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HE SCREAMS | 0:00:03 | 0:00:04 | |
Come with us as we dive into the wonderful world of technology. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:08 | |
This is mind blowing. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:09 | |
Each show we introduce you | 0:00:09 | 0:00:10 | |
to geniuses whose inventions have changed the world for ever. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:15 | |
We then take their tech | 0:00:15 | 0:00:16 | |
and supersize it in our Genius Tech Challenge. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
THEY SHOUT | 0:00:20 | 0:00:21 | |
The question is - can they pull it off? | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
Is this his brain? | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
If you love gadgets, then strap yourself in. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
-It's genius. -Absolute Genius. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
In this show we're finding out how robots | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
have leapt from the pages of fiction into reality. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
And how in the future they could change the way we live. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
Please say hello to Dick and Dom. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
Plus we design our very own big, bad robot to destroy | 0:00:46 | 0:00:50 | |
some terrible old tech. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:51 | |
ALL: Yeah! | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
Today's show is all about robotics... | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
and I don't mean the dodgy dance from the '80s. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
Prepare to have your mind blown | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
because these metal beasts aren't just in sci-fi movies, | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
no, they are real, and they are already helping us on a daily basis. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
Welcome to the Genius world of robotics. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
The idea of robots has been around for centuries. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
Way back in 1495, | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
Leonardo da Vinci created a mechanical suit of amour that moved. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:56 | |
And they've been in the movies for well over 100 years. | 0:01:56 | 0:02:01 | |
But today, robots are real and in action. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
Nasa has the Mars Rover, a robot on Mars sending images back to Earth. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:09 | |
In China there are robots serving people in restaurants. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:13 | |
And here at factories like this one, | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
robots are hard at work building cars. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
This car plant has around 650 robots working. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:22 | |
They can work 24 hours a day, seven days a week. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
Yeah, turning over around a quarter of a million cars in a year! | 0:02:24 | 0:02:29 | |
But where did it all begin, who got the ball rolling? | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
Where did robots come from? | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
Well, it wasn't in the tech districts of Tokyo. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
Or the Universities of America. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
It was in the UK... | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
In glorious Bristol, by our first genius. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
Meet the man who gave us the first-ever autonomous robot - | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
Dr William Grey Walter! | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
I'm a man - not a robot. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
In the 1940s, William Grey Walter was a man | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
with an interesting hobby - building Robots. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
They are small and he doesn't dress them up to look like men. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
He calls them tortoises. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:01 | |
Robots had existed before Grey Walter, | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
but they were mechanical marvels that had to be wound up or cranked. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
What he did was create two battery-powered machines. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
They were the first true autonomous robots | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
and helped change technology for ever. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
Grey Walter's invention was revolutionary | 0:03:16 | 0:03:17 | |
because the tortoises were fitted with sensors. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
They were simple, but for the first time ever | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
a powered machine was able to change its actions based | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
on the world around it and that was genius. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
So, we've come to Bristol, where it all began. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
Delighted to meet you. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
To tell us everything we need to know about Grey Walter's robots | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
is Genius helper Professor Alan Winfield - | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
who specialises in mobile robots. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
There he is, or she is, we don't know the gender, do we? | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
-It. -It. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
Why was the tortoise so important? | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
It's now regarded as the world's first electronic, | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
autonomous, mobile robot. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
Why was this so ground-breaking to technology at the time? | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
It's the way that the tortoise connects the sensors, | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
the electronics and the motors that was really new - in fact, radical. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
And what kind of sensors has it got? | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
Two sensors, in fact - this thing right here is a light sensor. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
-The robot is attracted to a bright light. -Ah! | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
-TV PRESENTER: -When light strikes the cell, | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
a driving and steering mechanism | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
