A robot that runs and swims like a salamander

A robot that runs and swims like a salamander | Auke Ijspeert

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8 жыл бұрын

Roboticist Auke Ijspeert designs biorobots, machines modeled after real animals that are capable of handling complex terrain and would appear at home in the pages of a sci-fi novel. The process of creating these robots leads to better automata that can be used for fieldwork, service, and search and rescue. But these robots don't just mimic the natural world - they help us understand our own biology better, unlocking previously unknown secrets of the spinal cord.
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@Butterworthy 8 жыл бұрын

I dated a girl sometime ago that was majoring in biological engineering, and she was very specifically studying the Basilisk Lizard, which is a unique reptile that is able to run on water. She discussed it with me a lot, specifically robotics potential and the mechanics behind the lizard, and I found it very fascinating.

@janopawski183 8 жыл бұрын

+Butterworthy you were so lucky bro

@Butterworthy 8 жыл бұрын

Jan Opawski Yep, but life marches forward, and I ended up marrying a woman later who is a NICU nurse taking care of incredibly sick babies. Totally different type of science, with a lot more human social interest behind it, but it's still really fascinating to hear about her day. Medicine can be a really screwed up profession sometimes.

@janopawski183 8 жыл бұрын

i guess she is an awesome person too

@WithTheLight1111 8 жыл бұрын

+Butterworthy biomimikry. i want to make a boat that moves like a fish!

@Forseti2 8 жыл бұрын

+WithTheLight1111 that does not make any sense. Why would you make something that changes its shape? As a toy? It's not practical as mean of transport.

@JonathanHartwig 8 жыл бұрын

I guess it's time to upgrade my Tamagotchi.

@larjkok1184 7 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Hartwig 20 years before that were Pet Rocks!

@homie352 7 жыл бұрын

Tomodachi?

@xxrocketriotxx8719 7 жыл бұрын

CheezPleez a tomadotchi is a little egg like thing with a sccreen and you have a vitural pet

@maxwellpemberton 8 жыл бұрын

8:10 to see it swim :)

@SEBASTIANTRUJILLOGONZALEZ 8 жыл бұрын

👍

@antifacisme 8 жыл бұрын

+Max Pemberton -.-

@maxwellpemberton 8 жыл бұрын

+celeste AR id say arguing about why someone didnt watch a video of a swimming robot is about as wasteful as it gets

@Asnes45 7 жыл бұрын

Max Pemberton Thnx.

@f.k.gaming5715 7 жыл бұрын

Nice I almost missed the scene :-)

@MkmeOrg 8 жыл бұрын

This is simply amazing. The rate of advancement now that many are taking true inspiration from nature just boggles my mind. Love it.

@rotoscopic8757 7 жыл бұрын

Is there a larger model I can ride into battle?

@vin93sr 3 жыл бұрын

Why not go to the local zoo!

@hhPrimus 3 жыл бұрын

Make one

@SchnitzelDeluxe 8 жыл бұрын

Amazing robotics skills

@andy4an 8 жыл бұрын

ah robotics....the one thing every TEDster can agree is awesome.

@mugensamurai 7 жыл бұрын

Damn it SKYNET! Now you got these lizard like things against humanity.

@user-qr7bm6se2c 8 жыл бұрын

Shut up and take my money!1

@mr_happy4746 8 жыл бұрын

Wft(:😅😂😂

@tristinpierre5253 8 жыл бұрын

+Mrx bhu bjv, hgjvfg hobby night hthjx him k of funds xmdv

@davidsl118 8 жыл бұрын

+Тимофей Макаров I doubt it's enough.

@NafenX 7 жыл бұрын

'probably'? Definitely.

@stephenblackwell7351 8 жыл бұрын

they'll tek arr jerrrbs!!

@beanbuster1 8 жыл бұрын

+Sam Barkley They already tek arr jerrrbs!! It said so on a Southpark episode!!! LOL :)

@Vank4o 8 жыл бұрын

+Sam Barkley Durka durrrr!

@HelloHello-no6bq 7 жыл бұрын

Stephen Blackwell that's a good thing, a very good thing.

@SomeoneCommenting 7 жыл бұрын

What?! they tukkrrr jebbbs?!!! OMG waee'daee leddm t-kkkrrr jbsss!!! Cook-a-noddle-doooo!

@HamidMN 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they are also Muslims, look at the name carefully: "Salam-Ander".

