hello welcome UCLA alumni and friends my
name is Dennis Hong I'm a professor here
at the mechanical aerospace engineering
department and the director of RoMeLa
the robotics and mechanism of laboratory at
UCLA are you ready to see some robots
yeah come on in so as you enter you see
all the awards that our students won
from best paper Awards competition
Awards a lot of publicity about a I'm on
the cover of Forbes magazine probably
the only non rich person on the cover so
we really started our robotics work back
in 2007 with the DARPA urban challenge
urban challenge as a at the time was the
most difficult competition about
building robotic cars so you press Start
and nobody touches anything and the
robots actually drive the car obey all
the rules of the road so we won third
place in the world and that really put
us on the map and since then we built a
robot called Charlie it's a humanoid
robot it's considered the United States
very first human adult-sized human robot
and many many different things and today
I want to show you a lot of cool stuff
so come on in
yeah so when you do robotics research
that doesn't necessarily mean that you
build robots but we do build robots
because of course it's fun but one more
what an interesting thing is you know
you can do robotic research and just
simulation and theoretical work but
unless you really build it and test it
you don't get to really know all the
details so we focus a lot on building
actual prototypes so this is the
workshop so you can see a lot of tools
we build things there's a new type of
robotic hand that we're working on the
secret project know a lot of different
things so how do we actually make the
robots we have electronics on those kind
of things up do you probably know about
3d printing have you done 3d printing
before yeah so we do have 3d printers so
we call those added
Manufacturing which means that we add
material to build the part but many times
when it builds make metal parts we call
it subtractive manufacturing so I'll
show you one Ryan do you think you can
run something okay
come on in so Ryan is one of our
undergraduate researchers we about how
about 20-something graduate students and
about 15 undergraduate researchers as
well so this is a machine called a CNC
machine so easy way to think of it is
it's a robot that makes robot parts so
for example we put this like big metal
block right and we design all the parts
using a computer and you send that
information to this machine and this
machine will cut the parts like this and
these kind of parts come out so these we
use for the robots so from this big
metal block to this right so you call it
subtractive manufacturing from here to
here and Ryan and I think your show us
how it cuts yeah safety first always the
Ryan is not controlling it the computer
is controlling all the motion and
there's a tool that spins like a drill
and it's cutting all the metal and
taking away unused metal to make the
part now I think it's gotta take a lot
of time so let's
move that way again be careful there's a
lot of sharp stuff around so so we have
a lot of interesting robot approaches
the first robot there you see everybody
knows the Luskin Center right it's a
five-star hotel on campus on a
conference center it's great and this
robot is called L.A.R.A. Luskin Automated
Robotic Assistant and this robot is
actually permanently at the lobby of the
the Luskin Center of course we're
fixing it so it's here but in probably a
month you if you go back to the lobby
we'll see you L.A.R.A. so this is a robotic
platform to do many different type of
research but it actually it's a it's a
conceit for example if you have
questions you can ask the robot and L.A.R.A.
answer questions at this point we still
we have a pre-programmed question so for
example about me like you're curious
about a robot what is your name
my name is Laura the buskin automated
robot assistant
thank you nice meeting you who created
you which is over here now being all
UCLA alumni and our friends I'm sure
that you want to see Laura doing be a
clap you see you see la fight yay that's
the spirit so at this point there's only
a pre-canned questions and answers but
you can see it has microphone has
cameras and the more we use this it
gathers more information and we're going
to add artificial intelligence in the
future you can actually talk to the
robot and it will give out answers so
we're very exciting about L.A.R.A. and it
looks cute too so this L.A.R.A. doesn't
walk as you can see the robot is bolted
to the ground but if you want to have
robots that do useful work it needs to
move it needs to go to places if you
want to have a robot to do your dishes
take out the trash or do work in that
Factory or a disaster relief it needs to
go from point A to point B we call that
problem mobility probably the robot
needs to go from point A to point B how
do we do that now yeah we can use wheels
your car doesn't have wheels or legs
wheels right because wheels are simple
they're efficient they're great they're
low-cost but we're trying to build
humanoid robots or leg robots of five
here or what's that walk like us why
would you want to do that why do you
