Dennis Hong: My 7 species of robot

[crudhousefull]

A TED talk deserving a standing ovation if I ever saw one. What a retarded audience

[Connman31666]

23 people lost their jobs to these robots

[atmark666]

in japan, you can buy one of these at toysrus

[mideastatheist]

dead audience !!

[sverr0r]

They honestly should put some of the money going into robots research towards making the finger-nimble space suit gloves that kosmonauts and astronauts have been clamoring for, ever since the first wrench was lost in space.

[giga97]

Darwin 0 (2004) is the prototype of GUNDAM.

[Sandcat87]

6:20... 100 people weren't able to comprehend the future.

[FlameSwordWielder]

Most inspiring speech i ever seen, 23 dislikers are malfunctioning robots x).

[wesley13a]

Thumbs up if you saw this while on Artificial Intelligence class in Colegio of Mayaguez 

[FutileFreak]

11:00

It's HAL 9000 from 2001!!!

[SandRingWraith]

I like this guy... he's one of the few people designing/making robots that's not making them look like pokemons. lol

[bakothegreat]

great speaker....honestly

[SomethingSoOriginal]

The audience didn't get the feeling that he HIMSELF created anything new, rather he was presenting some new ideas in robotics to them. Most of the time standing ovations are given to those who have personally contributed to thier respective fields.

[SikhiArt]

@SomethingSoOriginal But he said he has his own database of Ideas! He deserves one!

[loyfah]

HL 2 anyone? =D

[DinokillerSithlord]

@loyfah half life 2 ftw

[omghai2u]

these fucking people clap and laugh at bill gates but not this? what the hell is this about

[cuzcarasays]

THE CHEAT

[SPYK3O]

Strider inspired by nature? more like strider inspired by the strider from half life (the game on the PC)

[BlockisticStudios]

The audience was far more robotic than the ones presented.

[BlockisticStudios]

"a robot that has three legs that was INSPIRED by nature..."

No, it was inspired by Half-Life 2.

[HippieKnight]

The audience is RACIST!!!!!!!!!!

jk but they still suck

[OTKSenior]

what a dull audience

[forgewolf]

stiff audience

[luisbeck007]

Yeah, Stars Wars and Colors in your dreams; this is why you have no idea what to do with the robots and you need to copy from others... bla bla bla... you are losing time and money hard heads...

[luisbeck007]

Yeah, Bio inspired but really not, Stars Wars and Colors in your dreams; this is why you have no idea what to do with the robots and you need to copy from others... bla bla bla... you are losing time and money hard heads...

[tryssss]

People also is affraid that robot get there jobs !!!!!!!!!! and they also affraid that chinese control them with robots !!!!! i can read in there minds :)

[tryssss]

People are affraid of chineses invention !!!!!!!! it's the reason why they're not so entousiast hihihi !!

[gamehero77]

lol strider hl2 ftw

[hotamali]

STRYDER!!!!!

[kholdsworth27]

is that the cheat on the hexapod MARS robot..

[vmapeyuan]

the robots are amazing~ and his ways of doing research is also inspiring

[The3irik92]

A thought about the Stockholm/Congestion charge thing in the end: This kind of system can only be applied to cities with a functioning colletictive traffic. Buses, Trains, Carts, Tubes etc. I live in Fredrikstad, Norway. It's too small, and with a practically useless collective traffic option. People will prefer cars in this situation.

[TheWiseCommenter]

The reason the audience did not applaud is because the speaker failed to explain how these technological advances could be actually useful in the future. Like many roboticists, he is fascinated by the idea of robots in and of themselves. Normal people however are only interested in how robots can be USEFUL. If you don't explain that, all we see is slow moving robots that aren't useful for anything yet, and a bunch of contrived acronyms.

[Thebrainrahul]

@TheWiseCommenter I understand your point but I don't think thats the point of TED. It is not how these things are useful but rather how they become useful; taking those initial steps. Simply put, the wheel would be useless if we didn't apply it. Also, we didn't create a wheel and suddenly produce a car, it evolved over many years, through prototyping and improvement. I think what we see in this presentation is the evolution of robotics- towards being usefully applied.

[lwanatt]

does anyone know weather in the robot soccer competition they have any sort of rule that states each team must make all of their research data, programs and schematics available to all of the other teams at the end of each tournament season? because if they really have a goal like defeating humans by 2050 this one simple rule change would cut the wait time in half at the very least.