sends her hurrying towards it, but if she brushes | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
against any object in her path, contacts are operated | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
that turn the steering away. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
This switch arrangement means that whenever the shell is touched, | 0:04:36 | 0:04:41 | |
anywhere around the shell actually triggers the touch sensor. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:47 | |
No, that way. That way. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
It doesn't follow any orders. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:50 | |
-No, it doesn't. -It does its own thing. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
It does... Entirely does its own thing. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
I think these really were genius for their time, but how do they work? | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
BOTH: Fran! | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
-Are you ready? -Our genius scientist friend Fran can explain things | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
in a way that even we can understand... | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
Oh, no, no! | 0:05:08 | 0:05:09 | |
-..and she loves a good experiment. -Exactly. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
Fran, we've seen the tortoises in action, but how do they work? | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
Well, I thought before you guys discover how they work, | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
I thought it would be best if you could be the tortoise. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
We get to be human robot tortoises? | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
-Yes, you do. -How? | 0:05:25 | 0:05:27 | |
Well, by using these. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:28 | |
-These? -Dodgems? We get to go on dodgems? | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
-As part of our job with you? -Yeah. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
What? What? What? | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
-Yes! -So you're in a dodgem | 0:05:38 | 0:05:40 | |
because you remember when the tortoise bashed into things? | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
It would change direction. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:44 | |
It would and dodgems do exactly that type of thing. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
You are going to try and follow the light just like the tortoises | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
follow towards the light. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:51 | |
I want you to see like the tortoise sees - right? | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
Which is why you're going to be blindfolded. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
And the only way you'll be able to see where you're going | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
is with this periscope. | 0:05:58 | 0:05:59 | |
I've put a filter on top, so you don't see the exact image, | 0:05:59 | 0:06:03 | |
you'll just see where light is coming from. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:05 | |
Cos I'm going to shine a flashing light | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
from somewhere in this arena | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
and you guys have got to get to it. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
Right, folks, this should be interesting. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
Strap on your seatbelts, we're off. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
Dick is the touch sensor so he is going to be completely blindfolded. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
Dom is the light sensor, so when he looks through the periscope, | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
he can only see this. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:25 | |
Using only these two senses, we've got | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
to work together to get all the way over to Fran. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
She'll be flashing her light on and off so Dom can sense where she is. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
Go! | 0:06:34 | 0:06:35 | |
Argh! | 0:06:35 | 0:06:36 | |
-Which way? -I don't know. -What do you mean you don't know? | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
Stop a minute! | 0:06:40 | 0:06:42 | |
Argh! | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
Hang on, I see something. Left. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:46 | |
No, no, the other left. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
This place is full of flashing coloured lights, | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
so it's not making it very easy to find Fran's light. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
-I can see something flashing. -You're doing well. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
That's right. | 0:06:58 | 0:06:59 | |
Come on. My tortoises could do it. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
Right, right, right. No, left. No, left. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
What do you mean left? | 0:07:05 | 0:07:06 | |
Go left. Left, left. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:08 | |
Left. That's it! | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
-We've got it. -Is that right? | 0:07:10 | 0:07:11 | |
There she is! | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
Hey! Look at that. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
It's not as easy as it looks being a tortoise. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:20 | |
Back to Fran's lab to find out what that was all about. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
That was great fun, but I'm sure | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
there's some science in there somewhere. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
There certainly was. When you guys were on the dodgems | 0:07:28 | 0:07:30 | |
you were acting like the tortoise. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
Dom, you were the light sensor and, Dick, | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
you were the touch sensor, | 0:07:35 | 0:07:37 | |
but there was one main difference between you guys and the tortoises. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
-OK, what's that? -Intelligence, believe it or not. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
When you were changing direction, | 0:07:42 | 0:07:43 | |
you thought about changing direction. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:45 | |
With the tortoise, there's no thought involved. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
How does it work, then? | 0:07:48 | 0:07:49 | |
The sensors on the tortoise are a bit like an electrical reflex... | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
-Dick, could you just cross your legs for me, please? -What for? | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
I'm going to make your leg move by hitting it with a hammer. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
-Are you ready? -Yeah. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
