MIT: robot weights less than one-fourth of a penny. me: please, MIT, one of the world's most respected universities, can you use existing units of measurement
@@avatarxs9377 Not if you've never held an American penny before. I don't know what size they are or what material they're made of, so telling me they're 1/4 the weight of a penny means nothing to me. If you tell me something weighs 10 grams, I can visualize it as roughly 10ml of water. I've seen, measured, and interacted with water.
0:23 : "The rectangular microrobot which weighs less than one fourth of a penny..." You americans will use literally anything to measure and describe properties of mass except for the metric system, won't you?
Its just easier to understand something when it is related to something in your everyday life. Like I have no idea how heavy 0.625 grams is or even 0.022 ounces is, but I have a decent idea of the weight of one fourth the weight of a penny.
@@0osk Yes, I know and I fully understand that it's much easier to imagine it this way (for people who see this object daily). Don't take my previous comment too seriously, I was just making another joke about americans and the metric system lol
@@ashishshah6730 not really am not applying this year. I completed highschool this year November and I'm taking a gap year to figure things out, I'll apply by August next year
I know it's science fiction but in the Battletech universe the battlemechs (Mecha/Robots) are powered by a fusion reactor and they use what is called Myomer fibre which is a electrically activated stretchy cord that contracts when a current is passed through it This elastomer product is a step in this same direction
appearently 6G could supply power via electromagnetic frequencies, this could power many IOT devices, possibly flies with mini cameras and a microphone
Amazing tech, amazing video. Thank you for explaining things accurately while still managing to keep it simple for the average person to understand exactly what work is being done here. This is propper communication. Neri Oxman tends to have an issue explaining things simply like what was done here, even though she works at MIT. It is a real shame, because the work she and her team are doing is really amazing as well, but it is communicated in non simple terms almost in a pretentious way. Great video though seriously. This is actually really cool.
@@UmamiPapi ATVs, bikes and Tanks perform well in off-road conditions. The point being that if you have to carry a lot of load at high speeds you won't use a horse or a machine that copies horses.
I feel like I've seen this done a dozen ways by a dozen different teams. They all leave out one critical component, power. None of these sorts of things fly under their own power. No battery, no engine, no reaction... They're all propelled by something external, in this case the copper wires supplying a "low voltage". I'm all for miniaturization but wouldn't it be better to take the smallest existing drones (which are pretty small to begin with) and work on further miniaturizing that? I could see the tech behind it being useful in medicine maybe but the whole "look we made a bug thing fly for 2 seconds" is getting old.
Powering is definitely a hard problem to solve as the battery is often the heaviest component in the system, but being so small means they could work without a battery. Photovolatic cells come to mind. They could be powered by ambient light, or a tracking laser.
the year is 2030 the government has purchased bug sized drones , now when you squish a bug you're thrown in jail and owe the government $100,000 for every bug you squish.
I watched the transcendental film for the second time, but now I realize that humanity is really moving towards unbelievable discoveries and technological developments.
I have made an FM transmitter that is smaller than the size of a wing of that. The problem for them as well as for my transmitter is the battery that is way, way heavier than the item.
as i understand it, this tech can be back driven to generate tiny voltages when the material is stretched mechanically. this is pretty old tech from around 2001 or so if its the same thing i'm thinking of, but no one made anything useful from it back then. i heard about it from an attempt to use a massive matrix of these things to charge a battery from your body heat.
I want to scale that shit up so I can have dragonfly wings. make the backpack unit come with a tail that just has rows of power cells down it for flight time
They should create a “spinner” vacuum integrated module so they can stretch the material without air being present. This may eliminate the bubbles, unless a device like that is too expensive or obtuse to create.
The whole video seems pretty layman, there aren't any specifics given at all. Like, anyone who has worked with elastomers, even silicone for crafts, knows that you can put elastomers in a vacuum to remove bubbles, but the video presents it like it's some kind of new discovery.
