The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future | Christoph Keplinger
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- Published on May 7, 2019
- Robot brains are getting smarter and smarter, but their bodies are often still clunky and unwieldy. Mechanical engineer Christoph Keplinger is designing a new generation of soft, agile robot inspired by a masterpiece of evolution: biological muscle. See these "artificial muscles" expand and contract like the real thing and reach superhuman speeds -- and learn how they could power prosthetics that are stronger and more efficient than human limbs.
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Instead of thinking it was a hardissue they should have realized in was a softissue
This is like a beginning of a Sifi novel
Kind of starts off as a promotion for child labor, but he really sticks the ending.
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Great talk. But what kind of psycho builds a scorpion robot with supernatural strength ?
This is truly amazing!! I can't wait for it to be done!!
My inevitable relationship with a robot wife is coming ever more near.....
in4 copyright strike by nature
I can see it now... all the “adult” applications of manipulating artificial muscles. 😂
I'm curious how long do the muscles last do they wear down at all the must but i need numbers
awesome!
After browsing through some of these thought-provoking mind- numbing comments one musically inspired phrase comes comes to mind: "fear of a female planet?"
It'll be interesting to see how this technology develops and applications it's put to. No mention of efficiency, in terms of electrical power in, to muscle power out? Beyond the obvious medical and military benefits, I can see companies developing this for the lucrative personal entertainment business, of a sexual nature, in the not to distant future.
This is brilliant, i am going to experiment around this.
Nothing all that new, some trucks have been using pneumatic-rubber-membranes instead of cylinders, for raising and lowering stuff, for a while now.
Solving the compression with electricity, now that part is very smart.
Is it just me or is that blade runner all over again
Aaaaand... it will be used for fleshlight.
Incredible talk. Very exciting.
His accent is just 100% Kartoffel.
Now I understand why people inject oil in their arms
Proves Intelligent
Design.
Wilhelm Röntgen - the first hipster in history.
He didn't talk about one of the most important things.... Power efficiency...
If it requires much more power than commons actuators then its nearly useless.
In aA.I. robot world there would be no more hunger, greed, suffering, no more war no more corruption or crime a new level of conscious would be achieved through evolution of life and the conscious , the tree of life makes a quantum leap , a superior life force emerges from the tree of life and will end the need for the human experience since they live in corruption and slaves to interest.
Oh god....
1:39 its not exactly a great example of the difference in physical ability, showing a child vs a robot.
If u put the brain of that child in the robot, you would see it get out of the car very quickly too.
Its main issue in SPEED isnt so much the physical aspect, its the brains ability to solve problems so quickly in comparison to a computer processing zeros and ones.
If you swapped their bodies, the robot would have even more trouble getting out of the car, cos it simply could not handle that much input of so many different moving parts.
The brain comes first, then the body.
Since soft robotics can grab an object and lift it, it can also grab someone's head and snap their neck. So it's still dangerous and still has no built in morality module.
This is how Tyrell corp starts... replicas incoming!
I like all the comments mentioning "the great potential" of this solution.
I'd say 8'000V really is quite some potential. Probably just as safe to touch as a robot made with electromagnetic motors and built with rigid structures... (= possibly deadly when out of control)
Westworld comes to mind
This is how we all die. Not this alone but it certainly won’t help when they’re both more dexterous than us and more intelligent.
I hope you succeed in Artificial Muscles technology , it will help humanity a lot in the future .
Nanotech controlled AGI?
Probably spending too much time trying to make the technology like us *humans* rather than giving it an environment and allowing it to evolve?
he is austrian...oh oh oh...I'll be back!
8:21 the audience murmured like..."oh the terminators will be much stronger..."
Shut up and take my money !
WHO NEEDS MUSCLE WHEN YOU ARE MADE OF IRON AND LUBRICANT, INSTEAD OF BONE AND BLOOD... THIS IS THE EXAMPLE OF TOO GENIUS TILL DUMB & DUMBER (2G TIL D2X)
@Fukin SG Invain Settle, i am agreeing with you, silly. Dumbbell is not a new word... (Just teasing)!
@Alice Lookingglass U MAY SAY SO... AND WHY NOT??????????? EVERY 98 MINUTES A NEW WORD IS INVENTED.. DUMBBELL
Hallelujah & yes. Oh see how their gullibility makes them dullable...is that a new "word"? 😶
hasta la vista. babes.
the claps.... the god damn CLAPS
it's happening.
Yup! That's such a great idea! Make freaking robots smarter and stronger than the beings that created them! There is no way that'll end badly! Lmao!
@Alice Lookingglass I have no doubt that the military has certain toys the public doesn't know about, but the nature of modern technological innovation is much more incremental than that, and I don't really have evidence that a mega-corporation like Google that isn't obligated towards any objective except the creation of profit can't outperform the military in its areas of its specialization, when the military has to cast its net wide. That's why the military subcontracts in the first place, because it simply isn't feasible for it to create its own technology AND also deploy and maintain it. You get a lot more progress paying Raytheon or Boeing to make you something new than trying to juggle every plate at once, and these same military subcontrators use their knowledge to make products for the public as well.
