Shape-shifting robot forms from magnetic swarm

[allLightsonme]

1mmmmmm would make it, so its no near future

[onlyreallifematters]

the dawn of the transformers!

[wlmckinnon]

ninja dildos..

[ilookatshoes]

whats human when we resemble robots.

were already numbered like ants but cant feed anyone.

we may make this roboswarm thing but if we give it our intelligence it will probably kill us cause thats what we do to ourselves.

[robto333]

@ilookatshoes we can suicide......

[ilookatshoes]

@robto333 we can...

lets see what we do...

[eaglestdogg]

@ilookatshoes actually no we dont have near the population of ants. why on earth would we give them inteligence thats not what we want them for at all. also why would they kill us, robots wouldnt think nearly like we do.

[ilookatshoes]

@eaglestdogg im not presuming its up to anyone to give them intelligence. numbered like ants i mean also in that there is a hierachical mentality to the movement of people. like how youtube is acting like queen and people gather here to do what queen wants. and i dont know how robots would think.

[SuperSovietBear]

It's so close to the 3D model!

[TableWolfMusic]

If they are using hard materials, surely a dodecahedron would be the most energy efficient shape for forming the building blocks of 3-Dimensional arrays. Otherwise, it makes sense to go with flexible spherical bubbles. Meanwhile, hard PCB is clearly being used in the video, rather than flexible or OLED type bending materials (if not something more flexible still).

[ShangoRaiden]

amillionmonkeys.blog.com  aren't you curious?

[ozgood1x]

Well, we finally got rid the that stupid "Moon travel" junk. Now we'll have to remove THIS budget.

[DarthPickley]

@ozgood1x I'd rather remove the budget for people to kill other people who kill other people on the other side of the world...

[nathandan12222]

this is gonna be how we watch tv in thirty years

[EvanLovesWhiskey]

My computer is my wife.

[acaste4246yahoocom]

 Dude, your videos rule.

[rosetiger17]

is the whole intro part (15-29 secs) real or is that just an idea?

[BUGBUSTERss]

@rosetiger17 idea i think, coz its computer generated imagery

[4dw4rd5p1r4l]

T 1000 IS WAITING FOR US!!!

[jakedizzle]

They have a long ways to go if that's their prototype lol.

[aikerz07]

lets volt in!

[cannibalcorpse151]

wow long way to go lol first 30 sec holy shit after 0:31 what the fuck lmfao

[lego0931]

But can it blend

[lego0931]

But can it blend

[pimpmyforklift]

sometimes i wish i was not born for another 50 years !

[MrCheckersmcgee]

the robotic molicules of a transformer XD

[MAJiiKHD]

no

[buZzbOi]

wow.. was that for real?.. niceee

[Vleesje22]

@CutieyyDaraau305 Nó_Thánk_ýóú

[everardo098]

SHIT! this is awesome

[Kenshiroit]

hmm reminds me a littlebit of stargate atlantis replicators. Although thise robots cant replicate...for now.

[sethboy66]

@Kenshiroit The replicators started in SG-1...

[akaCharlieG]

Michael Crichton is rolling in his grave...

[TKuja1]

Let's all read a book called Swarm :D

[RobbyArt]

@TKuja1 What about "Prey" by Michael Crichton?

[TKuja1]

@RobbyArt Loved it

[RobbyArt]

@TKuja1 I think people totally forgot about that book. I don't think it would make an interesting movie. Done too many times on the Sci-Fi channel but still a great read.

[TKuja1]

@RobbyArt I came across it by chance, bought it and didn't read it for 3 years, glad I did though

[RobloxD]

Omg where can I get more information on the Swarm Robotics in the beginning? Are those real?

[TheMushrumable]

Omg...I can't believe that i'm seeing this beyond my imagination! :O

[antonbuckley]

101 people is afraid of terminator xD

[antonbuckley]

lol oh yeah so freaking awesome lolol xD i just wanna laugh HAHA YAAY LOLOL XD THUMBS UP CUASE THERE AWESOME LOL XD

[123456789kamran]

that could lead to a robotic assasin that turns into a flower or flour

[thefifthlord1]

Can anyone lend me a Gauss gun?