Oy! | 0:08:01 | 0:08:02 | |
-Did you see that? -Oy! | 0:08:02 | 0:08:04 | |
-That'll do. -Has your leg moved yet? | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
-Yeah. -But you weren't thinking about it, were you? -No. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
And that's a reflex. It's something that happens automatically. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
It's the same thing with the tortoise. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
When the tortoise bumps into something, it doesn't think | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
about changing direction, it's like someone has turned on a switch. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
There's no intelligent thought involved at all. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
So if the tortoise isn't intelligent, | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
where are we going to find an intelligent robot? | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
Well, to do that, you need to go to Boston. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
Boston, Boston, I love Boston. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
William Grey Walter had built the very first autonomous robots. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:37 | |
The genius idea of giving a machine senses would lay | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
the foundations for all modern robots - | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
from dancing ones to car-building ones. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
While we jet off to Boston, here are the top five genius robots. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:49 | |
At five - need more kangaroo in your life? Good news! | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
Meet Bionic Kangaroo, | 0:08:54 | 0:08:55 | |
a fully robotic jumping kangaroo made by scientists in Germany. | 0:08:55 | 0:09:00 | |
Hoppy. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:02 | |
At four - it's Actroid-F. It's considered the world's | 0:09:02 | 0:09:05 | |
most life-like robot. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:07 | |
It's so realistic-looking that people think it's a real person. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:11 | |
At three - it's Robo Chef. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
Sick of having to make your own food? | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
Well, Robo Chef is a fully automated, cooking robot | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
and may be whisking eggs near you soon. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
At two - it's the Grandebot 2,000 - also known as Ariana Grande - | 0:09:21 | 0:09:26 | |
now with enhanced high notes. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:27 | |
Only joking - I just made that one up! | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
And at one. Don't want to do your art homework? | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
Well, Paul the drawing robot could be your new best friend. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
Paul can focus on a person's face and sketch it. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
Ahh, here we are. Hot and lovely Boston. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
Thanks to Grey Walter, machines could change their movements | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
based on the environment around them. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
But they were just electrical reactions - | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
they weren't actually thinking for themselves. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
A truly thinking robot needs artificial intelligence. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
That's why we've come to one of the world's top universities - | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
And MIT is the home to our next genius, | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
who co-founded the artificial intelligence lab. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:11 | |
Let us introduce you to Professor Marvin Minsky. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:15 | |
I think, therefore I am. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
In the 1950s, the idea that computers could one day | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
think for themselves only existed as a theory. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
But it was our genius, Marvin Minsky, who started to turn it | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
into a reality when he co-founded the artificial intelligence lab | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
here at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
His genius idea was that you could give a computer | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
a set of pre-programmed rules | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
and those rules could allow it to decide its own actions. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:46 | |
He built the world's first ever neural network learning machine - | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
the first computer that worked like a brain. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
It was modelled on a rat in a trap and was capable of using | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
its computer brain to work out an escape plan. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
Got it? Good. Now, get out. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:01 | |
Today, machines that learn exist in a variety of forms. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
From driverless cars that can decide how to navigate safely... | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
..to websites that know what type of movies you like. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
But we're talking robots in this show. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
So to show us one of the world's largest robots with | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
artificial intelligence, we've got genius helper from MIT Pat Marion. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:22 | |
-Hi, Pat. -Hi, Dom. -Who is this? | 0:11:22 | 0:11:23 | |
This is the atlas humanoid robot, | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
built by Boston Dynamics in Waltham, Massachusetts. Our team here at MIT | 0:11:25 | 0:11:29 | |
is doing the software development to control this robot. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
Atlas was built to enter a competition called | 0:11:32 | 0:11:34 | |
the Darpa Robotics Challenge - a test to try and find a robot which | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
can work alone to enter dangerous buildings on rescue operations. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:42 | |
And the team at MIT are working on Atlas's artificial intelligence. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:47 | |
It's got eyes. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:48 | |
It does. This is its sensor head - | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
it's got a stereo pair of cameras here, | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
