Robogripper

[AnontheOP]

Interesting concept but I see a couple of drawbacks. First, a bag of glass balls will be heavy. Second, the sucking noise would become annoying. They mask the noise in the video but a machine like that would be LOUD. Lastly, the wearer would need a substantially large battery pack to wear to provide for the hundreds of times a day the air will be removed from the rubber bag.

That being said, good concept. Keep up the innovation.

[KhemtitVijit]

Doraemon's Hand!!

[HelloDavid317]

If the egg was raw why didn't it break when t was dropped?



[MrFirespread]

JESUS CHRIST GLADOS! THEY'VE STARTED MAKING GLADOS!

[animebrain132]

hmm raw egg? i think not when it dropped it didnt seem to even crack soooo FAKE

[hotflam4]

anyone wanna know what i would use a robotic hand for(= i bet you dont

[alegos500]

now, can it crack the egg?

[koonanthony]

Its been 48 days since I've started searching for the tw1stedgrudge comment

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[LightandDark11]

@koonanthony

1. Click all comments

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4. ?????

5. PROFIT!

...sorta, he made multiple retarded comments, not sure which one is the Aaberg responded to.

[Jackalakadingdong]

Why didn't the egg break at the end if it were raw... XD

[TrollingPatrolling]

i wish this was on the claw game

[Broadsmile1987]

fake

[iToasterman]

@Broadsmile1987 how

[Broadsmile1987]

@iToasterman yes

[iToasterman]

@Broadsmile1987 its real.

[Broadsmile1987]

@iToasterman no, look at the background.

[hippiehorselover]

kickass!

[azayles]

Super clever!

[roidroid]

it uses the same technology as the "Soft Morphing Blob" robot:

watch?v=SbqHERKdlK8

[mbs306]

its a latex balloon filled with ...... coffee.... yes i said coffee

[EddyMcK]

I could have sworn ive seen this on a cartoon when i was a kid

Plus the egg isnt even fragile if it survived that fall -,-

[omgLordLituslol]

it's like a bag of sand, man...

[CreepingCold]

egg crash fail =D

i think it should broke after the fall on the table .. xd

[trakkaton]

That principle is about at least 3 decades old.

[kodomaster69]

@krstcmjns na im good its over rated ima nerd we like game and boobs...squishy boobs

[murder00redrum]

I laughed at how it just dropped it at the end.

[GiantDoucheNG]

0:28 "WHOOPS GET THE NAPKIN OUT OF THE WAY EGG COMING WOULDN'T WANT TO GET THAT USELESS PIECE OF PAPER FILTHY."

[AnthologyOfPonys]

@GiantDoucheNG hahahahahahahahahaha

[tehcexymeowmix]

Can they put this into the shape of a hand or does it have to be round?

[kodomaster69]

@krtcmjna no i wont there fun and squishy ...lol

[krstcmjns]

@kodomaster69 Holy geez! Someone is in need of being around, nature...

[kodomaster69]

@krtcmjns if all boobs could do that sex would better

[krstcmjns]

@kodomaster69 Get off my boobs weirdo!

[drunksmokingjurkk]

OH MY GOSH HACKER THE EGG DIDNT CRACK

[DrakeMagnum]

great concept!

[AnunnakiPriesthood]

how hard, balls, hardens... ya nothing sexual could be derived from this video.

[Cheefoo124]

*posts some comment about using this scientific advancement for porn or something*

*comment gets 500 thumbs up*

[pubtor]

a hand that sucks?

0:28

[mshipporox]

okay, where do i get one?

[ALAPAT1]

wouldn't the egg crack from a fall that high?

[TheAlaricPetz]

The highest rated comment is gonna be something about handjobs from robots, I know it.

[Dm3qXY]

100 people dont have cancer...

[AquuL]

How much weight can they lift?

[sgohara]

cheaper robots!!!!

[MrTurboturbine]

this is actually pretty cool

[redrum248]

wooow what a deception that was!... i was hoping that the egg droped from that robot thing would friken break and make this video satisfactionary but it dint -_-

[eldeano1]

0:19 That lightbulb is freakishly small! they should do a video on how the make those... or the tiny people that use them =0

[Mrmtjones]

@eldeano1 have you ever used a flashlight? dumbass

[TheYou0Tuber]

@eldeano1 Handheld torches etc.

[NitroReviews]

What about penises?

[krstcmjns]

I wish my breasts could do that.

