Autobots: assemble!

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Little cuticubebot : *jump* Entire manking : Doom is upon us.

I wonder how much progress they've made since this video was released

now just make them nano size and they can make anything

*Wants less moving parts* *Makes every part move*

Season 3 of Cubix looks great, the old early 2000's animation has been revamped for a more realistic feel. incredible.

"Published in 2013" KZfaq: *PUT THIS IN RECOMMENDED*

Don't need to wait for Transformers to visit us Just make them

Self solving Rubik's Cube.

I think Hiro Hamada will be proud of this one....

So how far has it gone in 6 years?

This idea reminds me of the Big Hero 6 movie.

now build me a companion cube!

These modular robots are based on two things, gyro-motor and magnets, Gyro-motor is a poor stability or vectoring motor (due to the air resistance and other factors which makes us unable to predict final position and orientation). If we can orient it better, like relatively using fields around it. Utilizing the fields may help us to overcome the excess of sensors

Red cube: " Are you the legal guardian of John Connor?"

reminds me of big hero 6

I've been waiting this robot to be released... Its already 3 Years now... COME ON!

How to get your video into recomendet section in just six years. Step 1: Upload a video Step 2: Wait

Absolutely amazing. Can't imagine what it's like now 6 years later.

Still hard to imagine these robots doing anything other than look cool. But damn do they look cool

Theoretically this could become self-building homes, stairs, stools(household use), and so on. This is very cool. I'd love to do this kind of stuff.

Remeber these faces. These will be the people that give Skynet life.

I feel like this would be so satisfying to watch on a large scale

People be like my Rubik's cube is alive.

3:30 so they're NOT self-assembling. Need to change the title of the vid.

It took KZfaq 6 years to recommend this to us.And all those years I thought this platform is crap! Thanks KZfaq to prove it.

I don’t really know how this type of tech works, but I do know a thing or 2 and had a suggestion. This probably wont work, but just something: I see that you used magnets in the cubes. What if rather than using the spinning mass in the middle as the main source of movement, you use magnets to guide them. You use an electrical charge to ‘turn on’ the magnets on the desired cubes. Like I said, I have no idea how this works, but it would be really interesting to test the idea.

1:50 that beard is incredibly well groomed

Seems like soon we will be able to play Tetris in real life :)

Edit: , you will never know how I got this many likes

I've never seen angular momentum utilized as a feature as opposed to an obstacle in kinetic technology. I would have never thought to implement it like this!

Hello Tars, Hello Case.

If you had billions of these, would you be able to program a giant monster that moves bit-by-bit? I need this information for..... reasons.

I don't see where these cubes serve any pragmatic purpose, but they make a really neat toy or novelty device.

What is my purpose? - You pass butter. **Looks at itself** Oh my god. -Yeah. Welcome to the club, pal.

These look like they could compete with Lego as children toys

So how many years before I can buy my own transformer?

It'd be nice to have an updated version of this video, in 6 years they either gave up or have something amazing by now!

And now nearly 6 years later in the futur the Developement and Research really paid off, they are literally everywhere, in production with vast ever changing Assemblylines and in everyday life.

how 'bout selfsolving rubik cube.

I accept our robot overlords.

that's so cool, especially the end where he said that in the future you just send the structure you want and the cubes decide how to build it

I'm betting this was recommended because it was recently featured in a popular blog somewhere online where it got a lot of traction and alerted the algorithm to promote it on site.

Perhaps you could incorporate some sort of power transfer between the cubes, so if one runs out of power, it can recharge from the others. Initially I was thinking wireless charging through induction coils, but with all those powerful magnets I'm not sure it'll work. Also, if one cube finds a power source, it can daisychain power to all the attached cubes. What do you think? There are many options, I have lots of ideas.

MAke them so tiny that they look like a metallic liquid.

This is actually super freaking cool

That was totally an excellent concept

and now build them in 5 big lion's shape and... Go Voltron!

It's the begin to build terminator II, it isn't?

Wow! This is extraordinary!

What is the latest update of this project? I am really interested in the cube technology.

these guys need to work with the makers of cubli

1:15 talking about auto assembly as cube flies off table XP

Great presentation!

Yo this is actually really cool, if only KZfaq recommended this to me 6 years before

"How did you get this strong?" "Nanomachines, son."

Me: why is has this been out for so long, yet I haven’t seen it? KZfaq: so no head?