think we need leg robots
if wheels are great why a legs this is
serious that's a great oh that's a great
answer if we want to have robots living
with us in this environment this
environment is designed by humans for
humans your stairs had a certain height
this for this design for a human to walk
up your door handles certain height for
people to open it up so for robots to
live move around in this environment we
claim that everyone needs to be human
shape and size and that's why we tried
to build human size humanoid robots and
I'll show you some of our humanoid
robots
one over here okay cool right yeah this
was called Darwin it stands for dynamic
anthropomorphic robot with intelligence
it's very cute this robot as a research
and developed with the funds from the
National Science Foundation everything
is a full open-source robot middle
button right yeah suffer okay so this
robot is fully autonomous just to show
you we programmed it to play a game of
soccer he likes the color red and can
kick the ball alright right foot there
you go again you can do it you can
do it kick it kick the ball come on the
other side right right foot right foot
yeah and if he falls down of course he
knows how to stand up back again alright
so this is just one example it's not
just a soccer playing robot at the
open-source robot so people can use this
platform to do robotic research if you
have II's a different type of algorithms
and coding can use this robot platform
through the experiments isn't that cool
yeah yeah yes Father I think he likes
you he likes red color I'm not gonna
follow the ball oh I like I like your uh I
like your pants
thank you all right so this is Darwin
thank you very much
so these robots are great they're small
body these are not toys they are very
expensive right but these small robots
cannot do any useful work we need to
have big robots to do the difficult
things yes question oh yes
first of all cost having big robots very
expensive very dangerous like these
metal beasts when you're doing things if
it falls it's gonna be dangerous too
right and then these kind of things are
by P robots they don't scale very well
so smaller robots are much easier to
control with two legs but when you make
it taller it doesn't scale very well but
we do need to have big robots so what we
want to show you over here is called for
tactical hazardous operations robot now
we have some really strong big robots
right this robot is designed and
developed for disaster relief situations
about what six years ago in Japan the
Fukushima Daiichi in the nuclear power
plant there was a big accident a lot of
people died and even now it's a big
problem so when we have these kind of
you know accidents we need to send
robots to save people's lives
now people it's very difficult for
workers to go in there to rescue
people's life because because the
radiation people gotta go so that's why
you develop this robot so this robot can
drive a car climb ladders use power
tools open and close valves and all
those kind of things so at this for it
is autonomous but today we're gonna do
just remote control just to show you I
think it's gonna do some self
introduction I think don't have to do
everyone welcome to over there my name
is Thor RV tactical hazardous operations
robot rapid deployment
see you I participated in Vanara
Robotics Challenge in Pomona California
and then in July I went to China to play
in Roma Cup 2015
now I have a five-time world champion
Roberto I am grateful to meet you
okay Thank You Thor so if you get Thor
so just like a human it needs to have
sensors to gather information from the
outside world so for humans what kind of
sensors we have what we use to gain
information from the world you use your
eyes to see right Thor has a camera
he sees using the camera he has
microphones to hear right and also you
have some senses that you don't have in
your face like for example inside your
ears you have the sensor for balance so
for this robot we have a thing called an
IMU inertial measurement unit and use
your senses for balance
we has four stroke sensors and all those
kind of things this is a special sensor
called a laser rangefinder so what it is
is it shoots out a laser and if there is
an obstacle it hits a bounce back and it
measures the time and if you know the
speed of time a speed of light I need a
better time then you can calculate the
distance so it shoots out a laser and
scans the environment and it knows a
three-dimensional train and geometry in
front of it so again if you get oh
there's a box there's something there's
a car so we use those kind of test
sensors now it looks like a human right
two legs torso head and arms and hands
it's something different from a human do
you see anything different what about
the configurator something weird over
here
yeah that's right the knees bent
backwards why will we do that well this
is something that we noticed by doing
experiments originally it was the knees was
bended forward like this but when we're
walking up stairs it tend to hit a lot
of things so he said what if you invert
it backwards and hey works perfectly
fine and its actually better so that's
