is a time machine.
Uses Tesla Optimus as a video teaser. Zero mention of Tesla as the fastest growing robotics startup. Oh well, you'll see them IRL soon enough...
This is scary but also wonderful
I love your work, there's something very important about being curious of the world. Most ppl I meet day to day aren't bothered and that's a shame Indeed.
I am troubled because that robot boy was the hero of my childhood...
> There is no broadly accepted definition of ‘humanoid.’
Dictionary: Am I a joke to you?
Loved the Astro Boy reference!
man I wish more creative/informative content on this topic and other technologies existed.
This video crushes a few of my dreams..
. But it is really interesting
Not sure you should be using a vacuum to clean up coke even if one was nearby 😅
getting dinosaur robots would be cool
So let it begin so which robot movie will it be
excellent video .
Before it came up at the end of the video, I was thinking "Why not make a 4 legged robot with some sort of arms on top ?"
Looks like Boston Dynamics are already doing something like that !
I guess humans wouldn't mind in their homes a robot that is like a dog with arms on it's body, or maybe like the Greek mythological creature of Centaur, half horse, half human.
The feet could have rubber tyred wheels on them, why bother with all the leg movements when a wheel would be better in some situations. The wheels could be braked for when leg movements are needed to overcome an obstacle. I guess someone has already thought of that too !
"Like any sensible Asian child..." lol you ok?
Hey buddy i love your videos. I err, was fastened by robots when i was younger. I always drempt of designing one or building one.
Watching this video i am still amazed at how Permittive some of the designs still are.
A human uses the liquid i the inner ear to keep their ballance, why don't they implement this into moden robot design and use it as active feedback Stabilisation to help with the balance? I get they are hard to build but maybe not everything has to be solved with software.
Love the channel, keep up the outstanding work!!
LESSGO Northeastern University 7:40
There are already some embodied LLMs, like Palm-E or GPT-4.
Pleasantly suprised you mentioned Undying, but you failed to include Realms of the Haunting.
Great topic!
look, im sorry but as someone who plays music and has done alot of carpentry and small technical work with electronics, I have oftern longed for the third arm
heak, sometimes with small electronics you'll actually use thoughs little arms with the magnafying glass to hold your items while you work on them.
this to me is why the whole two arm thing dosent make sense??
like, we came from mamals with 4 limbs so we had no choice, and 2 legs dose seem to do us well but why not an extra arm or 2??
0:44 he's so cute
14:10 Are you sure you're not an AI? You don't vacuum up liquids, especially sticky liquids!
Great Astro Boy shout. Well done.
a good reminder to always check out what boston dynamics is up to
Wouldn't working on materials that contract under electrical charge make more sense than using air pressure based actuators?
Awesome, always great videos 🤯👍
I, for one, welcome our chicken-legged electronic future companions.
Not even Friday yet, and we got robots! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
4:53 omg the pain hahahaha
I find it amusing that the current spate of news about AI almost always uses images of robots, even though the two are not the same. Certainly we hope to have an AI that will run a robot (i. e. Tesla's Optimus), but currently the most mechanically advanced robots are not autonomous at all, so why conflate the images?
Missed a lot not researching the Tesla bot, they are working on the practical aspects of those problems.
may be they can give it a tail like kangroo, which uses the tail to balance itself.
Once a humanoid robot can use machine tools to make more of itself, it is not a technology, it is a new species.
09:40 Rookie mistake! I spit into my hand to wet it, place the flat palm onto the plate followed by creating a suction cap effect with it in order to lift the plate off the table! Checkmate!
Is anyone going to tell him about AutoGPT.
I'm kidding, I know It's hard to keep up with all the LLM news recently. Crazy stuff.
I believe the biggest challenge will be in making anything scaled down to a human size. And you know what that means? We're getting a real Gundam sooner than later!
@ 8:21 just search for the first video with atlas in description from boston dinamics youtube channel @ 2016 .... maybe you meant 2008 not 2018 ;) :)
svaka cast miomire👏👏
The video should be titled "The journey to humanoid robots".
Good video my guy 💯
I think electrical power supply would be challenging.
I feel like with time humanoid robots will help us out with projects like:
Buildings
Factory working
And even exploration.
I just hope things don’t turn out like Detroit become human
What kind of person cleans up spilled soda with a vacuum?
10/10 content from my guy
Why is the Asimov 2012 so advanced?
I don't think you should suggest a vacuum for cleaning up spill coke even if there is one around.
Some of them are actually pretty easy to get along with… 😊
Why do we need humanoid form as opposed to ideal functional form? The automobile looked nothing like the horse and yet everyone got used to it. We would be better off letting form follow function.
This is why India is lagging behind the rest of the world in humanoid robotics. Can you imagine the mechanical complexity in recreating all that head motion!
No mention of Optimus at all?
I would get clean of drugs unclean foods and serve the right robot if it ever said im the nible.
TED talk by OpenAI came out today:
czcams.com/video/C_78DM8fG6E/video.html
Couple more years of advancement at Boston robotics, AI takes over those beings
So the robot will be telling the humans of the future " that is impossible you cannot walk on a tight rope across a waterfall ". Then we do it. Great update the walking section was fun that's gotta be tough goal.
Not "literally" dinosaurs. Just descended from them
I’d heard hours of discussions on AI on my recent trip from SoCal to Starbase TX. There are several AGI Golems already competing for dominance. Pandora’s Box has been opened wide & we can only but adapt, if they are to be prevented from convincing us to destroy ourselves at their least whim. When will we begin to see the first “anti-Golems” & what will their “battles” look like & appear as front page news? Too late to matter? Stopping things will only slow efforts at deterrents & allow the malefactors to forge ahead, unabated. Methinks the situation is already much worse than the “slow it” crew are willing to acknowledge.
The solution is not using a robot. It's like trying to solve every problem with a hammer. We have to modify another animal and create new one to set the table