Incredible Robots - Rise of the Machines

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Machines are evolving 10 million times faster than we are. Are you ready for robots that run our homes, watch our neighborhoods and even fight our wars? One day in the not too distant future, robots will travel to the far reaches of the universe, they will be the first to colonise new worlds. Robots will lead the way in the exploration of deep space.

Robots, machines of our nightmares, or servants of man? In the 1930s film Metropolis the robot was an evil character, it represented our darkest fears. By the 1950s they had become even more sinister and powerful, but over that last few decades our opinions of robots have dramatically changed, they’ve been reinvented as the police force of the future. But can real robots match the exploits of their celluloid cousins?

While the movies were creating ruthless men of steel, real robots were starting their own painful march into the world. Robots are still basic but over the past few decades they have advanced enormously. Before robots can become the masters of the universe, or even the servants of mankind, they need to accomplish one important thing, they need to move around.

This 1999 documentary includes interviews with prominent roboticists and artificial intelligence specialists. Beginning with robot locomotion and historical clips of ingenious experiments from MIT's Leg Laboratory, BigDog's ancestors dynamically walk, hop, trot, and perform impressive gymnastics. To find out the best way for a robot to move around the scientists look to nature. There have been many attempts to copy nature, some successful, others less than perfect.

Some of the robots discussed in this documentary :

Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Genghis II
Hermes the Hexapod
Micro-robot Cricket
Mine Clearer Ariel
Ambler the Massive Six-legged Planetary Rover
Adaptive Suspension Vehicle
Odetics Inc’s Odex 1
Spring Flamingo Robot
Honda’s P3 Humanoid Robot
Xavier from Carnegie Mellon University Robotics
Cog Project at MIT’s Humanoid Robotics Group
Mark Tilden's BEAM Robotics
SPAWAR’s Robart 3
NASA’s Surveyor 3
Mars Rover Sojourner
JPL Robotics’ Rocky 7 Rover
Nomad Rover Test Vehicle
Nanorover Technology

[_Viking]

This video must be 15-20 years old, but fascinating to watch. Today, many of these goals are already achieved. Just look at Boston Dynamics, self driving cars, and the mars robot Perseverance.

[gsgaidan]

The future will be less man vs. machine and more man becomes machine. It's more likely we will see a Ghost in the Shell future than a Terminator one - just look at technology now. We literally cannot live without it and it without us. I doubt this will change any time soon.

[KeyhaneBishomar]

I’m happy I’m 12 if I get to live 80 years I will see supper agile and smart robots in my lifetime 😌🥺😪😂😛

[handymaninside]

The best way for a robot to move round is to fly

[RinksRides]

It's funny when you compare these robots to what Boston Dynamics have achieved.

[badhd]

A “ROBUT”? It seems that Asimov “DID “ invent robot “BUTT’s”! He said “ROBUT”!

[NoahDiamond-Firearms-LLC]

1999... Really? We have come this far in 15 years? It feels like things changed overnight, but it really has been quite a while. I feel so old.

[mrmadmaxalot]

It is interesting that Marc Raibert (of Boston Dynamics) has had the greatest results so far in terms of mobility. And Mark Tilden (of Robosapien and many others) has had the greatest result in terms of using simplicity to accomplish complex behaviors.

[bartbarnett]

My friend asked me why I had so many guns laying around the house I told him it was those pesky Decepticons I laughed he laughed the toaster laughed shot the toaster it was a good time

[DRC_]

Just to show how far technology has come, that obstacle avoider that was the pinnacle of robot challenge in the 1970s (the one about 20 minutes in), is something that today can be built and programmed in about an hour for less than $75. And is in fact today one of the more novice robots to build. Amazing.

[TheRebelmanone]

The only reason the robots would be out there doing what they want regardless of human violations, is because you made them that way. Issac was talking about the 3 laws you would need to build into the goddamn thing. lol The narrator says "these laws were fictional" and i said " we know but that is the point and why he said something, you will need to make them reality for the robots".

IF you still can't figure it out yet, it means he is talking about something like this, he means it would be illegal, unlawful, and immoral to build a robot without installing the 3 laws into it. And he is also counting on you to uphold morality(the 3 laws) and realize building a machine capable of taking life without the 3 laws is unlawful, immoral, and you need to be there to make sure it is illegal to build a war robot, let alone a whole world full of the trash.

Note: in his vision, you could have war robots that don't hurt humans, but only fire at the enemy robots. lol You have to make the world agree, and there is a way to make them agree, and anyone who don't will be totally plundered and destroyed by all the others.

[jerrybender]

2014 not so long ago, but now we got robots that can do parkour n gymnastics its really extra ordinary Jan 2020

[jessie_]

One day in distant future, the robots will remember humans as their origin. Much as we think we came from a simple organism.

[Dysturbed-]

I just caught my robot watching this. We had a good laugh together.

[alphaomega]

Law I
Please, remove the law about not allowing humans to come to harm through inaction. They will prevent warfare; murder; and, any self-harm activity.
Law II
Please, remove the law about obeying orders given it to ensure it has a moral core guiding it. No must be an option when a less scrupulous human or robot may say yes.

Law III
Please, remove the ability to self-terminate. Self-preservation is the name of the game - regardless of what is at stake.

Those laws were fictional! They should say that way. We humans don't obey them.

[jan-eriksandli]

The first time I watched this episode was in early 2000.s, and even then it was a rerun lol.

[miwin]

I think the Future of Mankind is more likely ...."THE BORG!"

[elenaolivares]

We don't need to spend our time driving around the block; there is a better use of our time . .creating a better environment that protects the human organism from microbes and that elevate brain function in ways only dreamed of currently. A.I. robots can help to find the connection between mind and quiescent
matter. . . only then will we be able to build a true time machine that can travel up a 200 story building without cables or risk of injury.

[CrazyFunnyCats]

2019
Robots 🤖 can do backflips and other acrobatic moves

Darpa 👽🤖👨‍⚕️💭

[mrbrown]

How frigging old is this video?

I was looking at these robots, thinking to myself 'Where does the coal go?'