[gizmo664100]

Look up Festo their tech rocks .

[midoribishi]

I actually started to look for this once I had watched the remake of the 1950's sci fi movie The Day The Earth Stood Still. They are making them and it will be a reality very soon.

[solnegrolunaroja]

Stargate replicators again, and terminator, and Star trek, and so on... it's strange to see how science fiction has dealed with many of the moral issues of any of this new robots they are testing. Stop arguing here and see more science fiction!

[UjjijjU]

It's alchemy and erecycling. eeeeeeeeee

[ozchannelvideos]

que copado eso del auto

[ZigZag1808]

Think about this, if this actually happened, and these where officially created. The age of paper will be lost (not everywhere will adapt to this, probably just major companies etc..) and the official era of robotics and electronics will begin. Imagine what the world (if it is still around, because we are not promised tomorrow will happen) will be like when our kids have kids. Can you guys imagine what the world will be like in 100 years? everyones best friend will be a complex human robot?

[libertarianjury]

this video does not play for me. I am in bangkok

[TheCharon77]

wew... replicators.....

[BamMcGra]

Thats Amazing We Have Robots That Can Regroup And Build,

But if there microscopic, How do you charge them?

[MyLIfeStudios]

lets say this becomes available to corporations in 15 years , so in 25 its available commercially , this is the future of robot pets , can u imagine having a miniature dinosaur that lives on your desk

[sparten117teamalpha]

if those things are made strong enough can they mold into a suit?

[JuStAnAsIaNboY]

does it work on human too, not just cars...

[giorgosvenom]

nano teck

[heemy1978]

This is transformers -_-

[xgemx23x]

lol, if you put transcribe on everytime he says 'robot' it comes up as 'rebel'

[TheDeadlyCookie]

@xgemx23x lol

[MrLolololguy11]

for the newer more smarter robots we to put off switches just in case!?!

[kusinaji]

I love all these dumbass comments that are like "OMG WE ARE GONNA DIE ROBOTS R TAKING OVER!"

[seededsoul]

why don't they mechanically attach to each other? that would be extremely strong.

@ravendarkfield For now, all we require robots to do is control their body mechanics. But in the future, they could be made to think more, until one day, they realize it's in their best interest to kill us! Or even if they lack personal motivation, an evil genius/criminal could control them.

[dxtros1]

@seededsoul i robot- will smith

[FunNotNuts]

What an interesting buncha people who come in here. No hassles here. How refreshing. What's that I smell.....intelligence? My my.

[TheAlaricPetz]

0:24 I just saw a nice pair. To the right.

[94thts]

Have they thought of that the density between them can't change? So it can only shapeshift into objects with the same volume.

[tjohn6041]

Am I the only one thinking of the T-1000

[Poundclub]

I wonder what would happen if you ate one.

[FruityLoopsas]

@Poundclub Dont wory, you would be as dumb as you are now........

[HeartsBlast]

The end result of new technology in never how we first envision it. People make such a big deal about how "dangerous" it will be. Before you run around flailing your arms, go research about how the robots are made and work.

[TheFXGuy]

lol if that was real, it would be awesome.

[Eddieost0309]

i didnt get the car thing

[Guitarscreech06]

Transformers has been around for ages now. This shit is real even if it's not on sale for the masses.

[destroyallhumans130]

the t-1000 form terminator 2

[ninjaraku]

1:00 <one bad-ass lock for your front door!

[54446fftf]

this seams like that matalic silver thing in the turminator move lol

[jimbang]

transformers

[LeosRayne]

@jimbang Robots in disguise!

[ravendarkfield]

And even if.. IF.. we manage to create artificial intelligence.. No need to panic - out brain circuits are modularly arranged, so we would create machines that had high intelligence but lacked motivation or personal goals.

