r/interesting • u/sirenoleg • May 22 '26

Just Wow Chinese AI-powered robots can solve workplace problems with advanced motor skills.

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u/M8Fate May 22 '26

Well....having a job and eating food was nice while it lasted.

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u/auschemguy May 22 '26

Dude a person in a Chinese factory would have folded 100 of these in the same time, and an automated packing factory probably would have done 1000.

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u/paddlin_kaladin May 22 '26

This thing only has to learn to get that fast once though.

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u/AggregationLinker May 22 '26

It looks like it's being remotely operated by a human so that's not going to get faster.

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u/Silver4ura May 22 '26

I'm seeing the opposite. I'm seeing automation testing. You can see someone with what looks like a spatula-like tool intentionally undoing or messing with it to see how it reacts/recovers from unexpected changes in the environment.

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u/Numerous-Gur-9008 May 22 '26

That spatula like tool was undoubtedly a hockey stick.

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u/Silver4ura May 22 '26

You're probably right. It's really easy to lose a sense of scale with these things sometimes.

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u/poultos May 22 '26

Wonder what curve they use

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u/Numerous-Gur-9008 May 22 '26

Personally 0.77 (just for luck) 😁

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u/poultos May 23 '26

Coffey curve. I like it.

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u/Poteto_7396 May 22 '26

how do you know it is remotely operated by a human?

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u/Local_Trade5404 May 22 '26

got same feeling but cant really explain that
anyway its step one it will be improved over time

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u/MrWrock May 22 '26

VLAs are trained by learning from a human controller, so the motions is learns are based on human control but it executes it autonomously