New Scientist recreates a robot made by the ancient Greeks

[MrRedeyedJedi]

Daddy, where did you say you put my scooter, I wanna go out to play....

[shawzie1916]

What purpose would this have exactly?...

[oculairus]

@shawzie1916

my guess would be that back then, if this device came out into the battlefielf it oculd either scare off potential enemies or flush hem out making them attack the decoy long enough to give away their position. this is all off the top of my head guessing though, i really do not know the real purpose of it. it would be cool to find out more on this ancient robot..

[RoboticusMusic]

THIS VIDEO GAVE ME CANCER.

[ShangoRaiden]

amillionmonkeys.blog.com aren't you curious?

[MultiIPwnage]

You couldn't buy wheels? He's not a scientist.

[mrteemumilto]

@newscientistvideo is not a stupid channel, they are just light and popular. I wouldn't order such a Magazine though. Order just Science, Natural Science and other peer magazines.

[Poweryouup]

i wonder if his son was a willing party

[vetttech1999]

Im guessing the kid was thrilled when he found out dad tore up his scooter for this video,,lol

[hgfjyrdetryu]

woah.. ancient geeks! teehee

[alex61761]

i understand the tight budget scientists have to work with, but really?

[minesajd]

' i took my sons scooter and i cut the wheels off' what a bastard

[livetocomment1114]

@minesajd A self controlling machine that was recreated from the ancient greeks is far COOLER than a modern scooter. Try running it down some stairs and it'll be hilarious watching it fall down.

[sebaeoy]

@minesajd SCUMBAG DAD. XD

[garlicluva]

It's not a Robot, its made from wood and string

He stole his kid's scooter wheels - asshole

It's total shit! get the fuck outta here.

[Aloz16]

@garlicluva A robot is an autonomous machine. That is an autonomous machine. That is a robot.

[antydam1]

fantastic!



[iabovu]

Perfect for manoeuvres less than three meters? would you wait for your wife to wind up the robot or would u rather she just passed u the salt herself?

[iabovu]

Perfect for manoeuvres less than three meters? would you wait for your wife to wind up the robot or would u rather she just passed u the salt herself?

[mrfuzzer1]

I built one of these to replace me at work.

[lolocaustism]

what aplications does this have? would none be an accurate estimate? none aplications?

[eternyman]

lol i have made robot as well.. i call it rock.. you can throw it and it flies.. programing it is very simple and simulair to modern robots as with angle of your hand i can easily set its path. Only limitation is hight it can travvel before it hits the ground..

[avgrech]

woo ow this 'robot' has just put uncle SAM to rest , cured cancer , and got the world out of the global recession

[Twiztidguy]

I definitely don't think i can believe the big bang theory after watching this. I think i lost brain cells... Its so simple it kind of reminds me of the catapults we made in boys scouts when I was (10!!!). Had i known i could make a video about it and get 220,000 views i wouldn't have trashed it.

[newgeorge]

I hope your son didnt mind losing his scooter's wheels.

[intheshitter]

This is pretty damn cool. You could use strings to program it to drive around your house :) Im going to try it when I cbf.

[LoqueTheBoss]

rewboss' cousin?!

[siqbrah]

thats not a robot.. thats a wind-up toy! the term robot defines artificial intelligence. this piece of wooden shit, has zero intelligence.

[XZeroLeeX]

@siqbrah the actual term of robots and computer is a machine that can perform functions either mechanicaly, physically or electronically, the robot your talking about is a electronic robot, this is a mechanical one, it is actually different from a wind up toy because that cannot be programmed but this one can be programmed to turn or reverse, by using a physical string of commands or "timeline" which meant that this does it automatically some time after the commands were inputed, noob. :P

[siqbrah]

@XZeroLeeX @universalJok3r

ro-bot

[roh-buht, -bot]

–noun

1. a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.

2. a person who acts and responds in a mechanical, routine manner, usually subject to another's will; automaton.

3. any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with humanlike skill.

dictionary doesn't lie boys.

[Bjarku]

@siqbrah different dictionaries have slightly different definitions. therefore, either none of them are objectively correct or all but one of them are lying. you just dont understand how this machine is programmed, so you think its just like a wind up toy. you're wrong. you're simple and stupid, the robot isn't.

[14omega28ok]

@siqbrah No a machine that resembles a human is a Humanoid Robot. A Robot is anything from a RC car to the Giant arm in the space shuttle. Robots do NOT need to resemble humans to be a robot and does NOT need to be automatic. I honestly think you made these "Dictionary" definitions up. A machine doesn't even have to be programmable to be considered a robot. The programmable part is called a "Computer" look it up for real this time

[siqbrah]

@XZeroLeeX Robot:

1. any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with humanlike skill.

