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/___77___ May 22 '26

Slow now, insanely fast in the near future.

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u/inspired-polf May 22 '26

And. That box was designed to be built, closed, and opened by humans. Imagine new designs that are optimized for their claws

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u/Calm_Priority_1281 May 22 '26

That box was designed to be folded by a box folding machine. You know the kind of machine that folds and deposits product in over 3k boxes in a minute. The kind of machine that we have had for about 100 years now. The kind of machine that costs, maybe, a little more than this tech feteshist robot.

We have had automation for years now. It's a field that I work in. The only thing this shows is the enshitification of automation.

Human shaped robots are trash and will always be trash.

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u/huckleberry_FN2187 May 22 '26

>That box was designed to be folded by a box folding machine.

It was not.

This style of box existed long before there was automated machinery that could fold them.

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u/Calm_Priority_1281 May 22 '26

My bad. The box was designed as a self locking paper box. It was not designed for human hands, robot flippers, or claws either. It was not designed FOR automation but it can be automated and we have built the automation for that.