@@Immortal_BP I did google it. That does not mean I could not also write the comment. It's not about being a pedant (that would be if I said that they should specify whether they mean pre-1983 penny or post-1983 penny, since apparently they have different mass, as I learned when googling it; but I assume they mean post-1983 penny), but about the fundamental problem of having to google it in the first place. It disturbs the flow of the video if I have to pause and google these random factoids, and it could be easily remedied, if they said (or even just written) the mass in some normal units. Yes, I know the point was that it's a small mass, and it should not really matter whether they say 1/4 of a penny or "less than a penny" or whatever. But still, it's MIT, and I would assume the MIT being famous engineering institution would present the facts in a concise manner, not obscured by some pseudounits.
I think this is the same one, it’s a tube that contracts and has graphite. Either way, progress in these cylinders and attached wings is great. It is the same tubes. Cool
MIT has always amaze me, but why are the only featured projects, the military ones? Im sure they are doing well in the prosthetic development or another non-military applications.
This project has many applications, though. First of all, you could use them for pollination in the absence of bees, which would not only help agricultural areas where pollution (electromagnetic and otherwise) has reduced their number, but also help prevent hybridization and allow greater control over the process. -Military applications do get researchers a lot of funding, though.-
@@rektifyr... bees are literally the worst pollinators around, actively attacking other pollinators and plants that they dont intend to pollinate. having a farm near some asshole reaering bees, means every few days his bees are going to drop seeds for shit you dont want, in your farm, while systematically chewing away the main stem of your crops to get rid of them. dont believe the bullshit bee farmers tell you, their little bastards do nothing but harm the environment.
"The more surface area the actuator has the less voltage is requires" - that's the key focus o this research, which is about maximising actuator performance. Now, i would imagine that at some point they will be able to run at so small voltages that onboard energy storage like a battery will become feasible. But I doubt it will be current li-ion technology as its not energy dense enough. Perhaps when the good solid state polimer batter comes in, that will solve the problem.
I know you are thinking about your favourite insect, we are there yet. Sorry if the research did not make it clear, bt they are excited on an advancement on another area that may get us there tooo of you are patient enuf. As for current energy requirements, battery is heavy
... of course dont you know drones already exist lmao, if you think bug sized drones dont already exist then you are really downplaying the technology of nations that are kept under wraps
absolute nightmare, first it's the nanochips that you can implant, then metaverse, now flying bug sized robots. why can't you invent something that isn't sure to be used for pure evil purposes?
I have an idea of how to build a micro robot that can evolve rapidly to infect and kill its host. It would be completely programmable as well and I’d be able to communicate with them over satellite. I could keep track of the number of people infected and then push a button that kills billions simultaneously.
Why there is need when FINISH spin-coating and then vacuuming, instead of spin-coating inside of vacuuming pot and if they use higher speed it could be more thinner ???? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔Because there will be no air inside the elastomer to begin with it will be pure elastomer 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔. Well i am just stupid guy ask a question if this is possible.
Mhm, and what about power source? We don't need no better electrical to machanical energy conversion but hundreds or even thousands percent increase in energy density of power sources to make things fly and be practical. And there is little to none of new working and cheap solutions.
Almost everything can go wrong in countless ways. Some tiny spy robot would probably not pose a threat to people's privacy or enable mass surveillance since people willingly give away their data and the same thing can be achieved with cheaper/easier methods.
You'd think someone doing the writing for a script on something from MIT would know that it's CENTRIPETAL force. CENTRIFUGAL "force" isn't a real force.
MIT: robot weights less than one-fourth of a penny.
me: please, MIT, one of the world's most respected universities, can you use existing units of measurement
Lol
but isn't it easier to visualise than for example 10 grams?
A penny is 2.5 grams
@@avatarxs9377 Not if you've never held an American penny before. I don't know what size they are or what material they're made of, so telling me they're 1/4 the weight of a penny means nothing to me.
