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Is it really sorting? All I see is the humanoid robot moving similarly shaped / sized packages from one conveyor belt to a platform to another conveyor belt. A
by daveguy 1y ago
Is it really sorting? All I see is the humanoid robot moving similarly shaped / sized packages from one conveyor belt to a platform to another conveyor belt. A little industrial automation design would be much more effective, cheaper, and faster compared to the task it is performing.
- flutas 1y agoPlus it's missing the large stack of packages already in the corner that...seems like they will forever be stuck there.
- yorwba 1y agoThe actual sorting is typically automated with scanners reading the labels and shunting packages from one conveyor belt onto another, basically a physical sorting network. Tasks left for human "sorters" to do are: - put packages on conveyor belt so the scanner can read the label (as done by the robot in the video) - deal with damaged or unreadable packages that can't be processed automatically - when a package gets jammed and forces the conveyor belt to stop, remove the offending package before restarting - receive packages at the other end and load them into vehicles Generally the difficulty with all of these is dealing with variability and humans act as variability absorbers so the machines can operate smoothly.
- ACCount37 1y agoWhich is why robots that can also absorb variability in the same way humans do would be so valuable.