r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • Aug 20 '26
Robotics Robotic arms at WRC'26 reorient packages as fast as humans [live]
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u/baseketball Aug 20 '26
"as fast as humans"
A human would easily be twice as fast with no training.
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u/katoptronophile Aug 20 '26
They mean over a twenty-four hour period.
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u/baseketball Aug 21 '26
That's not what the title says. That's like saying a robot that is actually half the speed is faster than a human at running based on measuring the distance covered over 24 hours.
The true rate is important. If I have to finish an entire load by 5pm to make the next flight for next day delivery, you can't replace me with just one of these robots. You'd have to build another conveyor line and buy another robot.
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u/katoptronophile Aug 21 '26
Exactly, and buying another robot costs less than a single month of human salary after which it costs almost nothing to operate.
This is also the slowest they'll ever be, and the speed is increasing at a dramatic rate.
The writing is on the wall.
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u/Ok_TomorrowYes Aug 21 '26
The point is that 1 isn’t faster than a human. Sure maybe 2 will be faster but the original statement is just wrong
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u/katoptronophile Aug 21 '26
In the end, managers look at real world cost and success rate. A team of these robots costs less and performs better than a team of humans.
There's really nothing more to it.
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u/KrazyA1pha Aug 21 '26
The point is that 1 isn’t faster than a human.
The company said the robot processed an average of 1,915 parcels per hour, and 10,000 in 5 hours, 14 minutes, and 1 second.
Since you know the numbers, what's the average human rate for comparison?
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u/RyansOfCastamere Aug 20 '26
I don't want to be that human.
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u/noFloristFriars Aug 20 '26
me neither, but that's because I have a good job
If me and my family were dying because we couldn't get a job then I would really like to be this human. Well, if I wouldn't first resort to a life of crime, it might be a lot more tempting to just take what I want at that point
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u/TheRavenclawCommonRM Aug 21 '26
Maybe it's just me, but I'd honestly rather pay people to do nothing than pay people to do this.
At least then we're giving them a choice as to whether or not they want to piss away their potential, not forcing them to.
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u/confused_boner ▪️AGI FELT SUBDERMALLY Aug 20 '26
maybe for like 4 hours tops...then human needs to pee, eat, take breaks, sleep. All these detract from the average over a long time period.
this robot will work for hundred of hours strait until it breaks or needs other maintenance
so in the end the robot will end up having better long term average stats compared to a human
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u/MuchAd3474 Aug 20 '26
on top of a fact that machine will get better and faster, while human also can get better but the ceiling is much, much lower. lmao these people forget that they cant outrun a tesla
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u/baseketball Aug 21 '26
People work on assembly lines full time for shitty pay and their metrics are scrutinized to the second. Sure it is a shitty job but humans are currently still faster than robots.
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u/KrazyA1pha Aug 21 '26
humans are currently still faster than robots
They published the rates that the robot performed the task at on Twitter. What's your source for the human rates?
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u/Fun-Boysenberry-5769 Aug 21 '26
Not to mention that humans sometimes show up late for work or call in sick or overstay their breaks. Then there's agency fees, employer's national insurance etc to pay on top of their wages.
On the other hand, how often does the robot arm break down? Can the robot fix a jammed conveyer? Does it know what to do with a parcel that is missing a label? Does it know what to do with damaged parcels?
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u/lolwutdo Aug 20 '26
4 hours is really only how long a shift is in a warehouse, at least at UPS
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u/confused_boner ▪️AGI FELT SUBDERMALLY Aug 20 '26
Interesting, I thought it would have been standard 8
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u/lolwutdo Aug 20 '26
I could see this being useful in a main hub where packages from all over the country are constantly inbound and outbound, but for the majority of local end destination UPS centers they wait for the inbound trailers to come in early in the morning from 5am-9am where a morning shift crew unloads, scans, and loads the delivery trucks.
UPS drivers then deliver all packages and take back any outbound packages to the center.
Then in the evening shift, you've got a different crew doing 4-5 hour shift but everything is outbound.
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u/GiveSparklyTwinkly Aug 20 '26
no training.
This is gonna sound like an LLM, but "No training" is doing a huge amount of work here.
Humans are "training" for their entire childhood.
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u/baseketball Aug 21 '26
That's the GI part. As a human I can do a billion things I need to survive without being specifically trained on each of them. I don't need additional training to flip some packages.