If you tell me something weighs 10 grams, I can visualize it as roughly 10ml of water. I've seen, measured, and interacted with water.
@@matthewmullin8168 thanks
There’s no way this technology will ever be misused.
Yeah right! ;) Jst kiddin', right?!
It's too late to worry, man. It's all been a slide towards the singularity since the conception of language.
@@maraclementine560 yes ;:)
You can say that about every piece of technology ever created.
I'm sure they're just making prosthetic wings for disabled flies or something lol
0:23 : "The rectangular microrobot which weighs less than one fourth of a penny..."
You americans will use literally anything to measure and describe properties of mass except for the metric system, won't you?
Its just easier to understand something when it is related to something in your everyday life. Like I have no idea how heavy 0.625 grams is or even 0.022 ounces is, but I have a decent idea of the weight of one fourth the weight of a penny.
@@0osk Yes, I know and I fully understand that it's much easier to imagine it this way (for people who see this object daily). Don't take my previous comment too seriously, I was just making another joke about americans and the metric system lol
@@0osk we don't have pennies in Canada, but we do have grams 🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴
Wow, just wow, MIT I'm coming for you. I seriously hope I get in next year
Did you get an admit already? The application cycle hast just started lol. So fast.
@@ashishshah6730 not really am not applying this year. I completed highschool this year November and I'm taking a gap year to figure things out, I'll apply by August next year
No, not really. I'm from a country in the central part of Africa called ‘Zambia’. But why ❔
@@jonathanmoonga3479 just wanted to know
@@jonathanmoonga3479 Good luck! I am sure the MIT cares about international representation and will give you a fair chance!
This makes me wonder how a fly or mosquito can fly so fast and so annoying and reproduce. What a complex structure such creature has possessed.
(Natural selection + autocatalytic cycles + billions of years) > Human ingenuity
@@chucknorris3752 well tbf we are close to replicating that with a much shorter timeline
@@chucknorris3752 We're doing in hundreds of years what took nature billions.
@@canadianbluepants9446 nope we are very far away
@@chucknorris3752 you really think nature can do anything?
all fancy high tech words but when you talk about its weight you say "it weighs less than 1/4 of a penny"
I imagine this tech could best be used in bionics rather than drones
Well since they probably define best by most money made you're probably wrong 🤣
@@KN-cool I think a prosthetic with a synthetic muscle is going to pull a lot more money than a drone
@@matthewmullin8168 drones help create more people who need prosthetics so I guess it's a win win 🏆
@@matthewmullin8168 the Military would like to disagree
@@moisesrodriguez9007 the global Healthcare industry would like to disagree, plus you could make robotic infantry soldiers with the same tech.
I know it's science fiction but in the Battletech universe the battlemechs (Mecha/Robots) are powered by a fusion reactor and they use what is called Myomer fibre which is a electrically activated stretchy cord that contracts when a current is passed through it
This elastomer product is a step in this same direction
It may be a step ahead, material-wise
What's dope is that fiction is really just us making simulations of a possible reality. We all know how much star trek predicted.
@@ubberJakerz
Aluminum glass.
Useful for constructing blue whale sized aquarium on board the Enterprise.
Great progress! Super talented team :) Cant wait for more results
can i get a free churro
Looks like a team of Chinese students
@@pzan49 ?
Now I am sure that Secret agencies have a lot more tech toys than we imagine!
Waiting for this to be asked in SAT 2022 in science passage
Very cool! Would be interesting to see how y'all plan to power them, without being tethered!
appearently 6G could supply power via electromagnetic frequencies, this could power many IOT devices, possibly flies with mini cameras and a microphone
Is 500V low voltage?!? How is this different from the current literature on thin DEAs?
We'll soon have an army of robot fighting mosquitoes and flies.
No just humans for now. Robots won't pick our side bud
It helps to vacuum your goop before application too and maybe think about building a vac chamber around that centrifuge.