@xKADZx 7 жыл бұрын

Today: Salamander Tomorrow: Skynet

@ethiopia2905 6 жыл бұрын

Skynet been here..

@ronodenthal100 7 жыл бұрын

An excellent talk. Never before have I actually felt the compulsion to clap while sitting alone in my chair. Yet, I was so drawn in by this talk that it jarred me once it was done when I realized that I wasn't actually there.

@Johnismybestfriend 8 жыл бұрын

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

@rotoscopic8757 7 жыл бұрын

Johnismybestfriend Do cats dream of quadriplegic mice?

@mattimus1895 6 жыл бұрын

Johnismybestfriend if you download the app from Google play.

@srimansrini 8 жыл бұрын

The Robotics and Artificial Intelligence going to play a key role in the future world. And this 'Salamander' and 'cat' robots shows the glimpse of the future. Kudos to the expert Auke Ijspeert and his team who made this possible with their scientific quest. Very interesting subject and presented neatly.

@truth-12345. 6 жыл бұрын

Just the skeletal structure and no sensors yet the salamander and robot cat already performs exceptional.

@xxGLhrMxx 8 жыл бұрын

I don't know why but this is the type of video I expect to see in an inflight entertainment list

@LoliLoveJuice 7 жыл бұрын

u know he wasnt kidding about cutting a salamanders head and use electricity to control the body

@raphaelmahumane1648 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the courage and hard work you have shown by creating those robots, they are really going to be helpful and I am hoping to change the world in the near future by creating my own robots...thank you again for encouraging us!!!!

@fandju111 7 жыл бұрын

*_Just slap an Apple logo on it_*

@Moofenic 7 жыл бұрын

Yup

@speevee4318 7 жыл бұрын

Destroy Idiots dayum son you rekt them btw true

@juhonikula6408 4 жыл бұрын

Next you could raise the price x10

@kyurius4717 8 жыл бұрын

3:19 RoboTuna :)

@surfcello 8 жыл бұрын

Wow, at last a really good talk on tech and neuroscience! Who knew that motion control for limbs developed in the adjacent vertebrae as the limbs evolved!

@akhilanandan2493 4 жыл бұрын

The time it went in water.. And took an autopilot mode on swimming was incredible

@AnthonyBuda 8 жыл бұрын

Great one. It's no stretch to believe that environmental cleanup and search-and-rescue efforts can be helped by the continuing development of this tech, and implementation for these goals might not be far off at all. That this research is contributing to the development of spinal trauma and paralysis medical tech is exciting too.

@samnub7912 7 жыл бұрын

The auto-generated captions at 0:41 are great lmao

@TheRealCorcra 7 жыл бұрын

do the salamander, do the salamander, do the salamander...

@coronal2207 7 жыл бұрын

This is really beautiful- I agree wholeheartedly

@therealzilch 8 жыл бұрын

This will be weaponized.

@officialmessenger7425 8 жыл бұрын

+Scott Wallace The fate of most TED inventions

@headpump 7 жыл бұрын

Scott Wallace. Life kills life. very old trope. the universe is a creation/death apparatus..

@WayneMcCormick 7 жыл бұрын

Scott Wallace sounds like a great movie title.

@seejianshin 7 жыл бұрын

the lizard is adorable !!

@andy4an 8 жыл бұрын

it seems like a very interesting teaching project to provide a student with a robot and a programming language, and then to have them attempt to program good movement. could also be an interesting competition. if each team had the same robot, you could measure impact, speed, energy efficiency, etc.

@JD-ub5ic 6 жыл бұрын

Very enlightening. I always thought of most problems in locomotion being controls problems requiring incredibly complicated closed loop systems, but this is telling me otherwise. It's amazing how natural the gait of these robots looked especially considering they were open loop systems! I wonder if robot designers should stop focusing on simplified mechanical systems with complicated controls, and focus on complicated mechanical systems with simplified controls.

@brianhop6705 Жыл бұрын

I loved the idea of a future where this technology becomes part of us and part of our lives, where we evolve to a higher level. But what scares me now is how all our information is being monitored using artificial intelligence, most people don't seem to have a clue as how this works.

@Luminos974 7 жыл бұрын

3:27 when i finally noticed he is french

@crystallinaziviona7757 7 жыл бұрын

i think this world gonna be full with animals robots like Horizon : Zero dawn game

@Azizinum 8 жыл бұрын

brace yourselves metal gear is coming

@andy4an 8 жыл бұрын

do salamanders drag themselves along the ground IRL?