and a laser range finder. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
Can you make this robot make its own decisions as opposed to you | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
telling it what to do every step of the way? | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
The robot does make a lot of decisions. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:01 | |
In fact, it has a control loop that is making a thousand | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
-decisions a second. -Is it more intelligent than him? | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
-Right now? Maybe. -You said a thousand thoughts a second, yeah? | 0:12:06 | 0:12:10 | |
I'm more like a fish. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:11 | |
Atlas's intelligence lies in its ability to scan its environment and | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
then make decisions about where to place its feet and how to balance. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
So this could walk like a human, on its own, | 0:12:19 | 0:12:21 | |
making its own decisions without any visible support? | 0:12:21 | 0:12:24 | |
-That's right. -Can we see it in action? | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
All right - let's do it. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
So it's scanning everything? | 0:12:30 | 0:12:31 | |
Atlas is equipped with sensors, including lasers and cameras, | 0:12:31 | 0:12:35 | |
allowing it to constantly scan its surroundings. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:37 | |
To test it, Pat has put concrete blocks in its way. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
Here it goes. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:42 | |
It's so humanlike... | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
the way it moves. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:51 | |
Brilliant. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:56 | |
Well done, Atlas. | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
Atlas can even react to unexpected knocks. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
That's not very nice. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:03 | |
Atlas is continuously making tiny adjustments to its body | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
so it doesn't fall over. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:10 | |
This is what we're talking about here. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:12 | |
It's making its own decisions and they're split-second reactions. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
Where do you see robots like Atlas in about five years' time? | 0:13:16 | 0:13:18 | |
We're going to see a lot more autonomy. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
They'll be built stronger and lighter weight, | 0:13:20 | 0:13:22 | |
so they can move more quickly and get into more interesting areas. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
You heard it here. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 | |
One day, they will take over the world. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:29 | |
A truly genius robot - | 0:13:31 | 0:13:32 | |
in part thanks to a true genius, Professor Marvin Minsky. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:36 | |
I'm officially intelligent. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:39 | |
But here's a robot that's not so clever. | 0:13:39 | 0:13:41 | |
It's The Not So Genius Idea! | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
HitchBOT was a Canadian robot designed to travel all over | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
the world by hitchhiking and taking photos of its travels. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:51 | |
HitchBOT had successfully travelled across Canada | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
and even visited Europe, popping to Germany. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:57 | |
But when it tried to travel across the USA | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
it was broken up by vandals. Naughty. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
It looks like it might just be a bit too soon for humans | 0:14:01 | 0:14:05 | |
and robots to live together peacefully. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:08 | |
Still to come, we're going to destroy some of the worst tech ever | 0:14:10 | 0:14:14 | |
with the help of a robot friend of ours in our Genius Tech Challenge. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:18 | |
But first, we're back in Boston. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
So far, we've seen the beginnings of the robot world in Bristol. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:28 | |
And here in Boston, | 0:14:28 | 0:14:29 | |
we've seen how robots of the future will have artificial intelligence. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:33 | |
But one day, the dream is to have robots helping us daily in our homes. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:36 | |
And our next genius is someone that has helped make that dream | 0:14:36 | 0:14:39 | |
a step closer to reality. | 0:14:39 | 0:14:41 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Satoshi Shigemi. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
-Konnichiwa, Dick and Dom. -What? | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
He's Japanese, you fool. We went there last series. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:50 | |
Oh, yeah. Konnichiwa. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:52 | |
Satoshi Shigemi is the chief engineer on a robot called | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
ASIMO - something he's been working on since the 1980s. | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
Although ASIMO has been around for a while, it has constantly been | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
updated and is now one of the most advanced humanoid robots. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:09 | |
Satoshi Shigemi is a true genius and we'd love to interview him. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:15 | |
But we can't because we're in Boston and he's in Tokyo. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
Do we know anyone in Japan? | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
We do, actually - our lifelong friend. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:21 | |
We've only met her once. | 0:15:21 | 0:15:23 | |
Our good colleague, Leah from Newsround. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
She's our second favourite Newsround presenter. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
Let me just call her. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
Oh, it's dialling. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:31 | |
PHONE RINGS | 0:15:31 | 0:15:35 | |
-Hello. -Ah, hello, Leah. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:41 | |
It's Dom here. Dom from Dick and Dom. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
We hear you're in Japan. Having a good time? | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
Well, I was just... | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
