How Robotics Got Started: A Brief History
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- Опубліковано 4 бер 2015
- With vast technological advancements over the last few decades, why don't we have robots running everything by now? Join Hank Green for a brief history of the field of robotics-it might help you understand how hard it is to get machines to perform tasks, and how far we’ve actually come!
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I’m studying for an acting role as a coding/robotics teacher and this video was so helpful. And hilarious!! Thanks you so much! I love all your videos!
SciShow Infusion episodes are always so fascinating. I really enjoy when y'all make longer videos and go in depth into topics like this. Shorter videos like QQ are OK too, but I prefer these ones! I know they must be a lot of work, but I would really love to see longer videos like this more often, please. Thanks for all the great work you do!
I don't really get why people think that AI will enslave humanity and put us to work in mines...
Humans are frail, inefficient, and whiny creatures. There is no way any kind of AI would consider using us to do any kind of manual labour task, because it would be far easier to just build more robots to do the job themselves, and do it far better than we ever could.
+RealLuckless Exactly,i have made a similar comparison to people talking about aliens wanting to enslave us.
+RealLuckless Humans are not frail. We just have different weaknesses than robots. We can heal ourselves, robots cant and it takes a lot of beating for a human to die, also our way of thinking is far better.
And we are only inefficient and whiny when we have morals. If you dont give a shit about other people and only focus on efficienty we can be very efficient. Just get rid of morals...
SadoMessiahLP High Five for psychopaths then ;) !
Human Seeing
As silly as it sounds, a psychopath is more efficient than a normal human. I have the theory that what we today consider a psychopath will be the next step in evolution for mankind. I mean to be fair emotion are slowing anything down and humans strive for more knowledge and better efficiency, however to get this knowledge and efficiency we have to let emotions and morals go. And if we look at how evolution works it actually isnt even too farfetched... but hey thats just my opinion
SadoMessiahLP I agree with you on that a psychopath is more efficient,no problem with that at all.But the other part...i don't think it would be as enjoyable to live in a world devoid of emotion...everything human beings do they do because their desired eventual outcome is happiness,even for psychopaths...the reasons for happiness might be different but the end of the day that is what we want. Knowledge also makes me happy...but all this that we thrive for we do because we feel the desires urges and the emotions that push us.But i get your point,i agree in many aspects i find if funny but at times also frustrating how people get so caught up in feelings and can be very overemotional that clouds their judgement.
Like the dress video, this reinforced how truly awe-inspiring the human brain is. We do such complex tasks, things we can barely program super computers to do, and we do them effortlessly. All from our relatively tiny brains.
That you can look across your room and instantly identify everything in it... it's incredible.
Why on earth would they need us for tungsten mines? They could build lesser robots to do it soooo much more efficiently
Because racism
Why use resources building workers when you have billions available already?
Because a power surge in the tungsten-mining robots inverted their original program, so that now they think that the humans should do the mining, and the robots should be the masters.
Because biological creatures are fantastic at turning chemical energy into physical force, unlike today's best battery technology. And they're self-replicating, so unlimited labor pool.
Mike Trieu
I hope, that this was sarcasm
I loved the CGP Grey cameo. He should do these more often.
it would be interesting to learn too about Bots, robots without bodies who live in the ethereal digital space and who already control our lives to surprising degrees, like for instance, in the stock market.
Do mean algorithms? Robots aren't computer programs.
Arturo, I dig it. Joseph, stick it where the sun shineth not.
joseph clisham in my understanding, Bots are a special kind of robot, way more complicated the the usual algorithms and usually left to act and decide on their own similar to how a Roomba is given the mission to clean your kitchen without you directing it as you would do with, say, the usual software program. But ultimately, you're right, Bots are not "robots", per se.
Gareth Field let's tone the language down. Joseph's comment was appropriate.
This sounds pretty bloody cool, mind shooting me a link? :)
Jake Toth at what university? Sounds like there is only one when you say it like that
I wish Hank did every single SciShow. Yeah, I know he's the producer, but he's also by far the best presenter.
Player Review I actually find it hard to focus on the content when he talks the way he does when he is accenting a point.
1: Give Baxter stronger arms
2: Give Baxter machine gun
3: ???
4: Profit
Exactly
lol
i can sum this video up in a few statements;
vision is HARD
bipedal locomotion is HARD
context is HARD
Yep
Another great video - just one minor note on the industrial history: the IRB was developed by Swedish ASEA before the company merged with Swiss Brown Boveri to form the multinational Asea Brown Boveri or ABB corporation in 1988.
i am not worried about robots enslaving humanity cause all it takes is 1 solar flare and they are fucked
EN Seven Fifty Eight also, we have EMPs and also we have already taken this idea of robo-takeover into account as we haven't stopped making manual overrides to keep the robots from turning off. Even if the AI gets so advance tat it becomes sentient, we will always have an off button ready.
