hey guys today we're going to be unboxing Diablo 4.
I'm unboxing a robot oh God my notes are
gonna be all wrong today we have the new direct drive Tech
Diablo robot it's a whole robot I think that's pretty awesome comes in this
massive case which I can barely lift by myself I'm super excited direct drive
Motors are a really really cool technology and to see them integrated
completely into a robot like this is awesome it looks like the case here is a
really big and beefy aircraft grade
gear case thing it's got these giant
metal buckles on the front oh look at this it's padded at the top we've got a
little bit of a sheet I guess outlining what the hell the robot is got some
panels here protecting the top of it nice foam and plastic stuff oh my God
look at that thing oh and it comes with snacks got a manual here and uh it looks
like a really neat little multi-tool as well it comes with a briefcase oh okay
cool we got a controller we have I guess
a plate of some kind seems to have the serial number a little bit of a tool kit
with some extra screws and bits and Bobs big old charger because this is not a
sitting robot it's a driving one really really nice little metal briefcase and I
guess now for the main event let's see if I can get this thing out of here
without destroying it oh my God
is that impressive or what oh Jesus it's really heavy oh sit that back down
oh that's gonna be sick holy crap this
is a fully featured robot this isn't a toy this isn't anything like that this
is a real piece of machinery and it really feels like it got carbon fiber
pretty much around the entire thing the whole base plates here made of carbon
fiber front panel here is made of carbon fiber so we've got these skateboard
wheels on the bottom here because it has a couple different modes that it can live in uh it can sit down on on the
ground like this and roll back and forward and then of course it can also
stand up we'll see that in a minute very excited to see this because this is
direct drive Tech they sell direct drive Motors and this one seems to have six
direct drive motors which is really really awesome so the wheels themselves
are actually Motors as well as these knee joints here and then there's
another one which seems to be in the top here and it's got another pair right
here which Drive these motors for the rest of the knee assembly we've got some
really cool like ARM articulation things here we have one point of this little
Fork attached directly to the outside of the motor and then the inner adjustment
moves the whole leg up and down like that really neat the inner motor moves
the whole leg and then finally the whole robot is driven with these motors as
Wheels really really neat it's the most important part if can I please show this
oh okay one of the cool things about this robot is the whole thing's powered
by a Raspberry Pi you can see right at the front of the little guy here we have
just a whole Raspberry Pi which is pretty sweet so this kind of is designed
as a whole platform that you can add on
to you can write custom things for you could like you know put an ARM on top
you could I don't know have lights I don't know what you would do with this
really but we'll well I guess we'll try and find some uses for it let's see
we've got our whole power stage at the back here these giant connecting cables
that deliver power and data over to these uh these motors here okay so the
back here we've got I guess this is a little LED bar look you can see the
individual units of the back there so that must mean that we also have an LED
bar up the front but I don't know we'll have a look so yeah you can see the
whole power distribution system down here some big beefy Motors coming from
this gigantic battery pack I mean no
wonder this weighs so much so I'm going to get these covers back on and then I
guess we'll turn the robot on and see if I can break it myself or the Set uh but
you know the wood never breaks is no every stop but you know whatever
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take Jesus from Christ all right I'm I'm nervous I didn't read
the manual yeah we have this giant safety switch on the
back so I'm going to switch this and see what happens
okay everything's a light
looks like we've got a light on the back got a light on the back
I don't know what to do okay Let's uh let's let's be safe let's read
the manual you get an industrial piece of equipment and just load it off the table that sounds like a great idea uh
now I'm scared I'm going to enable the controller
oh yeah there we go and then
we should have a height adjust as well the motion control on this is really
good normally when you have like a moving table like this you would find
that this happens right you get into like an oscillation situation
um because it's supposed to be on a on a stable ground but it seems to be
handling itself pretty well and recovers quickly move this back a little bit this
is a stupid stupid thing to do let's try
it on the ground so let's turn it back on and actually go through
some of the safety stuff so there is an