[kickit246]

@krstcmjns me too,,,,

[sausage4mash]

@krstcmjns I wish your breasts could do that. too :')

[ridonkulous192]

@krstcmjns Lmfao. :D

[Ritaliation]

@krstcmjns hahahahaha what the hell man

[xccmx]

@krstcmjns

But they wouldn't feel so nice full of glass balls. I guess you have to take the good with the bad.

[scullyy]

@krstcmjns i wish to one day touch a breast

[DrakeMagnum]

@krstcmjns Science shall solve this riddle for you, you have my word.

[ericsbuds]

@krstcmjns wish they could do what? pick things up by use of glass beads and a vacuum?

[OrphanPaper]

@krstcmjns so would your husband 

[vekalist]

@krstcmjns I doubt you have 'em.

[ericpid]

@krstcmjns So do I

[HotWingDelft]

it is the hand of doraemon. I bet it is japanese too.

[CanOfSpam]

Pretty awesome. I wish there was more on the actual "hand", just how it all works etc.

[Darw1n1st]

Amazing.

[Shalek]

You can combine both technologies and make the ultimate robot hand :O. This invention is damn awesome.

[cuptow555]

Sweet!

[Athaeus]

Now we can pick up all the CO2 from the atmosphere and stop anthropogenic global warming! Hurray!

No but really, this is extraordinarily neat - a much better solution that hundreds of sensors and cameras, and five rock-solid "fingers".

[Herooftimex]

Best Massage Ever.

[Hergonan]

inb4 someone makes a penis joke

[cutiko]

This is actually the best solution for robots can grip objects

[Konve]

Very durable raw eggs those guys have. Dropped from 30cm without breaking. Durable indeed.

[reptilezsweden]

@Konve Not that durable. In the time elapsed in the clip there isn't time to see the insides running out from the cracks in the egg. Not all eggs shatter from a low drop (more like 20cm)

[dragonlie]

Finally something useful, that is pretty clever, that can also help people with prosthetic hands to more easily pick daily items up.

Or Space Repairs.. Etc many fields this can be applied to

[Hergonan]

@dragonlie no air to suck in space, sorry, better luck next time ;)

[dragonlie]

@Hergonan

Smartass...

well you can design it so it can be applied properly in space, obviously that is what i meant.. and vacuum is still Suckable isn't it? Vacuum within vacuum..

[Hergonan]

@dragonlie no. vacuum isn't "suckable"... there's nothing in vacuum to suck... 

[Nades129]

Wow, my wife needs to learn from this robogripper.

[dragonlie]

@Nades129

She said the same thing :P

[lceus]

But will it blend??

[bogdandanci1988]

So we can see chickens being suckt by a robot LOL

when can we build ower own cool fo flying objects faster than the speed of light

[Bobbiethejean]

Jeezus H Christmas; half the conversation down here is about possible usage for sex and the other half is whether or not the egg was raw or boiled. Sad fucking state of affairs people, really. How about some discussion on implementation in practical, realworld situations? Perhaps we could discuss how this technology could be improved or.... oh right, forgot where I was. Youtube comments section. Dur. My bad.

Hur hur, ths be good for matserbatin! DERP.

[Parqueiininja]

so that's how the power puff girls hands work

[marsCubed]

Another thought is that the outer most bead in each gripper 'bulb' could be connected to an optic fibre. it would barely interfere with the function of the gripper, however it could provide a wealth if feedback to the operator or control algorithm on the environment & on action of the bulb.

[GA101]

@marsCubed attaching optic fibres would greatly interfere with the function of the gripper and would not acheive anything, the design of the gripper as well means it doesn't need a complicated control algorithm, as the air is sucked out of the 'pad' the glass balls compresses allowing it to pick up objects.

combining it with robot hand like you said actually seems like a good idea but none of the other stuff would work.

[marsCubed]

@GA101 Sure it would, optic fibres have very little mass and are flexible enough to pass through a bag of glass beads without impinging of it's mechanical properties much. they'd probably get broken though if the balls kept being compressed.

A solution would be to run the fibres through hollow beads in the bag.

fibres emerging at the back of the bulb to be collected into a small fibre optic cable connector. It would be elegant & a cheap good sensor for the whole surface of the bulb.

[GA101]

@marsCubed I'm really not sure what you mean as optic fibres are not sensors they just carry light, in a similar way to wires carrying a current.

From what I understand all this gripper is an air tight bag loosely filled with glass beads which lock together due to the difference in pressure when air is pumped out the bag. Anything restricting the movement of the beads would hinder it's ability to form to different objects.

