The world's largest walking robot
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This video, the last one from the trip to Germany, got held back for a few weeks for technical reasons, but finally it's out! I love the idea of keeping traditions alive over centuries, respecting the spirit and the history but keeping things updated with new technology. That's probably a metaphor for something.
Hello!
what up son
Yes probably, but I can't find which one neither...
bung vulchungo and the zimbabwe songbirds
Jeez
THIS is how you bring tradition to modern technology! SO many things made today as part of traditional cultural activities seem to do all they can to break from old aesthetics and customs - this adds to them! I can only imagine how the medieval Germans would have reacted seeing this - it's marvelous!
in medieval times that thing woudl have been capable of burning down a village an noone could have stopped it. so to them it migh aswell be an actual dragon XD
@@TheTutch Imagine if it had a real flamethrower. Like, don't forget the current dragon has to be held up to civilian safety standards of being around crowds of people. If they wanted to, they could probably get it to walk 2 or 3 times as fast, and put a military grade flamethrower on it that could shoot fire dozens of meters.
@@binbows2258 I want to live in that timeline
@@binbows2258 Why does this make me smile? xD
I mean, a literal robot is as far from custom as you can get. He said it himself, the original was a barrel on wheels
3:19 DUDE the pupils get bigger when the eyelids close! The details and attention to detail put into this is amazing
I especially liked that the dragon kept blinking while they were wheeling him into storage at the end.
I wouldn't even have expected the dragon to blink, let alone to blink so detailedly.
bro wtf i didn't even notice. and no one else probably will. that's awesome. i never heard of that thing, got to visit it next time they pull it out, living only ~40km from the town 😅
I assumed the blinking was automated. Does it really need someone just to take care of blinking?
@@gobblinal Almost definitely, so that the blinks can be timed dramatically with the action (plus when the eyes close on death)
Imagine in another 400 years they have an actual genetically-engineered dragon.
And re-enact the slaying
They'll spare no expense!
germans, everyone
well hopefully they wont create the queen, Seadragonus Gigantus Maximus, so we wont regress into the viking era
There's this series of films I'd like you to watch.
It's called Jurassic Park (...and to some degree Jurassic World. Don't argue, folks! Not the time and place!).
I'm not saying your suggestion was a bad one.
I'm merely suggesting it's a bad idea.
They not only have a giant moving dragon, they also turn their market place into an open-air theatre, with sword and horse fights during the show.
And at the same time going just outside of town is the medieval fair "Cave Glaudium"
You've covered a lot of cool and interesting places, and talked to a lot of equally cool and interesting people, but I'm sorry, Dragon Operator is possibly the best job title anyone could ever have. I hate to say it Tom, but you may have peaked.
I think the Dragon Slayer might top it but only barely if he does
The bad side to the dragon slayer job is that it is the best job until the dragon operator decides that he doesn't like you anymore
What do you do?
I slay dragons
@@davidpereira5969 What do you do?
I operate a dragon.
What do you do?
I operate on dragons.
Personally, I beg to differ...
incredible that it was built in 2010, also the amount of effort they put into it as well!
2010 isn't exactly ancient history
People, towns had money back then. Now, nothing.
@@marceljones7940 But 12 years is a very long time in terms of technological advances
@@jaredkelly925 yes but this is not (was not) cutting edge tech. It's hydraulics run by a very simple control computer. It's really nice and all but technically very basic, which is good.
It's kinda more amazing to me, that in 1945 only months after the end of the war they actually put the effort into having one that year
On the website they call the dragon a 'Schreitroboter' literally translate to striding/treading robot. But the German word implies a slow paced, deliberate, majestic walk (rather than striding, which would be rather quick). I think this illustrates how the dragon moves very well.
That’s interesting to learn about!
Strutting dragon.
@@everyoneanyone1593 maybe more like promenading dragon, but that seems very regency... Maybe parading dragon?
When I think about it, I can't think of an English word that would correspond to "schreiten" in this sense. "to stride" just doesn't fit here.
That's really interesting.
a "regal stride". to stride fits just fine here. I don't know what other connotations you associate with it. definitely doesn't have to mean "fast". it tends to mean "long steps", and you don't have to make many of them for the same speed or distance, which means "slow".
If I had a nickel for everytime Tom Scott made a video about a giant, robotic, free-roaming animal somewhere in Europe, I'd have two nickels- which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
Did you just watch a Phineas and Ferb episode?