[LAnonHubbard]

GOAAAAALLLLLL!

[wickedinsight]

sweet

[charlesworth91]

nice, i am a student of robotics at Plymouth uni in the UK, and that stuff looks pretty cool

[jeffty19]

maybe the audience don't like the way how he present the idea..

[SuperCentury]

half life 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ibiosef]

@samiminh - the poor audience has sat through about 20 such talks, since 10 am that morning. they're stunned.

[Crazee108]

wtf the audience looked bored! this stuff is so cool and interesting!! gosh

[Neueregel]

Robots are ingenious human creations, but the catch in NOT to lose our HUMANITY. Those things are developed just to serve us, as our PC's do. They will never enjoy wine, food or a sunset.

[ImaWatchAVideo]

@Neueregel thats not true. robots would have to be incredibly advanced in order to appreciate those things and it would probably never happen in our lifetime but perception of beauty and sense of taste is just a function of chemical reactions and sensors.

[Neueregel]

@ImaWatchAVideo Yes I agree that beauty and taste etc. are chemical reactions in the brain. And it's very hard to emulate them in a robot's brain beacuse it takes more than 10^15 operations per sec. to emulate the human brain. However, explaining atomaically all the beautiful things (rainbow,sunset etc.) does not deduct their magnificence at all !! Dawkins explains all these things very well in 'Unweaving the Rainbow'

[Vehementi]

Holy shit! It's a robotic The Cheat!

[tiedwithworld]

What a brilliant idea! BTW, seriously the audience deeply made me uncomfortable even watching this video clip. Hey, TED! I guess that you guys should really think about how to get people's attention!!! Look at the view counts, what's you guys goal? Didn't you mention that it is a spreading idea, did you?

[TigerYoshiki]

Good you made a point after hitting the 6 legs to the body. I like the smile on your faces for enjoying your own creations.

[Cr0at1anMC]

this is EPIC! some great idead for the future. The only thing thats idioticis the audience!

[angrylaserhobo]

That is the fucking coolest thing ever. If I was in the audience I'd be on my feet.

[MrSlinkyman]

The Cheat!!!

[ScientificKnowledge]

And here I was, thinking that only the Japanese were on the cutting edge with robots...

[DeathG4n]

badass

[heethen1]

Isaac Asimov comes to mind. :) Btw. did you know that the word "robot" was first used by Czech writer Karel Čapek in 1920?

[Kakarot21591]

If ONLY Isaac Asimov was still alive to see this...

[indalecio21]

Amazing!!!

[thomasausderwelt]

what an inspiring talk. thank you very much.

[pigear6]

omg mars had da cheat on it!

[Celdoir]

A lot of these robots were very impressive with new and unique takes on mobility. Why wasn't the audience applauding and acknowledging?  I give it a thumbs up.

[slw2222]

★★★★

[eyhexs]

lamest batman ever

but great talk ;D

[away5]

I WANT WORK WITH HIM!!!!

[deaamir]

ooooohhh mannn thats GREAT! these guys are good

chinease are always good in tech research i m lovin it !

[Katalyzt]

Cool ★★★★★

[no1sjester]

@Katalyzt

Is saying "★★★★★" applicable anymore?

:D

[Katalyzt]

I am already trying to bring it back ;O)

Katalyzt

[sugarkang]

to people complaining about the audience: one explanation is that this is at TEDxNASA, and thus everyone in the audience is a rocket scientist. Therefore, they are not impressed.

[NekoMouser]

Ok, so the yellow thing is not a death ray. But the question is *could* I equip it with a death ray if I wanted to?

[eyhexs]

@NekoMouser its not a matter of "if", but a matter of "when"

[McSnookerman]

really awesome presentation, really lousy audience!

[SMFApples]

Awesome talk!

[popeyroach]

awesome talk :)

[doloppost]

.... mr Hong, 00:50 means that your robots actually will terrorize earth? ;) Woohoo yeah bring it on!

[Mongo8Bongo]

Hehe, This is deffently not something that hits the Tedtalks crowd :P they are more into rich, phd fags

[wodahsking]

Audience SUCKS....That was an awesome presentation. Way better than Steve Jobs' iPad presentation.

[sheepball]

im seeing Matrix and Terminators in the future.

[0900jarman]

very good ted talk !! love it !