[Ethiopiabuzz]

The people who work in those chicken (EGG)farming they need to learn another thing to do !

[Charlymaumushi]

@vhayes8886 Thats cool. Tell him to make aI don't know... a punching bot o.o ... anyway thats cool.

[SonyWilliam]

if you watch the actual clip from their website you'll see that yes, the egg did break =p

[markyyy9999]

masturbation?

[KungFuMil]

dumb robot drops the fucking egg?

[monkeybike]

Looks like the robot hand jobs of the future I envisioned are no more.

[marsCubed]

@monkeybike The finger tips of your robotic hand being made from mini versions of the one in the video.

Interesting thought is that you can kinda see through a bag of glass beads, it is very blurred, but you definitely get an image if you look from the top that it is touching stuff, deformities in the bag show up too. could put light sensors and lights in each bag to get some kind of sensory feedback. thermometers also.

Rather than being 'no more', they could be way more useful and cool.

[doug2877]

sweet...

[suupertramp]

---THE EGG---

did that egg just not break ?

does that mean it was fake?

get it right for goodness sake !

cos all this wierd i cannot take !

by suupertramp

lol :P

[Gigaspine7]

@suupertramp Eggs vary in how thick the shell is.

[suupertramp]

@Gigaspine7 yeah i realised that before i posted the comment but the poem was in my head thought it would be nice to share :)

[madnesscombat5]

This is just one step backwards in the quest to make sex robots.

[Neodudeman]

@madnesscombat5 I dunno about that.

Depends on how kinky the sex.

[RandomistUser]

Hmmm... it's cool, but I want to see it pick up a human :D

[ArtificialSouls]

Nice :)

Imagine if an extend-able regular robot hand could be forced into the ball, giving it extra function... or maybe not XD

[lifesabitchfuckit]

Now, roll me a blunt you stupid robot!

[EGarrett01]

One thing is for sure, a LOT of eggs and glasses got broken testing this machine.

[wallofjustin]

ending win :)

[yunfanlai]

This is Doraemon's hand....

[ionutzbr94]

how about u grab those things with ur hand ... lazy bastards

[coolman9999uk]

This could one day be used in rescue operations.

[ungureanudoru]

@coolman9999uk - To grab the balls from the victim and take him out from the danger.

[Mobbymick]

but it cant gripp something oily or slippy! i would like to know what they use as the "skin"!

[stealthyspider]

So that is how Daleks pick stuff up.

[neuronstorm]

@stealthyspider There are plenty of things a Dalek can't pick up - but their basic rule is... if in doubt about whether the item can be picked up - shoot it instead.

Some guys use the Dalek-rule in nightclubs and mouth-off at any girl they can't pick up... which is probably almost all of them. In both cases - it's a messy result.

Clearly it's vital for our safety that we develop good grippers for robots. Nobody likes failing to pick up.

[Ou8y2k2]

Did the egg break at the end? It doesn't look raw.

[LanteanKnight]

@Ou8y2k2

Lol, how can you tell whether an egg LOOKS raw or not? XD

But I have to agree, it doesn't seem raw.

[Ou8y2k2]

@LanteanKnight Simple, the egg didn't break when dropped.

[OccamsView]

I know there's something funny to say here but I can't put it into words...

[VulgarityDivine]

Mhmm...How can this be applied to pornographic images?

[michalchik]

Yay! somebody invented something that does not require ridiculous amounts of computing power. 

[ogrish84]

@morehate4uall I'll use your hands.

[bas2etba33]

this is genious, i wonder how someone came up with the idea of picking something up with glassand air?

[Danimita92]

LOL so that's how Doraemon grabbed stuff!!

[yunfanlai]

@Danimita92 Agree!!!!

[Craydon]

Poor egg

[dravarian26]

@tw1stedgrudge shut up with the freaking cancer stuff. not every idea needs to solve a global problem. Go cure cancer yourself if your that obsessed with it. Not every scientist needs to spend 24/7 on the quest for cancer cures.

[Colaglass]

@dravarian26 wat abut makin tis cuer de cancer it wud rly maek te wurld betar plaec????

[2008marian]

@dravarian26 tw1stedgrudge and others like him are just trolls ! Don't waste your time replying to them. Just vote them down and move on.