MIT is looking for you
"Less than on fourth of a penny" Oh okay, I'll go watch something else then.
I have nine years and I'm all ready thinking about going to MIT to study
Everyone can wish for whatever they want no matter hold old you are
They are very confident in their manufacturing that they didn't keep it as a secret
Ceylon
I graduated from MIT in 1969. I miss my college life.,
Perfect example of a seemingly benign achievement in science that may lead to a dystopian future and constant surveillance.
MIT has a fetish with military.
Micro robot assasinations would be funny tho. Seeing leaders in bee costumes walking outside xD
Amazing tech, amazing video. Thank you for explaining things accurately while still managing to keep it simple for the average person to understand exactly what work is being done here. This is propper communication. Neri Oxman tends to have an issue explaining things simply like what was done here, even though she works at MIT. It is a real shame, because the work she and her team are doing is really amazing as well, but it is communicated in non simple terms almost in a pretentious way. Great video though seriously. This is actually really cool.
biology is just the most advanced robots that can exist
No. A robot doesn't need to copy life in order to achieve the same or better result. Cars don't copy horses if you know what I mean.
@@abhishekdev258 in steps the cybord stingray
this sentence doesn't even make sense lol
@@abhishekdev258 Cars only perform well with roads.
@@UmamiPapi ATVs, bikes and Tanks perform well in off-road conditions. The point being that if you have to carry a lot of load at high speeds you won't use a horse or a machine that copies horses.
I feel like I've seen this done a dozen ways by a dozen different teams. They all leave out one critical component, power. None of these sorts of things fly under their own power. No battery, no engine, no reaction... They're all propelled by something external, in this case the copper wires supplying a "low voltage". I'm all for miniaturization but wouldn't it be better to take the smallest existing drones (which are pretty small to begin with) and work on further miniaturizing that? I could see the tech behind it being useful in medicine maybe but the whole "look we made a bug thing fly for 2 seconds" is getting old.
Powering is definitely a hard problem to solve as the battery is often the heaviest component in the system, but being so small means they could work without a battery. Photovolatic cells come to mind. They could be powered by ambient light, or a tracking laser.
@@dsp4392 Thats really interesting thank you for bringing it up!
radioactive graphite battery coming to a flying wasp drone near you, soon
This might be the dumbest comment I've seen yet.
Depending on application, wireless is an option, hopefully with not too much more antenna than the wire already being lifted.
the year is 2030 the government has purchased bug sized drones , now when you squish a bug you're thrown in jail and owe the government $100,000 for every bug you squish.
Sweet! Getting closer to that Black Mirror bee episode :-)
Many applications........... that we prefer not to mention....
I watched the transcendental film for the second time, but now I realize that humanity is really moving towards unbelievable discoveries and technological developments.
1:06 great now all you need to do is charge the atmosphere everywhere around so he could fly charge free.. wires free
I have made an FM transmitter that is smaller than the size of a wing of that. The problem for them as well as for my transmitter is the battery that is way, way heavier than the item.
Where did I hear that sound before?
Now i want a million of these tied to a chair with fishing line to carry me
MIT is where its at. No other university even comes close.
as i understand it, this tech can be back driven to generate tiny voltages when the material is stretched mechanically. this is pretty old tech from around 2001 or so if its the same thing i'm thinking of, but no one made anything useful from it back then. i heard about it from an attempt to use a massive matrix of these things to charge a battery from your body heat.
Cool... now imagine a swarm of these armed with nerve agent stings.
Can't wait to have bugs having bugs, this is going to be great!
Love to be alive with micro robot assasinations on leaders. :D
I want to scale that shit up so I can have dragonfly wings. make the backpack unit come with a tail that just has rows of power cells down it for flight time
They should create a “spinner” vacuum integrated module so they can stretch the material without air being present. This may eliminate the bubbles, unless a device like that is too expensive or obtuse to create.
Looks like with like 200 more years of work and larger scaling, the Omnithopter from dune can work!