-Speaker. -..maybe buy some souvenirs. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:50 | |
-Any chance you can do us a favour? -No. -Go on. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
-No. -Please. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
-Fine. -Good. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:55 | |
You know genius robotics engineer Satoshi Shigemi? | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
Could you interview him for us? | 0:15:58 | 0:16:00 | |
If I do that, will you leave me alone? | 0:16:00 | 0:16:04 | |
-Yeah. -OK. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:05 | |
You really need to get off this phone | 0:16:05 | 0:16:07 | |
because it's costing me a fortune. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
Aww, she's hung up. I think that went well. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
Thanks, Leah. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:14 | |
While she heads to meet ASIMO and our genius, | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
we decided to have a bit of a gander around MIT - | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
and look what we've found. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
Yes, it's a robot cheetah! | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
Oh, wow.... His head's fallen off. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
THEY CHORTLE | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
How did you find that? It blew my head off. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
Yeah, slightly awkward. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
Let's hope Leah has better luck with ASIMO. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
Hello, Leah. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
Please say hello to Dick and Dom. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
Oh, hello, ASIMO. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:46 | |
-Konnichiwa. -Konnichiwa. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
What is so special about ASIMO? | 0:16:49 | 0:16:52 | |
What can it do? | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
-TRANSLATION: -In the initial stage, ASIMO was only able to walk. | 0:16:54 | 0:17:00 | |
However, ASIMO is now able to open a bottle and pour coffee. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:04 | |
Milk and two sugars, please, ASIMO. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:06 | |
What's the plan for ASIMO for the future? | 0:17:06 | 0:17:10 | |
Since ASIMO is multi-lingual, | 0:17:10 | 0:17:14 | |
at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics ASIMO | 0:17:14 | 0:17:18 | |
might be able to guide visitors in their mother tongue. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:21 | |
ASIMO: Let's shake hands to remember your visit. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
Besides having a mean handshake, there is also the plan that | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
one day ASIMO will be able to help care for people in their homes. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:31 | |
I came for a delivery. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:32 | |
And you didn't spill a drop. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
What advice would you give to future geniuses of technology? | 0:17:34 | 0:17:40 | |
Now, that is a good question. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
Whatever you do, think how you can use your knowledge to help | 0:17:43 | 0:17:47 | |
people and think what kind of pleasure it could bring to them. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
Thanks to our genius, Satoshi Shigemi, one day | 0:17:52 | 0:17:54 | |
we might all have a robot serving us dinner at home. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
Absolute Genius. | 0:17:57 | 0:17:58 | |
We've seen how autonomous robots with sensors | 0:17:59 | 0:18:02 | |
have gone from being simple tortoises to human-like helpers. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
It's official, robots are genius. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:10 | |
Yes, we've seen some pretty impressive robots. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
The problem is they're just all a bit too good. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:15 | |
When you think of robots in the movies | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
you think about destruction! | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
So our Tech Challenge is to design and build our very own | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
destructive robot. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:26 | |
Here's the plan... | 0:18:30 | 0:18:31 | |
Our challenge is to come up with a robot that can do | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
some serious damage. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:36 | |
It's going to need some serious strength and firepower | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
because our machine of destruction has to successfully terminate | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
three of the worst pieces of technology ever. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
Smash! | 0:18:45 | 0:18:46 | |
But that's not all. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:47 | |
Before our robot can annihilate the terrible tech, it has to get | 0:18:47 | 0:18:51 | |
to it, as each item will be hidden within a special protective case. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:55 | |
It's going to take everything we've learned about robotics | 0:18:55 | 0:18:59 | |
and more, but can we pull it off? | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
To help us build our robot, we've got our mate Grant Cooper, | 0:19:03 | 0:19:06 | |
who builds battle robots professionally. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
But for our challenge, we're going to need Grant to make | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
the biggest robot he's ever built. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
Grant, you've built robots for us before, but this time we want | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
one that's bigger and better - maybe with a little destructive edge. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:20 | |
It's got firepower - it crashes, it bashes. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
We want lasers that come out the sides, | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
we want wheels that've got spikes on them. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
We want big sharp teeth, chainsaws, | 0:19:27 | 0:19:28 | |
-bombs that can go and blow things up. -Can you do it? | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
It sounds ambitious, but if you guys can come up with an idea, | 0:19:31 | 0:19:33 | |
we can create almost anything. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:36 | |
We dream the dreams and you make it a reality? | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
We've built loads of real scary machines | 0:19:39 | 0:19:41 | |
and robots before, so if you want to go | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
and take a look at some of them and come back with some ideas | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
