I sense an alarming shortage of laser weapons. Other than that, this is really inspiring to watch. Congratulations to the team for getting it this far.

2:09 I'm not sure I'd call that flying. Falling gracefully, maybe.

@EdCatlett

7 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking. Basically less graceful gliding.

@AyeYerMa

7 жыл бұрын

In the words of Woody, that wasn't flying, that was falling with style.

@relic323

7 жыл бұрын

falling with style!

@diomedes562

7 жыл бұрын

It's a coincident perhaps, but some view the first flight of the Wright Brothers the same way.

Like real bats, these too can be thwarted with a tennis racket.

I love it when people see something this amazing and say "well, it wasn't really flying for long..." This is why you are not a scientist; you can only see whats right in front of you and can't even look 6 months down the road, never mind 6 years or 6 decades.

@Gillsing

7 жыл бұрын

Advanced Robotic Bat *Can Fly Like the Real Thing* is a title that sets certain expectations, and those expectations were not met in this video. But you're right in that I'm not a scientist, and certainly not a bat bot builder, or an ESPer with the ability to see videos months, years or decades in advance. So I kind of expected to see some actual flying in _this_ video. Because how am I supposed to know that this work in progress is 'amazing'? I'd need to know a whole bunch of stuff to tell that, considering all the _other_ amazing stuff that already exists and actually works.

@aidangomez4726

7 жыл бұрын

Neutron some of us actually do conduct research in robotics unlike you and are still underwhelmed after claims of flight. needless to say I am extremely impressed in every other way.

@Griimnak

6 жыл бұрын

It's true. The internet at first was a military weapon, not for fun time. People couldn't see the future of the internet while the engineers and scientists that built it, could.

@andrebarreto9177

6 жыл бұрын

I've seen more impressive flight from comercial ornithopters. To me they just spent a lot of resources to develop something they have no use for.

Woody: 'That isn't flying, that's falling with style'

Idea: if you can make that bat wings bigger, and make a comfortable motor that can go on a humans back, linked with a motion sensor, then you can make any type of wings using a replica of the bat wings, and create a new invention that can give humans the ability of flight

pointy ears should improve the design.

@userb8a

3 жыл бұрын

Well, Batman was pretty insistent on that, so I believe you.

I'd call this a success in that they are meeting all of the complex challenges required to get the little bot flying like a real Bat. They're not there yet but apparently well on their way.

Can it hang upside down too ?

What is the the lift coefficient of Robotic Bat? What power source you used? The wing material on it is amazing!

Can you imagine this being used in intelligence gathering, from espionage to even disaster rescue in the future.

Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

beautiful! thanks

Hi There, Which brand of motion capture is used for its development?

At 0:11 I can see the wing tips are twisting on the pitch axis (I'm not talking about the flapping mechanism) and I'm fairly sure this is intentional. My guess is that its purpose is cup the air when on the downstroke but reduce/stop the upstroke from cancelling out the forces. But I have some questions about this: How does it do this? I understand the crank-shaft mechanism creating the flap of the wings but is the crankshaft the reason for the tilt or is that another mechanism? If the reason is that the crank shaft mechanism is pushing up the front and not the back, how does this not create bending in the wing actuator and the shaft the back piece of the wing goes along? Either way I'm trying to study on flight and ornithopters to design as accurate as possible of an ornithopter for a worldbuilding project, so any help is much appreciated!

This all good but we need a Drone that will fly long distances not just for a few yards.

Batman probably got several of those in his Batcave.

How did you generate the servo commands? Could you genetically program it by supporting it, using an external power supply and assessing fitness (lift generated) of very many 1 or 2 second 'flying' trials? A bat should be able to hover: www.livescience.com/12179-hovering-bats.html

A lot of these comments are highly negative saying that this isn't flying, or it's a robotic paperplane. Big difference, while yes this is not yet capable to sustain flight that doesn't mean it is gliding for all parts of this, at one point in the recordings it is going on a parallel plane which paper airplanes can not do. This simply can only hold that for a short time which may be due to weight mixed with power issues. HOWEVER this also has the ability to make extremely tight turns (like a bat) another thing paper planes and even a lot of drones can't do. What many of you are failing to see is that this tech is simply a wip (work in progress) and has yet to be finished. Which means they will most likely fix that. This is a technology I would love to see finished one day!

bem projetado!

Flying like a bat. Is that good? Flying like a moth next?

Impressive.

the chip on the front must be a massive FPGA or some kind of ASIC. Great work!

