Robot Hummingbird

[Urhoboman5]

The golden Snitch!!! X-D

[m0rphzone]

Nice, now just build the outer shell like the DARPA one.

[m4rk0256]

use it in emergency scenarios? i would just do the Gandalf thing and whisper to a moth

[pumoo]

ぎゃー



[AndrewIsHot7]

Lol Japanese, I knew it

[ThePurplePaisley]

Any other Harry Potter nerds hoping this will lead to a working Snitch?? Just asking..

[AtrumMixer]

could work as one. question is how youre gonna get the brooms to capture it.

[cronikproductions]

I am going to buy this just for the purpose of looking at girl's boobs up close without getting hurt.

[CloSeph]

THAT HUMMING BIRD 'S A SPAH

[XxtechnoxbunnehxX]

I want the soundtrack sooo bad

[ironcrow000]

And this is how Navi comes true... "watch out!"

[jmannunez]

@ironcrow000 HEY HEY HEY LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN!!!!!! *Clicks B* "Your standing in front of a tree" -_-'

[whatever2981]

It's not the only bird that can hover, as that scientist says. At least, a much bigger, Kestrel bird also knows how to hover.

[TheSouled1]

@whatever2981

the kestrel requires the aid of wind and higher altitudes to hover. It's really just gliding into headwind which keeps it in place. Although, you are technically correct... the best kind of correct

[whatever2981]

@TheSouled1

Actually, that's not true. Yes, they prefer windy conditions. But, they're perfectly capable to hover in absolutely calm weather. They usually hover somewhere from 30 to 60 feet QFE (that's measured from the ground) waiting up to a minute to dive for prey. Just a showcase type video on the subject: insert-youtube-url/watch?v=O-t­xnYnZDd4

[16awala]

Next time you see a fly, don't just let it be, it might be a "robofly" with Japanese college students watching you. Also, just do it to piss them off because they probably take a lot of time and money to build.

[nathanchronister]

You people are mistaken. This technology was developed in the USA, not Japan. They only copied it.

[antiderivative]

If the college students can afford it someday and the fly time increases, they could use this as the snitch in their Quidditch matches!

[sameerraja999]

USA is far behind JAPAN. Great job. Better if you build such toy for kids.

[budadepapel]

Someone Please can say me about the song of this Great Video¡

:S

[jukio02]

in the future, humans will get robotic wings

[BluBel123]

Again Japanese with their robots! lol

[joseinTokyo]

Excellent work,

[doogrisa]

dos it crap robotic turds?

[terbernt]

the Japanese don't rule but they will rule you. I will never understand this stupid Japanese fetish. Manga, robots. Maybe they are just active where we are slow. This country hardly treats robots and technology as serious as they do in Japan.

[EstudiNadir]

Diagonaluk, where can we find some info about the music? You've edited the video and chosen the track, or know who did?

Thanks in advance

[horsey983]

@EstudiNadir i know right? watch the nao video i just looooovvveeeee!! the music

[feereefg]

the Japanese rules!!

[FunkyFrancek77]

I knew it. Goddamn fly spies!

[rm02px]

What song is that?

[rojman123]

Looks like the Flytech Dragonfly from Wowee.

[Sleepless0000]

song name plssss ????

[davidmartin7777]

Love the drum 'n bass track... I'd also like to know who it is.

[raultabora]

awesome song I am interested too... What is this dnb track? Thanks

[onomonster]

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[krneki1990]

yea... but it was 5x heavier and it could only fly for 20sec

[CuervoBlack06]

I hate to burst everyone's bubble but this tech is not new. Darpa already developed something similar years earlier.

[JoshuaPTFan]

On the streets of Hong Kong in 2 years.

[boonie1994]

now give it poison darts!!

[usmcboyer]

intellengece gathering is right... these things are prolly pretty quiet and could slip into meetings and into buildings through tiny spaces like cracked windows. next time a humming bird comes around moon it, maybe the intel people will get a laugh.

[Schutzstaffel23]

put a tiny camera and audio on it and you could remotley fly it from a van parked on the street. :D

[Natedawg422]

Yeah i hate to admitt that i see no good coming from this invention. Im sure someone in the R&D department of the military was drueling when he heard about this.

[Schutzstaffel23]

yeah im pretty sure were atleast a decade from actually using this shit properly and practicly.

[Natedawg422]

yeah but so was the atom bomb at one point.

