First generation of humanoid workers in a factory. They will get better fast. This is from Shenzhen, China. AI and robots will transform our lives.



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by wakeup2019

35 comments

  2. lol…it will not pay to be stupid in the future that’s for sure. Most of America is so fucked.

  3. What was the purpose of going out of the way to make them look human? Surely an r2d2 shaped thing could’ve carried boxes?

  4. Should just do like Amazon warehouses and make roomba looking things. Far more efficient.

  5. Yawn…let me know when one of these things can mow my grass.

  6. They look just as robotic as people on an assembly line. The only problem is when these guys get fed up there may be no stopping there demonstration of their unhappiness. I’m glad I’m turning 67 so that I don’t have to live when the mechanization has taken over everything.

  7. is this a demonstration or actual factory? all the crates look empty

  8. Just think if there was a purpose built chute for these crates instead of humanoid robots staggering around….simplicity wins with engineering. A humanoid robot is not efficient in the least for things like this.

  9. As someone in logistics, I genuinely don’t think every job will get replaced by computers, infact I think it’s impossible, the costs of replacing the person, every person with a robot gets exponentially more expensive, especially that last engineer.

    However, I don’t mind seeing a lot of the jobs in my field go, the amount of people who have permanent repetitive stress disorders due to the job is actually insanely high.

  10. Awesome. Kinda cool to see these innovations taking place.

  11. why do they need to be “humanoid”? Having legs, torso, head, etc serve no purpose for this job. Robots on wheels already exist and can do this job much faster.

  12. ..the larger picture for us STEM vs NON-STEM is still murky, plus within STEM there is a wide spectrum of people who are sheer geniuses, kinda/sorta talented and just plain average Joe/Jane…so yeah, let’s worry about that later…BUT this little clip is probably not from a real factory. Amazon warehouses have custom designed robots who could have done this work at 3x the speed without those gangly legs or see-through face 😅

  15. They are so slow I would not allow them a bathroom break.

  17. This is what AI is meant for. Taking physical labor jobs.

  19. I am still not impressed by their work here, but I see the advancements. It would probably still pay off more to pay people than to buy these super expensive robots, who are btw slower than the average 70 year old.

  21. But Trump’s regime promised all those factory jobs will come to America and that generations will have jobs in these factories

  22. Yeah transform them for the worst by creating more people in poverty

  26. About as productive as when I would show up to work hungover when I should’ve stayed home.

  28. The use case just isn’t there for any of these technologies. Not to say it won’t get there but take for example Boston Dynamics (Boston robotics company). Every single technology that they make is to accomplish tasks that are already done better by different machines than their dog/humanoid robots can do. These technologies are applying the most complex solutions to relatively simple problems.

    Not to say they won’t eventually replace what is out there but I don’t think we’re as close as people might think.

  29. This looks comically inefficient and stupid. Slow robots carrying emtpy boxes. Is that supposed to impress anyone? Why would any company buy general purpose robots to do tasks which already has robots which perform way better?

  30. One genuine question. Is the cost of buying, supervising and mantaining these worth more or less than cheap labor anually?

  31. Never let the rich tell you there’s not enough money to go around.

  32. They’ll cause a lot of death and homelessness. Having a workforce that doesn’t get sick, have families, or need to be paid helps companies. However, over time a slave workforce revolts. Or I’m thinking of the Matrix or Terminator.

  35. Somehow, humanoids don’t seem like a step in the right direction. On the other hand, robotic machines would provide a better way to go. We don’t need automation to look like people. There’s no point in doing that for this type of labor. Also, why worry about balance issues? Give them 4 wheels or tracks to move around. Bipedal is inefficient as it can be easily seen here.

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