WIP Video about Mini-Robots - Kindly Requesting Feedback
Added 2025-01-10 19:34:22 +0000 UTCComing soon: a video about mini-robots and solving a google interview question!
We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we finalise this video.
Animations are still in progress and pictures are used in place of videos at times.
Still a lot of work to be done but would love to get some early thoughts.
Thank you so much!
-Team Veritasium
Comments
Jumping out runs into air resistance
robert kleps
2025-01-17 20:25:04 +0000 UTCSuggest clips from 1959 Richard Feynman lecture “”Tiny Machines” aka “There’s plenty of room at the bottom”.
SJCODD
2025-01-12 00:24:44 +0000 UTCOld man here. I think it'd be neat if for once I heard, "It's ingenious" instead of "it's genius". (4:40) While I'm at it, I still can't believe that "transition" is a better verb than "change".
Matthew Cargo
2025-01-11 22:56:15 +0000 UTCI felt like the micro robot discussion was too disconnected from the blender problem until almost the end. During the entire micro robot presentation, I was constantly thinking "cool, but what does this have to do with the blender?"
Walker Mangum
2025-01-11 12:37:24 +0000 UTCThere must be a rule somewhere that says that if it can be done, it will and if it can be misused it will eventually be. All technology is a double edged sword If the human race evolves far enough we will learn to moderate the use of technology.
Didier de Gery
2025-01-11 05:14:47 +0000 UTCHahaha the ending was literally my first impression... Like, "You'd be dead as soon as you're shrunk?". For mass producibility of swarms there are people exploring the use of the technology used in the manufacture of computer chips. (We're probably at least a decade away though... There's still a bunch of technology problems including that there's no good energy solution on that scale...) Alsooooo... Video on micrometer-sized robots when? :P
Origami Alice Zhang
2025-01-11 02:03:54 +0000 UTCI'm so used to seeing you talk as well :-)
majnue
2025-01-10 23:12:03 +0000 UTC16:06 "Uh, we really focus on the fundamental science itself ..." Jurassic Park blindspot syndrome. "Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should."
Kimberly Green
2025-01-10 20:22:28 +0000 UTCSeveral thoughts come up: I worked with a company that was either called or their product was called Artificial Muscle. The individual use they were targeting was haptic feedback and lense focusing. One way to get out of the blender is to climb high enough on the bowl face so that when the blender turns on, the draft carries you out. From a technical point of view, it seems that the energy storage is the biggest problem. At one point I looked at ink jet printed batteries. I wonder if those could be printed on the structure and internal components to get a little more power density. Maybe a capacitor could store enough energy to be useful Thinking about the difference in size, one might look at a flywheel effect that the bot could partially regenerate when it stats to fall. Awesome thought experiment! Thanks
Didier de Gery
2025-01-10 20:20:50 +0000 UTCNice. Almost, almost works as an audio presentation, although I'm sure that the experience will be much richer with graphics. One thing that caught my attention was an inconsistent pronunciation of "Piezo," two syllables at one point, and three otherwise. (I prefer the three-syllable pronunciation, stress on the /e/ , personally.)
Paul Weiss
2025-01-10 20:15:37 +0000 UTC
