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This Robot Chain Smokes Cigarettes So Rats Don’t Have To | WIRED
Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have built a robot that can smoke cigarettes just like a human to better understand lung diseases. You’re welcome, smoking lab rats. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► CONNECT WITH WIRED Web: Twitter: Facebook: Pinterest: Google+: Instagram: Tumblr: Want even more? Subscribe to The Scene:…
@WhiteMagicHQ
November 1, 2016 at 1:20 pm
The perfect hot box…… Hook up a mask and get high asf!! xD
@PGIV-d3t
November 1, 2016 at 1:26 pm
wow lungs on a chip ?
@LOUDMOUTHTYRONE
November 1, 2016 at 6:09 pm
صيانة فياتشيسلاف _ Lungs in a chip. 🙁
@joehjung
November 1, 2016 at 1:30 pm
I thought they were calling people who smoke rats LOL
@manus3203
November 1, 2016 at 1:34 pm
Not all heroes wear capes
@mr19zee
November 1, 2016 at 2:01 pm
I’ll quit smoking because of this
@LOUDMOUTHTYRONE
November 1, 2016 at 6:08 pm
mr19zee No… Don’t quit, cause I don’t love you. And I’ll never will. Do it for me. 🙁
@mr19zee
November 1, 2016 at 7:50 pm
I’ll start vaping because of you thanx a lot
@mr19zee
November 1, 2016 at 11:30 pm
+cabra vieja I’m not going to vape I was just kidding. I see vaping worst than smoking. I’m going to quit smoking cold turkey after I finish this pack of cigarettes I have 4 cigarettes left. I’ll keep the last one as a reminder not to buy another one ever. wish me luck.
@mr19zee
November 1, 2016 at 11:40 pm
+cabra vieja
exactly LOL.
vape natioooon
@DimArtist
November 2, 2016 at 7:45 am
Good luck! You can do it! It’s hell of a ride, so buckle up.
@mikes333
November 1, 2016 at 2:38 pm
In the future, when robots have taken over the human race and are using us as biological batteries, we’ll look back and say, “It all started, when they learned to smoke. Then it just went downhill from there.”
@TheCrazeTaker
November 13, 2016 at 8:37 pm
Mike S matrix ass shit
@GetOffMyLawnYouDangKids
November 1, 2016 at 3:50 pm
Smoking is cool, just look at how cool this robot is.
@ananyaswaroop3669
November 1, 2016 at 3:59 pm
Amazing!!
@erkdoc5
November 1, 2016 at 4:48 pm
Smoking isn’t cool, unless it’s weed, right Wired? I’m glad you at least don’t hold cigarettes up on a pedestal.
@KuromoriYo
November 1, 2016 at 9:02 pm
I don’t think anyone would “hold cigarettes up on a pedestal” I have no clue where you got that idea from…
@erkdoc5
November 1, 2016 at 11:02 pm
No, but they hold weed on a pedestal.
@InsidiousAmv
November 2, 2016 at 3:48 am
erkdoc5 Weed and cigarettes kinda on two different levels. One has known studies of killing people and has toxic chemicals. The other is grown from ground and smoked and is known to treat diseases. I think I can see why they do
@erkdoc5
November 2, 2016 at 12:16 pm
Apvl
They are both grown from the ground. They both have toxic chemicals. Many studies have shown that smoking weed also bad for your heart like smoking cigarettes. Secondhand cannabis smoke is also bad for someone’s heart. Smoking weed also means breathing in tar. Neither is free of negative effects. Neither should be promoted as good.
@destrik
November 3, 2016 at 1:27 pm
man just shut the fuck up, go do some real research on weed and then try and argue your point. Sure there can be a couple very small negative side affects, but how many people have died directly from weed? how many people have died from cigarettes? how many people have died from alcohol. no matter what kinda bullshit you try and put out there, the statistics are whats real. Weed has saved so many peoples lives, there are fucking children, and im talking 5 years old, who ingest cannabis daily because its the only medication that can help them. there are so so many human beings who would be dead right now if its wasn’t for weed. including young children. But weed shouldn’t be promoted as good? your that fucking ignorant? honestly you sound like one of the typical old bags who know nothing about the plant itself but is just against it for no reason. Tell me how a natural plant that saves countless lives and gives people the ability to live, shouldn’t be held on a pedestal. Go do some real research. Go fuck yourself.
@InspektorDogge
November 1, 2016 at 5:53 pm
That poor robot is gonna get cancer 🙁
@mikikulesza
November 1, 2016 at 6:24 pm
That video made me smoke a cig
@TheHornswoggler
November 2, 2016 at 5:53 am
… people honestly cared enough about fucking rats to spend millions on a piece of machinery that rats can do for a fraction of the price? They’re rodents.
@5up3rp3rs0n
September 12, 2017 at 2:10 pm
TheHornswoggler well with robots you can also control the way they smoke cigarette, something one cannot do on rats.
@JackCarver10
November 2, 2016 at 3:44 pm
Hi WIRED, could you please make the videos even shorter?
@sullivan4507
November 6, 2016 at 9:02 pm
it’s the beginning of……..BENDER BENDING RODRIGUEZ
@CHUCKYLOSTIT
November 7, 2016 at 12:14 pm
this is stupid why waste money on this we no smoking cigs are bad for your health this is just counter productive i think
@Myname-vd1le
November 15, 2016 at 1:15 am
is it bad i watch this and get a little jealous
@1337fraggzb00N
December 3, 2016 at 1:27 pm
African kids could have eaten that robot!
@Zoza15
January 1, 2017 at 7:54 am
Well, i don’t smoke so no issues here.
@Extra_Mental
March 25, 2017 at 4:19 am
Uhh yeah i dont think we need a smoking robot to tell us that smoking is bad for us.
@notmyrealnamr7190
March 31, 2017 at 11:58 am
oh but vaping is still cool? Go fuck yourself and stop trying to control me.
@sonofhendrix1618
April 23, 2017 at 11:48 am
It dont take a robot to tell you cigarettes are really bad for human health. i could have told you that.
@sdfgjvnfgfkstjg
September 5, 2017 at 10:27 am
Don’t tobacco companies specifically design their cigarette’s filters so they appear less harmful when smoked through a cigarette smoking machine?
@TB8452
January 22, 2020 at 4:59 pm
What happens to the rats if you don’t need them any more?
You won’t breed them – and then there won’t be any rats no more.
That’s shady.
@jaymeselliot8181
August 22, 2020 at 10:44 pm
when robots got cool
@RynaxAlien
January 4, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Tobacco is garbage, smart are switching to weed or DMT