The Real Reason Robots Shouldn’t Look Like Humans | Supercut

when people think about robots they usually imagine something like a Boston Dynamics robot metallic and humanoid but the robots we'll see in the future might not look like that at all I mean if humans are interacting with something on a daily basis it's probably best not to make it sharp delicate and heavy how rude instead Advanced robots might be made safer if they're soft flexible and all kinds of shapes and sizes so instead of Sunny from iroot no something like Baymax from Big Hero 6 might be closer to what's in our future this is a compilation video of five of my videos on the surprisingly different ways robots can look and why we build them that way this is my first time trying out a series and honestly it's been a busy time for the veritasium team we're working on some exciting things in the background but in the meantime we wanted to put this together for all of you and I also caught up with Dr Elliot Hawks the scientist behind two of these robots to get an update on how they're dressing and when we can expect to see them in our lives are there more developments happening with the with the jumping robots we have a whole another project on on jumping and it doesn't even use spring so I I won't I won't give away our our uh our secrets yet but um keep an eye out for that one too cuz that's going to be fun so you have another jumping robot which has a totally novel design yep and you think it's going to be better than the one that you had before correct and I just want to shout out our longtime sponsor brilliant they've supported the channel since 2021 and it's great to get to talk about something that I actually use myself I've had brilliant on my phone for years and it just allows me to learn something new every day instead of say Doom scrolling you should make valuable use of your time so I will tell you more about brilliant later in the video non-humanoid robots aren't just safer for us to interact with one of their biggest advantages over traditional robots is that they don't just do things humans already do but better instead they're special ized to master entirely new abilities often ...