2. a machine that RESEMBLES A HUMAN and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.

I don't care what you say this piece of wood is a fucking toy, its not intelligent.. and it does NOTHING else other than roll around back and forth.

So basically what your saying is that something that uses the laws of gravity and physics to move around is a robot? your fucking retarded, just shut the fuck up.

[universalJok3r]

@siqbrah actually a robot, by definition, is any device that performs its basic function, or work, autonomously (without human intervention) once let go, this device follows the pre-programmed actions coded in the pegs on the axel. its no more intelligent than a factory floor robot that puts cars together, which also just carries out basic programmed actions. most modern robots are by no means "intelligent".

[coolclaytony]

id like to know more about this acient greek robot. How was this primative form of robotic progaming was utalized if at all?

[strilight]

I took my son's scooter wheels...Then I took his lamp....Then his XBox because the Greeks had them....

[neato3000]

The smartest, dumb thing I've ever seen.

[lerlo]

Ah...so this is string theory.......

[kdc43]

It doesn't have decision points or forks in the programming string so it is not a robot. It is a lot closer in programming to an analog washing machine of the 70's-80's.

[14Greekboy14]

greeks ftw

[Alphonse8612]

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[NearDeathExperienc]

pretty cool for a mechanical system...... Wasn't that long ago we were using valves for computations.

[islagkage15963]

saying that this is bad is really not true. i mean most of you guys out there hating on something like this would problary not be able to such a thing.

also the way that it is a "robot" is 1 the machine is coded to do a surden action and with putting the strings the right way you can make it able to do like courses if ofcourse the string is long enough..

and also a lot of people have a misconception of robot and robot programming.

what ever you are using to program a modern computer is

[islagkage15963]

@islagkage15963 commandos like forward on 1. wheel for x seconds/rotations and backwards on the other or more forward on one than another or the samespeed on both.

ofc there is stuff like doing surden stuff like grabbing an item or so. but this is not meant to be a practical robot but rather a proof of concept. that you even back then was able to preset a number of actions to then be executed unlike something that either would require total and full control like a car or something just doing

[islagkage15963]

@islagkage15963 a random action after a action is done. like throwing a ball or a coin for that matter you will not be able to say exatly what its gonna do. but with this you are and were able to program it to do an action that you with enough trial and error always can be sure what is gonna happen.

Nuff said

[AcePilot101]

Punch cards for computers evolved from cards used to weave fabrics in factories.

[AntalyaKaic]

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[ArtisanTony]

LOL, where are the perpetual motion nuts? :)

[senstyles1]

@lazzer408 LOL!!

[senstyles1]

Transformers before they obtained the cube.

[senstyles1]

Wow!! What kind of bullshit is that?! Wrapping strings around a broomstick is not the same as modern day programming. Failed scientist.

[histatimaniples]

@senstyles1 first programming was done with punch cards same shit

[mixmasterlandberg]

@senstyles1 actually I kinda thought: "Wow it has memory" as I watched this, just before he made the comment on modern day programming. And since it's made out of brooms, it has garbage collection :P

[jonesbones638]

How much time did you waste building that piece of shit. Keep your day & night job as chief masturbator, cause you couldn't even get the wheels to rotate properly....

[phiphers]

there was a play back them called Terminatus

[tambal1210]

Not exactly new science is it?

[oxycleansucks]

show the fucking device not your dumbass talking the whole time. We only got to see 3 seconds or less of the piece of shit actually working.

[babygorrila]

gay

[MultifrugtjuiceOMG]

@babygorrila Is this some kind of joke? i dont get it :(

[EmperorOfMars]

What if an ancient robotic uprising took down the greeks?

[lazzer408]

@EmperorOfMars If wood, string, and lead weights can take down the greeks, then evolutionary laws say they needed to die.

[EmperorOfMars]

@lazzer408 : D

[PROMITHEASMUSIC]

That actually was an invention of Archimedes. It was called ''the metronome'' (yes, like the one which is used by musicians) and was used as an ancient truck, using it's own weight to move. The name comes from an extra feature for meter calculation. Once the adjusted amount of meters was complete, the machine was ringing a bell at the top. Alexander the Great had some of them all along his military campaigns. Some say this mechanism was used in triremes too.