@@namansinghal1892 no, it's a common phrase by now. I'm not sure it even originated from P&F, but i wouldn't be surprised if it did
@@deloptin545 It did. It's by Doctor Doofenschmirtz ("If I had a nickel for every time I was doomed by a puppet, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice, right?").
@@deloptin545 What? It's only a common phrase now BECAUSE of P&F. Dan Povenmire wrote the line for Dr. Doofenshmirtz for one of the P&F movies, and it only entered the public lexicon when the internet began memeing it.
@@fruityoo Well you say that, but have you even for a moment considered he could have a platypus controlling him?
You know I have always wondered if there was a big robot creature that wasn't just put on wheels but actually walked. Turns out there is. How cool is that
look up walking timber harvesters. in some way it's even cooler, because it's made to do a job.
There was also a giant spider like one in emf2018, look up the videos. And if human size is big enough for you, in 2022 someone brought one you can sit atop of
Unsure on if it walks on its own but Japan has a Life-Sized Gundam that walks out of it's hangar, very slowly obviously.
I mean, there have been "many" big robots on legs. It's just largely a sub-optimal solution for locomotion, so it is a very small subset of robots, regardless of size. Here specifically because of aesthetics. And the slow speed, foot/gait configuration, and low center of gravity all help the design. Not that it is easy, just easier.
I predict that AT-AT walkers are only a few decades down the line.
I didn't realize the dragon could actually walk on its own without that cart under it until it lifted itself up.
What a great piece of engineering!
Was about to get real upset when I saw those wheels, then it stands up. Damn cool to see it actually moving itself. Really neat to see modern technology bringing ancient traditions to life rather than destroying them.
Same. I was super impressed when it stood up.
Honestly I was "well, I give them that is hard to... wait why is decoupling? you got to be kidding me!"
I've actually been there and watched the full show! My German knowledge at the time was hardly sufficient to understand anything since it's all in heavy dialect, but it was very cool in person.
I'm german and let me assure you I can't understand the heavy dialect as well.
I have actually been there and watched the show :D
Since I am from close to the area, my dialect is close enough to understand what they are saying
Do they have pamphlets or something that is in English and translates the story for non-german speaking audience? Or anything like that?
@@zeroyuki92 Been a couple of years since I last saw the show, but as far as I'm aware of, they don't.
can i ask about the blood? he said that he controls the blood when does that come out?
I was like: 'oh it's one of those giant robots with wheels again', and then it stood up and walked "no fkin way"
German engineering 😅
This is a prime example of keeping traditions alive while still keeping up with the times.
CNY (chinese new year) need to keep up...
Paganism do to. When they're sparing their traditional style, especially theirs mythology spirits
We go there every other year to see the play. It is played within the city and has a good story. The dragon wasn't always the "bad" Guy. But humans made him so.
It also talks a lot about the history and war's back then. And it is spoken in dialect^^
So it's done in Bavarian?
@@slook7094 So schaut's aus!
That's a deeper story than I would've expected for a traditional local play.
@@slook7094 yes it is^^ once we visited it together with a friend from Rheinland-Pfalz and He really had a hard time understanding certain words xD
Typical humans - turning the 'good' dragon into the bad guy :)
Join us next time, where I, Tom Scott, take over the United Kingdom with my army of walking, fire breathing robots
Honestly, I would welcome it.
Tom Scott, Mother of Dragons?
It would take a little bit. The dragon can only walk with 1.8 km/h.
That puts our giant moving dragon robot count at, what, 3? There are only going to be more from here on out
@@everyoneanyone1593 and the spot the dogs that he enlisted working menial factory observation jobs. Those guys would make fantastic scouts for the main force.
Seeing the big red button on the dragon’s underbelly that will shut it down made me think immediately of Smaug and his one missing scale where he could be killed. All the knight needs to do to defeat this dragon is press the button 😉
Speedrun time
Aim for the voonerables. It's a million to one shot!
- "World's largest walking robot"
- "It has a flamethrower"
Me: Must be either German or Japanese.
Tom: "GERMAN"
Germany kinda is the Japan of Europe.
For anyone still asking themselves if they should visit Furth im Wald: The City also has an amazing Wildgarten and undeground tunnels one can visit.
After seeing how many controllers are required for each aspect of the dragon, it makes me think that maybe Pacific Rim's Jaegers requiring two pilots wasn't too far off base..
If anything they need more pilots- like Voltron or something
AT-AT being full of people...
When you need a non German guy to show you awesome places/things in your home country.
Need to see it in the future. So crazy that I worked near that town for three days without knowing that they own a dragon.
