From drones supplying remote villages with medication to robots taking on dangerous jobs: smart technology is helping people to go higher, faster and further. When lives are at stake, high-tech can often outperform humans.
Tom Plümmer’s “Wingcopter” is half helicopter, half airplane. The drone with a two-meter wingspan has started delivering parcels in Germany and is already ferrying crucially needed medication supplies in Malawi. Drone stations being set up there by the inventor receive emergency calls from remote villages. The Wingcopters are then loaded up with vaccines, medication and other supplies before being guided via GPS to their destinations – which are difficult and time-consuming to reach by car.
Swiss engineer Péter Fankhauser built his first autonomous robot in 2018. “ANYmal” resembles a large, metal dog and learns continuously: climbing stairs, analyzing data from its thermal-imaging camera, and navigating its way through smoke with the help of laser sensors. That skill set makes it attractive for use in the chemical industry and oil and gas refineries with their vulnerability to accidents involving fires and explosions. “We can operate the plant safely and remove individuals from the danger area”, says the engineer. “In an indirect sense, the robot saves lives.” ANYmal is now set to demonstrate its talents at the world’s biggest chemical company.
Stefan Sosnowski and his fellow-researchers have custom-built a boat fitted with artificial intelligence and underwater robots to clear up the millions of tons of waste polluting the seabed – for humans, a risky environment to venture into. An initial deployment in Hamburg docks will determine the feasibility of “SeaClear” being used in challenging conditions elsewhere. “If we can make it here with the poor visibility underwater,” says Sosnowski, “then we’ll make it everywhere.”
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Amazing what people can do when funding is no object of concern….
Good stuff 😊
It was a wonderful documentary shared by an amazing ( DW) documentary channel 👍🏻🙏. It was a great work & welcoming effort to rescue humans and utilize drones and robots 🤖 for good purposes … God bless their minds and theirs works ….
Great video, amazing how technology could help people from poor countries if a little will from the rich countries exist. This is not only to help rich or poor countries but to save the world. What's more valuable for Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos to buy in a single life than building a legacy?
In the U.S. most of our stuffs are built by the lowest bidder. I'm a government employee, and we can't afford to employ the cream of the crop.
God bless technology
Welcome to Brave new world
Robots are our guardians – like the assembly line robot in South Korea which, earlier this month, mistook a worker for a box of vegetables . . . and killed him. True story. 😳
RoboDogCam to keep an eye on your naked neighbour, medics supply drone in Malawi, Water Wall-E. Keep on repairing the consequences.
Good news!!! ❤️ Great vid!!
Another superb eye opening documentary.
This is how drones should be used. Not as a weapon, but to save lives.
Just today I looked at the BD website and read all about Spot and Stretch including their use case. I liked how they prohibit their usage as weapons and mass surveillance devices. Really cool stuff possible thanks to Hyundai who owns 90% stakes (not shares) and allows for independent research. We'll see where Atlas goes and maybe in the future we'll be able to replace all dangerous and tiring tasks with robots and have people for better jobs.
so weird
I can't watch this documentary as the robotic voiceover is annoying. There's one type of robot not covered: Medical soft robots. There's a soft robot being developed that will eventually completely replace intubation.
Outstanding
This was REALLY good. Thank you. It is very refreshing watching something upbeat and positive during these trying times. Thanks, again.
Or how the human lost the most important : social. The human is social…..
In America they will steal these right of the streets.
Maybe Im missing the point??..in the robot that cleans the ocean..why not just use a diver? It seems to me a diver could easily pick up a few items and put them into the basket. The robot seemed slow and could only do one item at a time the way I saw it.
Then next question is WHERE do they put all the junk they take out of the ocean? Maybe they will recycle the plastics,if still possible,the rest of the rubbish must make more landfill? I am wondering how it all works. 😮
Congratulations Tom Plümmer's !! Thanks DW for another amazing documentary.
“That corner would be a perfect hub”. Nothing in sight in a 5km radius
That dilivery drone how far it can go ? If below 20KM , off-road bike can do with more payload
Except soon nobody will have any jobs.
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Great documentary, with an element of ubuntu, showcasing how technology can making a huge positive impact when placed in suitable environments and use cases.
Still hiding the good natural medicines from the africans.
For the trash cleaning underwater robots, they might put something on the robots for charging via currents. That way, they can just stay down there all the time, roam around in their 1 sq mile area and clean 24/7
9:30 On September 21, 1921, there was an explosion in that BASF factory area. More than 500 people died. They can sure use some robots to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Godspeed ❤
15:36 Regarding the robot system that was being tested in a German harbor to clean out trash sunk in the silt and mud and covered with dark murky water – the approach they were testing appears to be totally impractical EVEN if it did work reasonably well. Clearning trash one item at a time is never going to be a real-world solution with or without robots so the testing seems a waste of effort.
Really good stuff have just one big Q: Anymal bears a whole lot of similarities to what Boston Dynamics been up to for up to 4 decades now, what's the advantage in theirs in oppose to BD's multi-functional robots?
For $500 worth of cameras and $1000 software work, we could set up remote cameras to monitor all the robot did. And save $8000/month leasing fee. lol