And never shown a complete unload :( I really would like to see a timelapse of this machine emptying a complete container by itself. Incl. picking up dropped boxes ect.
@@13orraxslower but the boxes are in one piece. Moreover the robot is working during night. You have to pay a lot more during night shifts. At the end it will be cheaper cause of the low running costs.
@@John52416 Yes, but the German worker also requires at least 24 paid holidays, a pension plan, half a litre of beer at lunchtime, and God forbid they become pregnant or sick. This robot can't even drink beer.
@@willhere2283 and after first turn or bump on the real road... This "style" of packing only for flat factory floor hand drawn/slow moving forklift or BS PR videos...
That's what I thought. Nice demo, now let's see how it works with a real container! At least it's nice to know that we are not being replaced by robots.... for now.
I worked in warehouses for ten plus years and I tell you every time they show these robots, they never show me any damaged boxes or any irregular boxes. Quite amazing to me. 😂
@damienwade7848 yeah and they're always indentical dimensions and perfectly stacked. trucks in the real world show up like they rolled down a mountain and with 1000 small packets mixed in with the boxes
@@NBSV1 Certainly, this is one thing to consider analyzing this. It's also theoretically true that Stretch's capabilities are still limited in some way they're trying to hide, but they did claim in the video that it can handle graphical boxes, damaged boxes, irregular boxes - And the capabilities of the hardware, at the very least, back up that claim. We know that this type of gripper is highly capable, when controlled correctly. We know that this thing can lift and move a box. The only question here is the software, as it always is. Call me a fanboy, but I really don't see them making claims about the software that the software itself can't back up. Boston Dynamics has always been a highly holistic robotics company - They don't depend on gimmicks, and the only stuff they do that's "flashy" is stuff that actually works. Granted - I'm surprised they went to so much effort to make everything look so clean, when that visual hugely undercuts the impact of the capabilities of this robot. For example - Nobody has commented on the fluorescent lights in the corners of the shipping container they've set up here. Stretch can operate in the dark? They're not showing that - Probably just because it's hard to film cleanly. But they are saying it. Stretch can deal with graphical boxes, damaged boxes, irregular boxes? They don't show any of those, because A: It would be visually messy and hard to track, and B: Probably because they don't want to have to pay to license all of those graphics for use in the video. There are a lot of practical reasons for them not making the video more logistically impressive, but it does also undercut the point they're trying to make. I think there were ways they could have gotten around that to make a more effecting demonstration video... But on the other hand, it is a marketing video.
For a repetitive task like loading boxes onto a conveyer belt a wheeled vehicle with a robotic arm seems more logical and efficient than a humanoid and more complex robot.
@@dingdingdingdiiiiing Not really, as they would have to hire drone operators and mechanics. Maybe they would train their existing employees to handle and repair these robots.
It’s easy when the trailer is packed perfectly neat and square. Now load it with vastly different package sizes and shapes where they may be overlapping and stuck under another package.
totally ! it's one part of my job in a post warehouse in France, we have containers with more than 2000 packages every days and it's absolutely not stacked so perfectly in them :'D we out 2000 packages in aproximatively 1 hour (1 package per 2 seconds with 2 people in the container)
idk pretty obvious this kind of tech is advancing very quickly, i wouldnt be so quick to judge. but yes i imagine that the fact that you cant 100% control a workplace 100% of the time means you will always have at least somebody on the floor
@@flyingdogsoft why? I assume you are aware that Otto is the second largest online retailer in Germany? It seems like a more than reasonable partner...
Concept: Spot imagines wanting to get to an elevated platform it can see, but cannot identify a way to get there. It communicates with Stretch, who understands Spot's wishes, and (after getting into appropriate positioning by both robots) Stretch picks up Spot and lifts it onto the elevated platform.
I mean sure but it never gets tired, it never slacks off, it never asks for a raise, it will never get sick (if maintained well), it will work 24 / 7 for pennies
A robot has a working time equal to 5.3 humans if he runs 24/7. With maintenance say 4-5 humans. Cus humans only have 8-10 hours of work time a day, always weekends, public holidays, ill times, lunch breaks ... And catching one's breath, getting a coffee and chatting with coworkers isn't even included. Now pay 5 humans' salaries, that's about 5x 60,000 €, that's 300,000 € year after year. With 300,000 € yearly you don't care if Stretch may be 50 % slower and may not handle all sizes of boxes.
