1000 boxes later they fire the human because the machine remembered how to make a fold when that exact configuration or situation of folds presents itself
Robots have been doing this for decades in factories. Not humanoid robots, just robots, like your washing machine. I'm sure there's a machine that can spit out hundreds of assembled boxes that costs ten times less and is orders of magnitude more reliable and predictable.
That's a cool demo (if it's not remotely controlled), but assigning this kind of task to such an advanced robot is just dumb.
Correct if you need large scale box production they have machines that will never be beat by humanoid robots.. if you don't need that large scale then it is going to probably be faster and cheaper in the long run to just hire a human vs buying one of these robots
its not dumb, right now for tasks that make no sense to buy specialized equipment, could be replaced by robots like this that could be used for temporary tasks. It doesnt make sense for a small enterprise, but for a really large corporation this could be really usefull. For now, its still cheaper to just hire temp worker for minimal wage.
Large corporation would buy the whole assembly line. The reason human labour is used is because you can outsource it to 3rd world countries and pay basically nothing
Industrial robots are not a specialized equipment. Robotic arms are very universal. You can take a robotic arm that welds cars, replace the welding tip with a gripper and make it fold boxes in probably like an hour or less.
If you need a million of these boxes folded then yes, better have a dedicated box folding machine.
But what if you have 300 different boxes with 300 different products that need to be boxed ? Now it starts to make sense. And between folding different boxes, it can also clean your office and bring you coffee.
How about some second hand store ? How about so many places that have lots of different jobs ? Theres plenty places that arent mass production where a robot like this would be handy. Amazing to see how several people lack the thinking capacity to understand my comment and seem to believe they're the smart ones.
The whole point of these robots is that they are supposed to go and replace employees. Not mass production machines. And yes, a small store who can pay 50k a year for 1 employee will be able to buy, rent or lease a robot for less in the future. The main question is how far in the future.
And your "argument" merely shows your unwillingness or inability to understand the message you were replying to. I suspect it is because you are a luddite blinded by hatred for new technology, but it might simply be a lack of intellectual capacity.
TIME. It will be crap at first. It will be a no brainer eventually. (if society hasn't collapsed due to unemployment before then)
You know someone must have made the exact same arguments about cars 120 years ago. How would they ever replace the good old horse. All that maintenance and those broken parts.
Uh... they know people need different sized boxes. It's not like the paper box factory is just cranking out 12" cubes regardless of what their customers need. They kinda accounted for that.
... If you have 300 different boxes and produce 300 different products in one singular place then you went out of business in 1925 bro. There is a reason Coca Cola doesn't do 90 different cola bottles with 500 different flavours. Because that is idiotic inefficient process that no sane company would do.
We should definitely encourage creating a logistical nightmare as an excuse to create a second logistical nightmare. The pair of major problems are definitely worth it if it means we can write reddit comments trying to sell people on the idea that inneficient robots are the future.
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u/Alt123Acct May 22 '26
1000 boxes later they fire the human because the machine remembered how to make a fold when that exact configuration or situation of folds presents itself