[Schutzstaffel23]

didnt say it wasnt lol

[RennTaPenn]

what the hell. what kind of house fly would be that big. holy shit/

[TheFlashFrame]

what the hell kinda of house fly is that big

[creativekidd27]

asian people can make anything!!!

amazing

[andrewthebestes]

When I first saw the title of this at first glance, I though it said "Robot HumpingBot".

[lkjkorn19]

Sweet, incredible how advanced technology is nowadays

[ashleylovesdaddy]

It's only gonna get better, faster.

[AliElliot]

They definately wont be selling these, cause if they do alot of problems would start happening

[1aMattes]

looks like a prototype of the Flytech Dragonfly. :)

[catmonkey86]

Wtf? Loada birds can hover??

[Poldax]

I'm not 100% sure, but i think the others are officially gliding. Something to do with fings flaping or not.

[catmonkey86]

Yhh perhaps; i guess the Kestrel would be my best example; but then I've seen no end of finches hovering sometimes aswell, kingfishers... lol.

[alexcute978]

i want one put it on eBay plz ill buy them

[john1966elliott]

Maybe use Army Spy Hummming Bird, Just joking Haha

[eMobster]

I wonder what a bunch of these robots could do with a bit of Swarm Intelligence

[Zetomb]

@eMobster look up Mass Effect Wikia and search Geth. They're basically the result of what can be generally labeled as swarm intelligence. :P

[lavinder11]

I new twist on the fly on the wall...

[clownstangler]

a yellow man will rule the world

[atlaskick]

@clownstangler homer simpsons

[cr0ttych0p]

another invention prolly to take more vouyer pics..haha

[passion4729]

we're all dead

[G3org3Master]

can only fly for 6 minutes.

[whiskers123]

ONLY 6 minutes? hahaha 6 minutes is a pretty long time, look how damn small it is. Most helicopters I seen around that size only fly for up to 2 minutes. Batteries get better every year, so its only a matter of time and these get longer run times.

[90yrs]

he maybe a great physicist but he needs to brush up on his biology, there are loads of birds that can hover, especially when they are stalking prey in water.

[whiskers123]

Actually only the humming bird can hover or fly backwards.

[whiskers123]

Oh unless you follow the religions of Abraham, according to the religions of Abraham Bats are birds, and bats can hover and fly backwards just like humming birds. So if you believe that bats are birds, than sure... other birds can do it to. :D

[LidsAreFun]

could make thousands off that

i want onee

[driftdon]

gr8 work

[Frankfurtdabezzzt]

what is this big green piece of foil doing?

[death8kami]

i believe it is apart of the aerodynamics which allows it to stay in flight.

[KenRayadon]

Oh shit, surveyors! :D

[Gabrasca]

someone will use it for the White House

[Nahtanoj777]

nice toy!

[fallenangelscreed]

omg!!!!

[lestube001]

sweet tune any 1 tell us what it is

[jonnyboiboi]

asia makes the best robotics ever!!!!

no comments. =)

[hydralisk100]

... idk about you but it makes a pretty dam large 'RA3' reference.. >_>

[jobuXC]

japan has some problems, but awesome shit like this always makes me feel they're getting better.

[cool7654321]

..mm.... these days everything is for stalking. Facbook, myspace, twitter, and now robotic humming birds with mirco cameras.

[rainbowfoxmagicgrrrl]

"intelligence gather" aka snooping

[roisu]

Hummingbird hásn't got 4 wings!!

work harder for a pair of wing.. Boy~~ :P

[DamienZshadow]

The way the wings curve and bend make it work as if it has four wings. If you've ever seen a Hummingbird in super slow motion you can see the feathers lagging behind the base of the wing and lash back as it flaps back and forth, much like an insect and unlike most other birds.

[Kylec3]

More revolutionary than the iPad, that's for sure.

[ericsyutubeaccount]

@Kylec3 its just an oversize ipod

[Kylec3]

THANKS TIPS!!!!

[MastaRikta]

More ways to spy on people! coool!

[mazon111]

cool

[Dreadkid08]

its cool that they have drum n bass music on this :D

[coolmanjasdeep]

i dont find this so revolutionary..

[Irooooon]

Something that light and it can fly. Could be used in photo-recons in the military.

Pretty revolutionary.

[coolmanjasdeep]

now we just needa make bite sized cameras that can float on them too.

then ill agree with you.