@@Delibro Stretch will not be working 24/7 until the entire logistics chain is automated at least. And slower unloading means a longer occupancy for trucks, with risks of bottlenecks especially during rushes (or more docks to account for a slower bot). You do not get to freely distribute the available work hours in logistics.
How heavy are those boxes in the video? - 3-5kgs at most. Where you need help is where they weight 10-20 kgs ++. That's where these systems seem to have trouble (they drop the boxes or the cardboard box rips and falls). Anything fragile gets broken.
So happy for Boston Dynamics! As a German living in Canada it makes me proud to be a part of supporting such an amazing company. All the best Boston Dynamics 😊
What about crushed boxes? What about half open boxes? What about boxes that are heavy and not robust enough to handle being picked up by a single face of th box without tearing the face of the box clean off? Seems like you're just using it to unload perfectly pre-stacked boxes that are uniform in size and weight. What about a tiny box with metal plates in it? Been working around Ocean containers long enough to understand this is only useful for a tiny minority of uses. Without arms to grasp from the sides or underneath the boxes it would ultimately be useless for the vast majority of floor stacked containers I've seen. Cute prototype, but nothing more imo.
@@Xrayhighs The container you are looking at is the ideal dream for floor-loaded cargo. In the real world, most loads are heavy, have different sizes, are not loaded uniformly, and the packaging is not as resistan
@@Xrayhighs Many cardboard boxes contain items that are quite heavy. Even if you could hold on to the side of a box with suction cups, the cardboard wouldn't necessarily be strong enough to take the weight.
I love how clean the trailer looks lol I've been in logistics far too long. Most of the trailers or shipping containers is a huge mess by the time they hit the docks for unload (Chem, food, liquid spills, damaged boxes and grimey boxes). I use to unload trailers by hand for 14 years in a fast paced time environment of 45 minutes or less with a partner or solo if we have double trucks. These trailers were 1800-3400 piece trucks with 2900 piece being the average, ranging from hand sized tiny boxes to furniture sets. Within that one whole movement of the bot I already put 6 or more boxes on the skate all labels up. These bots that you are creating they got be more rugged and faster. What if there's detergent all over the floor creating a slippery floor, dog food bags ripped open, rotten damaged cat food smelling up the trailer. Great now you just found some empty bleach and ammonia containers crushed during its transport and they mixed by accident and the bot can't pick up the scent so now your whole entire warehouse has poisonous gas.
@@jamesroy791 This is not the US. College is (almost) free and Germany has a severe lack of workers right now, so it will replace positions that are difficult to fill with humans. Also, a logical step would be to train the humans to use the robot instead of doing the loading part themselves. No need for a college degree to do thart :)
The Boston Dynamics are lying through their teeth. "Worker's protection laws" that prevent them from working on hot/cold spaces, lolwut bruh there's gonna be no workers after these robots become popular. The smug German commenters here are also in denial, just like the people in the video. Ordinary people are gonna get the shit end of the deal, and there simply won't be as many work opportunities in the future, regardless of how "educated" you become.
not necessarily, its hard to keep a place fully staffed at all times. warehouse work is boring and people quit frequently. same thing for other areas of a facility. its either not what people expected or its boring. some people quit because they struggle instead of sticking around until they get good at it. even at a place that pays better than the surrounding business.
That's what they said when steam engines arose in the 1800s. That's what they said when electricity arose around 1900. That's what they said when computers took over some work ... Will people finally learn that we still have jobs? And more safer, cleaner, nicer ones too compared to those in the Middle Ages?
@@Delibro Do we? I'm not a Luddite but it's clear that it's harder than ever for an unskilled worker to sustain himself. And with creative jobs being killed by generative AI... Is everyone now supposed to become a robot engineer to have any chance of survival in the next century?
@@pontesul1 An unskilled worker 300 years ago had a good chance to die of hunger or untreated diseases. An unskilled worker today has no money to buy fancy things. And for your second sentence: That's exactly what I already wrote, you didn't understood.
@@Delibro I was thinking on the last 50 years. Boomers managed to buy houses without a PhD. But the real chaos is still ahead of us. When all blue collar jobs get automated, what will people do? I guess I didn't understand you, or we just disagree on where it's acceptable to only have jobs for the 2% of ultra smart people.
