Artificially Intelligent Animals Powered By The Wind
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- Опубліковано 19 гру 2020
- In this video I talk about artificially intelligent animals called Stranbeesten (Dutch for beach animals). I show you how they walk and move when you blow on them. Then I talk about how art can actually further scientific knowledge.
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The central goal of mechanical engineering is "how do I make this thing spin usefully"
mind blown
Or rather "how so I usefully harvest the energy of this spinning thing?
Or how do I make this slide usefully or how do I make this bounce usefully
@@okboing most of the time it's spinning. Since it is one of the most stable movement and also with the least friction.
@@pi6141 true true
I remember reading somewhere that NASA was thinking of a probe like this for exploring Venus
Yes! Check out Anton Petrov's video on it: ua-cam.com/video/wkMoVxM0qMM/v-deo.html
@Eric VandenAvond Anyway, do u know of any research inspired by these strandbeest? I mean looks like branches of pure mathematics like Automata theory or graph theory should look into these.
@Hugh Surname_Xx420xX Yes, venus has hurricane scale wind. And it rains sulfuric acid. Great vacation spot.
@Hugh Surname_Xx420xX Engineers learn to evaluate the fail tolerance of their design back in the Eng school, long before they join NASA.
@@twobitbandit7603 sulphurous acid*
MAN THOSE MOVEMENTS LOOKED SOO ORGANIC!!
Right!?!?!
@@Sciencedoneright I change MY SUBJECT TO CLASSICAL MECHANIC :)
@@nguyenhoanglong420 oh hello Lee Ruan
@@Sciencedoneright yeah
USDA Certified!
I actually saw one of the strandbeest in the Netherlands! We then listens to a lecture and at was super cool! (It was also in Dutch)
Ohhh Wow
sick maar heb je foto staand?
Nl
@@joey6923 yeah. Did you understand the lecture? (I assume is what this says in dutch)
@@NeonNijahn i said: sick, but do you have a pic of you standing
Art+Engineering=Awesomeness
For sure
@@chinmay1682 not always
@@mrbeast5740 yes always
@@ViratKohli-jj3wj no
XD yeh
I met this guy on a makerfaire in the Netherlands years ago. He built some air pressure powered ones, too.
They had plastic bottles mounted on them as pressure vessels.
This is what I want for christmas.
Same but I might build one out of popsicle sticks if it is possible.
@@mayaalvarez205 don't forget a fan
@@mayaalvarez205 or gears
They actually have kits you can buy to make these.
yeah, there are kits and 3d printed models. I recommend the kits as the included magzine is part of the fun. The 3d printed model is kind of a tech demonstration of how little post processing you have to do to get it running.
The ones he releases on the beach are amazing to watch in real life. The movement is just uncanny and lifelike.
I fear no man...
But that thing... *Strandbeest*
It scares me
Yea same
"strandbeesten" might be a plural word but I am not sure. I think it would either be "strandbeests" or "the strandbeest".
@@outandabout259 it is strandbeest usually
@@outandabout259 I intentionally did it this way so it is more recognizeable. I am dutch myself and can confirm it is indeed plural. Strandbeest would be the single form.
@@limboxis1022 yeah that's what I thought and that's why your comment caught my eye. "that thing... It scares me" referring to multiple things is grammatically incorrect and looks therefore a bit strange.
sow the real full size one at an exhibition in a museum. The mechanics in the original are way more complex with the wind used to compress air in bottles, and the compressed air used for motion.
It is something incredible, and very organic
It's not artificial life, it's an artificial tumble weed.
But still cool. And at a larger scale, could allow for self powered mobile wind farms that can adjust to wind direction or location in a large open area.
Imagine large portions of dessert with roving wind farms that store energy in cargo container sized batteries that get changed out by electric trucks every time they get full.
Drop those at smart charging stations, previously known as gas stations, and have the station hooked into the grid so you can draw on it to help mitigate brownouts and blackouts and so you have less strain on the grid from the increasing number of electric cars and the energy needed to move all those new electric cars is partially mitigated by the clean wind energy. Combined with solar technology on the stations and cargo containers themselves and you can further mitigate the cost carbon cost of powering more electric vehicles.
Bro you are going somewhere
The logistics of such a concept is a pipedream. How would they be contained from running onto highways? Does the power generated by these roaming wind farms outweigh the energy required to collect it? The main problem with solar and wind is their intermittency, i.e., you only get power when the sun shines, and the wind blows. Hydro-electric and geothermal are great but are limited by location. The only renewable resource that is scaleable to power everything is nuclear energy, but it would put all the other energy companies out of business due to its insanely low cost. That's why the world mainly uses coal, oil, and natural gas. They are scalable to any location, have a high energy density, and keep the economy booming. Until one of these renewable resources can meet or exceed these attributes, nonrenewables will continue to dominate.