[tw1stedgrudge]

@2008marian It appears that you actually have some intelligence behind you. Which is surprising, considering the lack thereof of intelligence in so many of the "free thinkers" and self proclaimed geniuses who haunt these videos. You appear to grasp the concept of my attempts on here. But your work will be in vain!

I will continue to be victorious!

[RoySchl]

@dravarian26 i second that... if you build / invent / research something that helps the normal healthy people, you help much more people as if you would build / invent / research something for the sick and crippled...

[tw1stedgrudge]

@RoySchl The hilarious thing is that robotics costs thousands of human jobs per year. This kind of shit puts hundreds of normal healthy people out of a job all the time. So I'm afraid that your argument is highly invalid.

Also, you wouldn't be implying that sick/crippled people are worthless merely because they are sick and crippled, would you? Poor Stephen Hawking! Now he's pointless! Poor autistic Einstein! Now he's pointless!

[tw1stedgrudge]

@dravarian26 I absolutely love the fact that 91 people have thumbsed you up. It clearly shows the number of people who are butthurt about my trolling the NewScientist videos, and just how intolerant scientists are to the opinions of others to boot.

I am quite possibly one of the most successful trolls on Youtube at this point. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but damn. I am fucking good if I can piss off nearly 100 people with my mere comments here.

Get back to work curing cancer.

[dravarian26]

@tw1stedgrudge hey thanks man never got that many thumbs up before, can you please stop making stupid arguments, just to instigate things now?

[littlestworkshop]

@tw1stedgrudge The main application would be for packing and handling in factories.

[tw1stedgrudge]

@littlestworkshop At the cost of thousands of human jobs, no doubt. Call me a cynic if you must.

[littlestworkshop]

@tw1stedgrudge But that is a completely new point you are making. Robots are already in use, this is just a new gripper that amongst other things needs less vision processing, less materials less energy etc. I don't think you should read quite so much into it.

[rubbertireishot]

@tw1stedgrudge Shhh

[tw1stedgrudge]

@rubbertireishot Lol no.

Although I see the ethnic cleansing of my comments are afoot. Who says scientists are tolerant, huh? : B

[littlestworkshop]

@tw1stedgrudge Another way to look at it is that robotics allows places such as the US and Europe to be competative in manufacturing at least in some areas, keeping at least higher end jobs rather than the whole lot going to China.  People always complain about robots but never just machines in general, your desktop printer probably but someone out a job at the local copy shop.

[tw1stedgrudge]

@littlestworkshop ... A human being cannot print a document. A machine is needed for that. By human industry I refer to largely non-dangerous manufacturing lines, metalworks, and so on. Also, a printer is capable of private use anyway. A giant five armed spraypainting blue flame spewing hub cap popping windscreen sealing mother fucking mechanoid is not. Jobs lost from print shops (which actually came *after* printers, are replaced in shops selling printers, for example.

[kaysandesses]

@littlestworkshop Well said, and based upon your post I have no doubt you're aware that industrial robots do many things that human workers can't do. Good luck convincing the naysayers!

[Chiszle]

@tw1stedgrudge - Technology is an extension to the limits that us humans have. This video just shows the test stage of a tool that might one day help the fight against cancer. I would want a robot arm that could harmlessly navigate through brain tissue and remove brain cancer cells. Human hands are not capable of doing so.

Or should we keep mixing chemical A and B untill we find a magical cure for everything?

[tw1stedgrudge]

@Chiszle Yes, we should keep mixing chemical A and B and possible C through Z together until we come up with a cure. There *are* blanket cures for things, and it is a matter of finding them. I suggest reading up on Ovarian Cancer injections, and how research into it is aiding other forms of cancer treatment.

[badblueman]

@tw1stedgrudge What if robots like this help cure cancer by being used in various medical institutes? It seems what you're implying is that we are to save all problems in the world using wooden Dark Age tools and clumsy hands, instead of acutal state of the art technology. I doubt the human touch is more useful than a robot when dealing with microscopic problems like cancer.

[tw1stedgrudge]

@badblueman A rubber ball that can hold eggs is eons away from delicate surgeries, I'm afraid. I don't enjoy nor like the fact that people fund things that show possibilities. I like people who fund things that actually have a substantial use, even if it takes 100 years to do so through research.

[badblueman]

@tw1stedgrudge Your arguments are completely unsubstantial.Who says that surgeries are how we're going to cure cancer(If there is going to be a cure, we'll use molecular biology,biochemistry etc.).You don't understand my point at all.If we are to be a futuristic society with all the cures and gadgets than it must be supported by the whole infrastructure.So I repeat.You can't do nanotech if you're using skull caps instead of petri dishes.This robot can in-/directly speed up sci. advances.