Thats not the point. There are customers who only ship fairly uniform boxes which this robot can handle just fine. Modern software can handle dynamic object recognition and adapt the robot to it. It is of course not able to handle everything, mostly because of its manipulator design. So it is a logistic task to relocate suitable bridges to a fittet port and give the worker time for lunch.
it's one part of my job in a post warehouse in France, we have containers with more than 2000 packages every days and it's absolutely not stacked so perfectly in them :'D we out 2000 packages in aproximatively 1 hour (1 package per 2 seconds with 2 people in the container) tip : if you send something fragile, just not only put a "fragile" stickers on it ! use as much as bubble wrap as possible in the package !
Yeah, this one has not to empty all the upcoming trailers by himself. So it’s very beneficial to this one person😂 Seriously, Robotics and AI will cost millions of jobs. I’m curious who will have the ability to buy things then?!
How about add an AC blower so a person can do the work without getting too hot, and have shifts with breaks. There would still be the repetitive work, but at least those employees would get repetitive paychecks.
Looks like a perfect case scenario for the robot and it still seemed to have difficulty placing the boxes straight on the conveyor belt and even dropped a box, all the while being watched and supported by a human to adjust the positions of the robot in regards to the conveyor belt. Doesn't seem like a final working product.
This is awesome! So much time and energy is going to be saved because of this! Keep making magic, Boston Dynamics. And yes, most of my questions are from the other commenters. Always room for improvement 😁
let's see what happens when half the boxes are already falling apart, not bound by any kind of adhesive, and made of flimsy, humidity-dampened material
While this seems like a stretch, i worked in a large automotive plant that had 'robots'. Welding robots and painting robots, which had static bases, and logistical robots, like forklifts and trolleys that delivered parts in cases to the assembly line and retrieved empty cases. The only difference between these robots and the one in this video is the incorporation of sight, giving Stretch a modicum of autonomy.
Are there any plans to make Stretch faster? I understand there's a limit to how fast it should rotate for safety and reliability, but lag before and after picking/placing seems excessive and something that could be easily addressed with a faster processor.
is this the same hermes that had to reband as "evri" due to the shockingly bad reputation? because the last-mile was handled by "contractors" with insanely adverse incentives with regards to quality? i see theyre investing their money wisely then
What about picking up boxes without label with Stretch? Seems that it's reading those uniform looking labels to identify that it's a box. Maybe I'm wrong on that.
I wanna see whole container unloaded from start to finish by Stretch. Time lapse would be fine. Please :) I'm curious how it will handle edge cases/packages.
the sad truth is, humans would do those cases. It will be humans helping robots do labor, instead of robots helping humans. We will be the assistants to the robots :/
Cut the wages or lay of workers and let’s spend 300 to 500k on a robot. Good job. If you pay me 100k a year i would unload the container twice as fast. It’s always funny when they show the numbers robots in general can theoretically achieve. When they have a malfunction it takes at least 5 hours to fix it. 🥳
Growing up long ago, we would go to the warehouses and manually load and unload trailers by hand. We bade good money for that work. A full size trailer loaded) unloaded we were paid $40 each. We could do 4-5 of these a long day. They called us lumpers. I submit that the name should be changed to Lumpy.
So in the motion I see the potential for a second arm on the robot to increase efficiency, maybe even more arms, it'd be a design challenge for small containers especially, but seems like something worth exploring in future iterations, that's just my thoughts very cool
Great system! If they only had a cascading conveyor attachedd. This would give more flexibility to the system and to Otto as they can move it freely just as Stretch itself.
Since i have done exactly this work (unloading/loading at UPS) I would like to see it work under real circumstances, especially differently shaped boxes.
How will the integrity of the box hold together when it actually has a heavy load inside it? Only being supported on one side will deform the box and make it vulnerable.
TLRW - Its a robot that moves boxes with suction cups. My thoughts - It will probably cost $500k up front per unit but will reduce compensation expense by at least $100,000 annually. Break even time will probably be around 6-7 years once you consider maintenance and service contracts.
It reminds me of automotive construction arms. I wonder if there is any applications there. Don't know how having a mobile welding arm would help in a factory setting though.