that's the only reason why I bend it
backwards all right all right so these
humanoids are good but the problem of
these humanoid robots are they
constantly fall down they're slow
they're expensive they're complicated
right and you know if you wanna make it
walk chemi yeah let me show you walk it
yeah it walks really really slow all
right let's make it walk a little bit as
you'll see it walks very slow I'm
gonna get you very slow all right but
yet what you see over here is that this
is state-of-the-art as I mentioned it's
slow Josh is behind it because if it
falls you can catch it because these are
very unstable so we got a long way to go
cool thanks guys all right yes question
if you guys ever study like animal
movements to decide how your robots are
gonna walk or quadrupedal movement
versus yes absolutely so what we're
showing right now is humanoid or bipedal
locomotion so we tried to study how
humans walk we collaborate with other
researchers and medical community at
sports science and also you see these
six cameras over here one two three one
two three like these are not security
cameras do you know what these special
cameras are used for we called it yeah
we call these motion capture cameras Oh
like in in the movie industry computer
graphics you know probably seen actors
put these like special balls and when
you move it it captured the motion of
the actor and then use that for comfort
a generated animation we use the same
type of cameras to study human motion
and robot motion and compare that so yes
we do study human motion for humanoid
robots as ever I don't also collaborate
other people as well cool yeah so you
were talking about the senses yes would
there ever be a need for him to have
either a sense of smell or a sense of
touch like to know that there's a fire
yeah very vague sharp question yes we do
need but I guess it depends on the
situation depending the application
smell is a fantastic sense it's not for
humans that's not that sensitive but for
dogs we still use dogs for sniffing out
you know bombs and those kind of things
because dogs have such a heightened
sense of smell so some researchers
are trying to develop new type of
sensors like artificial nose and with
that's available yeah that'll be
great touch is actually very very important we also do research and touch
we put these we call the tactile sensing
on robotic hands so when you grab things
or try to pick up things you do need to
use your sense of touch so yes we do use
skin like sensors as well but thank you
so much yeah so humanoid robots are
great right we need these robots to walk
and climb stairs but they always fall
down we have a lot of visitors come to
our lab and they see our robots and
you're like wow this is cool but after
about five minutes they say professor
Hong but how come they only walk this
fast how come they always slow then we
walk with two feet all the time right so
stable so fast but why can't we do this
with robots now I can explain this to a
actual adult or a scientist but I had
this this philosophy if I cannot explain
it to a child then probably that means
that I personally don't truly understand
it so I start to do more research and
try to think about fundamentally why is
it important to make robots walk with
two feet and I found something
fascinating now check this out so for a
robot human about to walk like this one
of the big problem is your left leg and
the right leg has the distance between
them and this is a problem why is that
because your leg moves forward and
backwards right and because of this
distance that creates this unwanted
twisting twisting motion and falls down
now if you look at a ballerina or doing
fencing they always walk sideways
because if you walk sideways everything
lights up so you don't have that
twisting of moments anymore okay
problems of them you make your robots
always walk sideways right that's
possible but the problem walking
sideways is that you're not really using
your knees so we decided to do this
okay if you got to do this let's make
this four and make it walk like this
right it's not a human form but it's
bipedal and it's stable and thus this
robot is born this road is called NABi
or non-anthropomorphic biped which
means it's a robot with two legs but it
does not look anything like a human
right so because of this this is forward
and backwards body the reason why I have
this face is - cuteness but also before
we add this face people thought it
always walk sideways no no this is for
and backwards so it walks like this can
you make it walk okay so it's much more
stable it's much faster its low-cost and
lightweight all right so it's so
lightweight this is all this is all
right
and it can't walk stabili so this is a I
truly believe this is a breakthrough
it's a way of thinking differently
literally out of the box and we solved a
lot of problems in a bipedal locomotion
right cool neat stuff all right what can
you show next can we do A.L.P.H.R.E.D. right
so you might ask okay this is great so
what's this way but how does it turn
right or it's stable this way but how do
you guarantee stable stability sideways
it doesn't have anything so thus A.L.P.H.R.E.D.
