The Real Reason Robots Shouldn’t Look Like Humans

Dude droped a whole movie

"And what else can you think of to do with it." Tries very hard to not imagine weird sextoys.

People have been saying "we'll never have humanoid robots, they're impractical" for decades. It just seems like for whatever reason, people really, really, really want humanoid robots and are willing to sacrifice practicality to get them.

I've seen this argument years ago. We've been making robots for hundreds of years. We just don't make them human shape, we make them the shape that is best suited for their purpose. A dishwashing machine is pretty good at washing dishes compared to humans, but it also doesn't achieve the task by doing it like a human, dishes by dishes scrapping it with a clothe, etc. It just floods it for 45 minutes, it contain all the liquids and detergent. Drain it out. Purpose built robot are just more efficient to do what they do.

Watching Interstellar made me think their vision of future robots is more accurate than the concepts we always see online and in the media. There are so many compromises being made to fit the humanoid mold without much thought as to whether or not it's even necessary for the sorts of tasks we'd use robots for. In general, simpler designs almost always win out over complex and flashy designs.

An hour long video, I am so ready Frick it's a compilation

New stuff: 15:13 - Vine Robot Update - People’s best ideas 32:15 - Jumper Update - Why it was so hard to build 1:02:15 - The main benefit of non-humanoid robots 1:25:55 - Conclusion

ONE AND HALF HOUR FROM VERITASIUM??? THE LORDS HAVE SPOKEN

15:30 - makes sense because one way of clearing straight paths across minefields is to use an air mortar to throw a line of plastic explosive across a minefield. One thing that become a method is to use drones with thermal cameras to identify mines at dusk as they hold their heat longer than the ground as the sun sets. You could map them at dusk, load the locations into a computer map, send the direct-able line charge across the minefield picking out the mines in the dark based on its stored pattern. Then you can detonate the charge at dawn and spend the rest if day using hard robots or armored vehicles that find any mines missed in the old way - by running over them. Combining all the techniques could render large areas fit for civilian use again more rapidly.

When you realize this video is a compilation 😢

Can't believe i caught a Veritasium video 2 minutes after upload. You can bet I'm about to watch this whole thing.

So much tip talk but no innuendo is killing me 😂

The C-3PO clip caught me off guard 😂

I just sat in the train and the trip was 90 minutes. Out of nowhere a notification from Veritasium of a video that 87 minutes long. Played it directly after 1 minute of uploading. Great work.

Your videos are so detailed and satisfying. You're a blessing to engineering

You should've had huge explosions in the background when you said you are working on exciting things 😂

I wish here were more updates and follow ups like this for many old videos. Most things here are cutting edge and that means by the time we watch it's already obsolete or have been debunked and that's never on the news

Nothing brings me as much joy as Big Hero 6 being recognised as the masterpiece in speculative tech it is

Gotta grab some popcorn and a drink for this one

In the near future, they call this "Infiniboner technology"