Will Hermes have robots dedicated to losing or simply stealing your stuff? But seriously some of these robots look good in these controlled environments with identical (and likely empty boxes) - a lot of boxes will collapse if sucked up from one end like that
soo0o it's a robot arm that is designed to complete a task in a fixed environment (a container) - ie it has standard guardrails? Like a robot arm in a car factory? .. and it has to be hauled into place to start? that seems to be robotics on "easy mode" . And we did not see it actually complete a load, or pickup any dropped boxes. Also.... how is that container packed so neatly?! Please show us a demo on "hard mode"
It's good at repetitive tasks, but can it adapt to variables, diffrent weights, sizes, are they fragile is the box broken, what if the box has no qr code? There is prob also many other variables that I cannot even think of
Isn't using a walking robot like Spot on a smooth and level floor surface inefficient energy- and cost-wise? Wheeled robot could be cheaper (original price and repairs) and faster moving.
Yes, and in an industrial setting, with smooth open floors, that would seem better, but a walking bot can climb stairs and go over obstacles. Plus, they have a hammer, and they are looking for nails to hit with it.
Impressive, but it will never have a UPS warehouse employee's natural human ability to kick and throw the boxes
The Dropkick will be implemented in Stretch 2. 👍
Wait until you see your package. Getting slammed up against the wall because it glitches.
this can be programmed for 😂
Once had a package delivered and it looked like they had played football with it, thankfully nothing was broken inside but still
@@juhotuho10 haha I had a job at an ups warehouse and the jobs are so boring, you can't blame them when they sometimes want to play a little bit
And never shown a complete unload :(
I really would like to see a timelapse of this machine emptying a complete container by itself. Incl. picking up dropped boxes ect.
@@13orraxslower but the boxes are in one piece. Moreover the robot is working during night. You have to pay a lot more during night shifts. At the end it will be cheaper cause of the low running costs.
@@user-jw8jn7lh8c then the boxes will get damaged
This is Germany, not low wage USA
@Secretlyanothername Germany hourly is higher but annually US is higher.
@@John52416 Yes, but the German worker also requires at least 24 paid holidays, a pension plan, half a litre of beer at lunchtime, and God forbid they become pregnant or sick. This robot can't even drink beer.
i've never seen a trailer packed that nicely
If robots do it all, then maybe you'd see that more often 😂
@@willhere2283 and after first turn or bump on the real road... This "style" of packing only for flat factory floor hand drawn/slow moving forklift or BS PR videos...
They are all the same shape, not exactly a real world example
That's what I thought. Nice demo, now let's see how it works with a real container! At least it's nice to know that we are not being replaced by robots.... for now.
@@mindaugasstankus5943 If it's filled to brim it won't be able to fall over.
They making the Factorio Inserter in real life
Than i would prefer a burner inserter 😅
@@l.n.6258I don't know... occasionally burning someone's package as fuel to keep running doesn't seem like the best decision :P
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Not a bad idea.I like it.
Construction bots please! 🙏
I worked in warehouses for ten plus years and I tell you every time they show these robots, they never show me any damaged boxes or any irregular boxes. Quite amazing to me. 😂
@damienwade7848 yeah and they're always indentical dimensions and perfectly stacked. trucks in the real world show up like they rolled down a mountain and with 1000 small packets mixed in with the boxes
@@Zreknarf Can confirm! Because I loaded them like this! I got minimum wage, they got minimum effort.
It can pick up a damaged box and irregular boxes❤
It’s a marketing video so they’re going to want everything to be pretty and clean.
@@NBSV1 Certainly, this is one thing to consider analyzing this. It's also theoretically true that Stretch's capabilities are still limited in some way they're trying to hide, but they did claim in the video that it can handle graphical boxes, damaged boxes, irregular boxes - And the capabilities of the hardware, at the very least, back up that claim.
We know that this type of gripper is highly capable, when controlled correctly. We know that this thing can lift and move a box. The only question here is the software, as it always is.
Call me a fanboy, but I really don't see them making claims about the software that the software itself can't back up. Boston Dynamics has always been a highly holistic robotics company - They don't depend on gimmicks, and the only stuff they do that's "flashy" is stuff that actually works.
Granted - I'm surprised they went to so much effort to make everything look so clean, when that visual hugely undercuts the impact of the capabilities of this robot.
For example - Nobody has commented on the fluorescent lights in the corners of the shipping container they've set up here. Stretch can operate in the dark? They're not showing that - Probably just because it's hard to film cleanly. But they are saying it. Stretch can deal with graphical boxes, damaged boxes, irregular boxes? They don't show any of those, because A: It would be visually messy and hard to track, and B: Probably because they don't want to have to pay to license all of those graphics for use in the video.