What I´m trying to say is.. no terminator panic.. thanks..

[HK765]

Terminators are programed to kill, so no motive, no personal goal, aka no moral, so will do whatever you tell it to, so, basically a terminator

[yengo313]

@ravendarkfield it's impossible and will never be made reality because if they have intelligence then they have motives to control their own actions, and learning from the worst of the food chain that created them will cause them to achieve their own personal goals.

isn't that just wonderful.

[XxAtomic646xX]

heh if if all turns into i-robot / terminator at least the world will less boring..

[burningeko]

@ravendarkfield

AI programming is starting to use computers having personal motivation to achieve goals, a way of sorting through all the information to get to the highest priority stuff.

possible things that could go wrong:

malicious human intent getting involved (hackers that exploit a common weakness for the lolz, terrorists etc)

data being discarded as irrelevant when it doesn't meet the computers priorities (the skynet scenario, human life is detrimental to its goals)

sloppy programming.

[nsahler]

@burningeko i <3 programming... just sayin

[Lievcocijo]

@burningeko

its programed no matter the way you look around it, so there are no goals. as advanced as it may be it cant do anything beyond what its told to do. apocalyptic AI works on the idea of there being something that isnt supposed to, which in short... cant be there as for evil programmers i think theres already plenty of stuff that can be and is being tampered by undesirables

...imagine if you were holding one of those models and it fell and broke into 100000 pieces? that would suck

[hnrksl]

no fun, i want one that makes you think it wants to kill you, but it wont. perfect for children and house guests.

[Dostape]

@ravendarkfield very true however if this AI has any goal with greater priority than improving human life we might be terminatored.

at least if anything goes wrong we will be like an army of sheep against an army of transformers

[SilkSwe]

@ravendarkfield So motivation and personal goals are not a part of intelligence?

[92keys524]

@ravendarkfield like hippie college professors!

[chevezez]

@ravendarkfield rofl any true AI we create would be aware of its own source code and would be able to modify it

[PinkProgram]

@chevezez too late already did it ^_^

[chevezez]

@PinkProgram k put it up on piratebay thx

[0528203]

@ravendarkfield lol yes i have to say although people are striving to create what could be classed as almost intelligent robots the idea of emotional robots has not yet been needed so therefor anger or tired is not something they would be aware of and therefor could not think rationally to take over or anything similar.

[mindrapeart]

@ravendarkfield they don't need personal goals to be terrifying.they just need to be controlled by the right people.

[2Excessive4you]

@ravendarkfield i think mindrapeart is right, if u have such complex robot swarms they can easily be used by "humans" to kill other humans in some scary ways. can u imagine some really disgusting? its not about "terminator panic" its about giving the wrong people the right tool and the motivation to achive THEIR goal.

[porkyminch01]

@ravendarkfield Implying CHRISTIANS have motivation or personal goals

[fog0death]

@ravendarkfield I'm going to make an army of robots and embedd them with the personality and motivation to destroy anything weaker than them. Once I power up my robots I will fly to my secret moonbase and watch as humanity crumbles against the might of my robotic creations!

[HaniiPuppy]

@ravendarkfield When I read "But lacked motivation or personal goals", you made me think of marvin the paranoid android xD

[TheBeyBladeNation]

@ravendarkfield i see what you mean...



[Kaizehk]

@ravendarkfield unless you DID give them the same motivation and personal goals that organic life has. Reproduction and survival of the fittest. Such a motivated and intelligent robot could then seek to destroy its competition for resources used in reproduction. Throw in a little self-preservation and you have a robot that fears other forms of intelligence and competes with others for energy sources.

[So1othurn]

@ravendarkfield What makes you think someone won't make it a goal to have them have motivation and personal goals?

[coconuts739158426]

@ravendarkfield aren't humans kinda like that

[Conan1981m]

@ravendarkfield well the producing company is programming, they have ambitions ...

there will be DO´s and DONT´s (leaving room for interpretation ?!?)