[bs1ayer]

this is a remake from ancient greek robots its not suppose to be as effective as are new ones so stfu with the negative stuff - nice vid man

[randomnessiscoolyeh]

hmm i need a robot that can move a couple of meters and perform some simple manouvers, WHAT this can actually do that, perfect

[sp4zzpp2]

Oh it's perfect for situations which never happen. Great!

[sp4zzpp2]

why is it a "robot"?

[yellowmetalcyborg]

@sp4zzpp2 It's a machine that is programmed to do a specific task believe it or not.

[mrmaciejm]

Real artificial intelligence... in Greek terms.

[LadYKilleR8520]

your mean!! best dad in the world!!

[MrTranceNinja]

Let's look back in time to go forward, that's obviously the way to do it.

[mtdeezy]

those wheels dont look like theyre from a scooter. maybe a scooter from 200 years ago

[PaXx]

Lol, so they had robots in ancient greece... I really wonder where we would've been if it wasn't for the christian dark ages, which ruined all the science...

[Homoclassicus]

@PaXx Actually, science started to decline in late Antiquity, not in the Dark Ages, which were actually not "Christian" (most people at least in Latin Europe were already Christian by then), but because of invasions, climate changes, agricultural decline, etc. As for the middle ages, one shouldn't forget the late Middle Ages were perhaps more decisive to the development of sciences as we know than most peoples of Antiquity.

[techdudz]

fucking scooter wheel stealer (BITCH) LOL

[5blacksmith5]

Wow, Thats Quite incredible to be honest. Even if its completely useless, its really incredible.

[rathat48]

Gravity is a force and only potential energy put into a weight by picking it up will power the robot.

[Fallenkitten1000]

and then I took his DS and played mario..... what I was bored! lol

[grendelee]

Then i took his pokemon cards and nailed them to that wooden block....

[XANDERXXZ]

this is the green car of the future, forget electrical and hydrogen car...

STRING POWERED IS THE FUTURE!!!!!!!

[Shakespeare1612]

@XANDERXXZ I prefer a car with no strings attached, thank you.

[XANDERXXZ]

ZING!!! nice one.

[zombies4sale]

you stole your sons scooter? you basterd!

[websuspect]

This would be a useful robot to make a simple battlefield subterfuge.

[RealmEternal]

This is a pretty useless robot.

[MackQuigleyVids]

See the devices that Heron Alexandrinus invented.

[strilight]

Somehow I can't imagine this robot going Asta la vista baby...

[DEPORTATION1]

annette marion, tried to kill yvette on 16 jan 2010 with her tracphone, ceo of tracphone assisted with the almost execution.

[TenderTrap86]

"I Robot" would've sucked if this was the template.

[mryellow123]

@TenderTrap86 It didn't suck anyway?

[Thegamer5150]

and people still have the fear of robots taking over the world ITS BEEN OVER 2000 YEARS

[jackgaton]

si lo pudieras traducir al español todos entenderiamos mucho mejor

[ThaNorwegianDude]

man i'd be pissed if he stole my scooter wheels.......

[readallen]

not a robot the definition

[taltigolt]

0:28 never get's old

[WuIzMe]

Why couldn t the ancient greeks use a spring instead of a weight?

[QwertyTSecond]

Potentially they could, but there would be little point. The string is still finite, so even with a pulley system it couldn't go any further. Of course, I'm assuming they had the necessary metallurgy skills available to make a spring.

[chronos1002]

@QwertyTSecond

A spring requires a special kind of steel that is "tempered".

The greeks didn't have the technology to make the kind of steel required. I suppose they could have used iron. BUt still, "tempering", or at least tempering of the quality and consistency needed to make a good spring wasn't discovered until around the "dark ages". At least not in Europe.

[rreloge]

I think strings weren't so easy to make, but why would a spring be better?

[justputaname]

because the thinnest they could make metal was about 1 cm thick

[ariadarabi]

"I took the wheels off my son's scooter and since the rubber on the tires were so white I had to rub it in between my ass crease and make shit stains on it and everytime my son drives around on his scooter my shit goes on the ground." -man in the video

[PabloFerroDesign]

took my son´s scooter an cut it´s whells of and then I raped his mother and put him in adoption.

[Synyster213]

This dude voice is kinda annoying. The way he explains makes me not wanna listen because of his voice!

[Jaconium]

I don't appreciate this. It's not impressive from a technological point of view, but perhaps it's a good piece of history. I wonder how the Greeks thought about this. Did they really think this was a robot? Did they find this device intelligent?

[elgostine]

doubtful but as with all things anyone who wasnt wise to the idea would have seen it as amazing and a work of genius by the maker.