0:24 How much is it in grams?
Apparently a penny is now a unit of measurement at MIT
"...weighs 1/4 of a penny..."
I am sorry, but this is even worse than using imperial units... how can this be used in a scientific video?
The whole video seems pretty layman, there aren't any specifics given at all. Like, anyone who has worked with elastomers, even silicone for crafts, knows that you can put elastomers in a vacuum to remove bubbles, but the video presents it like it's some kind of new discovery.
just google the weight of a penny instead of being a pedant in the comments
@@Immortal_BP I did google it. That does not mean I could not also write the comment.
It's not about being a pedant (that would be if I said that they should specify whether they mean pre-1983 penny or post-1983 penny, since apparently they have different mass, as I learned when googling it; but I assume they mean post-1983 penny), but about the fundamental problem of having to google it in the first place. It disturbs the flow of the video if I have to pause and google these random factoids, and it could be easily remedied, if they said (or even just written) the mass in some normal units.
Yes, I know the point was that it's a small mass, and it should not really matter whether they say 1/4 of a penny or "less than a penny" or whatever. But still, it's MIT, and I would assume the MIT being famous engineering institution would present the facts in a concise manner, not obscured by some pseudounits.
@@panda4247 now you are being pedant about being pedant hahaha
@@Immortal_BP yes. sorry for trying to explain my thoughts... apparently it does not do well in the internet conversations...
First birds, now I have to be skeptical of bugs, great
MMMMHHHHHH already see how this could be a problem
How could this be a 'problem'?
Do the spin coating process while under vacuum. Cutting out a process and most likely creating a better product.
They get the right resources they need which is the only reason they get successful in their projects
I think this is the same one, it’s a tube that contracts and has graphite. Either way, progress in these cylinders and attached wings is great.
It is the same tubes. Cool
MIT has always amaze me, but why are the only featured projects, the military ones? Im sure they are doing well in the prosthetic development or another non-military applications.
This project has many applications, though. First of all, you could use them for pollination in the absence of bees, which would not only help agricultural areas where pollution (electromagnetic and otherwise) has reduced their number, but also help prevent hybridization and allow greater control over the process.
-Military applications do get researchers a lot of funding, though.-
@@rektifyr... bees are literally the worst pollinators around, actively attacking other pollinators and plants that they dont intend to pollinate. having a farm near some asshole reaering bees, means every few days his bees are going to drop seeds for shit you dont want, in your farm, while systematically chewing away the main stem of your crops to get rid of them. dont believe the bullshit bee farmers tell you, their little bastards do nothing but harm the environment.
Mit,one of your best students in history is coming.
Everybody will have to get a fly-swatting robot to get rid of those.
So basically they're trying to build a Housefly 🤗
i’ve seen that one episode of black mirror, im all set
That was like the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen
If it’s just becoming public knowledge that something like this can exist… I’m sure little robot bugs have been around for at least a decade or two.
yea definately
no they still have a big power problem that's why this is tethered
I can just see that episode of Black Mirror with the bees coming to life
The perfect work and experiment🙂
In the testing it looks like they are using external power. Do we have the tech to make the power source local on the device itself?
"The more surface area the actuator has the less voltage is requires" - that's the key focus o this research, which is about maximising actuator performance. Now, i would imagine that at some point they will be able to run at so small voltages that onboard energy storage like a battery will become feasible. But I doubt it will be current li-ion technology as its not energy dense enough. Perhaps when the good solid state polimer batter comes in, that will solve the problem.
@@sodalitia or maybe just directly powered through induction
@@jacksonzheng3103 Nah, a giant solar powered space laser is way more elegant solution in that application.