The cubes need a type of hive mind AI to be autonomous. These would be practical only if the user would only need to give them a simple instruction, such as "form a pyramid 12 inches high with a 16 inch x 16 inch base". The cubes would have to recognize their individual positions relative to each other, collectively recognize the end configuration, recognize each cube's position in the end configuration, prioritize each cube's movements, etc. A more advanced AI would be able to quickly re-prioritize in changing environmental conditions such as building the pyramid on the deck of a rocking ship. Another advancement for these cubes could be if they could manipulate outside objects. Example: the cubes are in a room with a floor that is 40 feet wide by 40 feet long with a ball. At the end of the room is a cup that is 4 inches tall and just wide enough to hold the ball. The command to give the cubes would be: "put the ball in the cup." The cubes would need to be able to identify the ball and its properties (its round, it rolls, its size, how heavy it is, etc), and the location and size of the cup. For simplicity's sake, the properties of the ball, the location and properties of the cup could be pre-identified. The cubes would have to have some sort of sensory system, such as pressure sensors to identify where the ball is and calculate where it needs to go. Of course, these achievements would take multiple steps and several iterations of modification and it wouldn't be a simple task. To get the ball from one end of the room to the other would necessitate the cubes' ability to become mobile as a unit. More challenges to give them would be: 1. As a group, climb a flight of stairs. 2. As a group, climb onto a table.

Are they using projectile motion of a certain particle attached on the flywheel and inertia of the particle after instantly stopping the flywheel somehow to make the robots jump?

95% Talk, 5% Small cubes that self-assemble

"and this is exciting"... The most inexpressive face i've ever seen! good job though

This is the last piece we need for time travel

... The day when we can finally say "Friday, give me some juice." and the suit reconfigures itself into a giant thruster!

Ok KZfaq,you won. I'll se the video...

The magic robot beans! Plant these into your background and soon you can see a giant!

Fast forward a hundred years, we have nano modules like these.. as pixels in an image, they can change their position entirely, shape shift and take shape of anything they want. Fucking awesome and scary at the same time.

Imagine attaching a camera module to it and making it climb up a metal building. Seems like something from a Bond movie.

if you made these things out of gyroscopic motors, you would of had something brilliant.

Anyone get a certain Big Hero 6 feel from this?

These dudes deserve more attention!

Basically reaction wheels inside a cube with magnets on the corners. Very clever!

Alright now let's make that maximum armour, maximum strength suit. Make sure it's integrated with voice. And that it says it while activation. 😂

Inspired by Galvatron

in order to make this into nanobot shapeshifter stuff, you need a huge amount of communication and tech sharing from the following areas: Dudes that make actuator motor things, AI dudes, dudes who make machines that build smaller machines, dudes who can optimize smaller machines that build machines and combine them into cube bots, magnetism dudes who can calculate magnetic relationships on large scale means while determining how magnetic the nodes need to be in order to not screw up the other bots, Nikola Tesla crazy dudes who find a better means of controllable on/off adhesive outside of magnetism, military scientist dudes who find a means to lock these forms together to keep them functional in case of an EMP attack, and thinking ahead element compounder dudes who find a way to make a non-toxic metal that meshes well with bio-organic materials in case we can use this for prosthesis or bodily upgrades and finally loooooots of funding. Potentially, in the future, you could use these little guys for something, ranging from medical tech to full body robots, to transformable prosthesis, to FULL BODY prosthesis, to starting a robot apocalypse, to space exploration, to Dyson Sphere esque shit, to terraforming, to object building molecule by molecule, to object deconstruction, to horrifying weapon due to prior thing ala dynamite but you can't get rid of it because it's really really useful, to loads of other stuff that I can't comprehend at the moment. Right now we have silly little cubes. But this is the base work for potential future technologies that could revolutionize humanity's humanity. Great things come from humble and silly origins. We were once little amoeba eating ocean soup, and so we see mechanical amoeba here.

This is one way how I live my life as an Artist!!😄 and as robust as possible!

Great but how do we save bees?

20 more years,the cube will be a smaller ball, thousands of silver micro pellets,ergo,,,the T-1000.... Good job gang....(edit) 14 more years..

I can't even imagine this stuff and they brought it to reality.

What kind of motors are used in these? Do they spin fast or how do they create that momentum? Can someone please explain? Thanks!

If (robot.isnotAttached) assemble();

reminds me of the movie transformers when they assemble together

We wanted to cut down on moving parts in our robots, so we turned every cubic inch of our robot into separate moving parts that flop around for 10 minutes before they get to the desired configuration.

This is my dream college because of the equipments that can help me to create what I want to create

Mini Terminators!!!

I've seen this Doctor Who episode already.

This is awesome!

This is really great for space related technology

Replicators! What could go wrong?

Only thing that comes to my mind looking at this is self assembling Iron Man armour.

there is just one axis on which the motor can spin right?

and what tasks should the cubes fullfill?

why not use this to make a self solving rubix cube

Forget transformers, - this is how replicator originated.

This is the ultimate way to go. I was thinking about sphere magnets rolling on top of each other somehow to achieve this though. Today it is 10-20 cubes, tomorrow it can be 10-20 million.

You know how many cubes reconfigured in my screen to make this video possible..

Next project is...how to make a terminator.

I will solve a rubix cube with this! Imagine the power I will have over all of you

THEY'RE EVOLVING!

i didnt expect that 2 block jump at the beginning, that was cool