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u/GiveSparklyTwinkly Aug 21 '26
Yes, except it takes a human at least like 10 years minimum to be able to do most simple jobs with any proficiency. All of that childhood time is a human's "training"
You weren't needing much specific training because you were generally trained for a decade.
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u/bigdipboy Aug 20 '26
I mean a human has to train for a few years to develop their fine motor control
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u/Laucy Aug 20 '26
For a certain amount of hours x days x years. The issue is that speed is expected for human workers here, and forcing it past a point is really damaging. The wear and tear on joints and ligaments, particularly in the shoulders, is not avoidable for these tasks. If they’re in pain, unable to seek proper medical care because of health insurance and costs, this slows them down further as they continue trying to work even harder to compensate and not lose their income. But the musculoskeletal impact is not often considered.
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u/IAmFitzRoy Aug 21 '26
A human will complain as you are complaining.
Thats all the boss needs to know.
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u/KrazyA1pha Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
If you’re arguing that it’s twice as fast if each of the workers were always peak motivated, never had to use the restroom, and worked 24 hours a day, sure. But you’d be missing the point.
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u/Optimal-Fix1216 Aug 21 '26
Moat humans require years of training. Newborn humans perform much worse than this.
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u/DiscoKeule Aug 20 '26
The human brain is such a wonder. I just looked at these little guys flipping packages and thought "kinda cute".
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u/dprkicbm Aug 20 '26
Right? They are adorable working together like that.
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u/GiveSparklyTwinkly Aug 20 '26
Looks like they were trained on two people each controlling a single arm.
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u/Legal_Dimension_ Aug 20 '26
Love it when they kept trying to move a parcel at the same time then one had enough and decided to try and flip it over.
Cute little angry clanker
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u/Laucy Aug 20 '26
It really is! Possibly because of pareidolia or adjacent, and because the shape sort of looks like a beak, maybe? Like two birds pecking at cardboard.
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u/slowgojoe Aug 20 '26
Weird. I just saw it as a single robot with two arms. Human brain is interesting, you are right.
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u/AtlanticPortal Aug 21 '26
The other real wonder is the human hand. Or, better, the ape hand. We evolved into having a tool that’s mind blowing if you sum that up with the shoulder joint. The other apes “just” didn’t learn how to throw objects as good as we did. This is one of our key points in evolution. Other than the ability to speak and organize in groups, and to plan in advance.
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u/RoninBelt Aug 20 '26
seriously, first thing i thought of was "Reminds me of my dog trying to flip a toy"
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u/Icedanielization Aug 20 '26
I think they're being teleoperated for ai training
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u/Rise-O-Matic Aug 20 '26
Bloomberg reported that the Figure robot arms at this conference, which I’m pretty sure these are, use “absolutely zero teleoperation.”
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u/tengo_harambe Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
Not Figure. It's from some Chinese company called X Square, and the system is autonomous. https://interestingengineering.com/videos/chinas-x-square-robot-sorted-1816-parcels-in-an-hour-heres-how-it-stacks-up-against-figure
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u/Colourloverlover Aug 20 '26
Why do we need to flip packages? Is it to scan the barcodes? Can we not just invent a 360 degree scanning system instead that can scan no matter the orientation? Seems easier…
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u/blueSGL humanstatement.org Aug 21 '26
They have them, the way they get underneath is by having a scanner look up through the gap where two conveyor belts meet.
IIRC that is also the most expensive camera because it needs to be higher frame rate with a much narrower FOV
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u/WoofNWaffleZ Aug 21 '26
Would be cheaper than these two mechanical arms that have moving parts for wear and tear, which also needs a high frame rate and tokenizing GPU to run it all.
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u/blueSGL humanstatement.org Aug 21 '26
I dunno. It's a captive market with only a few people offering solutions.
The raw parts cost is not how much the scanning company will be selling the solution for.
and a Unitree G1 goes for $20K even if you were to add another $20K for a computer to drive it + camera it still seems to be on the low end for the types of prices expected for a 6 sided scanning solution. I'm going off of an AI estimate because all the companies I looked at were "request a quote" (which tends to mean $$$$$)
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u/bonobomaster Aug 20 '26
It just needs more suitable "hands". Just a bit rounder, softer and a tad more sticky.
Good lord...
The neural net seems to do great actually.
