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> What would be the purpose of loading disintegrating box anyway? UPS sometimes breaks boxes they deliver. They just re-tape it and finish delivery. Sometimes
by vl 6y ago
> What would be the purpose of loading disintegrating box anyway?
UPS sometimes breaks boxes they deliver. They just re-tape it and finish delivery. Sometimes everything is there, sometimes something is lost and you need to file a claim.
This robot at least needs to recognize broken box and hail human in such case.
- oceanghost 6y agoTwo of the oddest UPS statuses I have received were (I might be paraphrasing a bit): "Package destroyed, contents discarded." (it was a piece of furniture with a glass component). and "Package delayed due to train derailment."
- mulmen 6y agoMuch like running a large storage array and dealing with cosmic ray bit-flips and dead drives I wonder how many truck crashes, forklift incidents and train derailments UPS deals with on a given day. I bet their ticket queue is interesting. Can you imagine triaging a train derailment and not setting it to the highest priority?
- twirlip 6y ago"Civil unrest".
- derefr 6y agoInteresting. The only damaged deliveries I’ve ever received happened when someone sent me something fragile via Canada Post. It seems that when it arrived at the post office, they carefully took the broken box and all the leaked-out bits, put the whole assemblage into another, larger box, printed a new shipping label for the larger box, and shipped it on. So I received a clean, sturdy outer box, containing some detritus and a redundantly-labelled inner box, in turn containing the rest of my shipment. (I assume, if something in the inner box had been a liquid and leaked out through the box, they’d have put the whole inner box in a plastic bag before putting that in a box.) Making that the general approach would probably solve the automation problem pretty cleanly. You could even have broken-package-packaging robots at each cargo-unloading step!