[ronkini123]

if a white person did this there would have been applause. if there was an asian audience there would have been applause. racism exists

[Zetioun04]

Fucking Wooow, this could become something big in the future.

[cynik45ACP]

the audience obviously prefferes to cheer stupidities spread by rockstar al gore

[adj789]

it's The Cheat!

[HabloIrlandes]

But alarmingly in the IBM advertisement at the end it shows a Map showing The Republic of Ireland as part of The UK???!!!

 If IBM can't get simple geography right, thats not going to fill its customers with confidence that they can get traffic management computer systems right. The Republic of Ireland is a free country not part of The UK, nice insult IBM thanks for that.

[jussts]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAL!!!

PS: Good talk... guy deserved a better audience.

[hereaminow]

i also like the carpet...

[BSEmadcow]

HyDRAS is really impressive.

[siddharthsatyanath18]

The audience doesn't exist.

[anotherelvis]

How does the robot keep its balance in 3:51 when it climbs. Is The electic wire stiff?

[JaredHutcheson1]

While the designs were really cool and innovative, I can see why the audience wasn't as excited as they are about some other talks. There wasn't a whole lot of talk about how this technology can make the world a better place. He mentioned a few practical applications, but overall this doesn't really merit a standing ovation. This was just a really awesome exhibit.

[GreatUnwashedMass]

the robot goalie at 10:40 cracked me up.

[samiminh]

WTF is wrong with this audience? Are they emotionaless robot?

[ravishethwala]

@samiminh yeah I was wondering the same thing....

[TigerYoshiki]

@samiminh What did you feel right at the moment?

[shedali]

@samiminh I think they're reacting but the audience microphone level is quite low

[dontsayusernametaken]

@samiminh

Excellent Robots. Poor presentation skills. I think he took about 3 breaths in the entire presentation. Maybe next time he will be less nervous.

[roofy2k]

@dontsayusernametaken how did I know you're from the UK? lol...

[mideastatheist]

@samiminh

i was going to say that ??

[christopherawesome]

OMG ITS DA CHEAT!

[IntrepidStranger]

DARwIn is soo cute!

[NaltaLife]

5:46 HOMESTAR RUNNER's THE CHEAT!!!!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS­

[ChaseKittens]

@NaltaLife :) I was elated by that as well. The Cheat is my favvvvvvvvv

[nubapowner5000]

Some of these talks put me to sleep, this was great

[satansaysdie]

Uber awesome! I'm gonna have to change my pants now.

[limpviscid]

You know BigDog? Yeah it doesn't stand for anything.

[tyrannicoystercult]

its a great idea to start tying together different TED talks like he did at the end, to create more dialog between experts that we can ingest.

maybe we would gain a lot by seeing post-talk mixers and recording conversations between social theorists and stuff like that. there's probably so much more information in the interstices of TED that we could multiply the effectiveness by packaging and sharing more and more.

[flamablesteve]

Hes a genius at acronyms.

[ShallowBeThyGames]

Football bores me to the core, but a robot vs human game would be brilliant to see, especially when the robots kick the over-paid footballers arses.

[150buckfifty150]

stupid crowd, if i was there id at least give him a hand!

that was quite interestingg

[liuyuhongsh]

OMG damn, this is awesome! At least for an Engineering student for me, that is kind of my dream. Lol, these audience are just stupid art, humanity or social science graduates.......

[MUHAMMADFUCKEDKIDS]

@liuyuhongsh They are the other scientists and specialists doing talks about breakthroughs in their own fields,,,,,so it is probably the hardest audience to impress.

[ostrogoto0101]

Hi mr. Dennis Hong, I use robot only for fun, but you with your inventions change the world! amazing!

[pjpinc123]

crap the crown sucked

[MisterWeed]

Wtf is with the audience? No standing Ovation? This was WELL worth it!

[Mortenvemmelund]

@MisterWeed thought the same, but he might be under time presure and they might not be clapping because of it. Just a thought might also just be a bad audience ;/

[databyss]

@MisterWeed Smug is a heavy burden to stand up with.

[Unlocktube]

I thought this was great, crowd really wasn't there at all.

[Sconz32]

The more I see scientists making slow, stumbling robots the more respect I gain for the design of the human body.

[ELuhn]

@Sconz32 As do the scientists.