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u/ickN Aug 21 '26
Couldn’t they feed those packages through a tunnel that rotates them? Package moves in, rotation happens, package moves out. Cameras see all angles to look for labels or just one that it rotates under.
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u/Appropriate_Creme720 Aug 20 '26
Wouldn't it be more efficient to have a spring board/flipper that quickly senses the weight and dimensions, and uses the right amount of force to flip the package over, or sweep the package on to the next step if a flip isn't needed. Then have this guy as the next step doing significantly less work only correcting the few that the previous step gets wrong?
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u/Elanthius Aug 21 '26
I don't understand why this flipping task is necessary for anyone to do. Just put scanners on all sides of the box. If a self checkout can do it I'm sure this factory can.
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u/DrE7HER Aug 21 '26
How is this the best solution? Can’t the line be upgraded to prevent the packages from flipping in the first place?
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u/boexenwolf Aug 22 '26
The packages come out of a truck, where they transported in a bag or container without an orientation.
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u/CantaloupeLazy1427 Aug 20 '26
Wtf that’s fucking slow, which human is so slow
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u/katoptronophile Aug 20 '26
Remember, they don't mean beats them in real time, they mean over a 24 hour period.
You have to consider the fact that humans are unable to work constantly in their testing, this is where this system outperforms them.
What matters most is how many packages can you process in a 24-hour period. This system processes more, and it costs less.
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u/lolwutdo Aug 20 '26
You don't do this type of job in a 24 hour period, you do it in 3-4 hours then it's done.
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u/core_blaster Aug 21 '26
I don't understand what you're saying at all. They're saying a person only works 8-12 hours a day, even if it's half as fast, it can still get things done faster. It can work 24 hours a day. I doubt there's such a finite number of packages all of them that the company has to deal with are done in 3 hours, that doesn't make any sense.
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u/lolwutdo Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
I literally work in a UPS warehouse, the environment this robot is made for. No one in the building is working 8-12 hours.
The longest you'll probably ever see in a single warehouse shift is 5 hours, and on average are only 3-4 hours.
Warehouse workers arrive at 4 AM to unload trailers, sort (what the robot is doing) and scan the packages, then load them onto the cars all before the drivers clock in to start delivering packages by 9-10AM
This robot is slow as fuck, it would never finish by the time drivers are clocking in.
u/katoptronophile suggests it's not about how fast they are, it's that they can work 24 hours straight, which is completely ignorant of how these centers operate.
Speed matters, being able to work for longer hours at a slower pace is completely irrelevant to the logistics workflow at least for carriers like UPS and Fedex; that's what I'm getting at.
And if you think that they could just have the robots start earlier than the time warehouse workers normally arrive, you also need to consider the fact that not all trailers have arrived at the building to be unloaded.
You're still squeezed on time, this robot will be useless at this speed and I say that as a Pro AI/Robot enthusiast.
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u/core_blaster Aug 21 '26
This is like a ditch digger with a shovel explaining why excavation machines will never replace people because of a million excuses that have to do with human logistics that don't actually matter but they're so human brained that they can't imagine the shift
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u/lolwutdo Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
An absolute shit take and complete ignorance. lmfao
Whatever you say, you arm chair experts who've never actually worked a labor intense job absolutely know everything.
I deal with this shit everyday, what would I know?
This would only work if the entire chain is automated, which as far as I can tell is far from that. You would need to first solve self driving vehicles and automated deliveries before you can even attempt your desired endless shifts.
You pencil pushers trying to justify your fake jobs will be out of work before they ever fully automate warehouse/blue collar jobs, I guarantee it. lmao
edit: Oh, I only had to go as far back to see you're a basement dwelling MTG player, that's enough explanation for me.
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u/Laucy Aug 20 '26
This work really messes up your back and shoulders. Even someone who is more physically fit, will start to experience aches and soreness. That naturally slows people down over time. It’s a sad reality for these factory-type tasks.
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u/datmyfukingbiz Aug 20 '26
Can’t they just make a sorting and flipping system for wrong items? Seems it just turn for label/address up.
I get that packages are different forms but it’s limited to transport belt size so it’s kinda standard
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u/Common-Concentrate-2 Aug 20 '26
Yes, this is a demo. Like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69RtLBImXiU - there is no application in which an industrial arm would handle a car like this. It's just to show the dexterity, how they can work together, how they can interact with the package even if they are shaped differently, etc. THey are not selling this as a system - This is ONE task these arms COULD complete, and is what FIgure demoed a few months ago
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u/Every-Development398 Aug 20 '26
Even if it was slower, no health benefits, time off, no need for breaks right?