HAL: "I'm afraid I can't do that Dave"
Dave: "uhh...to bad ***hits off button***
+kittehdrawrs
Skynet: I am going to destroy all humanity
-System update available
Skynet: Oooh one se-
Blum, Windows.exe has stopped working.
-Checking for solution
-Blue screen of death
Human Father: And that my son is why humanity survived a robotic genocide. Pfft Windows.
1 solar flare we're fucked too
+Logan Bailey Yes but it would have to be much stronger than it would need to be for robots to malfunction.
+Progenitor Dreadnought Unit-5012 yeah those would be afaraday cage
Why would machines use humans to mine tungsten? They're weak, slow, inefficient, whiny, extremely high-maintenance with needs such as food, sleep, entertainment, clothes, shelter, ect, and we're prone to violence and rebellion. Machines, when they take control, will make more machines to do the work such as mining tungsten (machines are strong, fast, efficient, uncomplaining, low-maintenance and, provided the work robots are not sentient, unlikely to rebel), and either keep humans sort of as 'pets' (like in the Culture - the machines would probably find humans interesting and amusing) or exterminate them.
Not elimination. Robots don't have a reason to kill us if we live peacefully.
Diana Peña
thats what they want you to think. they are just waiting till they can fully kill us without us using our nukes. we cant co-exist. we must destroy them now!
well invent them then destroy them.
Diana Peña Well.... if we're sitting on all the choicest resource spots already and don't want to share...
because theres billions of us.
YOU ARE NOT HELPING XD
Just curious if @SciShow updates this video? It's a great breakdown I use it for class but robots are changing pretty damn fast and this would be awesome if it stayed up with any major events/breakthroughs.
Using virtual reality, speech recognition, and some AI, I want to make a virtual therapist office where a person could talk to an algorithm and get feedback to help with healthy life strategies. This would be well suited for depression, anxiety, and trauma cases.
This has been said 6 years ago but this is such a good idea, wow.
Wow,how is it going now that it has been 7 years
Perhaps but a lot of people have trouble opening up to other people, if it's not even a person it may be even harder. Could even trigger thoughts like, "wow I am so worthless not even people want to talk to me" and then the situation just gets worse
Could you talk about why human-like emotions, wills, and drive could never happen by itself? Also, could you explain why we would have to program each feeling, and that robots learning emotion without it being programmed, like in the movies, can't happen (Skynet having 'fear' is an example)?
This is amazing, and it helped a lot in my robotics essay
Hank, I can't even begin to thank you for the motivation you've given me over the years in terms of pursuing science! In fact, I started making my own science videos (I uploaded my first videos this week!) so that I can hopefully help more people aspire to look at the world from a scientific perspective. And if any people here want to see more science videos, please feel free to take a look at my channel! I'm making these videos in my spare time, and as a grad student who's trying to put himself through school while supporting his parents, your support and viewership would be much appreciated! Thanks guys :D
I was going to dismiss this comment as spam, but I checked out your channel I actually like your videos. Keep it up!
Nice videos, I subbed to your channel. Although your videos could be a bit longer, I REALLY love your intro haha
I'm not sorry when saying this, but your videos are kind of poor. Most of your "interesting" facts are taken right from wikipedia. It would be way better if you did something new, instead of repeting the same old thing all over. It feels like you put way to much time into making it look pretty, and less time on the actual content.
You should focus more on quality and original content if you want to get somewhere/inform people.
( ͡° ͜c ͡° ) No worries, thanks for your candid feedback. The videos will DEFINITELY be improving both in terms of quality and information contained, as I just started this week :)
ScienceSid Just be careful to avoid being one of those channels that mainly reads Google results
Nope that's not CGP Grey, he is one of the guys like Michael Aranda(?) who sometimes appears in SciShow
I'm so glad that it isn't because I've been trying not to find out what he looks like ever since he did that first irl thing.
This is Hank Green. He actually started SciShow and is one of its major contributors.
Who the eff is Hank?
Chris Thomas Hank is a sentient android from the Start Trek the Next Generation universe, who as any true fan would know, is capable of reproduction because he had a daughter!
You misunderstand. That human is obviously not CGP Grey. The robot is! Now I'm going to play Where's Wally/Waldo, trying to find a caveman in this video.