[tw1stedgrudge]

@badblueman I didn't say that surgeries are the only route to curing cancer. Infact, I went as far as to state in another comment that I believe there is a blanket medical cure for it. Someone else brought up surgery and I merely replied.

But speeding up sci advances? Nah. Arms that can hold eggs have been around for more than ten years already, far as I'm aware. This may or may not be a better grip. To me it doesnt seem like a better grip. A robotic hand with these along the palm though...

[badblueman]

@tw1stedgrudge So basically you're just spewing your "feelings" on the subject?If the experts in the field find this original design very useful and "game-changing",I think that this isn't a waste of time.I like how you trivialize the subject by saying "we already have egg holders".I'll reapeat my stance the 3rd time.We must advance our tech on all fronts.Whether this bot is used to pick up things in a "cancer lab" or a lab tool factory it still takes a valuble place in our (sci) advancement.

[tw1stedgrudge]

@badblueman You're repeating "We must advance our technology etc etc" over and over again, I see, so let me get straight to the point here.

I want you to explain to me how going back on possibly decade-old technology and basically changing it from a hand to a rubber ball improves said technology. Because I can argue that the grip is less than a robotic hand. I can argue the original hands were just as fast. I want you to explain to me how this video is an improvement in technology. It isn't.

[wwickeddogg]

@tw1stedgrudge How is it an improvement? Because it is less complicated. It requires less sophistication in computational processing, less moving parts, less manufacturing, less likely to break down...

[tw1stedgrudge]

@wwickeddogg That's arguable. I can say it's more complicated because producing glass balls may be more expensive and an air siphon that wasn't needed before has to go somewhere. I can say pressurized/de-pressurized glass beads in a rubber grip are *more* sophisticated than a metal claw of 2/3 digits, and that infact more processing is needed because the "hand" is smaller than a claw is - less surface area to hit target. Also, it has a rubber bag with glass in it. It'll break down faster, trust.

[wwickeddogg]

@tw1stedgrudge Ok, then why don't you build a robotic arm that can pick up an egg, and I will build the rubber bag of glass balls connected to a vaccuum.

[nintendopi]

@tw1stedgrudge

I don't think I'd trust an engineer to cure cancer. Science isn't just one field you know. They have guys working on cancer at the minute. The people who made this aren't going to be able to assist them directly, so they decided to make robotic 'hands' easier and cheaper.

[tw1stedgrudge]

@nintendopi Indeed. But these great people who can make moving apparatus should use their brains for more important matters, like the medical institutions. Or solutions to GM crops and fuel and resources. Not to design robotic arms that can wipe out entire human worklines.

[marcarmstrong88]

@tw1stedgrudge as u maybe still not have gathered by all the replies, u talk a lot of crap. no one here seems to agree with anything u bring up, so just give up and plug up ur leaking arse hole.

[marcarmstrong88]

@tw1stedgrudge ok

[SheepJumpFish]

@tw1stedgrudge The people who design this robotics aren't doctors are they? No, so what would they know about curing cancer, it's a completely different field.

[Aaberg123]

@tw1stedgrudge

And let me guess what your contribution to cancer-research is: Absolutely nothing! So shut the fuck up, you whiny bitch.

[tw1stedgrudge]

@Aaberg123 I fund research into cancer. Weekly. That is my contribution to cancer research.

What now?

[Aaberg123]

@tw1stedgrudge

So no real effort from your part to understand or actively participate in finding cures for cancer. And you want engineers to stop inventing robots, and focus on cancer instead. You're nothing but a whiny, imbecilic hypocrite. Moron.

[ringo692]

@Aaberg123 haha the dude closed his youtube account :D

[lordmat666]

@tw1stedgrudge yea because scientist who do robotics are the solution to a biological research? i am a car mechanic maybe i should do open heart surgery!

[tw1stedgrudge]

@lordmat666 No, you shouldn't. It's a well known fact that car mechanics are incredibly unhygienic and stupid people. I knew how to pull apart and re-assemble a car by the time I was 9, a chimp can do it, anyone can if you have a book on it. I don't believe in using working class people who have very little work ethic within the medical industry, it simply isn't sound. You guys'd probably have a heart attack from stress or something and put more stress on the current medical practitioners.

[blurycar]

@tw1stedgrudge

For crying out loud, shut it.