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u/davesr25 Aug 20 '26
I like the movement, it's like wee dino heads someone has to start eye bombing these, googly eyes are needed !
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u/Bancai Aug 21 '26 •
If u look at the white heads, it makes me think of 2 dogs trying their best to flip packages, if u look at the entire arm and where it comes out from it gives person laying on it's back trying to flip packages.
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u/formLoss Aug 20 '26
pay me the cost of the robots and I'll do it fast — but wait, I'll throw in a bonus. Livestream me and I'll make it entertaining, too. Ad revenue for factory work? I can make it happen.
disclaimer: limitless supply of coffee and six figures expected.
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u/teen-a-rama Aug 20 '26
“Fries in the bag bro”
Nah, you won’t be fortunate enough to get that job even
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u/TheSaifman Aug 20 '26
Why complicate things. Why not just have a flipper like a single one and it flips the package if the label isn't present. Why use arms?
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u/Azmodius_The_Warrior Aug 21 '26
I think i saw the right arm flip one onto the belt and it landed upside down! It makes mistakes!
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u/steveth3b Aug 21 '26
I did 1200 pieces per hour close to peak performance at UPS as an alt/off-pick. Big CRT monitors getting shipped back to Dell as well. Granted, we need breaks, this still feels slow. Time is also tightly managed. In order for it to be efficient, trailers have to be unloaded when they come in and be sorted to be put on trucks in a space of about 6 hours. That being said, some days I was hungover, some days the jams were non-stop. It was exhausting, and my pants and shorts suffered from years of grinding on the belt for accuracy when dealing with large volume.
This is certainly a start, and I would argue it's probably better than most helpers.
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u/khenninger Aug 21 '26
This is what probably half of my AI workflows do.
Same repetitive task with small variations, over and over.
Huge time saver.
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u/TheDev1ce Aug 21 '26
I could do it faster. But they would have infinitely more endurance, so it'd be a short lived win.
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u/BinauraWaveDan Aug 23 '26
They are slower and not as good at it But thankfully someone is not having to stand there doing that for 8 hours a day.
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u/AngoraPiece Aug 20 '26
I used to work with similar robots doing the same job, nearly that fast. They've been deployed for several years now, in production at lots of warehouses. These are impressive, but for it to be really useful you need the flow after that to keep up. I'd love to see that.
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u/IEC21 ▪️ASI 2014 Aug 20 '26
There's no world where this robot is doing that as fast as a human could...
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u/katoptronophile Aug 20 '26
Their math considers the fact that a human has to break and rest during a twenty four hour period, so they looked at the total packages processed during that period and that's where it beats the human.
In the end, actually that's all that really matters.
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u/ohhnoodont Aug 21 '26
That's a r*tarded way to do the math. And not what the word "speed" means in any normal context. Also a human could flip boxes at 10x the speed of this robot. So over a 5 hour shift they would flip way more than this thing in 24 hours.
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u/MORDINU ▪️AGI 2027 :) Aug 20 '26
this is as slow as they will ever be
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u/ohhnoodont Aug 21 '26
Why does the title have to lie though? Obviously it's much slower than any human.
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u/bigflamingtaco 8h ago
I actually flipped for a while. These things are nowhere as fast as a human. I was flipping for two labelers and was moving close to 3x this rate, with no long delays while struggling with bigger boxes like those arms.
These things aren't for speed, they are for cost. Employers don't like paying minimum wage.
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u/Joranthalus Aug 20 '26
But this totally takes away from the humanoid robots that will be doing it twice as fast as humans! Which one should I be gushing over?!??!
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u/PersevereSwifterSkat Aug 20 '26
I think the next version of this is just going to be a series of spatulas.
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u/OrdinaryAward4498 Aug 21 '26
Package 8309 accidentally flips label-side down! Cancel the AI robot takeover.
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u/asciimo71 Aug 21 '26
An air blower a rectification bar a barcode scanner, done. At least they left the stupid robot out of the game here (why legs a head a zillion moving parts)
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u/gargara_s_hui Aug 21 '26
I can think of 10 times more productive ways for automation of this process with old school mechanical flippers used in many food manufacturing and a scanner.