Frankly, if you're planning to do mobile power stations, you might as well make them battery-powered and give them some electronics.
I dont get why they would need to move when you could just make a wind farm in one place that wont have any extra moving parts that will need fixing/replacing. It just seem like an excessively complicated way to achieve the same results as a typical wind farm.
@@pootisdispenser9725 because the wind changes a lot, so for a while there might just be no wind where a permanant turbine is
im no genius but if im not mistaken strandbeest means beach beast
Edit: spelling because yall rude 😔
It does
Yes, it's a dutch word
Lol the fact that you think it’s spelled genious, proves you’re not one.
@@jamesbizs and the fact you are correcting people on the internet means you must do everything perfectly
Lol he accepting he is not 'genious' means he never meant genius and was probably luring people to correct him and increasing replies to his comment which proves the fact that he was genius all that time or probably he is being humble so that no one would ever discover his genius and ask him to invent time travel
Absolutely GENIOUS
if you take a close up you can still hear "I want every gun we have to fire on that man."
Neat stuff, I experimented with the Straandebeest Linkages a while ago to make some RC lego robots, it's really cool and flexible, you can pull out some really elaborate leg movements by shifting the lengths of segments
Wow, I just found your channel and I've been binge watching. You get me excited about understanding the world more.
Wow, this is so cool, I have never seen anything like this. Keep up the good work showing us new and innovative content!
Go google the originals. Some of them are massive.
I love strandbeests! I've been looking for so many videos of them!
I swear when it started moving, it was so creepy lmaoo but cool at the same time
Excellent message at the end of this video. You need to make a whole series of videos about the fusion of art, science, technology and engineering!
These would be a more realistic choice for the "
Mortal Engines" movie.
I recommend the books way more than the movie. It was a great read and its ending was one of the best I remember reading.
Yeah
No, they'd have to handle more load, I think it is more realistic to use wheels. Legs would make them cooler though.
@@animationspace8550 wheels have to roll over obstacles and would therefore use much more energy on uneven terrain than legs which csn simply step over everything so that the main body doesn't need to rock up and down. Wheels would experience much greater forces and would have to be made much more robust than legs.
@@outandabout259 These are massive wheels mate. They won't have to roll over obstacles. *They will run over them.*
I love people trying to pronounce Dutch words😂😂
Kills me every time xD
Americans trying to pronounce any language in particular always sound funny
I asked an American to pronounce meisje and it was like maisjah. Then I asked them to pronounce Mädchen and it was like pronounced in the most American way possible lmao. No offense though, it's just quite funny
Nog een Nederlander
@@BuildaPC4life ja precies
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
An artist has been making these in lags scale for some. AI and “letting them live their own lives” is rather extreme.
once you get artificial intelligences to live their own lives, is it truly artificial?
Theo Jansen. Strandbeest is pretty much Theo Jansens "life work and legacy". But he is the kind of guy who does not mind replicating his ideas - far from it.
If you watch this video and then buy the kit or 3d print one, the strandbeest has managed the hardest part of artificial life: reproducing. You think you can improve the design? Even better - that is called evolution.
i love your vids i have learnt so much
Great video, man :)
I’m looking forward to when solar panels are super efficient. I want to unleash a bunch of well-built, dumb robots into the wild that will just move around for decades or centuries until their parts break down.
god creating life be like
I tinker with whirligigs and have found the Pantanenome wind vane configuration to be particularly useful when I want to capture wind energy from any direction. There has also been very efficient energy turbines using the archimedes screw design that are quite scalable and very safe for birds. I hope to see these tested with your "beasts"
After the one way straw I was expecting you to make one on this. Very very dapper!
..Mad about this Jansen's invention!...Thank you so much for the explanation... . 👏🏼👌🏼👍🏼💙
Not intelligence, clearly wind mechanics!
Ah, Nearly The Same Can Be Said About Humans; Not Intelligence, Just Sodium Transferring.
It took intelligence to build this mechanical structure
dude imagine if that thing walk at 3 am
Its called wind
Thank you! Love this one! Always been fascinated by these Beach creatures! So cool!
This is one of the best channel 👍
This is both terrifying and awesome.
I just think it’s cool how it’s engineered to require so little force to make this entire thing move without anything binding. It’s not as simple as it might appear to do that.
Hypnotic! Really amazing!
I'm Dutch and I laughed at your pronunciation XD
I remember watching a video on these when the guy had first made them and I’ve always thought it was very cool.
Same
Nice movement bro really cool stuff
Really cool!!! I’m studying physics in grad school but I also have backgrounds in art and music. All your experiments are really neat!!!
This is the coolest thing I have seen today and I'm watching right before sleeping.
