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They say they aren't planning to replace humans, instead of one human unloading one truck, it will be one human supervising robots unloading 4 trucks. Sure seem
by AaronM 5y ago
They say they aren't planning to replace humans, instead of one human unloading one truck, it will be one human supervising robots unloading 4 trucks. Sure seems like a replacement to me.
- PhileinSophia 5y ago
- mandeepj 5y ago> unloading one truck The Stretch robot (shown in the article) can't unload a truck. It's not designed to lift itself up and enter a truck. Although, the other robots from BD (shown in the dancing video) might be able to do so.
- drusepth 5y agoA truck with some mild modifications (a belt on the floor, for example) could probably queue a full load of boxes/contents to a reachable position for unloading. Stretch looks like it's got a pretty tall/long acquisition range. Obviously wouldn't work OOTB, but definitely seems doable in some niche truck modifications (and likely little-to-no Stretch modifications).
- Victerius 5y agoWhat you're missing is that each human who used to move heavy boxes will be replaced by 4 robots. No business wouldn't want to increase their total productivity.
- chillingeffect 5y ago>“Typically, you’ll have two people unloading each truck. Where we want to get with Stretch is to have one person unloading four or five trucks at the same time, using Stretches as tools.” GP is correct. 1 supervisor + 8 robots replaces 8 people.
- vinayan3 5y agoMany people would not want to or can lift boxes all day, like people with back problems. The robot supervisor job could be appealing to more people. So it's not replacing but creating a different job which more people could work.
- robotresearcher 5y agoIt is eliminating ~8 jobs lifting boxes for every 1 job it creates supervising robots lifting boxes. For it or against it, when people talk about robots replacing labor, this is exactly what they are talking about.
- exhilaration 5y agoIsn't that the the end goal of technology? Those of us working in the technology field have had a hand in replacing labor since the first guy that figured out how to connect a plow to an ox. Our hope, at least mine, is that we remove drudgery and difficulty from people's lives and create new jobs to replace the ones that are lost.
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- johnisgood 5y agoI think he is saying that it became 1 jobs from 8 jobs, which is the opposite of creating jobs. Now those 7 people are out of their jobs.
- yourapostasy 5y agoWith this class of robots, it is unlikely to be a 1:1 replacement. Robots like this are quite constrained in their operational envelope. That all changes when we get what I call Moravec Class robots, though: those that overcome Moravec's Paradox.