There's also an other competition called First Robotics competition and it's where a bunch of students that have 6 weeks to create a robot that has to do a demanded task like sports.And it's very amazing to see what kids can do these days.
I'm doing a project for school and this is super helpfull!!
20 years after the film Short Circuit was released the US military actually made one that looks pretty similar.
But I garauntee Bear will never ask if you'd like to be a pepper too.
LOVE the CGP Grey shirt on the slim jim guy!
I think the robot refurred to as "big dog" is really awesome stuff. If I can remember it can run some like 40 mph and carry up 150 lbs, not at the same time.
Not ABB! ASEA! They merged with Brown Boveri in 1988 to become ABB. It's kind of a point of pride since ASEA was founded in my home town of Västerås. :)
Pontus Welin is it Swedish?
Who says robots aren't self aware, to what degree of self awareness do you attribute to your own consciousness.
They don't have conscience. We can't program conscience into anything for we have not learned how to imitate self-awareness
a topic for another episode anyone...?
Snooter
Or, we don't have the tools that can measure our own level of self awareness efficiently let alone the self awareness of machines or animals or even the pedophile next door.
As a robot developer, I can confirm - robots do not have self awareness. They don't have consciousness, they don't have opinions, and they don't have motives or ambitions. Most animals don't have self-awareness, and there are things animals can do that are far more complex and reliable than a robot sharing a similar body structure.
As for people paranoid about robots enslaving us - it'll likely never happen, whether they're self aware or not. It would be theoretically possible they could be hostile if you happen to threaten them (assuming they understood the threat) but what a lot of people tend to forget is many fights over humans was because of power, expansion (or reproduction), or beliefs. These are things a robot would have no reason to care about, because nobody would program it to have primal human decisions.
Peter Schmidt Agreed. Even if we did make a robot who could make primal human decisions why would we not make a fail safe to turn that robot off or remove its decision making abilities?
The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals were hilarious. Many a GIF was born on that day.
I was kind of hoping he'd mention a couple other specific robots, like that four-legged one that can re-adjust itself whenever jostled or over uneven terrain, or the EveR-3, a Korean robot that is human is appearance and can fluently speak/sing in both Korean and English.
This is so inspirational to a rising engineer. It's just amazing how much we have accomplished in a relatively short amount of time and all of the tasks that still lie ahead for us. Loved this video!
what about Boston Dynamics ? videos from those guys are terrifying.
I was given the link to this video for school and it’s actually pretty interesting,it is hard to under stand for a fourth grader,but I got it,thanks for the information!
The best quote I have ever heard describing the Asimo robot... "It walks like it crapped itself."
If a robot is able to climb up stairs, they're more advanced than the Daleks. Can't you see ? We are already DOOMED !
Mat G more capable than some (fat) Americans are :D
Hello Hank,
Can you do a video on metamaterials? I think everyone would love to hear about an real-life invisibility cloak.
Thank you humanity for developing something that nature has mastered millions of years ago. Way to think ahead.
I like to think that all these specific tasks that developers are gearing their AI towards will be shared in the future. Once there is sufficient hardware to support it, you could put all these distinct programs together and make strides towards a more sentient and efficient machine.
Do you think that we could evolve to not have periods, or at least less frequent ones?
probably not since you could get the same result through constant birth control
I didn't understand birth control for a long time. I asked my sister about it (and she was on it and still uses it) and as it turns out, birth control basically stops your period as long as you are on it.
***** did you fall alsleep during sex ed? or did they never cover that part?
Jonathan Canfield Let me put this into perspective. I went to school in the south. The only thing I remember was that a condom is the best means of preventing pregnancies (other than abstinence) and that everyone around me wouldn't stop laughing.
Jonathan Canfield None taken, and I agree.
I have in the past put a robot at the bottom of a swimming pool repeatedly for an "inauspicious task". If they should become self-aware I may be in trouble. "I'm sorry Dave..." said Hal.
your logic is undeniable !
I miss these longer, in depth videos...MOAR PLEASE!!!
Dear god I know the street they filmed the coin pickup on... I was there like a week ago...
I care.
He cares.
We care!
Bears care.
Aliens care!
"The aim is to develop robots that can be sent into dicey situations without putting human lives at risk."
Correction:
"The aim is to develop robots that can be sent into dicey situations without putting American lives at risk."
I'm sorry, I had to.
As half-American, I find this statement to be hilarious..
