Dennis Hong: My 7 species of robot

http://www.ted.com At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots — like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR — all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab’s incredible technical success.

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25 responses to “Dennis Hong: My 7 species of robot”

  1. bakothegreat Avatar
    bakothegreat

    great speaker…. …
    great speaker….honestly

  2. SikhiArt Avatar
    SikhiArt

    @ …
    @SomethingSoOriginal But he said he has his own database of Ideas! He deserves one!

  3. SomethingSoOriginal Avatar
    SomethingSoOriginal

    The audience didn’t …
    The audience didn’t get the feeling that he HIMSELF created anything new, rather he was presenting some new ideas in robotics to them. Most of the time standing ovations are given to those who have personally contributed to thier respective fields.

  4. loyfah Avatar
    loyfah

    HL 2 anyone? =D
    HL 2 anyone? =D

  5. omghai2u Avatar
    omghai2u

    these …
    these people clap and laugh at bill gates but not this? what the is this about

  6. databyss Avatar
    databyss

    @MisterWeed Smug is …
    @MisterWeed Smug is a heavy burden to stand up with.

  7. cuzcarasays Avatar
    cuzcarasays

    THE CHEAT
    THE CHEAT

  8. SPYK3O Avatar
    SPYK3O

    Strider inspired by …
    Strider inspired by nature? more like strider inspired by the strider from half life (the game on the PC)

  9. BlockisticStudios Avatar
    BlockisticStudios

    The audience was …
    The audience was far more robotic than the ones presented.

  10. BlockisticStudios Avatar
    BlockisticStudios

    “a robot that has …
    “a robot that has three legs that was INSPIRED by nature…”
    No, it was inspired by Half-Life 2.

  11. HippieKnight Avatar
    HippieKnight

    The audience is …
    The audience is RACIST!!!!!!!!!!
    jk but they still suck

  12. OTKSenior Avatar
    OTKSenior

    what a dull audience
    what a dull audience

  13. forgewolf Avatar
    forgewolf

    stiff audience
    stiff audience

  14. luisbeck007 Avatar
    luisbeck007

    Yeah, Bio inspired …
    Yeah, Bio inspired but really not, Stars Wars and Colors in your dreams; this is why you have? no idea what to do with the robots and you need to copy from others… bla bla bla… you are losing time and money hard heads…

  15. luisbeck007 Avatar
    luisbeck007

    Yeah, Stars Wars …
    Yeah, Stars Wars and Colors in your dreams; this is why you have no idea what to do with the robots and you need to copy from others… bla bla bla… you are losing time and money hard heads…

  16. tryssss Avatar
    tryssss

    People also is …
    People also is affraid that robot get there jobs !!!!!!!!!! and they also affraid that chinese control them with robots !!!!! i can read in there minds 🙂

  17. tryssss Avatar
    tryssss

    People are affraid …
    People are affraid of chineses invention !!!!!!!! it’s the reason why they’re not so entousiast hihihi !!

  18. gamehero77 Avatar
    gamehero77

    lol strider hl2 ftw
    lol strider hl2 ftw

  19. hotamali Avatar
    hotamali

    STRYDER!!!!!
    STRYDER!!!!!

  20. kholdsworth27 Avatar
    kholdsworth27

    is that the cheat …
    is that the cheat on the hexapod MARS robot..

  21. vmapeyuan Avatar
    vmapeyuan

    the robots are …
    the robots are amazing~ and his ways of doing research is also inspiring

  22. The3irik92 Avatar
    The3irik92

    A thought about the …
    A thought about the Stockholm/Congestion charge thing in the end: This kind of system can only be applied to cities with a functioning colletictive traffic. Buses, Trains, Carts, Tubes etc. I live in Fredrikstad, Norway. It’s too small, and with a practically useless collective traffic option. People will prefer cars in this situation.

  23. Thebrainrahul Avatar
    Thebrainrahul

    @TheWiseCommenter I …
    @TheWiseCommenter I understand your point but I don’t think thats the point of TED. It is not how these things are useful but rather how they become useful; taking those initial steps. Simply put, the wheel would be useless if we didn’t apply it. Also, we didn’t create a wheel and suddenly produce a car, it evolved over many years, through prototyping and improvement. I think what we see in this presentation is the evolution of robotics- towards being usefully applied.

  24. shedali Avatar
    shedali

    @samiminh I think …
    @samiminh I think they’re reacting but the audience microphone level is quite low

  25. TheWiseCommenter Avatar
    TheWiseCommenter

    The reason the …
    The reason the audience did not applaud is because the speaker failed to explain how these technological advances could be actually useful in the future. Like many roboticists, he is fascinated by the idea of robots in and of themselves. Normal people however are only interested in how robots can be USEFUL. If you don’t explain that, all we see is slow moving robots that aren’t useful for anything yet, and a bunch of contrived acronyms.

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