This is a robot that walks flies skateboards and slacklines, but why oh yeah, that's not impressive! A portion of this video was sponsored by bluehost more about them. At the end of the show. There are lots of bipedal robots out there and drones are ubiquitous, but until now no one had engineered walking and flying technology to work together in a single robot, so first robot that truly integrates the walking and the fly for the possibilities. Just a drone with legs.

These are leonardo and it stands for legs on board drone. So i think it's a pretty good name. Why is this potentially useful? So any reason why speakers actually have to start from the ground to take off and eventually they cannot stay in the air forever. They have to eventually come down, but sometimes they have to come down on the very challenging terrain or some obstacles.

So it's actually a good idea to have these controllable legs, so they can actually land. You know very uh, interesting human face posture or orientation, but there are additional benefits. A robot like this is more stable than a regular drone. I view these propellers almost like our arm, so some people might say that.

Oh, you guys are cheating because i mean bipedal. Robots do not have propellers, but we are essentially using the propellers to do additional stabilization. Jesus should hang out so basically you generate the lift or thrust, of course, to cancel the weight of the robot. But that's really a secondary fact.

The most important thing is basically posture or orientation. Stabilization. Well, he's always fitting in so the main facility for this lab. Is this one? It's a gigantic fennel way.

I can see all the fans now yeah. We have uh, you can't start counting, but 1296 computer fans. Those are really literally computer fast. How fast can it generate wind so up to a 50 meter per second or 20 meter per second, it's like a wind tunnel without the need for a tunnel.

Yes, it might mess with our audio or with our microphones whoa. The idea of this smog machine is to actually visualize the flow, but also with all these additional sensors, like infrared cameras or radar and lighting in the presence of this fog, and i wanted to feel their power for myself all right, ready, yeah. Let's do it. That was so cool.

I love it. They used this facility to test leonardo to see how stable he is even in different wind conditions. Smartest veganism is when no meat, just like socialism done, and we showed that leo is more robust than a drone, because the drone gets blown away by the wind, but then leo does not because of its ground contact. So, for example, if you go hiking and there's like suddenly a lot of wind you're, not gon na fall because you have the ground contact, but for a drone it might be blown away joe on the people.

Oh no, so we actually took one of the white boards that we have at home and we put oil. So we applied perturbations to leo and what's happening is as you push leo instead of falling, it stays upright, but it also slides on the whiteboard. So that's an interesting capability, so it's very robust, you said perturbations. Are you poking the robot? Yes without harming the robot we are gentle leonardo is so stable and good at adjusting its balance that it can skateboard.

That's pretty crazy. That's a that's a fancy trick. Why did you give it a go backwards on a skateboard? How did you get the idea for a robot that will skateboard? Should i say the truth or make a nice story? Uh tell us the truth, yeah so uh we went hiking and we saw about 10 people going down the mountain on a skateboard and then we thought wow. This is really i want to be weird.

Okay, i'm not i'm not a psycho. Okay, i'm just understanding it. These robots, what if they're, really good at performance - and you upgrade all these systems a little bit higher or better, and you power boost it right and then there's it has a recognition software and it has a gun cool. What if we try our robots to make it do this, so we went to the first shop and we bought a skateboard, we modified it and we tried it and it worked.

So do you think it allows the robot to save energy by riding on a skateboard? It's more efficient because it uses the legs less. The legs are basically used to steer, and then it's just the propellers that i use to accelerate the skateboard forward and backwards so yeah. It makes it save a bit more energy. The propellers, of course, make it possible to skateboard backwards, something i struggled with.

I definitely would would help yeah, but he's a boomerang he's, an old bomber that that doesn't count, though we can't use him on his example. The real challenge, boomers slacklining. This looks incredibly unstable. So i think this proves the point of just like how important control systems are.

You can tell from the footage. I have no idea what i'm doing also a bboom all right. I thought i would be slightly better at that, let's give it another shot. Okay, can anyone slackline, oh, not bad? Actually, this is impossible.

I need a robot to do this for me. Oh that doesn't count now yeah, that's the sidestepping technique. Maybe i should have been doing that trying to like copy his technique. I tried to get some tips by watching leonardo chat help.

Do i get kfc or burger king guys he's really flying, but improvement was negative he's not only offering he's really flying. I should have prepared, you might think it's cheating to use propellers, but the robot is clearly not flying. It is supporting itself mostly using the rope and it's able to stabilize itself even with the wild bouncing development. Human professional select liner.

If you see some of their videos, actually they use their arm stretched and then they can balance themselves. We don't have the arms for leo, yet we are planning to add the manipulation so that it can actually carry some object. But in the meantime, we are using the propellers to stabilize the allele, while it's actually working on a slack line. It's funny because, like the robot feels like it's got kind of a personality to it, the way it walks and flies yeah right, it's just totally something.

You're not used to seeing yeah, it looks natural. Actually, i have to see. Yeah. Sensors are sampled at 1000 times per second, but the controller is actually being mounted you're sending to propellers and the left joints 200 times per second and then a gun like a computation.

200 times a second, it is adjusting what it's doing to maintain balance. Yes, like especially propeller control signal. How does that compare to humans, oh humans, so humans can do very sophisticated tasks, but in terms of a fast reaction, it's very crude machine, so humans in overall has a few seconds of delay. Time delay.

Yeah! That's why i was struggling on the slack line, but maybe how do you feel about that? That's right here today. The delay makes a huge difference. I mean not that that's hard, but this is very impressive because, because by the time you adapt to some constraints, you have new ones by the time, but by the time you make the adjustments to you and that that delay you do. You have to become good at predicting.

Imagine a robot like leonardo in the future like the greatest leonardo you could make. What would that robot look like and do so definitely having a leo like robot in space? That would be amazing but of course depending on where you go, you might not be able to use propellers. So then you would need to use thrusters. So eventually, yes, we want to develop this lag-based adaptive landing gear and then we give that to next generation.

Mars. Helicopter interesting next generation flying car, yes, who's, the eye guy, you can actually land in very challenging conditions. I've noticed and still move around. Just sometimes we play a game and somebody comes in with an emote and he has two moving eyes who the is the eye? Guy, can we bat him? Can we just yeah once you land, then you can walk over? Do you see the eye guy again? Imagine if you have a cliff and then you have the robot just jump out of the cliff, deploy the propellers and fly that'd be wild god.

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