@me262omlett
Kinda scary if I‘m in a collapsed building and an oversized noodle worm just comes by to say hi.
@nobodyknows3180
This holds a lot of promise for makers of balloon animals as well.
@ldlitke73
This video and your research has inspired new ideas. I am an engineer at a company working to save lives with lasers. The technology has not changed much since 1970s. I'm blown away by this and feel that we should work together to merge the technologies in a microscopic way. This video was made in San Diego point Loma with high tech high correct? As a side note, I think you would be interested in creating an educational video with us here. My boss will be so pissed, I should have consulted with him first, yet I'm pretty sure he will enjoy giving you a tour of our developing shop, and our amazing tech. He is the Laser Guy after all. 😁
@MrGutzs
“This is a robot that can grow to 100s of times its size and it can’t be stopped” Sounds like a movie plot waiting to happen
@beawolfe
The year is 2050. Your apartment building is on fire. A fire engine pulls up. The top of it unhinges and it releases six thousand hissing purple tentacles.
@caller145
Imagine being in a burning collapsed building stuck under some concrete and a giant tenticle comes to save you
@ethanchapman969
This would be huge for ecologists studying burrowing species. The current state of the art is a camera attached to the end of a fiber optic wire but it’s notoriously tricky to deal with hard turns branching passages or even uneven ground surfaces
@wizardmotel
The idea of being trapped in a building and just seeing hundreds of tentacles with little camera eyes on them extend in through windows is wild.
@ericmoss6110
This is one of those inventions where when you see it it seems so obvious. I think that’s a sign of something genuinely good.
@creeperizing4184
Imagine being burried inside a colapsed building, pitch black and feeling a giant tentacle touching you
@johnlshilling1446
The demonstration of penetration into sand reminded me of a friend, back in the 90s, that was building a riverbank dock and party platform/deck. The riverbank and bottom were made of a hard, but saturated red clay. My friend clamped a small copper tubu to each of the pillars. The ends were pinched, creating a tiny jet nozzle that extended an inch beyond the pillar bottom, and bent slightly towards the center. When the tube was attached to a small pressure washer, the pillar was positioned where it was needed and the water jet softened the clay directly below the pillar, allowing the weight of the pillar to penetrate up to the 6' needed for securing it into the soil. This was at least 10X faster than driving the pillars, and the suction of the saturated clay held them tighter than a frogs butt. It was amazing. Each pole simply sank into the "mud" until the water was turned off. With enough pillars, the rest of the structure was a "piece of cake"... All accomplished in an afternoon by beer drinking hillbillies..!
@alexg1321
I feel like this would make running wires behind a wall soooo much easier.
@baggaza
I'm consistently impressed by how well Derek presents anything educational. He was one of the first YouTubers who convincingly made me care about the world around me. Insane content for free.
@riftwalker4411
Robots back then : Humanoid, rigid, and futuristic looking Robots now : B A L L O O N
@lastsoul4991
8:20 that smile completely shows her excitement and love for what she is doing
@o0Avalon0o
As a firefighter, I can imagine how useful it would be to have a version of this in our trucks. I have EMT experience so I've had to open airways before, this looks like a massive improvement from the current standard.
@AntsCanada
My mind is going to HELL! 😭🤣
@AlphaMachina
This could be used to supply fresh oxygen and liquids to trapped people, even if it weren't able to lift collapsed materials from them. You could feed straws through the middle of it, one for liquids and one for oxygen, even a microphone and speaker, so you can communicate with the trapped person and give them reassurances.
@damico.j1004
There’s a very similar product in plumbing for collapsed drain lines. A hose is forced through the center of a pipe with hydraulic pressure. It’s used mostly for clay sewage pipes that are notorious for collapsing with age.
@smol_white_bat