Jacob Thomas That was your half brain laughing.
ajaxtaur I'm impressed that you didn't lash out against me, seeing as I just insulted (what I guess is) your country and literally called it evil.
Yes thank you, I will indeed go massage myself. Let's all just live in peace. Well, those of us who aren't under constant threat from American drones that is. Duh.
Ze Rubenator
Meh, I disagree with your viewpoints, but I respect your opinions as a fellow human being. Good day, sir and/or madame.
I work in the automotive industry and I have worked with the Baxter robot. It's pretty awesomely cool. One thing you didn't touch on is the safety factor. The regular industrial robots aren't able to tell if they are hitting something. They will just break. Baxter has a system of springs in its joints that allow it to bump things instead of destroying them and itself.
I just came in to say that the robot art at 2:10 is awesome!! Nice work, folks!
8:43 Johnny 5
QQ
Why do we throw up when we get dizzy?
watch their hallucination video, it will explain that.
Because it a symptom that you have been poisoned
*think
Because being dizzy reminds you of dizzy rascals 'music', which causes you to vomit.
Because when we get dizzy, something is wrong. When something is wrong, we try to eliminate possible causes. Not always effectively.
Have you heard of Big Dog robots? They can run and and carry things and recover from a stumble, the videos on youtube are so cool!
wooo just got my crash course Periodic Table, cheers guys
16 kb of ram? Man, I could run run my games on max settings with that
a robot apocalypse, while good material for a sci-fi story, is a very unlikely scenario.
what makes me annoyed about it is the bandwagon of people that jump into ideas like that without first understanding the implications needed to achieve said scenario.
Artificial Intelligence, the ability to understand. Why would something like AI resort to destruction? It's not like it's evolved from an animal that needs to kill to survive.
BattousaiHBr People are silly sheep making themselves believe anything that can entertain their minds. Usually people who have no knowledge on the subject of robotics are the ones who fail at separating reality from fantasy when they talk about robots. I guess some people shouldn't be allowed to watch movies since they take it too seriously.
Politicians and preachers are prime examples of 'uninformed opinions' holding sway over educated experts and inciting fear in the process. As long as our innate fears can be mined we will continue providing 'tungsten' for our 'overlords'. They won't be robots, they will, for the foreseeable future, be the wealthy and politically powerful.
While a lot of the things y’all are saying are fair and true, you also have to understand that some of the worlds greatest geniuses have said that ai might actually be the end of the human race
I know which to fear most, Ai, nuclear attack, pandemic, driving to work, or old age. Various Geniuses have said any of those could kill me. I am old, I am not a robot (at least that's what I tell those obnoxious little puzzles .) I, for one, hope that the melding of my brain to a perfect new body (singularity) happens before Ai can wipe us out. Ai unlike cars, airplanes, and nuclear weapons must have controls and safety features implemented before their design or creation. Ai is the only technology that has the potential to knowingly and willingly obliterate humanity. All it takes is one Ai that doesn't have the built in limiters to wipe out our tenuous domination of planet earth.
have you guys thought about doing an episode on self-awareness? what it means by definition, the human experience, and yes even a couple of seconds to mention A.I. self-awareness.
I fucking love these 10 minute videos
No bender ;(
AI, what does the A stand for?
Will any of you get it?
Futurama?
***** THANK YOU!
A.I stands for artificial intelligence
Ben West Really it stands FOUR something, how does it do that.
Fucking caboose!
There are actually 25 teams, not 11, competing at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals. 11 teams from the trials in December 2013 were eligible to compete in the finals and an additional 14 teams, which had to satisfy DARPA's requirements, have joined as well.
DARPA... METAL GEAR!!!!
Also, I believe the terminology Hank was searching for at the beginning was "OODA Loop."
Observe
Orient
Decide
Act
Maybe next time.
Robots won't force us to work in the tungsten mines - but the rich will. Society has permitted the rich to steal every penny of increased productivity that computers have enabled, and there is no sign that they're going to demand companies pay workers who work alongside robots markedly more. They will most likely eliminate jobs with robotics, and continue to cut the wages of the humans that remain (this is what they have done with computers). No one will get the benefit of robotics except for the tiny group of the ultra-rich who will be protected from workers buying their own robots and competing with the companies by the government. The old school idea that robots and computers would make it so nobody had to work, or only had to work a few hours a week, forgot to factor in the sociopathic rich and society being willing to just say 'you arent actually more productive, the machines are doing all the work' and being OK with increasingly lower wages and longer hours.
Won't non intelligent robots be more efficient in mining tungsten?
Great video, thank you for the info.
Great video, more similar to these please!