@neliutudgyan4549

7 жыл бұрын

Francesco Bianchi inchkochellaiscery

that's COOL!!!

that large IC looks like a display at the first glance

If it ran on steam it would be cooler

Maybe putting subtitles in would help with the explanation.

Amazing build guys!

It flies almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the real thing.

Bats have much smaller brains than that giant CPU!

If designed as glider it could cover same distance or more if any thermals.

That's a start. I hope someday someone makes a passenger airplane that flaps its wings like a bird.

@HansenSWE

7 жыл бұрын

They would have to serve the red wine in a baby-bottle, though.

@geordonworley5618

7 жыл бұрын

What if it had like 20 independently flapping wings though and was incredibly stable?

@HansenSWE

7 жыл бұрын

vadix That sounds very steampunk so I shall stamp it with my seal of approval. That spider-bicycle-thing that I've seen around comes to mind.

Great idea! but why not make it RC in the first place??

Amazing design, great engineering skills ... Need to lose about half of its weight to be able to fly tho.

Has anyone ever attempted to use this technology to create Wings that can be used by humans to fly with? And if so... PLEASE link me to that Project!

Is the inability to sustain flight a power or aerodynamic issue?

@stihl888

7 жыл бұрын

I would suggest weight is the issue, too much of it. The curcuitry needs to be condensed and things like the metal SD card holder should be removed, so on and so forth. If it fails to sustain flight then i would suggest gear ratios and power...

@geligapictures

7 жыл бұрын

i think it needs to be a larger sCALE to work

@mushnoodle

7 жыл бұрын

i'm not an flightengineer or anything but my guess is: bats adjust their flighttype depending on what they need to do. what this batmachine does is mimicking the "trying to keep altitude" flight minus the bats ability to nuance it with an occasional "push-up" and/or bodyrocking. if it can't retract the wings, its just flapping, the air is pushing it downwards and can't really "climb"... if you are doing breaststrokes in the water and don't pull your arms to your body to avoid the waterresistance you'll end up being pretty inefficient too. they might adjust that later and very likely just showed us a WIP. /watch?v=Vq0rVBD9mDY compare what the bats wings do vs the first part of this video

@RonJohn63

6 жыл бұрын

Power.

It flew like a paper plane.

always keep it simple.simple is best. make an anti gravity disc, or ball, instead of super complex flying robots, that try to imitate animals and that could break easily.

@damshek

5 жыл бұрын

Harvard called, you want a scholarship?

I didn't see flight. I saw a highly sophisticated paper airplane.

Once you get it to really fly, scale it up to, say, a 20-foot wingspan and make a wearable bat bot for individual human flight.

@bigbird4481

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately you can't just scale something that easily when talking about flight

Someone needs to make wings to help humans fly

Great! They developed a paper plane...

👍👍👍👍👍

you mean "falling with style"

Looks more like pigeon bot when it's in the air.

@ginbeer4327

7 жыл бұрын

get new glasses

Robats ♥

What a magnificent achievement, a giant flap forward in the pursuit of flying mastery. Be best.

could be used to remove birds (sparrows and pigeons) from supermarkets

not flying, it's a controlled fall

they could build an alternate model that remotely transmits data to a powerful cpu, rather than having it add weight onboard

Can they built a toothless?

I've seen rocks fly for longer.

Holy Shit is starting XD ajaajajaj

12 g your robot will be grounded

ooooooooh you shouldn't have poke the membrane.......

That's DOWNHILL the way FFS. And NB the holes that appear in the material as the vid progresses.......... Duh

Try the wing in humans...

tf is he saying where are the subs

I can get the same flight with a paper airplane

k.hari hara sudhan

Its not flying. it is gliding and just flapping its wings! i'm sorry.

nananananananananananananananana

my kid has a nine dollar duck toy that flies better than this

я с батей такую же хуйню из клеенки делал

finally an Atreides ornitopter will fly

Helicopter is much better.

Robat.

my sons paper folded jet flies better and longer. come on.

@tonywang9026

7 жыл бұрын

You realize this is not about how long it flies right....

@aparioss1072

6 жыл бұрын

bat flight is not about distance and sustainability, but about speed and accuracy. Your son's paper plane do not carries equipment and do not flap to generate lift. It glides. Paper plane, based on air plane, which in turn based on bird flight, is for long distance and time flight. Bat flight however, can be applied for flight in tight areas and low height.

That does not fly...

It doesn't even turn into a person or run from sunlight? Ripoff.

I can do better caltech...

clever robot, not the best flyer