[rafidiisme]

language...so now every time i hang up a picture I'm speaking a language...wow....trippy

[WhiteElement1]

more like ancient geeks

[hellohal3]

lol he killed a his kids scooter

[Brookskyar]

haha 0:29

[Giani011]

Test!

[Poisonfrogg]

... y would .. anyone build this???

i get that its cool and all being ancient Greek

but why!?!?!?

cuz if this was just invented by some ancient crack head woud you stilll care???

NEED MORE INFO o_0

[davidvalero12]

hahahaha, he broke his kid scooter!!!

[TheCasawino1]

thxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[JaXNashphun]

actually, since you can program it, its a robot i think. thats pretty cool!

[bryan226]

poor kid

[jgrimmier]

Its called a machine...Not a robot

[gamehero77]

well, a robot is a machine. and a robot is a machine that can perform tasks autonomously without simultaneous input (like a remote control) robots have to be programmable too. so this is technically a robot.

[JNrockers]

fagggggggggggggggs who the fuck cares fuck you boring shyba

[SkidTheSamurai]

I wasn't aware robots could get any more simple than the spring powered one Da Vinci made. I'll have to try making this for myself. Thanks!

[CLOFS]

i ont understand how this is so informative, it is some string, a stick a plank and some wheels, and it doesnt even seem like a good story

[elgostine]

this was pretty advanced forthose ages considering that the hieght of mechanical inventions was the screw and the simple crane, and the most tech advanced weapon of the era was probably the repeating ballista

[UlackSafistication]

lazy americans can t get up and move 3 meters

[taltigolt]

i took my son's scouteeer and i cut the wheels off that sounded EVIL

[mekkler]

String programming...I love it. It reminds me of analog devices using cams.

[caskachan]

THAT CHILD SHOULD SUE HIS DAD

[coessen]

prove it plz

[calmandweak]

i know you speak frankly and maybe without any doubt about what you're saying, your ideology is really frightening, and so convincing for those who are scared of science and to know there is no control. It evolve and as a variety of mutation that don't even recognise themselve, it is like a cancer in a way. Do you know about the island called in french "l'île de Pâque" if you just watch their history you'll maybe understand... i know already my words can reach no one but so be it.....

[bryan226]

an appropriate username

[Footballbeast54]

Looks like a toy

[megatron89j]

Dad I can't find my scooter...*sees this thing in a corner*....FUCK U DAD >':(

[kongoman123]

where is the dudes voice?

[deelaregina]

you killed a schooter :'(

[xXcod5gamerXx]

hmmm.. kinetic energy?

[ja118]

my sons scouter..... EVIL SCIENTIST

[Ainulph]

... then I used my child's Warhammer figurines to melt down into a weight.

[noeyedeer2jk89sx]

You sick bastard, but its ok if they were dwarves... :D

[PhillipThunderGrunge]

too funny

[lXlSnype]

Dad E, what happend to my skoo tar? LOL!!!

[Films4You]

Works by string theory  LOL :)

[gamehero77]

lawl geek pun! love it! :D

[luksenborg]

cool !!! :D... i've tryed to make one myself.. but eer... it did'nt go pretty well D:

[vitruvian8807]

pretty cool

[LBpDC]

So let me put this all together.........

Firstly, you're wife is pissed because you chopped up ever broom in the house.

Your son is pissed because you chopped up his scooter.

The green community is pissed you used wood.

Lastly everyone else is pissed you wasted their time in watching this project to observe a Greek child's toy of boredom.

Yea.

Oh, and the dynamic of string movement is nothing like a language of servo behavior aside from it affecting movement in general.

[KageTrauma]

what are you talking about man?

[VinceM51]

And then came transformers

[Dgeuzahn]

Using the technology from the sail of a Junk ship one could increase the run time of the robot without having to increase the length of the pole or the string! I've gotta make one of these toys...

[anton2maa]

ancient Greeks were amazing

[Elada2005]

They truely were!

[whiskytango223]

you cut the wheels of your son's scooter? you monster!

[yaykaboom]

lol ancient robocop or terminator

[Stefanoitch]

there is no sound when he's talking

[VideyoJunkei]

his voice is only on the left channel, maybe it is not connected on your system?!

[visitmaniac]

Cool video

[micheals1992]

now all you need is 10 miles of string

[SpyWolf87]

kitchen

[Adam856923]

does it run on AA batteries?

[KatolicySyfBrud]

хуй

[Zarkov23]

Ancient androids rule!

[whydie666]

that is primitive robotics