was born now this is an early prototype
of A.L.P.H.R.E.D. stands for
cool
right so don't think of it as a four leg
robot think of it as a knobby robot what
two but two arms however we call this
multimodal locomotion which means that
there's many ways of making it walk for
example because there's four limbs
we call these limbs not legs because
they can be used for walking but also
for manipulation like picking things up
we can walk with four four limbs such as
this as you can expect it walks like a
four legs you know creature right but if
you want to make it go really fast you
can change the configuration like this
and then gallop or run like a horse like
a dog don't make it go too fast we only
have that it's gonna run this is just a
little bit see and then we're not ready
to show you today but of course if you
fold your arms like this becomes this
type of a knobby top bipedal locomotion
and in the future we might be able to do
like this and do it like a cartwheel
kind of motion like this right so this
is an early version of the robot cool
thanks Josh all right so this is all
great now one of the fundamental
problems of these type of locomotion
robots is that these actuators actuators
think of it like muscles of things that
make robots move normally we as electric
motors with a gear now 99% of the robots
that exists today use these type of
motors with gears so they're very
accurate the strong but accurate the
problem is they're very stiff and
stiffness is good if you want to do like
assembly task because accuracy is good
but if you want to have leg locomotion
you need to have something compliant
with spring so it's spring so most of
the human rope walks like like just like
a robot right that's because the
actuators use our electric motors that
are really stiff with gears but what we
really need are actors that has
compliance right like we call it
artificial muscles like animal muscles
so we developed a new type of actor
called the bear actuator can we run this
- yeah
so you've seen a de Navi robot so
instead of these traditional electric
motors with gears now we're replacing
them using these special actuators that
we developed in-house we are very
excited about this new actuator this
will enable you know things that
nobody's seen before this is an early
early prototype ok just gonna make it a
hop a little bit ok something a little
right so hopping is actually very
difficult to do in robotics not
necessarily because of the jumping part
but more important because of the
landing part because when it lands if
you have just a regular motor with gears
when it lands because the impact all the
gears shatter but because this actuator
is very compliant we can't do all the
stuff what if we can't have a robot that
walks with two leg that never falls down
or it's a robot that cannot fall down
wouldn't that be cool can you have a
robot that's so safe that a baby can
crawl in front of it without any danger
we have built a robot that just does
that how can you do that so we cope with
all different type of creative creative
ideas one way of coming up creative
ideas is that we ask ourselves
ridiculous crazy questions to ourselves
and then ridiculous answer comes out
right and sometimes those answers lead
to ingenious ideas so one day we asked
ourselves what if we can change the
direction of gravity it doesn't make any
sense but we ask those questions and
ridiculous answers comes out and we came
up with a robot called Baloo is Baloo
ready we are about the idea that
doesn't work it's a robot it's a helium
balloon with two legs this is ridiculous
but look at this it walks elegantly it
can climb up steps it can climb down
stairs it can jump right yay and it's
the world's safest robot yeah you can
shove it or give it a hug if you want to
yeah so this is a very new concept
nobody's tried anything like this before
right
all right yes so there's many different
things sometimes we have a specific
application like oh there's a disaster
the nuclear power plant what how can you
build robots oh we have a problem I need
to come up with solutions sometimes we
randomly have some kind of interesting
idea for a mechanism which has no
purpose or no application right so that
idea itself has no purpose but we all I
almost always I have an idea notebook
always write that on my notebook and
sometimes I have these call for
proposals for research agencies this
time we need these kind of technology I
just flip through and suddenly I see a
sketch like ah we can use this then
those ideas which had no value finally
finds an application and that's how it
comes about so it all depends on the
situation in cases yes yes please oh
cannot see so this robot currently has
no sensors so this has no intelligence
we're just remote controlling it because
this is a brand new concept we want to
test that can walk now
but yes it will have eyes sensors just
like the robot T.H.O.R. eventually we'll
have a computer to think first of all
you can't blow up another one which
means that because these robots are so
cheap so low-cost like this one it's
multi-million dollar project if you
break this has been promised I'm like
this because it's a low cost so you just
do another one so low cost robotics has
a lot of value to it right and your
question so these type of robots solves
a lot of problem it doesn't fall down
it's fast its low-cost
it's great but it also creates new type
of problems to these type of robots
won't be able to carry heavy things
there's a solar can
all right so it cannot carry heavy stuff
yeah and also this robot is not good for
outdoors because in outdoors if the wind
blows it flows around right so it has
its limitations we see this robot as more of an
information device so you can have like
a tablet with a screen so locks up to
you can do you like a cubed walking
kiosk or in that factory if there's a
like a gas leak you can send these
robots to take samples and surveillance
surveillance so it has its own odd and
nifty different type of applications all
right so bipedal locomotion humanoid is
great
but what a biology like in nature
yeah there's you know humans and you
know walk it to two feet but there's
different types of locomotion as well
like insects have how many legs six legs
right so why not accept part of all of
us yes glad that you asked
hahaha we also working on hex up our
robots Shen what come in and show them
okay okay let's okay let's go down that
way
look if you could yeah gonna go that way
so this robot is called SiL.V.I.A. stands
for six legs vehicle with intelligent
yeah articulation so it looks like a
spider but spider has how many legs
eight so this is not a spider it has six
legs right it can well it's
omnidirectional which means that there's
no forward and backwards on sideways it
can go different directions
yes that's correct yeah yeah and then go
up a body can go up and down right down
and you can do all all changes it's good
like dancing and
bleep we believe this is the strongest
hexapod robot in the world so can I put
this weight on it if I may so I have a
very heavy it's 20 kilograms right and
it can handle very heavy weights okay
okay now also this is the world's very
first robot that can climb and brace pin
walls and climb can you this might not work
but we'll try it over here so it's going
to go through this wall this opening so
you are the very first people to see
this live we haven't shown this to
anybody in person besides a research in
our lab all right so it's positioning
itself
you can do it SiL.V.I.A.
