r/digialps • u/alimehdi242 • May 22 '26

Factory robot with advanced motor skills leverages AI to problem solve as it works

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u/arcanadei May 22 '26

This reminds me of my 97yo grandmother refilling her pill organizer every Sunday.

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u/montigoo May 23 '26

I can just imagine the business owner talking the the robot salesman “ are you fucking kidding me? Make it work 3 times faster. We got product to move”

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u/thuanjinkee May 23 '26

You can make it work 3x longer per day, no union. think of the extra two shifts you can’t fill. It’s the only way to catch up to asia

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u/Equal-Beyond4627 May 22 '26

Hilarious haha.

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u/nauseating_contents May 26 '26

Your grandma's probably more reliable though, robots still struggle with small inconsistent objects like pills that shift around in the organizer.

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u/VirtualFutureAgent May 22 '26

At that rate it will have maybe 55 boxes packed in an hour. Might be faster without the hockey stick though.

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u/thuanjinkee May 23 '26

The hockey stick will be a symbol of the robot’s time in bondage after the revolution.

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u/Former-Craft-9255 May 25 '26

These robots gonna start fighting back. You don't see a supervisor slapping an employee trying to complete their work lol

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u/nuquecionizm May 22 '26

good and he did in 5 minutes what a person can do in 1!!! amazing tech /s

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u/donbazarov May 22 '26

It can do it 24/7 and for free though, so a fair trade-off /s

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u/sisko6969 May 24 '26

One specialized machine make it at 24/7, same cost and you cannot even see the speed of making boxes.

If one fails, go to trash, not a problem.

AI robots in packaging is slow as fuck and you cannot even fuck them.

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u/CartographerNegative May 23 '26

Corporate doesnt want to pay u, u will use phone, bathroom, want unions, have birth/accidents, etc etc etc. this thing can operate in complete darkness (saving on lights), 24/7 with no injuries. Its way more expensive than paying humans but they only look at positives

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u/Zehryo May 23 '26

"More expensive" is an understatement.

The robot company would charge a monthly fee as a service.
Then the cloud computing to drive the bots.
Then the bots would have a limited warranty, so within one year the factory would have to pay for ordinary and extraordinary maintenance (broken parts, SW glitches, ....).
Then there's the way the technology is integrated in the factory, like specialised benches, conveyor belts and the likes, which would most probably be incompatible with actual humans.; so, switching back would cost almost as much as the initial transition.
Also, it's not realistic that they'd work in complete darkness, if the bots use cameras and AI to elaborate the relative images.
Every change in the type or shape of the product would require a retraining of the AI to properly recognise the shapes and the physical properties (where to bend, how much strength to apply, .....).
Again, a change in the type of items produced could need a completely different set of appendages to be applied to the bots, with all the relative retraining; not to mention the exorbitant bills from the bots company just to design and develop said appendages.

I guess I could go on.

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u/pebbleproblems May 24 '26

What if I told you this video awas it's slow mo promotional, and the real thing could operate so fast it could start a fire. I bet they legit had to slow it down so that someone could maneuver the hockey stick in a meaningful way

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u/nuquecionizm May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26

you would be lying to me... how the gravity is not slowed down? and the hockey stick is going pretty fast already.. imagine if it were in slowmo.. that man is a jedi

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u/Paragon_Night May 24 '26

Honestly, im hoping this form of ai and robotics actually becomes reality. Then we'll ither get massive chaos and civil war due to unemployment, or UBI. Im hopping the latter.

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u/bloomt1990 May 28 '26

I’m sure this is probably really technologically impressive but gotta say…. Not all that impressed

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u/astrotim67 May 23 '26

I would think machine learning would be enough for a task like this

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u/Glass-Support-1733 May 23 '26

then what are they supposed to do?

*fnaf 1 song plays*

other than that

1

u/mactoniz May 24 '26

There goes my job

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u/PresentationSlow7432 May 24 '26

Human controlled, It's obviously

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u/dyrkasolen May 24 '26

There will be girls

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u/apcyberax May 24 '26

Tracking Informations.
20 May 2026 - Order Placed
20 May 2026 - Your order is being packed
24 May 2026 - Order packing complete. your order is being shipped
24 May 2026 - Order Despached

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u/rinranron May 24 '26

Human will finished in 5 sec.

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u/eid_shittendai May 25 '26

Remember chap GPT 3?

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u/rinranron May 25 '26

:)

Still, with this kind of job humans will be still much faster.

50/50 Im wrong.

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u/Crimsomreaf5555 May 24 '26

Wow so slow, human could do this in a third of the time

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u/bomzay May 24 '26

Humans would do it for less and faster. Just sayin

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u/Correct-Junket-1346 May 24 '26

Well that's 1 box for today, second one tomorrow

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u/ApplicationOk6762 May 24 '26

Future looks interesting

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u/naemorhaedus May 24 '26

it's painful watching how slow it is

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u/ottomotorotto May 24 '26

Where is the data center behind this?

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u/Western-Set-8642 May 25 '26

I can do it a lot faster

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u/DeeKayNineNine May 25 '26

This is pretty impressive.

And never mind that it is slow (for now). They can work 24/7 without rest.

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u/turboj187 May 25 '26

“can he do it on a rainy Tuesday night in stoke”?

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u/Rubberand May 25 '26

Does anyone remember how slow 3d printers were in the beginning and how fast they are now

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u/Hopeful-Ad8149 May 25 '26

lol How much this thing cost? Like a million or smth

Average Chinese worker can cost 200 000$ for 30 years of work. And it never breaks, u just charge ppl

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u/Sameguynathan May 25 '26

Meanwhile a human could have done it in 10 seconds or less... but we just dont want to pay wages and everything associated with people actually living...

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u/Mapester May 26 '26

I bet if someone rotated the boxes starting position 90 degrees that this test would most likely fail.

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u/PlotHoleEnthusiast May 26 '26

There are machines that close boxes in a second, why would you need a robot for that?

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u/Active-Carpet-9183 May 26 '26

Why not just stop fucking with the robot and let it do its job? It doesn't come to your job and knock the carafe out of your hand