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The life of a robot | Sepehr Ghassemi | TEDxUCLA


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hey not you mean get out hi
do you guys like robots yeah thank you
but are you also a little terrifying of
them be honest yeah I mean there are
like a bad guy relaxing a movie but I am
concerned about the people because
robots only do what they’re programmed
to do but sometimes you feel for them
and because we treat them as if they’re
alive why is it not my friends love the
robot this watch but the range is just a
wrench it getting a cute googly eyes
yeah it is what regardless of the looks
robots are tools just like our arms
phones and directions there are tools
there are technological exchanges of us
letting us go over barriers and do more
ok we’re I was born I had a cleft lip
and palate cognition it limited me from
breathing speaking and drinking milk
properly with our gang tips and
surgeries doctors fixed me it made me
believe that you can take limitations
and crush them as I grew to a team
as I grew to 18 I curiously wranglers
around poking at every different topic
one day I am dissecting insects the
other our living room again woodshop I’m
very I’m arguing with my dad because he
says I can never live in the fifth
dimension but one day my parents sit me
down and tell me this stepper you have
to change one thing that you want to
focus your life on and if you branch
into too many things you will never be
successful now this should have been
obvious but to me it felt like someone
asking me to shoot my dreams dead
couldn’t do it love them too much so I
blindly followed my heart with zero
experience I persisted I’m trying to
reach for them by I was too short on
time I wish I could do more
maybe clone myself somehow exchange
myself and maybe one idea was to make a
lot of kids I have an army opinion
anyways you fast forward to my late
teens I am finishing up my bachelor’s in
mechanical engineering industrial design
I’m taking biology or theater and film
courses when photography is popular yeah
I am also trying to start and write
businesses I have 0 kids
so everything seems great except it’s
not my blogging giving up on me I am
working like a robot and snipping a few
hours a day if you can hear me I feel
like my biological indications have held
me down bring me down as a whisper hey
greedy kick reach your dreams in your
dreams that time lights out I felt like
hell step back a little fart a lot and
did I give up
yeah I mean I can’t do anything if I
wasn’t healthy sometimes you can’t do
what you can’t do right I mean we don’t
have wings can’t fly it is what you did
right and once when I was flying down to
LA and I’m trying to upload some
watering replicative work online I was
so frustrated it motivated me to come
back home write software and automate
all my taxes I sleep software works the
software is like a string of thought
that can repeat and do work in the
virtual environment in the virtual world
now what if we could extend that to the
physical world like smack I’m I’m gonna
expect myself with programmable hardware
aspirations feeling I joined ramela
started getting involved with humanoid
robots designed like humans to work in a
human environment drive cars turn valves
do all the dull jerky dangerous work
midorijima the idea that one day instead
of a person the robots will be swarming
to a burning building and save a
person’s life intriguing me in that
future we would no longer be limited to
our location but life interesting
distance the cutting edge tech I still
had a long way to go robots 22 walk
reliably they fell a lot they were too
unsafe too complex so we simplified
reconfigured the legs without biological
blood vessels and nerves we could have
the knees just rotate continuously we
didn’t have to be limited in the human
form in organ you have to surface to the
human functionalities what if we could
build a robot that never falls for
helium balloons in such joints
inspiration from insect joints and also
to be honest I was just playing with
balloons getting a PhD argument but the
fact that this ranked popular everywhere
was like a thumbs up to having more fun
Here I am playing with bubbles trying to
make tangible and screams I’m here I’m
very we are Hector looking from the
perspective of a robot as our head
motions are synced he after that my mind
why because imagine imagine a future
where you can control yourself all your
senses and your emotions the robotic
bodies like we don’t care about location
form function or science maybe we could
drink doctors have them go inside the
body or maybe go full-on Gulliver and
step over buildings look down I just not
sweat the little things in life see
maybe we could connect to everything be
everywhere do everything now I try a lot
of things why can’t we do all of them I
don’t know well you know is that robots
always fail and fall we have to persist
fail fix my adviser dr. Dennis Hong
always says if a robot doesn’t falling
break you don’t learn anything if you
say with humans to and I think once we
get comfortable with this we become
fearless and just try things see you
won’t try something try seeing with your
mind it’s far into the future not the
sci-fi movie future your future a
peaceful one
you are sitting on your bank smelling
your morning coffee sunlight shines
through like green leaves as they dance
in the breeze there are butterflies
around not knowing he machines we are
fixed most of the problems no conflicts
no disease so we spend our time doing
our most important desires our thoughts
or exploration love as you are sipping
your coffee you’re connected to a robot
blogging on a beach on any other galaxy
watching a silver sunset as you extremal
a special person’s name on your
Scarlett’s and you’re free capable I
feel it doesn’t feel like heaven but
quickly giving wakes up that’s a dream
fornicating we are Superman or maybe
your bad name because it’s our tools
that make us special our technology’s
magical it extends us it’s not necessary
yet without we feel disability as it
gives us disability to strive for you
capabilities if evolution on demand I
know it’s not perfect but it’s not about
the clogger
not the details not the code not the
sensors not the chips not the motors not
the robots but that kids instinctively
answer to grow learn do more
that kid is me and you and if we choose
to involve ourselves Rebekah gay
limitations don’t trust dreams realize
our dreams we realize our dreams and
spread our ideas like dangle earrings
because we are going through this path
as a specie flowing through time are
this fear in space floating and if the
universe is our knowledge together we
can look and find more bright stars I
like it up if you like this path but
don’t get too sentimental
get up thank you and have fun with it
Thanks [Applause]
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