emergency stop procedure because again I mean this thing is really rather
dangerous and Powerful obviously you've got this giant button on the back which
you can kick down with your foot there's also a control disable for the
controller so this right trigger here has about three positions yeah so we
have controller disabled at the bottom position we have low speed mode and then
we have high speed mode so yeah you would hit this and then all control is
disabled on the left hand side here we have our creeping sort of down position
and then as we go higher it'll stand up that sort of thing we have another
little uh rocker on the left hand side of the controller here which can adjust
our height so if we want to be down low
maybe you get a better better center of gravity or come up geez the controls are
really responsive these these motors are extremely quick give it some Boston
Dynamics you know like it comes right back to where it was
Stockholm syndrome it also has a jump mode we're going to stand back if I push
this button here I don't know how to do it
neat like a common controller on the right here we have our forward and back
and then we also have turn in place but
on the left hand side here it's a little bit different because we have pitch
control so we can go up and down and then it's also got the capability to
lean left and right which is kind of neat it's so adorable look at it
unfortunately for me the uh the look up and down is like reversed like I want to
drive it like an airplane and look up by pushing down I don't know if that's a
thing we can change so in these two modes it seems to be able to support a
couple different kinds of weight and this nice standing mode here it should
be able to support roughly nine pounds
oh that does feel like a lot but it might overheat the motors these guys do
tend to get a little bit warm and then when it's in creeping mode like here it
should theoretically be able to withstand a hundred and seventy pounds
go in low speed mode here
so you can use it to carry like quite a bit of weight
if only carry the weight of my mistakes jump please
broke it a broken direct drive says that
it can travel about two meters a second which is about four and a half miles an
hour that's a lot for a little guy like this um I told you I'd break the set didn't I
there are model RC cars that can go even faster than that and I mean those are
pretty dangerous but there's a lot of weight behind this it can move a little bit unpredictably because it's
self-balancing you know just pushing it around it's it doesn't move like normal
things I would say and with the latency between it moving its weight around and
like actually stopping it's very difficult to get it to respond in a safe
or delicate way I would say so some caution is certainly required should we
take it outside you want to go for a walk walkies
do you want to go for a walk you want to go outside you want to go for walkies
huh okay so I accidentally hit someone's car
I tried to get it up a curb and it freaked out a little bit that's uh
that's on me though okay let's see if I can get over this
what did I do wrong well I had it in high speed mode okay let's try another
jump you know hey yeah one of the one of the
neat things about having a center balance like this is we can uh come on
there you go we can get one wheel up on this you can see the the right hand side
leg is up farther than the other one and then when it comes off it just keeps
standing it should theoretically be able to keep its balance over a jump like
this so let's see
it did recover though
it's freaking robust though I mean it survived me hitting that car with it so
I think I think this is good oh yeah
and I love that it automatically recovers itself like this and I'm going
to jump up a curve okay that's how I hit that cart but okay
what's what's neat is you can see it kind of Auto stabilizing itself because
we're on a bit of an incline here right
okay let's try another jump uh okay
whatever baby okay let's see how fast we can make it
go uh they're saying two meters a second that might be in the like low down mode
but yeah we'll try it that's reasonably quick I guess
yeah it's in high speed mode but it's not in the crawl mode so if we get it down into crawl mode I think it should
go faster that's maybe a little bit faster it
seems to be about the same speed in fast mode while it's standing or while it's
in crawl mode which is kind of I guess that's fine it feels a little bit slow
when you're moving it like extremely long distances but when it gets up next
to you it's kind of like intimidating and scary ow faster
um yeah I don't know the the self-balancing and the robustness of
whatever motion control system they've got in here seems to be really good it's
hard to get it to fail it really is only hurting itself when we like make it do
really dumb things I mean it's extremely quick and responsive and you know it can
hold a lot of weight in this mode it feels very very sturdy I'm impressed
with the the build quality of just about
everything the carbon fiber is certainly much more for rigidity as it can hold