I know you are thinking about your favourite insect, we are there yet. Sorry if the research did not make it clear, bt they are excited on an advancement on another area that may get us there tooo of you are patient enuf. As for current energy requirements, battery is heavy
... of course dont you know drones already exist lmao, if you think bug sized drones dont already exist then you are really downplaying the technology of nations that are kept under wraps
"Weights less than 1/4 of a penny"
The fuck?
absolute nightmare, first it's the nanochips that you can implant, then metaverse, now flying bug sized robots. why can't you invent something that isn't sure to be used for pure evil purposes?
I have an idea of how to build a micro robot that can evolve rapidly to infect and kill its host. It would be completely programmable as well and I’d be able to communicate with them over satellite. I could keep track of the number of people infected and then push a button that kills billions simultaneously.
@@BimmerWon u watch a lot of movies
@@rays3995 no not really.
And that’s how a plumbus is made
Scientist build bug robot.
The Nations: can we weponize it
impressive but it's always about the batteries
we have progressed so much and yet we can't take care of this issue
the future is gonna be scary AF.
Great, now I’ll be swatting away real flies and robot flies. Where’s the emp bug zapper.
Imagine what DARPA is doing behind closed doors.
That's cool but now make a big one for my back so i can fly chief
That is totally awesome as well as totally terrified
beautiful work guys!!!
Just think the amount of intel this thing can bring if they are fitted with microphones.
Just speculating here but even once you can sustain lift, you’re still tethered to the power source… is someone working on that too?
I just have a question that "what is the use of end result of these toys"?
what is the elastomer here?
Why there is need when FINISH spin-coating and then vacuuming, instead of spin-coating inside of vacuuming pot and if they use higher speed it could be more thinner ???? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔Because there will be no air inside the elastomer to begin with it will be pure elastomer 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔. Well i am just stupid guy ask a question if this is possible.
That's where all the funds of MIT goes !
All I learnt from this video is that now I have to assume that every insect I see around my home is a CIA drone.
Insect drone surveillance is the thing Im waiting in the near future,
why not just spin coat under vacuum?
1:25 - the centrifugal force is a figment of your imagination
Get a centrifuge with a vacuum pump attachment
Mhm, and what about power source? We don't need no better electrical to machanical energy conversion but hundreds or even thousands percent increase in energy density of power sources to make things fly and be practical. And there is little to none of new working and cheap solutions.
Right now that thing could probably only carry a battery big enough to power it for 5 seconds
Casually publishes full method in under 2 min 30, what legends! With the advancement of MEMS, I look forward to more otherworldly micro robots
Anyone know the song/background music?
..."which would open the door to many applications for these insect-sized robots."
Like what?
Well, here we go, fly spies or kamikase flies on their way.
humm, it is tethered anyway
Did anyone else think their PlayStation was running because of the background audio.
Increíble, definitivamente se nota el ingenio y talento que poseen.
And so the great plan proceeds
so what I'm getting from this is that robotic arms will be a thing
Or centripigul force?
Exciting progress! What drive voltage were they able to use with the 20 layers?
1000
as cool as it is, what are some of the real life application for this technology?
Artificial insect to pollinated plants
Probably surveillance and delivery of materials to living and non-living things surreptitiously.
Bug themed flying supervillains
Mostly spying, that's a fact!
Micro assassination and spy purposes
Mosquitoes we're coming for you.
great! Now add a camera on it. And start complaining about this technology and its privacy concerns.
This is scary... Big Brother.
They’ll have their flying syringes one way or another eh?
this can not go wrong in any possible way, especially if it gets a camera put on it.
Almost everything can go wrong in countless ways. Some tiny spy robot would probably not pose a threat to people's privacy or enable mass surveillance since people willingly give away their data and the same thing can be achieved with cheaper/easier methods.
Narrator: 1/4th of a penny
non-Americans: thanks a lot
Great! Now I’ve got to add a bug zapper to my tinfoil hat!
Make me wonder how gnats fly so damn long and still reproduce being smaller than this. No batteries required!
You'd think someone doing the writing for a script on something from MIT would know that it's CENTRIPETAL force. CENTRIFUGAL "force" isn't a real force.