Fast and forceful gel robots

Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent gel robots that can perform a number of fast, forceful tasks, including kicking a ball underwater, and grabbing and releasing a live fish. (Learn more:news.mit.edu/2017/transparent...)
Soft Active Materials Laboratory: web.mit.edu/zhaox/www/
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Video produced and edited by: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Hydrogel robot footage: Hyunwoo Yuk/MIT Soft Active Materials Lab

[@trevormeeks7406]

Crane game: expert mode

[@UnexpectedGamer]

Fish tank claw machine lmao

[@HL10001]

So clever! A leap forward in our conceptualisation of robots

[@MoneyDonGrowOnTrees]

MIT bringing you the future of claw machines. Soon every arcade and Walmart in the country will have one of these.

[@david_4739]

Hydrogel submarine - just a bunch of dudes sat and lying down floating fast through the sea. And one scary dude puffing on a cigar.

[@ThaOACA]

Wow, this is amazing!

[@JyoPari]

Well, I guess that could make some sort of underwater jellyfish with this.

[@mulunehgetnet4827]

thank you

[@quicknutrition2874]

Cool project! What kind of underwater applications do you think there will be?

[@km0xt2]

are they gonna catch that red seadragon with this thing?

[@Sigognac1988]

Sheldon: Wolowitz went to MIT. What’s your educational background?
Stuart: I went to art school.
Sheldon: Equally ridiculous. Let’s go.
BAD SHELDON ---> MIT is the best!

[@MaleiCKSalah]

Genius use of water!!
All the best guys!

[@skanjifamily]

This can be usefir edf

[@theredshark42]

Very cool, but when are we getting synths?

[@MrEk0o]

that second example was a little bit disturbing..lol :D

You guys at the MIT have lots of free time.

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

like most people, im sure. they just seem to spend it doing nerdy things instead of sitting on their cell phones all night, drinking and knocking eachother up.

[@varunalur2048]

amazing !

[@thegrendelpuff5518]

MIT IS THE GREATEST INSTITUTION ON THE PLANET!!!!!!!

[@noahsanchez3858]

Invisible submarine!

[@zoiuduu]

what this could be use for? imagine a advanced version of this, a toy? a weapon?a dildo?a tool?

[@UKRSHEV]

Dildo for underwater stealth rape

[@ericlogos1116]

a good way to keep a failing heart pumping.

[@ricolorenz7307]

No.

[@mrdebugger4517]

Rico Lorenz hey Mark M has the Same Profile picture as your

[@ashoklamichhane4090]

nice one ...

[@l3p3]

I feel a bit sorry for that fish.
You can see it's fear. It thinks it is some kind of animal that wants to eat it.
Nothing happened at the end but it was a shock for sure.

[@hawghunter6849]

L3 P3 are you shitting me? fish don't have emotions wtf is wrong with you.

[@chermia97]

L3 P3 Of course, I expected this kind of fcking comment.

[@NikoMoraKamu]

so...
let's catch them all!!!!

[@Qornv]

oh boy here they are already

[@Qornv]

I bash fish heads in with crowbar just for fun

[@uidr]

Congratz its amazing

[@hedcas]

I will call him Calvin

[@an_what]

The credit where credit is due MIT you didn’t create this shit!

[@DavidEvans_dle]

Might be useful in catching lionfish in the Atlantic? Well at least it will be a real world
trial.

[@theratunlimited3897]

Leave da fishsy alone

[@English_Lessons_Pre-Int_Interm]

an optimistic video fro those who want to become divers in the world where the jobs are getting replaced by bots

[@mariasaavedra6728]

Does anyone know what this song is?

[@verioffkin]

Invisibility is all about environment, not a matter object made of.
About this one, hmm. Could be used as submarine catcher... sort of landmine, in harbors.

[@thebravemakers]

i want to study in MIT and work in network & softwares which i want to invent.if There any possibility,i would like to get touched with that.Thanks

[@billz.lawson9824]

This would be cooler if you weren't using a live fish in your demo.

[@nvijain]

title seems misleading at first glance

[@TheTwick]

Maybe I'm the only one with the problem but I can't watch the video a read the text at the same time. I'm fixated by the amazing images, so I can't read the text. Please narrate the video.

[@SuruchiSushi]

Maybe you could, I don't know, pause the video?

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

he's a atheist, you have to do everything for him. wait... that's wackbards. yeah dude, pause it. lol.

[@hammadali594]

Sounds similar to the Stranger Things theme in the beginning

[@gillianandrews3951]

I was about to say the same thing! It's like the happy version...

[@FintasticMan]

cool

[@NathanCotter]

GLASS SHARKGLASS SHARK

[@buenaventuralosgrandes9266]

is there any application that this could be use to build transparent submarines?

[@themjem5700]

The things inside the sub wouldn't be transparent so it would just look like a bunch of people floating in the ocean

[@AllarmGute]

Дааа, это не YotaPhone "изобретать" ))

[@AMZZZMA]

that title tho °3°)~

[@Emmet-mc9um]

The intro music reminded me of stranger things on Netflix

[@bingebammer9927]

oh its some rubber and a it moves when you attach a battery n stuff.. geez i havent seen that before.
you seriously call this a robot?

[@markm0000]

No it's using water not electricity.

[@mrdebugger4517]

Mark M By water you mean Hydraulic pressure

[@tuanmoura6581]

LIXXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@ight_of_heart]

I don't wanna appear immature but we all know what we're seeing here. The name of the video is not a coincidence

[@thomasw8074]

....this doesn't seem to inventive. However, I do see the applications for it.

[@S-K.]

I think it's just the combination of the technologies that makes this particularly innovative. i.e. the watergel itself and the 3d printing process (which I'm sure includes some cleverly engineered reservoirs inside the part). Reading the public release report, it seems that the watergels that have been made previously aren't nearly as flexible nor soft as this one is, which is always cool.

[@thomasw8074]

ok. I do see your point, and yes I do believe they have reservoirs as well.

[@Sol_Solis_]

Invisible robots in the water that can catch living organisms.
And people think this is "awsome"' and "beautiful".
Im pretty much scared now, but doesn't really know from what: from this thing or those people(?)...

[@martin09091989]

That is not impressiv at all!
Just a single damm hydraulic muscle made out of transparent material.
WOW good job! You are changing the world with this! XD

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

I think it's more about showcasing the state of the art than being immediately useful. it is just a school, after all. You want useful, make sure dollar signs are present and a slew of marketting wank.

[@NikoMoraKamu]

witchcaft

[@an_what]

MIT didn’t create these they stole it from a UA-cam channel

[@krraman666]

[@DanFrederiksen]

Meh

[@FintasticMan]

I'm the first to comment

[@FintasticMan]

Pricocool I am

[@Chadwickyboy]

No way... if that's indeed true, that is fucking amazing!