There are a lot of practical reasons for them not making the video more logistically impressive, but it does also undercut the point they're trying to make. I think there were ways they could have gotten around that to make a more effecting demonstration video... But on the other hand, it is a marketing video.
For a repetitive task like loading boxes onto a conveyer belt a wheeled vehicle with a robotic arm seems more logical and efficient than a humanoid and more complex robot.
Yes, and also it will also be more efficient for the company, as they won't require as many employees.
@@dingdingdingdiiiiing thank god, this kind of task is below any human
Most robots in industry and logistics are basically big arms
@@dingdingdingdiiiiing Not really, as they would have to hire drone operators and mechanics. Maybe they would train their existing employees to handle and repair these robots.
did that shit, my lower back killed me each day
What happens when the weight of the contents is too much for a cardboard box to endure being lifted by only the side?
it would start to panic, and have a mental breakdown
боковина коробки отрывается, из неё рассыпаются конфеты, как из пиньяты - праздник!
Then we press a button that brings in the HOOMANs
Then you used the wrong box
It’s easy when the trailer is packed perfectly neat and square.
Now load it with vastly different package sizes and shapes where they may be overlapping and stuck under another package.
totally ! it's one part of my job in a post warehouse in France, we have containers with more than 2000 packages every days and it's absolutely not stacked so perfectly in them :'D
we out 2000 packages in aproximatively 1 hour (1 package per 2 seconds with 2 people in the container)
idk pretty obvious this kind of tech is advancing very quickly, i wouldnt be so quick to judge. but yes i imagine that the fact that you cant 100% control a workplace 100% of the time means you will always have at least somebody on the floor
Isn’t the point that the trailer is also packed by a robot?
@@thekingoflordagames3517 funny how they never show that part.
@@toddberkely6791 it’s not advancing quickly. This is decades in the making and still no where near ready.
Let us see some more of our precious new slightly demonic Atlas!
Fr they left us with a cliff hanger
yes, i want to see our boy😓
Paint it blue, staple on yellow wings and give it some spare change
Nothing can go wrong
They can't the whole pipeline batch is on a mission in Ukraine and beyond until end of October
Remi ds me of bender 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hermes? They need all the help they can get! 😏😂
Also Otto needs all the help they can get! 😂 Maybe both are not the best choices as partners.
😂😂😂 in a very well digitalised Germany. 🤔
@@flyingdogsoftOtto is great, never had any issues with them
@@flyingdogsoft why? I assume you are aware that Otto is the second largest online retailer in Germany? It seems like a more than reasonable partner...
Hermes (or Evri as it rebranded to try ditch it's reputation) is notoriously the worst delivery company in the UK
Otto was always kinda thinking forward. Their online shop started 1995, when most people didn't even have internet.
Nice to see it's not aggresively throwing the packages into a van like the employees do on security camera footage.
I'd love to see how Stretch deals with some tipped boxes in a trailer. Can it handle those?
We see that in the video.
I will always click on Boston Dynamics videos immediately.
😂 boot 😂
Yeah me too
Even tho their robots take the casual labour jobs thousands of humans need to pay the bills.
I don't even click on them myself, I have a robot for that.
same
Just wait till the Spot robot catches you slackin', and the next moment an Atlas is chasing you with murderous intent xD
😂😂😂
@@crazyhorsetailyou laugh now
are they going to get yelled at to unload boxes faster? that's what happen to humans that work warehouse
Hurry up! Damn it! I don't care if your arm muscles are worn out from unloading all week! 😂
Concept: Spot imagines wanting to get to an elevated platform it can see, but cannot identify a way to get there. It communicates with Stretch, who understands Spot's wishes, and (after getting into appropriate positioning by both robots) Stretch picks up Spot and lifts it onto the elevated platform.
When will you ever see a trailer loaded perfectly with equal size boxes? This robot is also a lot slower than 1 or 2 people unloading.
I mean sure but it never gets tired, it never slacks off, it never asks for a raise, it will never get sick (if maintained well), it will work 24 / 7 for pennies
Still 10x faster than these humanoid robots that people think will be the future.
@@EinzigfreierNameTrue.
A robot has a working time equal to 5.3 humans if he runs 24/7. With maintenance say 4-5 humans. Cus humans only have 8-10 hours of work time a day, always weekends, public holidays, ill times, lunch breaks ... And catching one's breath, getting a coffee and chatting with coworkers isn't even included. Now pay 5 humans' salaries, that's about 5x 60,000 €, that's 300,000 € year after year.