Nothing is perfect, no program, no programmer, no companys ambitions ...

We will see what (programmed) AI will do one day.

I would keep a trigger.

[throwingknifeladd]

@ravendarkfield they will be created lacking them but they will get them like us. We aren't born saying MOTHER I WANT TO BE A TEACHER. We pick these goals and the motivation to achieve these goals in later life

[pkemrin]

@ravendarkfield Agreed. We do not need to fear the advent of real AI. IF we ever manage to create such a thing. Especially since there's a very high probability that it won't happen in one big jump where suddenly the sentient robot goes from mindless to hyper intelligent (and for some reason murderous). Instead it's likely we'd get stages of intelligence that mirrored infants, children, teenagers, then normal adult intelligence, before getting anything smarter than humans.

[skohsl]

@ravendarkfield Although there is no threat of a terminator invasion, there is no real reason to believe our brain is modular, rather than non-modular. We simply do not know if each of our functions is the product of a module, or the product of the interaction between modules, if the latter is the case, it is reasonable to assume that, if robots were to be modeled on the human brain that there will also be come form of interaction.

[coatduck]

@ravendarkfield no terminator, just marvin, the manicly depressed robot

[devilgoob]

@ravendarkfield If they lack motivation they wouldn't do anything.

They lack will, but they are a life-force.

[MrWfntn]

@ravendarkfield

We do not understand consciousness.

We cannot say for certain that at some point a robot may question the concept of self-hood.

I think we should be kind to robots, and always look for observations of consciousness.

I am not so afraid because while machines become more like us, I believe we will become more like them.

[hunglikehuang]

@ravendarkfield actually computational models for intrinsic motivation are being developed... Here's a paper where they work out an intricate mathematical computer model of our brain's intrinsic motivation system and it can behave like a baby exploring and playing with toys at its current stage. In search of the neural circuits of intrinsic motivation(Kaplan 2007),

[marclebest]

@ravendarkfield for now :O

[ravendarkfield]

Moreover, each neuron in a real brain is connected to (on average) about 10,000 other neurons... that´s a circiut with over 1,000,000,000,000,000 connections! And scientists are only just starting to understand the complex rules that make these connections malleable and adaptive. Synaptic transmission depends on time, frequency of activation, use and chemical cues.

[ravendarkfield]

What would it take to create artificial intelligence: To create an equivalent human brain, you would need to simulate the 100 billion neurons that exist in your head - in comparison, the most current microprocessor chips have only about 2 billion transistors...

[yengo313]

@ravendarkfield and yet even if they stack those all together into a giant shell and placed in every component necessary to emulate similarity to intelligence, there is always a flaw.

it's just too fake.

a simulation of what is real isn't real, it's just a simulation.

[chaosroyalevideo]

@yengo313 This might interest you: forget about the specifics of these or other robots for now and ask "if a simulation is indistinguishable at any level from the real thing, is it still "fake"?". I'd recommend the work of Marvin Minsky and Douglas Hofstadter, they explain some of this research for general readers, and it has implications for how our own minds work, not just little robots in labs.

[burningeko]

@chaosroyalevideo if you get a sailing boat and replace it one plank at a time when does it stop being the original boat?

[rulenl]

omg

[Ziggy1614]

errr haven't these people ever seen Terminator???

[zeon611]

why are the people in this fourm so stupid

[linkspecialproximity]

fockng hell

[Fraud3354]

kinda like the T-1000 From T2

[frightly1618]

yea,scary

[emiliano2009]

lol this guy is full of BS,

[patu8010]

Okay, so when it transforms into a car, does the car function like a car? Isn't it just a pile of little robots?

[pteli11]

oh no the terminators are coming

[DarkTuga96]

DONT DO IT THEY WILL KILL US ALL!!! XD

[woozmaster]

it's like in terminator xD

once they do will kill us

[FosHiZZleDaWg89]

that would be awesome

[jaml311]

or just program it to do what you want

[diddlybop]

they can shapeshift into anything, maybe a car or a copy of a person,

OR A RAPTOR THAT WILL DEVOUR ALL OUR HEADs

D:

[pomeroy600287]

No....Not....THE PHILOSORAPTOR!!!!