[Djud3n]

that is cool the possibilities of engineering are endless

[clnmike]

Cool scary but cool.

[12809inthetubes]

Uh, I'm not sure spying on the women's locker room counts as an emergency scenario . . .

Unless you've got some major blue balls . . .

[popalechee]

What kind of song is this? It sounds so cool! :D

The last time I heard a song like this, was on "Ape Escape: Pumped and Primed"... Which is a game I miss :(

[mEloxity]

anyone know this dnb track? its quite nice

[traceurpaul]

Intelligence gathering, or to spy on the country

[TrandomnesstwO]

...or perverted themes.

[LaCassylicious]

oh my gosh when i was a child i wanted a toy like that so badly... so now maybe i'll be able to give one to my kids one day :)

[Tiny1408]

The single coolest thing i have ever seen in my life, WHO NEEDS PETS!!

[xanox02]

the only way this kind of robot could really be of use is ;

1 : Better componants, more kind of mouvement possible (like synthetic ''robotic'' muscle).

2 : a Cpu that is able to control the fly stationnary even in the wind etc.

3 : a way to store energy, like very but powerfull battery

4 : a camera tiny enough for a fly.

So i really dont think its gona hapen soon.

(sry for my english)

[1madaboutguitar]

lol what a piece if shit. It looks nothing like a hummingbird

[EchoplexTheUltimatum]

...

it's not supposed to look like a hummingbird. it has the qualities of a hummingbird.

[1madaboutguitar]

Really, does it fly into plants and extra nectar then?

[maxthepwner]

Yes, diagonaluk has finally gotten show status! No more text being blocked by ads in the most interesting time.

[lead111]

Uses Infra Red Though

Could Try To Use Bluetooth Would Be Much Better

[blackhole522]

It's never gonna work efficiently....the wind will just blow it away...it's too light

[eeedel]

but.. humming birds are light too...

[blackhole522]

@eeedel: Yeah but the real bird has a brain and when the wind blows it can feel it and corrects it's path, increase flapping of wings and all. A human with a remote control can't do that in time..

[fgf284]

Thats why its flown inside with the windows and doorts closed ;P

[TheBassBender]

Whats a doort?

[baboonsquadron]

we are so fucked........

[MSvideoman]

haha

[DoCWaSaBe]

@baboonsquadron i can see it now, flying robots taking pictures of me while i take a crap... maybe in the future we will need some sort of robot bug spray?

[larsskaterFFM]

looks like a helicopter..

[caseykid08]

a robot that can fly, the size of a housefly? use for intelligence gathering....

i dont know about you but i kill houseflies...with spray/hands

... Good thinking...

[ChadMurrey]

Awesome! It can be used for spying and exploring!

[kidel3]

Awesome!

[vanshma]

Why are the japanese so smart?!

[brendankhoury]

thats some light technology right there......

[TheMeanArena]

Once something can be done in small scale, it is only a matter of time when it can be produced in large scale. Such as military use.

[HomerBong]

helicopters already exist... man and unmaned.

[spugesdu]

The Japanese are amazing.

[eldiablo9604]

erm..... amazing how?!

[brendankhoury]

@eldiablo9604

you try deveoping a 2 gram winged flying robot

Goodluck

[eldiablo9604]

cant be terribly hard. just get some light stuff and put it together.

[Blaqoon]

Alot more than that. It's about aerodynamics. Looks simple, but its not. =P

[Fuzzy192006]

Finally, a way to spy on my grandma while she's in the shower.

[Slure123]

lolwhat?

[DuarteOnTheLine]

that's is insane!

[LegendaryMotives]

So basically they researched how to make a shitty version of a remote control helicopter? cool

[Colaglass]

I know. It's unnecesarry

[brendankhoury]

wings are not rotor blades retard

[LegendaryMotives]

Yet they accomplish the same thing

[brendankhoury]

dumb dumb dumb.

you might not be, but you sure sound it.

[TheSeekerII]

nice, but it's sad it's essentially been developed for spying / espionage

[SasoriOTRS]

the robofly is meant for spying. the humming bird is for emergency situations suck as a tunnel collapse, they can send it in and let it take pictures to see how bad the damage is, survivors, etc.

[MDragonFang]

next thing it'll be used for gathering plant material xD

[thomasm3ij3r]

no wai :)

[Peacenik]

sweet I want one