@aidangomez4726 7 жыл бұрын

sorta

@shahfaisal3923 5 жыл бұрын

@8:15 I was really expecting hug round of applause but dead people.

@TERRORdrigo 7 жыл бұрын

The Cheetah Cub is cute freaking cute

@TheBastered 7 жыл бұрын

question, if you flip the robot can't it flip itself back where it was like a salamander does every time?

@AndreaDeGaetanoDotCom 8 жыл бұрын

congratulation for this research!

@davidcopperfield2278 8 жыл бұрын

i already see these run around on the streets with blue-red ligts on them !!!

@Lip22Gloss 8 жыл бұрын

This is fascinating!

@rickysukhi 8 жыл бұрын

In future, humans are going to make other animals extinct and feel happiness in their imitated toys and How smart they are. That said, the tech. in this video is still amazing.

@SwobyJ 8 жыл бұрын

+sukhvir singh Extinct? Sure. But preserve their information and they could be brought back.

@julymays9476 7 жыл бұрын

Malcolm Swoboda how? don't be stupid. if animal is gone - it's gone

@SwobyJ 7 жыл бұрын

Yes. Its gone until its not gone.

@ethanlamoureux5306 6 жыл бұрын

@Malcolm Swoboda Sure. When we acquire the ability to create life. Which, I predict, will not happen in this age of mankind. People can be so arrogant, in thinking we can do anything. But life is beyond us, as the stars are beyond us.

@TobyKral007 8 жыл бұрын

this is amazing! i was happy when that cat came in. i hope we get a human model of this technology in 10 years

@MuadDib1402 8 жыл бұрын

Early in the 21st century, the Roboticist Auke Ijspeert , advanced robot evolution into the nexus phase. A being virtually identical to a salamander, known as Pleurobot.

@TheGerogero 8 жыл бұрын

Last few TED talks have been very good! Weird.

@tootallification 7 жыл бұрын

This guy is great at taking something cool and making it boring

@anotoman123 8 жыл бұрын

If the spinal cord receives control signals from the brain and translates them into locomotion and etc, it's amazing that it manages to not interfere with fine motor movements as it passes through the same interface. It must have some way to differentiate these and that's awesome as f*** to me.

@stripehead1 7 жыл бұрын

See 12:27 at which point one guy is so interested he is picking his nose.

@FR33MAS0N1 8 жыл бұрын

Lol, when the cheetah cub robot come out on stage, I found myself saying "Awe..." I would have to say they definitely got the gait of a kitten correct. I understand that the programing for the robo-salamander's A.I. was focused on the salamander species' specific locomotion and navigation. Which is really cool as is but it would be neat to be alive when they are able to program a complete set of instincts and habits of a species and have it interact with the environment accordingly as well as having the robot at a 1:1 scale to it's living counterpart.

@team_hong_c4841 5 жыл бұрын

10/17(actually 10/18, because I came back home late) Third video After i saw this video, i could see the unmeasurable possibilities innated in the biotechnology. "Nature has all answer" fits to this robot. Actually, I was planning to build a 4 legged robot, and this video gave me many idea about it. The most impressive part is that computer simulation is not always right. I was bit shocked because I usually thought that test something in computer simulation is better than test in real situation, because it looks more professional. Ted is always give me good effects to me.😁

@ziljin 7 жыл бұрын

would be amazing for animatronics

@mattimus1895 6 жыл бұрын

Please do a crow next ,it's funny how they walk and hop around!!

@ThorKipperberg 7 жыл бұрын

now scale this up and build life size dinosars that move like real animals

@CoiledDracca 8 жыл бұрын

I for one, welcome our new robotic salamander overlords...

@BrandonSchleifer 8 жыл бұрын

If you make it a bit bigger and add an internal nuclear power source, an ice drill, and powerful communicator, it could be used for the Europa probe.

@daxxonjabiru428 8 жыл бұрын

Excellent ...

@aliycherif 6 жыл бұрын

This is Amazing!

@bug5327 8 жыл бұрын

they're so cuuuuttteee aaaHhhh

@nekozukiiiii 8 жыл бұрын

Now I know who to find If i want to build my own Kavats

@maryt.feemster6945 8 жыл бұрын

Amazing !