When he rode out on the little car I was like "that's cool I guess", but then the car drove away :O
They have to use robots because the wild dragon is endangered due to traditional quests requiring one to be slain and poaching for their hearts. Please use dragon heart free shampoo.
The elephant just came over as a gimmick albeit a fun one, but this, this is absolutely amazing. I would love to see this one day.
Imagin you're diving at your relaxed 150km/h and as you look at truck you are surpassing this fellow stares back. That actually happend to me back when they brought him from the factory to Furth im Wald. But one year later I got to visit the festival and the year after this the guided show at his cave. We became friends in the end.
God that’s fascinating I can’t even imagine what someone from 400 years ago would do when he could see this
Either run or throw a spear at it.
Accuse the people who control a dragon of witchcraft, probably.
Crap themself probibly.
They would stab it.
"in MY time all we had was a wheelbarrow on two wheels"
“But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
There is a Pratchett quote for every occasion.
GNU Sir Terry.
Guards!
Pratchett is absolutely insufferable. Can't go a line without preaching about how you should live or what you should think. If he had twitter he'd be just like the rest of them
Don't get enough DiskWorld here in the states.
Love a good quote from Discworld
Not bad for a 12-year-old robot. Good design, and obviously well engineered. I'd love to see what could be done with the speed, power, and compactibility of industrial robotics motors of today. Might not be as "safe" as this one. But, damn, it would look cool, and be genuinely terrifying.🐉 I'd love to see this thing in person.
I am surprised that "world's largest walking robot (which is also a dragon)" isn't in Japan
Japan has a giant Gundam, but it doesn't actually walk under it's own weight. I think the walking distinction is what really makes the dragon so special.
Don't underestimate our German Engineering ™
The title clearly says 'the world's largest WALKING robot'.
Well, if it wasn’t going to be Japanese then it should come as no surprise that it’s German instead.
Was thinking Welsh more, its on our flag after all.
excited to see a video about this since this town is about 15 minutes away from me and my stepdad grew up there :D
At 4:22 I was really hoping that they were going to test the blood/water and just drench Tom!
youve forgotten to mention that the dragon can dance to ACDC as well
If you come to Furth im Wald in the middle of august (this year 19-21. august) you can also vist the "Cave Gladium", germans best and i also think biggest medieval market. I have been there many times, some years as a reenactor and part of it, and it is really great
I've been there a few years ago and it was great!
Well played our German cousins! Dragons, seem to get everywhere and not just home in Wales. :-)
I find it kind of funny that they introduced a 4-man Crew, tank-style, in 1945. I suppose that's one of the best ways to apply wartime experience- folklore entertainment! They even have a driver that can't really see!
"Mist! We lost the war! This entire company is going to go bankrupt, and there are no more jobs for tank operators."
"Hey, what if we operated a dragon instead?"
"...Ja, that might work."
This means Disneyland could feasibly have a functional AT-TE (Republic Walker) from Star Wars
If Disney was smart, they would have had different lands in each park: Tatooine in Orlando (full sized Falcon), Hoth in California (full size AT-AT, snowspeeders), Endor in Paris,(AT-ST, speeder bike attraction) perhaps. This would definitely help get more traffic to the parks, and make a lot more sense.
I'm not crazy about Star Wars anymore but I do have a lego AT-TE. Seeing one IRL would not be an unwelcome experience. :3
@@joes9954 kinda like the "Europa-Park"
It's the second most popular theme park in Europe but instead of having Tatooine or Hoth It's themed after the different European countries
@@joes9954 Well, sure, but it'd be really hard to recreate the weather for Tatooine and Hoth.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Give it a bit. We'll cause a nuclear winter yet.
i can only imagine the city council meeting where they proposed the new dragon before 2010. "Yea we know the last one was like 2m tall and everyone knew its just 2 guys in a costume... soooo how will we get safety approval for errrr... 10 Tons and house sized fire breathing monstrostity freely walking?" "You what mate ?"
Imagine this tech being used to make a life sized animatronic sauropod that would walk around the front of a museum.
Amazing engineering, I also love the visual design! It really does look life-like.
0:44 - When a German says "we had this until 1945" you know the full story as to why already
It was burned by the Americans
Can't tell you how happy it makes me, and how fitting it is, that the largest walking robot is in fact a dragon
Wow, a lot of people don’t realize the challenge but so much weight on only two legs can easily break asphalt and roads if not done right!
As he mentioned; it always had three legs on the ground at any one moment. But yes, weight concentration on relatively small concentrated spots could be an issue.
