Pop-up Fabrication of the Harvard Monolithic Bee (Mobee)

[mikeabbatello]

richie rich anyone? lol

[jimmyyu1112]

Great manufacturing process, but can it fly?

[facegarden]

"First at one Hertz, and then at 30 Hertz."

Wow, it took until I wrote that out to realize it wasn't incorrect. I thought he meant "first at one frequency, then at (another)" and just conflated "Hertz" with "frequency", which would have been surprising given that I imagine the speaker is a very intelligent person. I had to write it out to realize he meant 1 Hz. Funny how that worked out.

Anyway, also, WOW this is really, really impressive.

[allnaturalkid87]

Thumbs up for BOOBS!

[graychrist]

It's not the BEE...it's the process. Advances like these will bring about a better future for all of us. Imagine flying cars not with one, two, or six motors but SIXTY THOUSAND motors - all made up of tiny individual fans. Talk about redundancy.... Or imagine tiny robotic surgeons living in your blood stream, ferreting out disease on a day to day basis.

[martybadboy]

Phfft! Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about this in 1844 (The Artist and the Beautiful)!

[mtw156]

Damn technology you scary

[Tamonduando]

that is very interesting but... will it blend?

[segomil]

At work in 2026 ... pffff!

[TheFutureLooksGrimm]

@Grutch I know batterys way a loy but they should at least connect a 1 hair thickness wire leads to supply power to it to show that it can at least fly. I doubt it could fly even with a power source. It uses 2 wings that wouldn't work well. Unless it has an onboard computer with sensors managing each wing similar to some military helicopters, it's going to fall and crash.

[finefilth]

hmmm bugs that spy on you... oh boy..:(

[mayanmanifestor]

What is this for?

[jcost2012]

It will be used to vaccinate you without you even noticing

[Grutch]

@jcost2012 Or to inject a common deadly virus and do away with you.

[teargardens]

@jcost2012 they could just spray it over a city or put it in the water supply.

[N8Revolution]

RON PAUL 2012!!!

[ishouldplayzelda]

so does it actually fly or not.......... because if it doesn't, i don't see why i should give a shit 5__5

[Grutch]

@ishouldplayzelda it does not at the moment, lack of a good power source.

[aeeeeris]

why couldn't we see it fly?

[SuperAhmed1337]

@aeeeeris Because it can't fly :).

[aeeeeris]

@SuperAhmed1337 mm..ok , maybe this is the next step then

[scientifico]

How fucking hot is this?!!!

[si4star]

This is amazing. I hope you're being well paid.

[Scandibilly]

Does this faintly remind anyone of the novel, The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger?

[beachbum4fun2]

Very cool.

[AnonymousKdub]

LETS SEE THE FUCKING THING FLY PLZ

[blipdipful]

Dangerous... we better prepare for a scenario worse than in Terminator 2 (war against the machines). It is difficult to defend oneself against these small drones.

[HalcyonicRepose]

@blipdipful

I think the current limiting factor is POWER. I've seen a lot of clever robots tethered or running on a liquid fuel motor (like Big Dog). How could these things run for days and weeks. I fear that "they" would be willing to use nuclear batteries (depleted uranium anyone?), thereby polluting the planet for a long time.

[WulfgarOpenthroat]

@HalcyonicRepose

Nuclear isn't nearly that dangerous,nuclear power sources have poor power to weight ratios(ie bad for this anyway),and depleted uranium is what you get after you take most of the juicy fissionibles out - it emitts less radiation than natural uranium.It's uses come from it's high physical density(and the fact that projectiles made from it are self-sharpening and the metal is pyrophoric).It just happens to be rather toxic, chemically.

Please educate yourself. :/

[thetorrex]

i'm a bee and what is this?

[DarkKlown99]

anyone else disappointed that a 1000 bee's didn't start flying around the campus at Harvard by the end of this video collectively picking up massive objects and placing them elsewhere?

[KnightMD]

I was disappointed at the end to know they need an external power source to fly...

[shobley]

@KnightMD That was my first thought, where's the power source?

[teargardens]

@shobley you can beam "energy/power" via micro waves ulf/vhf.. Power source was solved LONG ago for micro/nano bots.

[amisamiamiam]

Except one problem, insects use a completely different way of "beating" their wings that harnesses vortex energy, not flapping.

[joerush25]

so you're tellimg me this is all the size of a penny? Mind = f-ing blown.

[fatback2]

the brains on that guy could feed a whole nation of zombies.

[willem01]

i had hoped they where able to fly...:/

[CabhanListis]

I want to make babies.

