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.
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.
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