oh yeah all six legs are off the ground
and can it walk up slowly
it is like spider-man okay
so tries to maintain balance while
walking up again you're the very first
people to see this outside of our lab
yeah thank you
let's go all right cool I think we're
done with this let's show the big one so
it's gonna take a few minutes to set up
the large one so meanwhile any other
questions you have about our robots or
in general anything yes please best Idea that never worked
we have so many ideas that
never worked the thing that you see so
the interesting thing is people only
want to see our successful robust but
behind these we have like 10 times more
failures so these robots I showed
you it's a it's a multi-million dollar
project there's only one in the world of
this kind so these prototypes are very
expensive and rare so when the
experiments you don't want to break this
right so you do very we do express
really uh you know carefully there's
many other labs great labs in the world
but our lab RoMeLa at UCLA is different
from all the other labs in one sense
when I do the experiments I tell the
students to make it go faster and try to
lift heavier things and I tell the
students to try to break the robot
because if your robot doesn't fall that
doesn't break you don't get to learn
anything so failure is not necessary bad
thing of course if you if we can avoid
failure we do we try to but if it fails
we want to learn from them so failure is
not a bad thing and that answers your
question we have 10 times more failures
and all of those failures give us a
chance to learn about things and that
led to all these successes in our lives the
greatest most proud products from RoMeLa
is not our technology it's not a robots
it's not our publications it's our
students I want to have students
graduate from RoMeLa UCLA and go out
in the world and become engines that
will lead in the field and create
technologies and to make the world a
better place yes please pursuing ideas
with no purpose yes that's so
inspirational that I think it's a
message that should get out to people in
all industries Oh different works of
life but we can all do that yeah yeah
that's that's it thank you thank you so
much that'sthat's what we do so if you
look behind you you see that wall that's
not graffiti
so that's our idea wall so that
conference table is where we do
brainstorming sessions and we write
things and you know you see a lot of
bunch of math equation things and you
know more than half of them will
probably never see that there light and
light of day and you know there but we
come up with all different type of crazy
ideas and some of them lead to
breakthroughs right that's what we're
here
yes okay so our lab RoMeLa is for
research on education it's mainly for
graduate level research funded research
but we also have a lot of undergraduate
researchers graduate students they come
from all over the world to join our lab
undergraduate students they get to have
a chance to you know get some hands-on
and really learn what research is all
about now interestingly our lab is very
very well known worldwide so people want
to come in life especially undergraduate
student if I open my email you see like
more than just today I have more than 20
emails from people who want to join our lab
now many times students when they want
to join are they only see the fancy
robots that is oh if I join RoMeLa at UCLA I'll be
able to create and make these robots and
they come here and surprisingly many
times they don't get to actually build
things but they do math and things and
some people find this fascinating this
is my thing and they become a graduate
students when they graduate some
students find that oh this is not always
expecting that's not my cup of tea and
they leave and that's actually not a bad
thing because you know it's important
for students to really know what they're
getting into right but if you like
robotics this place is more fun than
Disneyland wasn't that cool that robot's
called SiL.V.I.A. except for all the world's
very first robot that can climb like this
we also have a larger version of that
except for robot it's called hex and
it's behind you so you probably see this
you probably don't know as a robot okay
let's make it stand up huge whoa so we
are developing this robot for the
application of demining so after war
there's a lot of dangerous land mines
underground right and then many times
people step on it and they get injured
or killed so we ought to get rid of
those landmines are fully autonomously
so this is the base platform to do that
so why do you think we have six legs
versus two legs I've been talking about
all we need human robots all those kind
of things what advantage what six legs
have over two two legs
yeah balance so if you want to walk in a
real rough terrain outdoors it's much
more stable we call that static
stability because every time you have
you know at least three foot touching on
the ground so of course ok can go up
body up right and down up and down and
also can change this orientation yeah so
this area is currently open voice this
is where all the the sensors and things
were going so our vision is it's not
ready yet but there's going to be a
landmine detecting sensor so twenty four
seven three six days a day is gonna be
walking on a minefield and from here and
the sensor so it's gonna be searching
the ground right and if it finds a
landmine it's gonna be it's gonna sit on
it here there's gonna be a dome so when
it sits on it the landmine is gonna be
inside the dome thus it's now a
controlled environment no wind inside of