@@EthicsGradient I would expect the next version to use modern light weight materials to reduce the problem. Not that anything is going to make something that big truly light weight.
I'm willing to guess the next version will ditch diesel for lithium ion (maybe LiFePO4 for safety), probably split between the feet to keep the center of mass low. You can't really split a diesel engine into 4 pieces and have it still run very easily, and I feel like battery tech has improved a lot since 2010.
@@rpavlik1 it depends on how long they need to run it between charges. Batteries get heavy fast. Of course by the time they build it, there may be light weight batteries available. In that case I agree completely.
@@rpavlik1 Not sure if putting the batteries into the feet is the best idea, because then you have to lift them with each step.
Really cool! I love your recent tour of animatronics and big installations, really drives the recent progress in technology and engineering home!
The attention to detail is insane! For example, I love how its pupils dilate when it closes its eyes. That probably took me by surprise the most
I thought it would be like that elephant but then when the transporter vehicle moved out the way I was seriously impressed!
"I kill where I wish and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, Thief in the Shadows!"
-Smaug, 'The Hobbit'.
So you're saying that for €2.3 million I could buy a huge dragon robot, powered by (I assume) a 2.0 liter Volkswagen TDI engine? I guess it's time to start saving up
The smoke pouring from the nostils... what a gorgeous awakening.
that's awesome, the walking algorithm just checks the position of all the other parts then performs it's calculation of how to move based on the location of everything else... but i wonder if it is constantly checking and recalculating as it performs the movement or if it blocks out input that would throw it off until after it completes the movement function with all the parameters it had to begin with
I'm most amazed by the fact that they could make this in 2 million euros
It was a special deal because the manufacturer is in a neighboring city and the ceo grew up there or something like that
@@ThefalleStrat The City's Mayor is also an Engineer and worked at the company that built it - i think there were some favors involved :)
@@Sprengi86 Its the other way round. The guy who was leading the building team became mayor afterwards.
It was also partly a marketing strategy for Zollner, the company that built it.
Because who else can say that they made the biggest walking robot on earth
City B: We'll let you have, even help you build a Dragon.
City A: If this works out we'll train it to defend your city too.!
Your video is the reason i immediately bought tickets for this years show. It actually not really far from my hometown and i never heard of it.
Interesting - 20+ years ago, I helped work on a free standing quadrep dino robot for a theme park. We never really got to unleash it in the parks however because the lawyers got very, very nervous about it being out in the public.
This is exactly why I'm raising my eyebrow at the recent "robot breaks child's finger at chess tournament" story. Who lets a human in a robot's working volume without a very good emergency stop switch?
@@rpavlik1 When I was on my high school’s robotics team, we did all sorts of things like that.
Getting smacked by a robot was just a fact of life, and although we only had a few actual injuries, cuts and scrapes were a daily occurrence.
Plus life, uh, finds a way
@@jamesharding3459 sure, but that's not a professional robotics environment. The kid wasn't part of the development team either, I assume.
Oh, this is so cool! I live near Furth and have been behind the scenes of the festival :D
Imagine if the robot was also 400 years old
It would probably have a lot of opinions on catholics
@@leow.2162 That would be an ecumenical matter.
What they don't want you to know is... it is.
Germany is one of the most technologically advanced countries, yet they just use it to build large dragons for festivals.
Imagine if we could send this bad boy back in time and get reactions from people in the medieval era. This robot is just gorgeous and terrifying.
Guess where the stories originated ;-)
@@sonkeschluter3654 oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! grandfather paradox!
Heck, just go back with walkie-talkies and you'd get burned as a witch!
They control the beast! SORCERY! WITCHCRAFT! DEVILRY!
"Dragon Operator" has to be the coolest job title in the world
Phenomenal! An absolute wonder of robotics, along with a fantastic tradition. My sister lives in Germany near a town where virtually all the secondary school kids (and some adults) are involved in a centuries old biannual festival. The floats are at professional standards, as are the kids who act out the story. They know how to organise a grand festival in Germany!
TIL that buying an awesome robotic dragon costs about as much as paving one mile of a road.
WHY DOESN’T EVERY TOWN HAVE A DRAGON??
We could have robotic town-mascots fights. My town has a griffin in the crest... I'd bet on that one
Ah, the new robot looks so cool. I watched the festival years ago with the previous version. It was really fun. :)
1:37 slowly but surely supported only, damn tom is a fine poet
Imagine if Boston Dynamics scaled their famous 4-legged bots waaaaaay up
Square cube law, sadly, but would be cool
(they would have to be a lot more stocky and thicker and have more mass at the bottom of their body than the top which is the opposite of what they do now)
Robot Dragon to follow up on a mechanized elephant, so awesome.