Cool. Which timezone do you live?
Now to make one that actually turns and can go more directions.
To be fair that wouldn't be toooo hard. It wouldn't be totally random, but you can make systems that have some noise to the way they move simply by adding some massively reduced gear systems that change its behaviour over time. Or you could have ones that will change it significantly in reaction to something, like a sudden gust of wind or storm as an example.
You can make some pretty amazing complex systems using pure mechanics.
The more behaviour changing systems you have, the more life-like it'd feel as it behaves more randomly, it just takes increasingly more space and weight to add.
You could go a step further and combine batteries to allow it to store its own energy for when it isn't windy. It would be pretty interesting to see how long they survived in the wild like that. Of course, at that point you may as well slap an Arduino in it and call it a day lol
He has some of them. What I would love to do is in a desert put ones that change direction to follow the wind.
@@Hunnter2k3 This is exactly why the brain is such powerful tool for all living creatures. All these condition and non condition based things being done without having to take up space, because there isn't any sort of mechanical system needed, just signals from a chunk of flesh.
I saw a strandbesten video the other day. Absolutely fascinating!
Oh... this would be cool for some sort of magi-tech fantasy thing... Thank you for bringing this to my attention!
I find this super interesting, but where would the "Artificially Intelligent" part be?
Just by looking at the design and movement of that object is the part of intelligence
Pay attention to Small details on how it nove.
I think calling it AI is a bit of a stretch, but consider: this is how life works. There's a stimulus (wind) and a response (walking). For the most part, animals just behave in a programmed way (instinct) or conditioned way to a complex of responses. Humans are the same. Except, to some degree humans' responses are so complex and what complexes of stimuli we respond to are so complex that it's just at another level apparently beyond any previously existing thing (other than humans). So, life and intelligence have their fundamental origins here. Everything that exists is just a mechanism, even if a terrifically complex mechanism.
@Kane Lifts LOL well said
@@NickRoman also, that's a really bad definition of intelligence. The "stimulus" and "response" model applies to these walking sticks, but it also applies to me throwing a rock and the rock shattering a window. You could say that I "stimulated" the rock by throwing it, and it "responded" by crashing into a window and destroying it. There is nothing intelligent about applying an input and receiving an output. Any machine can do that. Intelligence is about learning and adapting. That's what separates humans and animals from machines. Our ability to receive an input, and provide a different output based on past experience. For example, if the mechanical stick bug realized that it can only move when the wind is coming from a certain angle, it might adjust its movement over time to ensure that it can always be in a position to catch the wind most effectively. This stick bug however, moves in a straight line. It receives its stimulus and produces the same response every time just like any other machine. There is nothing intelligent or human-like about it.
In your stupid hat.
Yes art!
I have many arts in my home which give me excitement to do more work when I get tired!
Now don't ask what type of art is it :P
What type of art do you have
@@jamesb4110 I might be presumptuous but I think the pfp is a hint
Muy buen video. Explica bien la interacción entre Arte y Ciencia.
"Hey evrybody today I'm goin to be..." That 'today'-saying-tone is a must in every video. Unique too.
Your channel is really underrated!!!!!!!
So true but so good
Nope
underrated *even though he has 2.7million subscribers*
Trying to see where the AI is. I guess my pencil has AI going by this interpretation.
First time hearing about these, pretty cool
Man now I am proud to be a mechanical engineer😁 the one with the fan is super cool... Imaging you could put the fan part on a rotating base and add a tail piece so that the fan always point in the direction of the wind. There for the robot will still walk no matter the wind direction
Fun fact: Strandbeesten is Dutch for 'Beachbeasts'.
I was just thinking the same, cuz i'm dutch
These are the future pets
Deadset the Rhinocerous one looks like a couple of astronauts doing a slo-mo walk down the gangway to the capsule.
I saw the big ones demonstrated at the exploratorium a few years back. Incredibly cool things, they where
Two Words.. “Air Compressor”
Bruh it be sprinting
Seems like the term “AI” my be pushing it for these machines. Lol
Yes such an overused and exploited term
It has as much AI as a whirligig.
It technically is “ai” though
@@tcuty1059 how in light in me (enlighten me) ?
@@tcuty1059 and technically a hair dryer is AI also. It knows when to shut off before burning up.
I don't comment often on any video, I watch then leave...
But this episode is different it is so awesome
Super cool!!
Intresting.....
It looks like raw spaghetti
Thanks, now I can't unsee it
@@69k_gold spider raman soup :(
@@chairwood funfact: Theo Jansen, the inventor, is dutch, but the model kit is made in japan.
Their movement is incredible
The way it walks is so satisfying.
A modified version of this would be excellent for use on Venus, where electronic motors have proven unable to last very long
AHEM where is the wind gonna come from?
