PickVidsBest Robotics Videos
The 102 Robotics videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 7 intermediate, 90 for a general viewer, and 3 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Boston Dynamics, Tesla, TheDmel.
What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us
CGP Grey's video "Humans Need Not Apply" argues that automation will make a large part of the workforce economically obsolete, much as engines did for horses.
Zipline - How Rwanda Built A Drone Delivery Service
Real Engineering explains how Zipline built a drone delivery network for medical supplies in Rwanda.
Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything
Mark Rober visits Zipline and looks at its autonomous delivery drones, including medical and blood deliveries in Rwanda.
7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars
NASA JPL engineers explain the final minutes of the Curiosity rover's entry, descent and landing on Mars, which combined aerobraking, a parachute and a skycrane.
Slaughterbots
Slaughterbots is a fictional short film, backed by Stuart Russell, depicting swarms of cheap autonomous drones that use facial recognition to assassinate targets.
Drone Delivery Was Supposed to be the Future. What Went Wrong?
Wendover Productions explains why drone delivery has not become the future once promised.
Giant Robot Project, Part 1
The first installment of a hobbyist's video diary documenting his build of a giant walking spider-like vehicle.
Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUST
Slaughterbots is a short sci-fi film in which swarms of cheap autonomous drones are programmed to kill targets by profile.
The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
Veritasium visits the Micromouse competition, where small autonomous robots race to solve mazes at extreme speed.
7 Minutes of Terror: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing | Video
NASA's animated explanation of the Curiosity rover's Mars landing, which relied on a complex automated sequence taking about seven minutes.
Festo - SmartBird
Festo's promo video of SmartBird, an ultralight bionic flying model inspired by the herring gull that flaps and twists its wings to fly.
Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008)
Boston Dynamics' March 2008 video of BigDog, a four-legged robot, walking on ice and snow, climbing rubble and recovering from slips and kicks.
Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot
Novelist Daniel Suarez warns in a TED talk about autonomous robotic weapons and drones.
Automatic Bullseye, MOVING Dartboard
Mark Rober shows an automatic bullseye dartboard that tracks a thrown dart with motion capture and moves in real time so it always hits the center.
I sent robot forgeries to a handwriting expert
Stuff Made Here builds a handwriting robot and sends its output to a handwriting expert to see whether it can pass as forgery.
BFS-Auto: High Speed Book Scanner at over 250 pages/min
A University of Tokyo lab demonstrates a book scanner that flips pages automatically and scans over 250 pages per minute.
Amputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb
Johns Hopkins APL shows Les Baugh, a bilateral shoulder-level amputee, controlling two Modular Prosthetic Limbs by thought after a short training period.
The Uncanny Valley Is Wrong
This Place argues that the uncanny valley is a flawed concept, since 'human likeness' is too broad and the supporting evidence is cherry-picked.
Tesla AI Day 2022
Tesla's full AI Day 2022 presentation, covering the Tesla Bot hardware and software, Full Self-Driving planning and perception, the occupancy network, data labeling, simulation and Dojo training infrastructure.
The Super-Fast Logistics of Delivering Blood By Drone
A Wendover Productions documentary-style video on how Zipline delivers blood and medical supplies by drone in Rwanda.
Atlas | Partners in Parkour
Boston Dynamics shows its Atlas humanoid robots running a parkour course with jumps, balance beams and vaults, demonstrating whole-body athletic control.
Sand Flea Jumping Robot
A short Boston Dynamics clip of the Sand Flea, an 11-pound RC-car-style robot that can jump about 30 feet into the air.
Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - Computerphile
Rob Miles explains for Computerphile why simple rule sets like Asimov's Three Laws cannot make robots and AI safe.
The Braitenberg Vehicles
Brian Douglas introduces Braitenberg vehicles, simple robots whose sensors are wired directly to motors yet show surprisingly lifelike behavior.