A dragon-slaying festival? That has to be the most german thing I ever heard. Our national epic starts with the slaying of a dragon.
I'm german, why didn't I know this existed? I looked at the pictures from the festival. The Knight attacks the dragon on horseback. How cool is that!
Well, that's the best acting I've ever seen out of Bundrobot Cyberbatch yet, its so cool he shows up once a year over the past 400 years for this..
Great job guys
imagine sending that back in the middle ages
This is one of the coolest robotics related videos you've done, if not the coolest!
Oh sure, when I suggested that my town build a giant, walking dragon robot i get laughed at. These folks actually go and do it!
And my town has a real castle in it!
Now you've got a video to point to.
As a German I love how often Tom comes here.
That dragon is insane! It looks scarily realistic. Awestruck.
Not. really.
@@ExtremCoxer it doesn’t? Compared to what? A real dragon?!
@@ExtremCoxer Explain then, please. I’d like to hear your reasoning.
Amazing construction.
I like how all of the staff has an emergency stop button.
Just in case.
When i saw the dragon rolling out on its carrier i was like oh cool it one of those ''walking'' sculptures made up like a dragon, does look a little squat though? oh it probably has hydraulics in the belly to lift it to standing..... and than it actually stood and i went HOLY SH*T THATS AN AMAZING PIECE OF ENGINEERING
This town clearly _LOVES_ it's dragon slaying festival.
So what do you do for a living?
Oh I just spear a dragon every now and then
I did NOT expect that thing to get up and start walking. Amazing!
That is soo fuckin cool !!! Dude imagine being a kid and seeing this live. It would've made my whole life to see this live as a child who loved dragons and high fantasy books.
As a german it's really funny how Tom pronounces "Furth im Wald" in the beginning as if it was one word. :D love the video, keep it up!
Listen to the way the Further Dragon operator Stefan says Furth im Wald at about 48 seconds - like one word. In normal conversation they do say it like one word.
I like that he's willing to think about the next thousand years of "spear the dragon" but we all know this town would still do it if things were down to a wheel barrow and a blanket again.
This goes straight on the list of things to see with the toddler
I bet there were thousands of people arguing that tax money must not be spend on a fire breathing robot. I love that they did it anyways!!
Furth im Wald only has around 8000 inhabitants ... and about 0 of them would argue against it, we love our dragon ;)
I respect you more than any other UA-camr, do with that as you will :)
It may be slow, but it looks more realistic than some of the CGI abominations of the last several years.
I cracked up when I saw the side of the dragon with sculpted claws, convincing scales... and a entirely correct E-stop :-)
It's a great feeling seeing Tom visiting places almost next to where I live! All these great places around the world and today's one is Furth in Wald! Excellent pronounciation by the way
Man, imagine the kind of mobility this thing could have if they built it from lighter materials and stronger motors...stuff like this is why I wish I had a robotics class/workshop as a kid.
I’ve never been to Germany, but this looks more fascinating than going to Disneyland.
If this keeps going, at some point they'll have a legitimate bio-engineered dragon
I love that this is a thing, they could've just kept it low key with a parade float but they built a walking dragon instead.
Tax payers money well spend.
The company that constructed it is In a neighboring city and they made a special deal or smthn like that
Unlike what our tax money in America goes to. Wish we’d do something like this instead.
@@DoiInthanon1897 Be the change you want to see in the world.
Campaign on building a Robot Dragon in your county election
its crazy that it feels like 2010 was not that long ago when its actually been 12 years
I dont understand why you're talking like "400-year-old dragon-slaying festival" isnt incredibly cool in its own right
yoooo, i was there when i was a little german bub, it was awesome seeing that massive thing walking along and breathing fire live... it's really gigantic
I'd love to see how they actually engineered this, get a look at the inside.
Wait. So that King of the Hill episode was based on this probably? That's neat
There's something to be said for tradition, but let's face it, if medieval people could have done this, they would have.
It's amazing to see something that actually _walks_ , rather than just another collection of mechanisms bolted to a wheeled frame.
I love the iterative upgrades. Can't wait to see the next one in 50 years
I'm delighted, thanks for sharing this.
Have already visited the drachenstich it´s a one in a livetime experience! absolutely amazing
Imagine robots in 400 years time.
And 400 years later-robots have replaced humans.