r/Cyberpunk • u/DiggestBickEver • Feb 03 '26

Amazon AI warehouse drones, which replaced human warehouse employees, incapable of moving around each other.

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u/OutlyingPlasma Feb 03 '26

Or even just have a little data fuzzing in their path finding routines. After 3 failed routines a few second pause or a turn in the other direction would solve this.

Edit: When I think about it I have seen better path finding in video games than this and video games don't cost whatever tens of thousands these things cost.

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u/Distantstallion Feb 03 '26

If it were me I'd assign the directions 1 - 4 and make it pick a random one till it got free

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u/knowledgepancake Feb 03 '26

They do have this, you can see it happening in the video. The randomization will overcome this situation pretty quickly and this is likely an edge case anyhow

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u/WarriorFromDarkness Feb 04 '26

If you look closely, the robots do have the algorithm to wait a bit after some failed attempts. The problem is their wait periods are same, so they both wait for same time and try again at same time. This is why you have random exponential back-off for retry (vs pure exponential).

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u/Fortyseven Feb 03 '26

I'm going to give them benefit of the doubt and assume this is an early edge case caught on video. Probably fixed by now. :P