Besides it's to hot on venus
looks like and moves like one of those ancient machines in BOTW
What’s botw breath of the wild?
@@agbulph Yes zelda breath of the wild. Those machines are annoying and scary in the beginning
Guardians?
@@increasethefitness8440 oh thanks
It looks like they will kill you with a laser beam.
More efficient and better weight distribution if you put the fan on both sides.
This is some maze runner stuff that will 100% have an uprising in the future and murder me
Im so glad more people are appreciating leo's awesome art 💖
Who is Leo?
@@landsgevaer theo jansen is the person who first made these
@@kiwigaming09 Yes. Hence "who is Leo".
Can we buy these??? Looks so cool
webshop.strandbeest.com/
Fun fact: strandbeest translates to beach beast in Dutch
Very nice! :D
People be commenting under an 8 minute video within 6 minutes
your point being?
@@TheDirge69
They were like "it's crazy, I love such stuff" the whole point of him making this video was how art and engineering together are super innovative..
But all they commented was about the structures.. They didn't watch the full video they just wanted to be one of the first people who commented and missed the whole point of the video
Hey! Where is me-
Oh wait...
Basically anything that has a motor in it can be changed to have a wind motor and appear alive the same way. The cool thing with these structures is that they move harmoniously but would be the same with an electric motor and solar panels
Knap werk
Cool job 👍😎
Petition for these to be animals in Cyberpunk 2077.
Nah, this is SolarPunk.
I've seen documentaries on the guy who invented these. He's a bit eccentric.
Tf does eccentric mean
@@czhefu8950 say you’re doing a bicep curl or a pull-up, the eccentric part is the lowering of the weight: e.g the lowering down of the pull-up. It can be used to overload the muscle as you can add more weight to the movement, because you are stronger on the eccentric.
@@czhefu8950 long story short, weird or odd
@@chrisgoede2714 so using that term as for description means that one guy is strong?
No, it means the guys is odd or weird
I've seen so much stuff about Strandbeests that I'm shocked that I haven't seen them in functional media like video games or as characters in card games
There used to be this amazing Java applet way back in early 2000s that let you make line-based machines like this. It started off simple like the original diagram but later added stretchable line segments.
I wish I could find it again, I had so much fun playing with it.
Fantastic contraption?
Cool!
Hmm yes the first comment is made out of first
I don't get it
@Jorge Penuela I knew that...
@@reallyicy1277 r/woosh
@@theseed2199 this isn't reddit its youtube
@@theseed2199 do you know what that means?
As a dutch person I can confirm that you have indeed butchered every single dutch word.
Jokes aside, very nice video as always James :)
I always wondered how creeper in Minecraft even move with their weird looking legs. Now I know
That's Cool Man!
I've seen the original model on Discovery.
Imagine in the future there might be a gigantic version of that being use as a vehicle.
that would need a massive wind turbine
@@trident7555 yup, and humans are capable of creating that.
@@trident7555 and a hurricane to move the turbines enough to move the machine
Hot off the press
Action lab: "Made of just simple triangles"
Pythagoras would be happy
Awesome Invention 😎👍
THE FUTURE IS HERE
1 view, 4 comments, 5 likes. WHAT IS GOING ON!
lol
This comment is 5 minutes old and the video is 4
@@lameyeoman3795 lol how???
@@that_one_boi2492 I don't know, but this UA-cam bugs are funny
What exactly aren’t you able to understand about this?
This perfectly shows that even with the most basic of tools the greatest machines can be made. These things have no wires or electronics at all, just gears and cogs. This is the closest we will ever get to clockpunk being real.
Finally some importance is given to art. Its funny how often its underestimated
Who disliked man
Commerce students
Kidding no hate
Some Dutch for you:
"Theo" is pronounced "The" as in "Take", "o" as in "go"
"Jansen" is pronounced "J" and in "Yes", "a" as in "can't" and the rest is trivial.
Strandbeesten: strand=beach, beesten=animals.
That is SO COOL!!! 👍
Now I want to try it myself
I have seen people making this using 3d printers😃
Imagine putting them on a beach, they would run forever.
Friction would actually eventually break apart the materials the thing uses in the joints, and water erosion would damage the joints, so not forever.
They would run for an EXTREMELY long time tho
2120: Animal cyborgs
in India there is an desert called that where wind is always blowing at speed of 35 miles per minute so it can be used for transportation.
I already made a little device moving against the wind, but using the wind itself to produce its propulsion. It was looking a little anemometer connected to wheel with gears, with a gear ratio great enough to obtain a slower move that the wind, but against it. Those legs thing is remarkable, but not a requirement to achieve this. Obviously, it was working in all wind directions, since the anemometer works with all wind directions.
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