[hughtub]

WHY OH WHY does every tech speaker start sentences with "so"?? I see that EVERYWHERE now.

[marsCubed]

Ya, the autonomous robot soccer team is possible, it could even beat a pro soccer team today, if it was the American soccer team :p

[shethewriter]

that is wicked cool. the audience was very dry

[Euphorio]

Worst audience ever.

[renegaed]

@Euphorio @Edvinauskas1 exactly what i was thinking. where is the enthusiasm? i've seen a better responding TED crowd for content far less than this. simply suberb.

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

Am I the only one with crazy mechanic audio over the one speaking?

[bbBassYo]

I thought TED was for really smart and really rich people only, so where are the HD vids?

[rockerpro]

the cheat is grounded

[Edvinauskas1]

Audience is fucking lame!!!!!!! great presentation, loved it!

[Edvinauskas1]

Audiance is fucking lame!!!!!!! great presentation, loved it!

[MarieLeilani]

wow. the audience has no life. The robots have more life in them!

[SparhawkGT]

Amazing presentation. Horrible crowd. Pretty sure they're just jealous of his tech.

[belliebum12]

is the audience dead?

[belliebum12]

is the audience dead?

wtf i would have been going ooh ahh just to get people going

[whydizz]

He deserves a better audience. Great presentation, shitty audience.

[nexus000111]

@whydizz, I could not agree more.

[luisbeck007]

Watch my updated website maybe you will understand what to do with the robots; keep the lines and colors in your dreams for the nerds...

[iceman2792]

This was so cool, shame the crowd was so lame. When I think that I've seen really crappy jokes been done in other TED talks and getting freakin applause... Oh well.

[madnessdexter]

@iceman2792 i know, hes actually introducing some unique designs and all the audience are just dead.

[ghauff]

I thought of strider with 3 legs in 1997. Glad to see it works!

[TheWejdin]

Am I the only one that felt like he was presenting to a tough crowd? I thought the presentation was interesting. I haven't heard anyone in the audience clap once

[UNIbreaker]

@TheWejdin 11:09

[DancingHorses26]

@TheWejdin

I also thought that the audience was asleep during the presentation. I was especially surprised that nobody even chuckled when that robot was typing "hello" on the keyboard. It was cute.

[ervin2]

Strider? What the hell, is this a Valve convention?

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

I'm more interested in ai, than robots... but still this is interesting :)

[mastershake1000]

This makes me want to study robotics!!

[adorianvlad]

min 10:16 a proof that Dennis Hong is as clueless about robotics as that clown James the amazing Randy is about the paranormal phenomenon.

[BaileysBeads]

@adorianvlad at least they're both not cynical nihilists like you are.

[wazman]

THE CHEESE

[mastershake1000]

Very cool.

[MrKaizerhund]

Hey yurokov, maybe he was waiting for a robotic response from someone who studied at your university - TU Darmstadt

[yurukov]

He kinda fordot to tell that my university - TU Darmstadt in Germany, won most of the RoboCup awards so far. They got the humanoid award too.

[ihaveopposablethumbs]

This is SOOOOO COOL!!!!!!!!!!

[LikeAPossum]

They have way too much fun inventing those nerdy names

[MisterScrutinizer]

Yep, military's always eager to get their hands on advanced high tech stuff :)

[nikanj]

Very cool stuff.

He probably has two grad students devoted to writing acronyms.

[magua73]

@nikanj Only two?

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

robots are the future but is strider video game guy

[rhcpconor]

of all the sciences, robotic science defiantly has the most potential for the future.

[JesusEclipse]

@rhcpconor ... whatever that means.....

[rhcpconor]

@JesusEclipse what?

[Daoak28]

The ameoba looks like a pocket pussy, not that i would know what a pocket pussy looks like

[VGHierophant]

Lol, I guess even they love homestar runner.

[HaunterV]

this guy is making monsters itsd AWESOME! i cant wait ot see building sized versions tearing shit up.... or car sized going at it in an arena. Gladiator style!

[awesomeSkins]

aww, that man was cute :3

[dscshift]

I think the audience is so dead, because they are imagining their jobs being usurped by the robots. All Hail our new Robot Overlords.

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

@dscshift lol indeed

[dscshift]

I think the audience is so dead, because they are imagining their jobs being usurped by the robots.  All Hail our new Robot Overlords.

[bakagajin]

lol, the audience is dead !