them there's will be lighting so there's
no shadows and inside the dome there's
also gonna be two robotic arms so when
it finds a landmine that sits on it and
sends a signal to operator so I've been
up beep oh there's a landmine I go to my
workstation and I tell you operate
control the arms to dismantle the bomb
so that's the idea yeah but what if the
robot steps on the landmine what was
that a problem it's a good thing because
instead of a human robot explodes who
cares we build another one right so if
it explodes that's a good thing so
you've seen a lot of different shapes
and sizes and the famous architect Luis
Albarn once said form follows function
which means that a shape of an object is
dictated by what it's used for
same thing with robots depending on the
application the shape and morphology and
the size is all different all right let
me show you one more robots I don't know
if it's gonna work again this is also
the very first time we're showing it to
is it is it working alright this robot
is P.E.B.L. Daniel could you tell us about
P.E.B.L. what does P.E.B.L. stand for first
of all
yeah P.E.B.L. okay so this is just the
lower body of a humanoid robot said this
actually had a whole human robot this
was the early version of T.H.O.R. that you
seen over there now after experience we
took it apart so that's the lower body
we're using it for locomotion
experiments and this is the upper body
separately which we use it for something
else we'll show this in a minute but
let's show the P.E.B.L. first so this is a
platform we're trying to study many
different type strategies for making
robots walk like human well just thing
over here is all brand new it happens
the past few days
so it might not work which is okay if it
doesn't work we learn from it so let's
lift his foot off the ground okay so these are all
loose right so he's not supporting it so
even though he changes his body posture
can still bounce on one foot now this is
obvious for humans but it's difficult to
do in robotics are you gonna be doing
the pushing thing or not okay so that's
just one demonstration of balancing on
one foot okay we're gonna set it to a
different mode this time we call this
disturbance rejection in other words
when robot is walking sometimes there's
a wind gust or it hits to something
there's disturbances right and then if a
robot that cannot handle is gonna fall
so trying to figure out how to do how to
change its posture to get rid of the
disturbances so it uses different
sensors right alright so there are
sensors in the ankles that allow it to
detect if something is kind of like
twisting
and so with those on the robot to tell
that well I'm pushing
I'm person here but at all it'll try to
go back to its original so normally if
he doesn't have this algorithm when you
push it it's gonna fall for like a
structure right so you can actually kind
of actually really push it a lot here
and there's a limit we pushed the
boundaries a limit right so so this was
a earlier version of T.H.O.R. so this is
retired and we build a new T.H.O.R. and
instead of the you know taking apart we
actually took the lower body only and
modified it for a new test platform yeah
recycled it cool thank you very much
Daniel all right so the upper body is
something different so you know Netflix
Netflix there's gonna be a new
miniseries called Magic for Humans
starting august 17th and one of the
episode is us so i didn't know yeah yeah
i don't know if you knew it but I'm also
a nearly professional magician myself
and a nearly professional chef as well I
was on the master chef USA by the way
yeah season four don't look me up it's
kind embarrassing by the way so there's
a famous a magician called Justin
Willman that you probably know so he
travels around the world that visits
different places and he actually came to
our lab because he wanted to learn about
robotics right I'm not gonna spoil all
the storyline but he is a magician and
he challenges us can you build a robot
that can actually perform magic so in
three weeks we challenge him and build a
robot and this was M.A.G.I. it's a robot
that performs magic tricks so we are not
going to show you everything because you
have to see it on TV on Netflix in
August but we're just going to show you
a sneak peek of one oh there these are
small Darwin minis can you can you can
you see anything to do about it yeah
research using a vision system here and
kind
objects in contrast yeah you have good
taste
it's a face as a boot is a I think what
is it suppose we can put your face oh
okay there you go
Wow so you're just show one magic trick
simple trick
okay fall in the cup
abracadabra it's kind of a fun thing
that we're doing but it's as for
studying manipulation doing something
like this is very very difficult for
robots so this is a sensor you know the
Xbox Kinect sensor it's actually a
Kinect sensor so it tries to identify
all just had to do the manual placement
test alright so those are all the roads
that we created there's some more and
there's some secret projects that we can
we're not ready to unveil but these are
Darwin minis these are we didn't build
this but it's that based on the robot
that we built Darwin this is actually a
commercial project
can you let some of the kids play with
it okay give them you can control them
yeah let's let's do it on the carpet
over here yeah yeah
whoa this Gangnam style all right you
can't play with it more but again I
would like to thank you again for coming
to RoMeLa the rewarding some
mechanisms laboratory at UCLA and I want
to give a round of applause to all of
our hard-working students who