its own weight if these were like steel or aluminum plates it does seem to have
some like 3D printed Parts but I guess that's kind of reasonable it's not going
to be a high run uh product that's for
sure the motors are extremely responsive
extremely powerful yeah it's tuned extremely well as well it's uh quite a
remarkable little thing that's uh that's too much weight
okay well I didn't work at all but I'm pretty sure if you you know put a basket
or something on it would probably be better than just balancing a bunch of wood on top of it let's head back inside
and we'll look at it in a bit more detail it's it's cool and it's really
powerful and it works really very well for what it is
for what it is but my one question is
kind of like why why does it exist and
what is there to do with it I guess that's kind of left up to the user right
is do you see something that would be
useful to have this kind of self-balancing platform as a learning
tool I'm not entirely sure it's 100 useful anyway I mean at the price of 3
900 US Dollars it's a hell of a lot of money for this kind of platform I mean
it does have six of these really powerful you know direct drive Motors at
3 900 US Dollars it's kind of a little bit large for somebody that's going to
be just learning how maybe motion control systems like this actually
function the nice thing is that they've released a really involved and in-depth
Source developer kit which means that you can interface with this robot in all
sorts of different ways you can access the you know current state of it maybe
where it is and they even do another version that's even more expensive that
has a full proper Vision system so you could I don't know maybe make a line
following robot or have it follow trackers on the back of you or drive
around the space in here exactly oh lunch comes to a logistics then Elijah
and we put a basket on top of here tell the robot to go to an editor and it just
drives there the problem is that the
source code that runs all of this motion
platform and this amazing performance of its ability to balance really well is
closed Source at least it seems to be and the source developer kit is
available but that's more just an interface with the software I may be
mistaken but I can't find anything that like lets you actually use this as a set
of six Motors and mess with it and learn
you could obviously write your own system but that's extremely involved
maybe as a tool for education but at the high school level The Source developer
kit the SDK is so complicated that it may be a little bit too advanced for
high school kids it's also so really expensive and if you look at the
University level maybe some engineering students want to be playing with dealing
with a self-balancing robot and your PID tuning kind of algorithms you can't
touch then what are you doing you're kind of maybe moving into mechatronics
so you might be using a real world example platform to like put an ARM on
it and interface with the can bus and cereal that controls everything but I
don't know who it's for and I don't really know what I would want to do with
it certainly this version I'm sure people would have uses for a
self-balancing robot like this but it's kind of not as good as other platforms
it's kind of a weird Middle Ground the thing is that these motors that it runs
off of these direct drive Motors are actually really incredible direct drive
Tech I guess started with their direct drive Motors and these seem really
powerful there's very little backlash they don't twist or move I'm going to
cut my fingers off if I'm not careful and they sell them individually so this
might be a good way to start experimenting with direct drive Motors
maybe rip them off of here use this as a kit but I think what they might have
done is hey we have all these motors let's put them in the platform that is
fun and cool to look at and maybe we'll
get more attention for our direct drive Motors saying all that they've just
announced a new pre-order for their more industrial version of this Boston
Dynamics has their spot and these self-balancing robots as small as they
are they're quite robust in weird flooring situations and they're also
they have a really tiny footprint and so in an industrial application moving
things around quickly with full lidar and full like
awareness and maybe a little bit more power in the motors as well quick change
batteries that sort of thing I could see these like as an automated delivery
system between different departments for tools or parts or stuff like that but
for the everyday person I'm not sure if it's anything more than a toy even
though it doesn't behave like a toy if I could have this or the Apple Vision Pro
I mean I'm not an Apple guy but I probably buy the headset I love that
this is an open platform but I just can't think of anything that we would use it for here besides delivering lunch
and even then we'd need the three thousand dollar upgrade to be able to do
that Jesus Christ thanks so much for watching
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