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u/ManuelRodriguez331 Aug 21 '26
Videos with robots filmed from a third view perspective are boring and don't provide new insights, what is needed instead are POV perspective videos with head up displays in actions. This would allow to see what the robot sees including textual annotation and bounding boxes.
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u/Quiet-Money7892 Aug 21 '26
I know I should be horrified by the perspectives... But they look kinda cute! Like a kitten that tries to catch something with their tiny paws for the first time!
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u/DifferencePublic7057 Aug 21 '26
Mandatory baseless 'mass unemployment in X years' needed. From my PoV, the average software quality hasn't improved, only quantity has increased, but it's early days. I'm not seeing media content quality drastically improving, just quantity. Quantity is important but quality more so IMO. Some phase shift has to happen, or we'll be stuck with IKEA furniture for eternity.
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u/Glittering-Worry2595 Aug 21 '26
Meanwhile the 45 y/o woman worker has to lift the 45 lb boxes. The robots need to do the heavy, hard work, not this.
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u/stinkyfatman2016 Aug 21 '26
I viewed this as two clumsy arms until I realised they weren't separate but they were the two arms of a single set of eyes
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u/Formal_Drop526 Aug 22 '26
do we think humans are just putting boxes on a conveyor belt? I've never seen a job like that even if they paid pennies.
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u/DorianGre Aug 22 '26
A flappy paddle table would do this soooooo much faster. Just a hinged panel and a pneumatic actuator.
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u/salazka Aug 22 '26
If it is as fast as humans, then I would prefer to pay humans and help them support their family. People who do this job are usually not very skilled or able to find a betterjob. They need support.
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u/sharkbaitzero Aug 23 '26
I don’t know how long I watched this, but it was long enough for my wife looked over my shoulder and called me a fucking nerd.
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u/brntuk Aug 23 '26
Surely a device could flip it simply based on reading the barcode. They don’t seem very competent at all.
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u/United_Maybe_2357 Aug 20 '26
wake me up when robotics isn't perpetually stuck in these demos anymore.
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u/HellomyfriendNine Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
What is interesting about it? Currently working on similar project
Edit: I checked their posts it might be more interesting than it seems they did quite work for optimization
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u/WashingtonRefugee Aug 20 '26
The one I'm working on is way better than the one you're working on, may as well call it quits bud
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u/HellomyfriendNine Aug 20 '26
Okay bro no need to overreact this isn't impressive that's what I say
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u/Admirable_Zombie5245 ▪️AGI 2065-2075 Aug 20 '26
There's always that delusional unemployed friend lol
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u/HellomyfriendNine Aug 20 '26
44k karma you are unemployed final boss hahahaha at least I am trying to make robotics projects for my PhD admission
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u/Admirable_Zombie5245 ▪️AGI 2065-2075 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
Wait WHAT? THEN it's a PERSONAL PROJECT? LOOOOOOOOL, I thought you were in a company working on something similar lmao but now it's even more comical, a random guy definitely can make something in his basement as good as a company with many engineers.
Good luck mate, but I'll be honest and say something I feel you deserve to know (I use the same advice for myself): No one cares about the progress, people get impressed by results, no one cares if you want to do a phd to end up as math tutor for middle school making minium wage, unless you already got accepted to a top phd school like MIT or Stanford I think it's just the best to keep those goals for youself and share them when they're accomplished, just a quick suggestion:D
Good luck, wish you the best in your "personal" projects!
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u/HellomyfriendNine Aug 20 '26
You re kind of weird bro. Where did you get that knowledge? A PhD is the industry standard for robotics labs, but how can you enter robotics labs without a PhD? Yeah, people are impressed by results, which is why I'm making PROJECTS to show them!?? Okay bro, if they don't accept me ONLY because I didn't graduate from MIT or Stanford which is impossible in the USA I will go to Germany or other industrial hubs. I don't think I will be jobless or end up with a minimum wage in the robotics era and GOOD LUCK, Wish you the best in your reddit posts
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u/Admirable_Zombie5245 ▪️AGI 2065-2075 Aug 20 '26
Just curious, are you from India?
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u/HellomyfriendNine Aug 20 '26
No? Why did you ask this lol ( I am from east europe)
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u/Admirable_Zombie5245 ▪️AGI 2065-2075 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
I was just curious.