With 300,000 € yearly you don't care if Stretch may be 50 % slower and may not handle all sizes of boxes.
@@Delibro Stretch will not be working 24/7 until the entire logistics chain is automated at least. And slower unloading means a longer occupancy for trucks, with risks of bottlenecks especially during rushes (or more docks to account for a slower bot). You do not get to freely distribute the available work hours in logistics.
Bit weird that it's dropping every box instead of placing it on the belt.
Edit: Didn't realise this is the group that owns Hermes. Explains it all.
If it places it on a moving belt, it would be wrenched away from the suckers and might twist the labels away from the camera.
OTTO dropping boxes is the reason why Domino Day is no longer a thing. /s
@@alan_wood just move the arm with the velocity of the belt, not exactly rocket science
@@vornamenachname8001 Just drop the package from 4 cm, not any science.
How heavy are those boxes in the video? - 3-5kgs at most. Where you need help is where they weight 10-20 kgs ++. That's where these systems seem to have trouble (they drop the boxes or the cardboard box rips and falls). Anything fragile gets broken.
For now. This is just the beginning.
So happy for Boston Dynamics! As a German living in Canada it makes me proud to be a part of supporting such an amazing company. All the best Boston Dynamics 😊
What about crushed boxes? What about half open boxes? What about boxes that are heavy and not robust enough to handle being picked up by a single face of th box without tearing the face of the box clean off?
Seems like you're just using it to unload perfectly pre-stacked boxes that are uniform in size and weight. What about a tiny box with metal plates in it?
Been working around Ocean containers long enough to understand this is only useful for a tiny minority of uses. Without arms to grasp from the sides or underneath the boxes it would ultimately be useless for the vast majority of floor stacked containers I've seen.
Cute prototype, but nothing more imo.
this is the kind of automation i'm happy to see for the future
How heavy of a box can it hold. What if it’s small but very heavy ?
They’ll ensure the robot works with parameters it can handle. That’s a solved problem.
@@MiesvanderLippe warehouse 3PL will never be "within" the set parameters.😂
Black hole in a box.
I work at Hermes in Haldensleben. Those boxes can weight up to ~15kg.
@@lmtterry He means Stretch won't pickup too heavy boxes, leaving them and informs personell.
"Stretch handles the boxes as any normal person would, with care" As a german I've sensed a bit of an attitude there.
This is the type of robot that industry needs. Not humanoid.
This is such an amazing idea. As someone who worked in a job where I had to move boxes off a trailer, a robot doing this is so much easier.
Furry 💀
Nice to see such an Innovation in germany
I work in a warehouse. This is not a real world situation.
Can you elaborate?
@@Xrayhighs The container you are looking at is the ideal dream for floor-loaded cargo. In the real world, most loads are heavy, have different sizes, are not loaded uniformly, and the packaging is not as resistan
@@Xrayhighs часть картонных коробок будет размокшая.
Plot twist. It was also loaded by a robot.
@@Xrayhighs Many cardboard boxes contain items that are quite heavy. Even if you could hold on to the side of a box with suction cups, the cardboard wouldn't necessarily be strong enough to take the weight.
I love how clean the trailer looks lol I've been in logistics far too long. Most of the trailers or shipping containers is a huge mess by the time they hit the docks for unload (Chem, food, liquid spills, damaged boxes and grimey boxes). I use to unload trailers by hand for 14 years in a fast paced time environment of 45 minutes or less with a partner or solo if we have double trucks. These trailers were 1800-3400 piece trucks with 2900 piece being the average, ranging from hand sized tiny boxes to furniture sets. Within that one whole movement of the bot I already put 6 or more boxes on the skate all labels up. These bots that you are creating they got be more rugged and faster. What if there's detergent all over the floor creating a slippery floor, dog food bags ripped open, rotten damaged cat food smelling up the trailer. Great now you just found some empty bleach and ammonia containers crushed during its transport and they mixed by accident and the bot can't pick up the scent so now your whole entire warehouse has poisonous gas.
