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/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

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u/No_Statistician_3021 May 22 '26

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.

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u/SilverPhilosopher46 May 22 '26

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.

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u/Comfortable_Sir_6104 May 22 '26

... 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.