[Madmonkeythegreat]

lol i cant wait for another 100 years when we got those :)

[GeneralBerger]

@Madmonkeythegreat ....100 years?? More like 20 years....read Moore's law....the physical size of processors has gotten smaller, while the amount of data storage and processing speed has exponentially grown.

[Madmonkeythegreat]

lol i know i know i was sorta being sarcastic.

[adliikhwan280]

cool its like nano bots

[Xenadrine]

Anyone ever read 'Prey' before?

That was about robot swarms.

Nice.

[BrutusBlackest]

swarm robotics...wow. Prepare for humanity to become obsolete.

[vlaxatron]

exactly

[longtada]

lol

[watchtheduck]

Did he say "even a car or a copy of a person?" OMG

[jokerbookshop]

science is creepy huh?

[MrMalavon]

Can't wait for the nano rifle.

[vlaxatron]

me 2 its going to be sweet i can decompose things at a molecular level

[tornadonoob1]

I don't believe that the 2012 catstophy will happen, but I am sure theese robots will take over the world!

[walter0bz]

the star shaped ones remind me of a kids sci-fi story called "trillions"

[Facsious]

There's a module on swarm intellegence in the masters year of the course I'm doing. Maybe it would be worth staying at unifor 5 years!

[3rdeyeful]

man that is really cool but it will be the end of the world as we know it

[walter0bz]

thats how the T1000 worked obviously.

[peterrobann]

precisely.. and if done right, it could help this civilization..

[quazla90]

transformers :D

[greanbedhead2]

ya know i might be thinking differently, but, wouldn't this increase the amount of terrorism, they can hide bombs as say shoes.

[TADahar]

Don't worry. Nuclear weapons can "increase the amount of terrorism" and yet you don't see nuclear attacks on a regular basis. Terrorism as it is still operates in lo-tech. It's not easy for them to get funds without being noticed, and even when they do get funding, they won't be able to purchase big-ticket, red-flag items without raising a few eyebrows.

[marleyman0]

lol right

[Ziggy1614]

What are you talking about. I go down to my local Nuclear Bomb shop all the time. :P

[LaZodiac]

You can already hide bombs in shoes >_>

[walter0bz]

nope ... only knives & stabbing weapons

[Tullidar1]

that would be incredibly cool. imagine if you could program it! a mobile computer, wirelessly connected to a mini-computer in the swarm, able to give it comands on what shape to take.

and maybe extra coloured parts hidden in the center, with a slightly different electrical charge, enabling them to be moved seperatly of the rest!

[doubletricker]

The only problem with that is where to place the data.If it was placed in the robots themselves,it would take so much time to manufacture just one.If someone uses a small computer unit,there will be limits in the shape it can form.

[toomuchomework]

kinda like the replicators from stargate atlantis

[LBpDC]

Getting closer to the replicators on a daily basis. Now just give them a way to deliver an electric jolt and voila!

[hydere666]

waiting

[S4MMYM4N]

wow tru perfect shape lol :P

[edrianquintos]

the idea is good!!! so why not use the complex algorithim used in the black and white line robot that can change shape (name wasnt told) and place it into a small ball shaped magnet..

this reeminds me of the terminator! hahaa

[armageddon74400]

anyone else reminded of micheal chricton's novel prey? XD

[PyroTomas]

yeah thats what i was thinking when i first saw this

[qwerfderf]

a bit like liquid metal man... hmm nano metal man.. we are doomed! lol.. Amazing tech.. *****

[No1CGIguy]

Replicators from the TV series Stargate!!

[XRISSX77]

Foglets

[armydude359]

Can't wait till it's done :D

i want the perfect tits shape!!!!!!!XD