The trailer has lights integrated in the ceiling corners..... it's a setup... 😂
As a Malaysian, I really like the latest technology. I hope technology like this will develop in Malaysia one day🇲🇾
When he means put out the employees to do other work he really means Layoffs 😂
What they should do is pay for their higher education so they can contribute in other ways
@@arbiter569 yes pay absorbent amounts of money on college and graduate with 300k in debt smart 🧠 💡
@@jamesroy791 This is not the US. College is (almost) free and Germany has a severe lack of workers right now, so it will replace positions that are difficult to fill with humans. Also, a logical step would be to train the humans to use the robot instead of doing the loading part themselves. No need for a college degree to do thart :)
The Boston Dynamics are lying through their teeth. "Worker's protection laws" that prevent them from working on hot/cold spaces, lolwut bruh there's gonna be no workers after these robots become popular. The smug German commenters here are also in denial, just like the people in the video. Ordinary people are gonna get the shit end of the deal, and there simply won't be as many work opportunities in the future, regardless of how "educated" you become.
not necessarily, its hard to keep a place fully staffed at all times. warehouse work is boring and people quit frequently.
same thing for other areas of a facility. its either not what people expected or its boring. some people quit because they struggle instead of sticking around until they get good at it. even at a place that pays better than the surrounding business.
Handballing is one of the worst jobs I've had, Stretch will put this at ease.
Stretch allows the Business to put employees into a different and safer environment. At home without a job.
Which is a preferable place. Screw this job, let the robots have it.
That's what they said when steam engines arose in the 1800s. That's what they said when electricity arose around 1900. That's what they said when computers took over some work ...
Will people finally learn that we still have jobs? And more safer, cleaner, nicer ones too compared to those in the Middle Ages?
@@Delibro Do we? I'm not a Luddite but it's clear that it's harder than ever for an unskilled worker to sustain himself. And with creative jobs being killed by generative AI... Is everyone now supposed to become a robot engineer to have any chance of survival in the next century?
@@pontesul1 An unskilled worker 300 years ago had a good chance to die of hunger or untreated diseases. An unskilled worker today has no money to buy fancy things.
And for your second sentence: That's exactly what I already wrote, you didn't understood.
@@Delibro I was thinking on the last 50 years. Boomers managed to buy houses without a PhD. But the real chaos is still ahead of us. When all blue collar jobs get automated, what will people do? I guess I didn't understand you, or we just disagree on where it's acceptable to only have jobs for the 2% of ultra smart people.
All these packages look fake.
definitely empty at least lol
Thats not the point. There are customers who only ship fairly uniform boxes which this robot can handle just fine. Modern software can handle dynamic object recognition and adapt the robot to it. It is of course not able to handle everything, mostly because of its manipulator design. So it is a logistic task to relocate suitable bridges to a fittet port and give the worker time for lunch.
it's one part of my job in a post warehouse in France, we have containers with more than 2000 packages every days and it's absolutely not stacked so perfectly in them :'D
we out 2000 packages in aproximatively 1 hour (1 package per 2 seconds with 2 people in the container)
tip : if you send something fragile, just not only put a "fragile" stickers on it ! use as much as bubble wrap as possible in the package !
i think same robot can load and perfectly stack packages, then same robot unloads the trailer.
They keep talking about the workers and how it’s beneficial to the workers. I only saw one guy working there.
People are annoying, they only want to unionize...
Yeah, this one has not to empty all the upcoming trailers by himself. So it’s very beneficial to this one person😂
Seriously, Robotics and AI will cost millions of jobs. I’m curious who will have the ability to buy things then?!
Everything needed to operate is on-board including the plug-in joystick and man operating it! 🙌🏼
Just push a button, and the conveyor belt magically appears in place.
Because they are connected ...
How about add an AC blower so a person can do the work without getting too hot, and have shifts with breaks. There would still be the repetitive work, but at least those employees would get repetitive paychecks.
GG for Stretch, but where is Atlas? He's the real show!
please lets us see more of the new Atlas :((
bruh, you're account is a troll lol
@@GagnesterLOL problem? :)
@@revolution_is_the_key It's just funny!!
Looks like a perfect case scenario for the robot and it still seemed to have difficulty placing the boxes straight on the conveyor belt and even dropped a box, all the while being watched and supported by a human to adjust the positions of the robot in regards to the conveyor belt. Doesn't seem like a final working product.
The factory must grow.
All the packages are shaped the same. Gotta mix it up to make it a challenge.
OTTO is used to things being the same shape. That's why they sponsored Domino Day for years.
