Intelligent Floating Machines Inspired by Nature | Anicka Yi | TED

Taking cues from soft robotics and the natural world, conceptual artist Anicka Yi builds lighter-than-air machines that roam and react like autonomous life forms. Her floating "aerobes" inspire us to think about new ways of living with machines -- and to ponder how they could evolve into living creatures. "What if our machines could be more than just our tools, and instead, a new type of companion species?" she asks.

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[prachi]

Her communication skills is so soft and understandable. I'm so much impressed with the way she has described about that technology.

[Nicc-DR]

Anicka explains very clear, brief, she explains with more easy words so that we can understand what she wanted to tell us, and her ideas were interesting and seeing her development on the aerobes, applause 👏

[RampinRabit]

Imagine going outside and seeing those flying jellyfish floating around the sky. Pretty cool

[PongoXBongo]

Imagine a smaller one of these with an Echo Dot or Google Home device built in that gently floats behind you around the house. That'd be pretty cool, if the fans aren't too loud.

[우니-kc]

It's such an amzing art work and speech! Well, we are living in the world surrouded by tons of techs, but we hardly think about the relationship btw the techs n human... This speech gave me a moment to think about the hidden meaning in the relationship.. Now, the Ai tech is under such a fast development that soon we will face with the machine with human like emotion.. then the relationship will be the first priority to make the balanced life style.

[norahu]

I still remember I was attracted by them in the Tate Modern and spent hours to observe them through the windows. They are charming and your eyes cannot leave them. You just want to know how they can be so soft and gentle driven by technology.

[sciencestuffs]

Getting some serious War of The Worlds vibe from these….

[GooogleGoglee]

We should just look more at the Nature and enjoy it, protect it and observe it. Instead to replace it with good looking piece of robotic art.

[HoneyBeeArtie]

“It feels so good to be in a room full of humans after all this time”

IM ALREADY SO SCARED HELP

[nitemare]

This looks amazing to be honest and I would like to have one. I wonder how much something like this goes for. I want to go to a live tedtalk someday

[High-Tech-Geek]

I guess it's a cultural thing, but these things conjure fear and terror in me. They remind me of the War of the Worlds invasion, the repulsive egg sacs in the Alien movie franchise and the human battery coffins in the Matrix.

I even had an instinctual revulsion to her purple top. I feel an evolutionary urge to avoid spindly fuzzy dusty stringy purplish things as a poison or danger alert, similar to cockroach antennae or a virus molecule.

I was not raised in an environment where squid tentacles, eels and jellyfish are deemed "cute". They are gross and repulsive like slime and snot and are reminiscent of disease. I do see these things as scientifically interesting, so I guess I can view them maybe as beautiful through that lens... like a mechanical beauty. Just keep them away from me please.

[zoeygrimes]

I love these machines, they give me a very soothing feeling

[danglybit]

Not since blade-runner have I been so enthused by the future... while Anicka lives we all have faith!

[amirsharapov]

In the ocean, the creature evolved "legs" to push itself through the water. Do the legs on this creature contribute any mechanical function?

[mrmatias]

As a Junior engineer, I was excited to guessmate all possible reverse-engineering outcome processes to get this tech.
But one thing all of us junior engineer will not look dumb the thought that: it is just putting Helium in those balloons plus adding some small DC motors controlled by a micro -controllers plus distance, motion, and image sensors, it may result that tech on the stage as an outcome. I was wondering if the Senior engineers Team that built this tech would tell a different narrative.

[shothomsiipinge]

All later life forms are most minerals, i think. .. humans want symbiosis of machine according to hue personalities, the length of toe's etc and within each design i.e heat signatures

[antonioas]

Or machines that surveil and police that the WEF calls art

[KootFloris]

Brilliant! Awesome! And sadly in some backroom industrialists are considering how to exploit this for their own benefit, or control crowds.

[victormorelo]

What is the function of this? Sorry I missed something?🤔

[m.s.]

This is nothing Else than a commercial for the WEF and all the technocratic Elite who want to take over the World. We really dort NEED this. What we need is more humanity, more love, more equal rights for everyone.
This artist is payed by big business, lucky her, she is payed well for playing like a little girl. Sie is an Instrument for technocrats Marketing. And the naiv people give her standing ovations. What for?
Crazy World.