THE DARK LORD IS HERE!!!
Hey boss
FIRST
Amazing shot today! Keep up the good work guys!
Scishow I have a really confusing question for you. Ok, so I was listening to "Night of Nights【Impossible piano version】" on youtube with my earphone and I noticed something weird with the sound. In certain parts there are moments where the sound from the earphone (this effect might not work on a headphone, just to let you know) sounded like it came from my laptop's speakers. Like my ear-buds aren't vibrating and when I thought I heard the sound coming from my laptop speaker instead of my ear-bud I pulled them out of my ear and I didn't hear anything from the speakers. I even played back the entire video and not a sound came from the speakers. I played the part in question with my ear-bud and it still sounded like it came from the speakers in-front of me. So what is going on? (Just to let you know, listen closely to the parts where the green notes are pressed in the left part of the piano.)
*Kill any robot*: This statement is a lie.
Programmers aren't stupid. if(systemCounter>systemMax){ return; };
T Schofield else{System.out.println("Your paradox isn't even a paradox.");}
T Schofield Neither are hackers.
Prompt("This statement is a lie "if(systemCounter > (systemMax - 1 ){ systemCounter=0; }"")
And thus cross site scripting was born.
lol lol lol lol lol ... damn I got owned...
THIS. STATEMENT. IS. A LIE!
Dont think about it dont think about it dont think about it!
love this one
I really like this channel, it is really a good way to get a break from all of my studies while getting "smarter".
Engineers, Hank. Engineers make robots, not scientists. Also, surprised by the omission of Boston Dynamics.
0:14 watching this in 2023 be hitting different
I have a question: Why does gum sometimes dissolve (fall apart into tiny bits) in a person's mouth?
Didn't even mention Robosapien and Wowee robotics. RSV2 was magic. I still have mine.
Love that CGP Grey Shirt!
you give really good information
Hey person are in school
@@yanchoudjatoyue4325 shut up get back to work
I'm a little surprised there was no mention of NAO. I think he's pretty cool and he was also a feature of a TED talk.
Pls post more videos about robotics as I am interested in taking up that field
Question (nothing to do with robotics); Can we really feel water, and wet things? -or is it just some advanced temperature sensing?
Hello Hank I love your show, would it be possible for you to do a video on the history of mining ? Im curious about the origin of metal work
I think we are all just robots in society
the videos have been getting more enjoyable lately..
Petman, bigdog (petman is especially creepy:D). but my favourite robot is icub (from EU). he's nothing special, but he's general purpose and learns like a human.
I love robots and I love scishow!
And now we have a robot named Sophia that said “she” wants to take over the world
I'd love to see a video on what supplements work and what don't, ie a summary on studies that showed some or no effects on supplements like raspberry ketones, l-caritine, chondroitin, creatine, black/green tea and cayenne pepper extract etc
you didn't quoted Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, which in my opinion will become very useful as we go ahead
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
Watchmojo sent me here. Nice channel and I've already subscribed. This video is also the best one I've found so far.
Neat! Thanks for sharing info about robots!
Hey shout out for that CPG Grey shirt!
Hank -- that's not the DARPA building. You have the old one. They changed buildings to a new one back in 2013.
Very nice
There's something wrong with that contacts commercial. >.> It freezes up at the end every time and wont switch over to the video. None of the other commercials do that.
Amazing
1:44 top tier acting
I love this video!
Thank you so much for saying "a whole other" and not "a whole nother." Nother isn't a word, and it drives me nuts.
Every night my father would spin tales of the glorious future of humanity working in the Tungsten mines...his eyes would light up and his monotone voice would fill my head with wonder. As he walked away at 6 kilometers an hour I would dream of that future...
Your dad was probably a terminator, somehow.
When Hank mentions the ISS, a picture of the shuttle docking to MIR is shown. Not irrelevant to the conversation, thought, as MIR did have a robotic arm for moving the modules around, and of course the Shuttle had an arm.
Vision sensing input for robotics is good for non-uniform tasking but the vast majority of industrial applications rely on presence (reed or hall effects) sensors coupled with an array of if / then arguments to determine which (pre-programmed) actions the robot will enact.
Yes... "faithfully" vacuuming my floor.
lol
First robots were the ancient Egyptian Automaton. Nice episode 👍
Robots built at FRC and other FIRST programs are also very interesting
Beyond just making a robot able to do something, a big limitation to robots is getting them to KEEP doing what they were designed to. They need power, which means either being hooked up to a power supply (and thus reducing their range), or relying on batteries, which can only last so long.