[venusangel82]

and people are afraid of China

[zimtower]

These will probably be microwave powered if used for the military.

[roidroid]

@zimtower yeah they seem well suited to power beaming. i envision multiple of them hovering around one person.

[MrCOLTSR2]

brilliant stuff with lots of future applications for sure..its a step in the right direction..

[AlbMosq27]

I really like the technology they used for fabricating this. It´s awesome, but I´m wondering if it could fly or not. Please show us another video demonstrating that is able to flly!!!

[TheNorthkiters]

@AlbMosq27 search for uncontrolled takeoff of robobee

[cdjet]

the thing start flying at 4:02

[jimsottile]

Leonardo would have loved this.

[happymeltedcity]

We have all just witnessed the origin of grey goo.

[looneylinda100]

I wonder if it could get an external power source from a tesla coil. I'd like to have colony of these flying around my living room.

[Shawtyszakillaxo1]

I WONDER IF THEY TASTE LIKE CHICKEN

[phenomenomnomnomnom]

Whoever made this has good taste in music!

[phenomenomnomnomnom]

Whoever made this has good taste in music!! I love Bonobo

[phenomenomnomnomnom]

Whoever made this has good taste in music!!n I love Bonobo

[jacknap1]

Richy Rich would be proud

[ledzeppelin4892000]

I watched that entire video for 0 flight time...

[MrSinfestation]

@ledzeppelin4892000 thats because it doesnt fly yet. it clearly states: "from an external power source." also, it has no flight stability mechanism yet and no good way to attach a power source or control mechanism yet (transistors and such) because the weight would be too much for it to handle. what you should take away from this video is the fabrication techniques. very impressive.

[postal111222333]

but does it really fly?

[AsianRiceNinja]

Mom can I have a mobee for my birthday? xD

[Zbenesch]

This is cool. What's the practical use of the bee?

[synaesthetique]

@Zbenesch surveillance - lots and lots of surveillance

[Zbenesch]

@synaesthetique Can it bear that much weight? I mean the camera, transmitter, etc.?

[synaesthetique]

@Zbenesch it will have to to be useful. Cameras and transmitters have been miniaturized enough that they would fit on one of these things. Power would be the biggest hurdle, but wireless microwave solutions another commenter mentioned are making their way into the fore.

[Zbenesch]

@synaesthetique I could imagine that, would be awesome to have one of these :D

[bathinthefountain]

Holy sit.

[briansmobile1]

The process is awesome. It's like concrete slab buildings with steel plates for weld-seam construction, (at the point of solder "locking") just tiny, tiny, in size and it moves. Very exciting. Hope it proves helpful to humanity instead of being another killer. We have enough of those. Ya?

[teargardens]

@briansmobile1 this will be used for killing/ surveillance in the coming NW0, unfortunately.

[briansmobile1]

@teargardens What's the obsession with policing EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD??? Is micro management (pun intended) not proven again and again to be not only nauseating, but horribly inefficient? It's like we're returning to the dark ages of being ruled by idiot brute kings. War doesn't reveal who's right, only who's left.

[teargardens]

@briansmobile1 well the epic crappy thing about all this is that the new wrold disorder is real. Their are like 10 or so elite banking mafia families that OWN/CONTROL LITERALLY EVERYTHING. Right now they are in the process of "doing away with" the "old world" & slowly replacing it with their "new world." their stated goal is to have a world wide global communo-fascist dictatorship, with NEVER ENDING serfdom. Just like now only imagine 1984/THX1138/Brave new world, on steroids.

[k12rising]

@briansmobile1 this will be a killer when they use it for eugenics and vaccinating and spying on people. Wake up!

[mirush65]

@briansmobile1 The nuclear process was also "awesome"...WASN'T iT???

[heino1989]

This is nothing short of genius.

[angrypineapple1]

Dear Harvard University Students

Please note that i would like to have a prototype one of these. I have many reasons,so ill give you a few. the first one is because i love micromachines,and i make toy micromachions using paper clips and junk. second reason is my house has a lot of nooks and cranies that would make a suitable adventure 4 te bot. Third,these micromachanes i make would make suitable toys for it. so plz, when and if i do go to harverd, i would like one of these 4 a present

sincerly

[maseratti837]

MEMs has come a long way since the airbag sensor days. It would have been nice to see it actually fly, very impressive

[Sanjeev87]

o_O

[Portaspilli]

Impressive, what about using same process for human scale purposes like automobiles? The size/scale of this is incredible and very exciiting. Please post links for more projects!

[gazeo]

A hearty Keanu Reeves "WHOA!".

[mlaclom]

Very impressive. It'll be interesting to see further use of this technology!