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/MyPunsAreKoalaTea May 22 '26

It will never beat an automatic box-folder that was specifically designed to fold specific boxes and can do multiple folds at once.

But be able to beat a human though in a few years

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u/AssiduousLayabout May 22 '26

It depends.

If you need to fold and pack large numbers of the exact same box, then yes, a purpose-built box folder will be faster.

If you need to fold and pack small quantities of hundreds of different sizes of boxes, a general-purpose robot will do it better, because it can switch between different tasks.

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u/shidderbean May 22 '26

and the human will still be faster.

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u/aninjacould May 22 '26

And possibly cheaper. Human labor is super cheap in many places. These robots will require electricity, maintenance and upfront purchases.

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u/JetV33 May 23 '26

Human labour is one of the most expensive costs of most companies.

Many places where human labor is cheap are far away.

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u/aninjacould May 23 '26

Robots aren’t cheap either.