@gridthexenomorph3658 5 жыл бұрын

i want this as my future robotic pet NOW

@SlayerDUDE1993 7 жыл бұрын

And imagine by this time when you see technology evolution like this someone beats his head in the floor praying to invisible things.

@ethanlamoureux5306 6 жыл бұрын

I can see how this man worships invisible things. He gives tribute, first to “Evolution” and then to “Nature”, like one would a god. I don’t worship nature, I worship the Creator of all we see in nature. I recognize that life is so amazingly complex that it could not exist if it weren’t made by a being who is greater than we are. With all we have, with all we learn, we still cannot even come close to doing what God did when he built the universe out of nothing.

@Savanna-le5on 7 жыл бұрын

did... did anyone else just click this because it's a robotic salamander or is it just me?

@Verrisin 7 жыл бұрын

what about fine control of all the parts? - I can generally* move every part of my body independently of the rest... (I know a cat can too) - *how does it fit in the model?* (* except for ring finger and toes)

@MechNinji 8 жыл бұрын

wow that's awesome!

@toddm1532 8 жыл бұрын

That poor cat never saw it coming. 1:22

@ebofuria 8 жыл бұрын

Skynet looks so innocent *@* 1st...😐

@aidangomez4726 7 жыл бұрын

ur being ignorant

@depthoffield4744 8 жыл бұрын

Sam Vaknin should have a TED talk.

@manictiger 7 жыл бұрын

The cheetah bot needs independently controllable camber angles.

@stacyp4534 3 жыл бұрын

It swims much better than it walks.

@Dsport-pp1lb 7 жыл бұрын

NATSU? IS THAT YOU?

@milchesarreal6964 5 жыл бұрын

This is amazing Id like one of those mecha-salamanders hahaha

@khalidsafir 7 жыл бұрын

If nature does things best then we need cars with legs, that's one of the cool things I'd like to create one day. That way we will save ourselves destroying land for roads, as legged cars wont need them. Glad to see the tech for this is getting better.

@GothicLeviathan 7 жыл бұрын

Damn, that would be cool to have or just to see.

@n00z94 7 жыл бұрын

"To understand how an animal moves" Well can't you just get a real one and watch it move ??? Lmao

@remaining1986 7 жыл бұрын

"to get a better understanding" would have been a more accurate statement I think.

@zachshenanigansyt8139 7 жыл бұрын

8:10 how much for one of THOSE models?

@LaughLounge11 3 жыл бұрын

now i want to see a robot cat that can land on its feet from 100 feet.

@chase4001 7 жыл бұрын

if we having this we need aloy

@91722854 6 жыл бұрын

Leave jurassic park aside, we can now have a zoo of robots

@whyisthisnottyping 7 жыл бұрын

I think I saw one at a mall at a kids toy store

@UnproductiveSunbeam 7 жыл бұрын

Very cool

@thediddy5203 7 жыл бұрын

I didn't come to learn about science, I came to watch a robot amphibian do cool things.

@SapphFire 7 жыл бұрын

Very interesting

@CaptMorgasm 8 жыл бұрын

a chicken can only run after its head is chopped off is because most of its brain is in its neck.

@jollyroger2068 7 жыл бұрын

so.. that's how it starts "earth is ours no more"

@jaurybeltraoengers5986 7 жыл бұрын

the military use for this robot would be amazing! disguised like a salamander, capable of maintaining a low profile while gathering info in enemy territory... just perfect for the job.

@breeze38 3 жыл бұрын

I always wanted to make a robot that looks like animals, but so far only boats and cars.

@kaylacasagood 8 жыл бұрын

i'm just gonna wait for dinosaur robots if they don't exist already

@priffe3440 7 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Animals who died to be stimulated with electricity.

@sharllesonantunesaraujo8184 8 жыл бұрын

wow!

@zarlyattack 7 жыл бұрын

that's so cute

@thatonepanch 7 жыл бұрын

Horizon Zero Dawn this is just the beginning

@oftendreamdit 6 жыл бұрын

thatonepanch Today: Salamander Future: Snapmaw from Horizon Zero Dawn

@inventorofmachines 7 жыл бұрын

This is fucking awesome!!! I could cut off the head off a salamander, attach my custom made head and then control the thing with a remote. NOW IMAGINE DOING THIS WITH A FLYING THING!!!! edit: He just said that in the video.