-and we'll go from there. -Robot time. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:47 | |
-Right, what have we got here? -Look at the size of that hammer. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:49 | |
HE GRUNTS | 0:19:49 | 0:19:51 | |
One of them. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
HE SQUAWKS | 0:19:53 | 0:19:54 | |
So a massive hammer in one hand, chainsaw in the other... | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
Yeah, but we need fire. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
Right, so that's it. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:01 | |
-Fire finger, chainsaw, hammer hitting... -Yeah. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
-..penguin of doom. -Let's go and draw it. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:05 | |
In a dress. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:06 | |
-Go on then, da Vinci. -What kind of dress do we think? | 0:20:08 | 0:20:11 | |
Nice dress, flowers... | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
Lasers coming out of the flowers. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
That's hardly menacing, is it? | 0:20:18 | 0:20:19 | |
-It's a crow's head. -That's not destructive. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:21 | |
I'll give it evil eyebrows. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
There you go. Evil eyebrows. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
Well, Grant did say he could do pretty much anything... | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
except giving it a name. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:30 | |
What do you call it? Skeleton Donkey. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
It is a Kleefstof. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:36 | |
-It says it there - Kleefstof. Kleefstof III. -Perfect. -Done. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:41 | |
Let's go and show Grant. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
We've got a genius name and a genius robot - let's see | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
if Grant can make it. We think you're going to like this. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
Sounds exciting. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
-Erm... -Do you like it? | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
What...what is it? | 0:20:59 | 0:21:01 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:21:01 | 0:21:03 | |
Let's run you through what we've got here. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:05 | |
We've got a crow's head. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:06 | |
Two big arms - one's holding a chainsaw, the other a mallet. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
We dream it, you make it. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
Caterpillar tracks at the bottom, fire coming out of them, | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
all based on top of a donkey. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:15 | |
Firstly, I think | 0:21:15 | 0:21:16 | |
having tracks on the back of the donkey is a bad idea - | 0:21:16 | 0:21:19 | |
I'd lose the donkey. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
Lose the donkey. Donkey gone. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:23 | |
I think the general idea - something on wheels and tracks | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
with a chainsaw and the flames certainly... | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
I think they're always a cool feature. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:30 | |
How about...? Could the flames come out of the beak? | 0:21:30 | 0:21:33 | |
-I don't see why not. -So it's like a flame-throwing crow. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
You've got some of the basics of a good idea in there. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:39 | |
So we'll go back to the drawing board, have a look... | 0:21:39 | 0:21:41 | |
No need because it's all here for you, Grant. Good luck. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:45 | |
-Thank you. -And we'll see you on the dance floor. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:47 | |
-See you soon. -He's off. -Good day's work, that. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
-I think so. -All he's got to do is just weld it together, really. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:53 | |
A bit of cutting sheet steel. He's got the easy job. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
We'll leave Grant to crack on and turn our genius idea | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
into a robot capable of destroying some of the worst tech ever. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:06 | |
The question is, though - | 0:22:06 | 0:22:07 | |
what is this bad tech that we're going to destroy? | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
Up first, the very worst in electronic gaming. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
The Barcode Battler. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:13 | |
Who needs video games when you can scan barcodes | 0:22:15 | 0:22:18 | |
and battle other barcodes? | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
Next, representing possibly the worst | 0:22:22 | 0:22:24 | |
in home entertainment technology... | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
The Philips V2000. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:29 | |
The time has come for a company to create a more sophisticated system. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
You could hardly rent any movies that would play on it | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
and tapes had to be turned over halfway through viewing. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
Useless and annoying. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:41 | |
Finally for bad transport tech, it's the legendary Sinclair C5. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
It was a powered tricycle that hardly anyone bought | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
and those that did got laughed at for using it. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
It's been voted the worst gadget ever. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
Now we know what it needs to destroy, it's time for us | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
to meet our robot! | 0:22:59 | 0:23:01 | |
Look at that! | 0:23:09 | 0:23:10 | |
It's exactly how we drew it. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
Caterpillar tracks, flowery dress... | 0:23:24 | 0:23:26 | |
crow's head, flame thrower. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
Chainsaw... | 0:23:29 | 0:23:30 | |
-Mallet. -More than a mallet - it's a grabber. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
I hope you like it. Threw it all in the mix and this is... | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
this is what happened. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
You and your team did some work on this, | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
-but I think the real credit has to go to us. -Yeah. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
-Didn't we do well? Clever, aren't we? -We did do this. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