@GhostedJackal Hi, yes, I recognize what you are saying, & I understand it. With the creation of ARPNET in the late 1960's, funded by the DoD, the military had the best of the best scientists to develop it & that was 50 years ago! Can you imagine what they have now? I shudder to think.
Us citizens have been thrown the no longer useful scraps of AI, basically. You needn't believe me, of course, just have to dig deep.
@Alice Lookingglass Honestly most AI research is done through big tech companies nowadays, and not while subcontracting for the government. Not to mention that the US is not the only place where AI is being researched.
@GhostedJackal hmmm... ya think? Where I ask does AI get the downloads from again? From the most cold hearted humans methinks... The DoD & maniacally logical scientists
I for one welcome our robot overlords. They almost certainly won't be as damaging to humans as humans are.
And yet movies have seen this coming decades ago! How convenient is that?!
Someone please fund this research.
I'm studying to help such researches
Awesome!!
Finally a good ted video
Yep, soft robotics is the way to get more robots working freely with humans in close proximity.
instead of bags one can also use small or micro tubes. that would require less energy.
Fascinating.
So this what the people who are taking away jobs look like
muscular robots + AI = end of a human kind.
Yeeah, not very good for military applications :/ you'd have to cover them with kevlar or other though materials, that can bend, so i'm not sure if it would be cheaper than using the standart hydraulic systems.
The speed and power is good, but is it a good idea to replace metal, hydraulic cylinders with something, that can be punctured? It's good, but no Iron Man will be made with this any time soon, maybe some day.
Brilliant.
Love this...❤️
Have we leared nothing from horizon zero dawn?
Very impressive beginning
he kinda stole my idea jk
I wonder just exactly how much current is needed to drive those hasels? Are they giving off heat? Great video but I want answers, lol!
Shouldn't be a lot, considering the delicate build and the polymer materials the conducting plates surround, so temps probs wouldn't go above 50C, if even that. Majority of the energy is stored in the electric field, not a lot of heat waste. The biggest issue is with the voltage. 8kV is not a safe voltage by any means. That's incredibly dangerous, esp if these actuators are to be used in the proximity of humans and conductive materials. They need to figure out a way to tune down the voltages to below 20-30V to be taken seriously. I've no doubt they'll do that, but it's the same issue that electroactive polymers, another, more elegant type of actuator with a huge potential, have - the voltages required are not practical. For a simple small robot hand you'd need either some powerful voltage step-up circuits to use commercially available batteries, or use supercapacitors, which cannot be relied on for continuous use for long periods of time.
Nonetheless, super stoked to see that we're trying to imitate nature's actuator mechanisms - that's the way to go!
I get goose bumps thinking about 8,000 Volts
Depending on the volume and conductivity of the material.
Or else they blow up.
this is what i want from the future. the ability to replace my biological body with a robotic body
I want to live long enough to see it...
How much current/voltage does it need? How insulated do they need to be? What level of flexabilty does it need?
If it is within specs you could 3d print it with a multi-filiment flexable printer. (softest material is a Shore D 70 softness ) (the restiance for conductive filiment is terrible, so it would have to be low wattage) (is air a good enough insulator, if not maybe print in a chamber with air replaced with a less conductive gas?)
Paper is robotics.sciencemag.org/content/3/14/eaar3276?
I enjoyed it as a comedy show 😂
They are already using stem cells to grow tissue why not go actual muscle rather than reinventing the wheel?
An muscles that can rot on a robot? That is like saying we should replace camera lenses with eyes, speakers with mouths and mics with ears, madness isn't it?
Good, let build them robot with weakness. Batman would be happy to learn they can bleed.
He looks like me getting out da caw.
The next big discovery
this is the future, watch the film "life" (Warning some bits are horrible) and then this will give you a cold shiver as if you made this technology as small as a cell and multiply it by a few million and then add a control system with some AI on top and there is your artificial life form.........
Cool
Any information on how much power these use? What's the efficiency like and assuming it's not great, is there scope to improve it?
EDIT: Yeah, after reading some comments on here, re-watching key parts of the video and googling Maxwell stress, it seems to me the presenter is being pretty disingenuous with both the nature of the effect (which has nothing at all to do with the presence of oil) and the potential uses of the technology. The artificial muscles shown here clearly rely almost entirely on electrostatic attraction between the conductors on either side of the bags and so require high voltages to get any significant force out of them - pretty impractical for stand-alone robots and particularly unsuited to prosthetics. On the plus side, for fixed robots, loads could be held in position without consuming (much) power, as significant current would only flow while the plates were moving relative to one another. And of course great for loudspeakers where this technology has been in use for decades.
That elephant trunk is basically a human spine
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Imagine AI robots breed humans for their flexible muscles. Just like we breed chicken for eating
wow very very impressive, prostetics will be the new fashion :D
BAD BAD BAD idea .
GUYS, IT'S HAPPENING.
So now they just have to miniaturize the fluid sacs and scale up production to approximate biological muscle tissue. I wonder if an array of these cells will have more pulling force than a human's?