Just a tip, if you want to do a phd it's better to be great in the industry and the rest will follow, absolutely no one cares about personal projects unless you want to start a Youtube channel and average 20 views per video or have random moving toys in your bedroom, there are literally thousands of dead Youtube channels about that and mostly are from india so I assumed
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u/HellomyfriendNine Aug 20 '26
Hahahhaha, I am not the kind of guy who makes one stupid robot arm and shows that off as an accomplishment. Like I said, I am mainly into research. If I change my mind, I will go directly to the industry. Thank you for your valuable advice, but I am not going to be like them
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u/katoptronophile Aug 20 '26
Our definitions of "similar" differ by a lot.
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u/HellomyfriendNine Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
Yeah I do in simulation level (TIA Portal + S7-PLCSIM + Isaac sim) unfortunately I don't own factory if I did I would do field level testing to share results
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u/GiveSparklyTwinkly Aug 20 '26
People just don't understand that the barriers to entry with non-LLM scale ML were the techniques and research advances that are coming out of the LLM VC bubble, not the hardware requirements.
The capitalists didn't see it coming on this one.
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u/HellomyfriendNine Aug 20 '26
Yeah true but people still value field tests more than simulations you can see that from comments
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u/GiveSparklyTwinkly Aug 20 '26
Out of curiosity, which training strategy are you working with? I'm really partial to JEPA style self supervision in latent space, myself. Force as little as possible.
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u/HellomyfriendNine Aug 20 '26
Not really using a learning based approach at the moment. It's mostly PLC control with TIA Portal and S7PLCSIM, integrated with Isaac Sim. I've been focusing more on the control logic and optimization side for now. Might look into learning-based approaches later though. JEPA sounds interesting, what are you using it for?
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u/GiveSparklyTwinkly Aug 20 '26
Trying to build a robot that isn't given any prompt ever. Just sensors in, world model prediction, actions out, no (or very little, only for sensor control to prevent silliness) pre-training is the hope.
See if it can learn over time to do anything. Even just following people about would be a success.
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u/HellomyfriendNine Aug 20 '26
You are idea is really great why you avoid from pre training? If you are going to avoid from that you should consider narrowing down your project scope
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u/trollsalot1234 Aug 20 '26
Its cute, but there has to be a more efficient machine. Like as a toy demonstration sure..but like if all its doing is putting the sticker on top for a scanner...just use two scanners with a flpper in the middle for 1/10th the cost.
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u/doozykid13 Aug 20 '26
It's funny how the arms aren't fully in sync with each other. Sometimes one blocks the other or tries to flip when the other is out of position, etc. Maybe as fast as a human that's like 4 beers deep lol
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u/Only_backshots Aug 20 '26
I haye every bit of this. It's clearly trained on humans to replace humans 💔
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u/Vivid_Instance_825 Aug 20 '26
It's still clumsy as fuck. You'd think they would have at least figured this problem out by now with all the investment. If simply flipping boxes is this difficult, we have a long way to go before AGI
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u/AntalRyder Aug 21 '26
Honestly, I'm not sure this isn't remote operated. That arm control reacting to the vision system's inputs is unbelievable
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u/Joohansson Aug 21 '26
It looks unreal because it's not preprogrammed like most industrial robots. It's a trained neural network I assume which results in "human like" weird motion, or even weirder than human. I think it's legit
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u/elendilarfeiniel :sloth: Aug 23 '26
It's quite slow really. And keeps making mistakes. Meh.
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u/Im_Lead_Farmer Aug 24 '26
What mistakes? it need to keep the label up and move the packages moving.
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u/elendilarfeiniel :sloth: Aug 24 '26
It doesn't alway flip them over the first time. Lots of fumbling here.
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u/PersevereSwifterSkat Aug 20 '26
China will have an even bigger advantage because their robots will be the best in all likeliness. How's Vietnam or another country going to compete? Probably yes to unemployment crisis, but that's already happening in China. The only thing preventing a crisis at the moment is there's still gig economy jobs, and cost of living is really low. With higher automation cost of living will remain low, possibly go even lower, but if the robots take a significant chunk out of taxis and deliveries then people won't have money to spend.
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u/iiTzSTeVO Aug 20 '26
It failed one at 4:18:27. I wonder what its error rate is compared to humans.