Genius, eh? | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
Right, let's destroy some really bad tech. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:50 | |
But to make things more difficult, | 0:23:50 | 0:23:52 | |
each piece of tech is hidden in something. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:54 | |
The Barcode Battler in a school desk, | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
the V2000 in a car | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
and the C5 in a shed. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
To make sure we're super safe, we've got the fire brigade on standby. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:09 | |
Let see what Kleefstof is made of. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
Kleefstof is genius, but, unlike ASIMO, | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
it can't think for itself, so we're taking the controls. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
This robot is incredibly dangerous, | 0:24:17 | 0:24:19 | |
so we have to operate it from a safe distance. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:22 | |
Kleefstof, let's do this. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:24 | |
BELL DINGS Round One - the Barcode Battler. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
Here we go! | 0:24:29 | 0:24:30 | |
I'm controlling where Kleefstof goes. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
And I'm controlling how it destroys. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:37 | |
Yeah! | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
Barcode Battler! | 0:24:40 | 0:24:41 | |
-Yeah! Go on. -I think you've done all the damage you need to. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
All right. Well, let's go and assess it | 0:24:44 | 0:24:46 | |
and see if we've broken the Barcode Battler. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
The desk was no match for Kleefstof, but the tech is intact... | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
What are the chances of that? | 0:24:52 | 0:24:54 | |
Everything is in bits apart from the Barcode Battler. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:56 | |
They made things well back then. Look at that. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
Well done, technology. You win. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
Let's move on to Round Two. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:02 | |
It's Bad Tech 1, Kleefstof 0. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
Can Kleefstof redeem himself and prise the V2000 | 0:25:07 | 0:25:09 | |
from inside the car and destroy it? | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
BELL DINGS Round Two. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
Oh! | 0:25:14 | 0:25:15 | |
CRASH | 0:25:17 | 0:25:18 | |
That's it - Kleestof's eyes are on the prize. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
-Wait! -Nice and gentle. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:24 | |
Oh, yeah. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
I tell you what. Let's knock the car over. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
All right. Ready? Here we go. Right. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
-Oh! -Lift, lift. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:35 | |
Oh! | 0:25:35 | 0:25:38 | |
Come on! | 0:25:38 | 0:25:39 | |
-Keep going, keep going. -Come on. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:41 | |
-That's it. -Yeah! | 0:25:41 | 0:25:43 | |
Look! There's a bit of 2000. It's come out. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
Oh, ya, ya, ya... | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
Surely that's got to have seen it off. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:54 | |
-There you are - some bad technology. -Yeah, yeah. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
-Busted. -Look at that. | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
I think the car's worse off than this. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:00 | |
Anyway, Kleefstof versus Bad Technology, Kleefstof wins. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:04 | |
Kleefstof 1 Bad Tech 1. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:06 | |
It's the final round. Kleefstof will destroy | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
the legendary Sinclair C5. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:12 | |
We're going to chuck all this lot in there as well. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:15 | |
Yeah, the Philips 2000 and the Barcode Battler. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:17 | |
-Let's go. -Love it. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:19 | |
-BELL DINGS -Round Three. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:22 | |
-Let's do it. -Time to bring out the fire power. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:24 | |
-No! -Stop there. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:26 | |
Come on. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:29 | |
Boogie on down. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:31 | |
-Up! Up! -Yes! -Yes! | 0:26:36 | 0:26:38 | |
There you go. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:43 | |
Nice, nice. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:45 | |
Come on, Kleefstof. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
Kleefstof, save yourself. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:51 | |
-What a result. -Finally. | 0:26:55 | 0:26:59 | |
And with a tiny bit of cheating... Kleefstof wins! | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
This robot is genius... | 0:27:02 | 0:27:04 | |
In this episode we found out how a robot tortoise with sensors | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
started modern-day robotics. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:09 | |
How artificially intelligent machines can be programmed to learn. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
And how, in the near future, robots could be serving us our drinks. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
Not only that... | 0:27:16 | 0:27:18 | |
We used a bad robot to destroy some bad technology. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
But more importantly, we've found out how robots are real | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
and are already changing our lives. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:26 | |
So thank you very much to our geniuses, Grey Walter. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
Minsky. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:29 | |
And Shigemi. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:30 | |
-You're all... -BOTH: Absolute genius! | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
Where has it gone? | 0:27:47 | 0:27:49 | |
It's stopped. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:51 | |
Argh! | 0:27:51 | 0:27:52 | |
A long line is a... | 0:27:52 | 0:27:54 | |
Wow! | 0:27:54 | 0:27:55 | |
Its head's fallen off. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
How did you find that? | 0:27:57 | 0:27:58 | |
It blew my head off. | 0:27:58 | 0:27:59 | |
You can't end it like that! | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 |