Great to see innovation here in 🇩🇪! ❤
This is awesome! So much time and energy is going to be saved because of this! Keep making magic, Boston Dynamics. And yes, most of my questions are from the other commenters. Always room for improvement 😁
I don‘t get why they use a robot dog to check analog sensor instead of replacing the sensor with a digital one.
0:42 'Ottomation'
😂 Denglisch
let's see what happens when half the boxes are already falling apart, not bound by any kind of adhesive, and made of flimsy, humidity-dampened material
What about boxes with a lot of dust on them.
Watching this after hearing about the dock workers strike cracks me up.
Everyone who has unloaded sea containers knows that´s freaking awesome.
Oh wow! A machine that moves something from one place to another. How innovative….. for the late 70s!
Пляма - просто шикарний робот. Дякую!
how can a cardboard box be held without any support under the box? this will only work on nearly empty boxes.
You underestimate how strong Suction/underpressure can be.
@@smaragdwolf1 I think they meant the paper strenght, not the grabber itself.
@@K0T3J1 cardboard is very stable. You need a significant amount of force to actually damage it
@@smaragdwolf1 You'll need to make sure that it is stable every single time but that seems to be solved in this case.
@@smaragdwolf1 мокрый картон?
I assume Hermes will be programming stretch to launch those boxes across the factory
I wonder if this means Hermes is gonna deliver a single package on time for once? 😂
its so good that all those boxes have the same shape and size and are all label facing forward
Except that half of the boxes labels aren't facing forward and Stretch accounting for that.
People move these packages much faster, still a ways to go imho
what happened to the fallen box at 3:10 ?
While this seems like a stretch, i worked in a large automotive plant that had 'robots'. Welding robots and painting robots, which had static bases, and logistical robots, like forklifts and trolleys that delivered parts in cases to the assembly line and retrieved empty cases. The only difference between these robots and the one in this video is the incorporation of sight, giving Stretch a modicum of autonomy.
Are there any plans to make Stretch faster? I understand there's a limit to how fast it should rotate for safety and reliability, but lag before and after picking/placing seems excessive and something that could be easily addressed with a faster processor.
More arms might do the trick
I doubt processor speed is the bottleneck, plus it probably makes up for the somewhat slow speed in consistency.
is this the same hermes that had to reband as "evri" due to the shockingly bad reputation? because the last-mile was handled by "contractors" with insanely adverse incentives with regards to quality? i see theyre investing their money wisely then
Человек гораздо выгоднее. Он ничего не стоит и ремонтируется за свой счёт.)
Nice, all my packages through Hermes get lost so far ...
Will this make it better or worse?
Boston Dynamics, amazing video
What about picking up boxes without label with Stretch? Seems that it's reading those uniform looking labels to identify that it's a box. Maybe I'm wrong on that.
We want the new Atlas, please. Thanks for your wonderful videos.
I can’t help it. I have a great fondness for Spot.
I really want to overclock Stretch to improve conveyor throughput. Does it have any Power Shard sockets? That would be very Satisfactory
Truck loader 4 vibes
I wanna see whole container unloaded from start to finish by Stretch. Time lapse would be fine. Please :)
I'm curious how it will handle edge cases/packages.
the sad truth is, humans would do those cases. It will be humans helping robots do labor, instead of robots helping humans. We will be the assistants to the robots :/
How about very heavy cardboard boxes
Rip everyone at UPS and FedEx
Warehouse workers
Cut the wages or lay of workers and let’s spend 300 to 500k on a robot. Good job. If you pay me 100k a year i would unload the container twice as fast. It’s always funny when they show the numbers robots in general can theoretically achieve. When they have a malfunction it takes at least 5 hours to fix it. 🥳
Growing up long ago, we would go to the warehouses and manually load and unload trailers by hand. We bade good money for that work. A full size trailer loaded) unloaded we were paid $40 each. We could do 4-5 of these a long day.
They called us lumpers. I submit that the name should be changed to Lumpy.
So in the motion I see the potential for a second arm on the robot to increase efficiency, maybe even more arms, it'd be a design challenge for small containers especially, but seems like something worth exploring in future iterations, that's just my thoughts very cool
Great system! If they only had a cascading conveyor attachedd. This would give more flexibility to the system and to Otto as they can move it freely just as Stretch itself.
Given the lack of anything on the New Atlas.... I assume something horrible must have gone wrong with it?
Since i have done exactly this work (unloading/loading at UPS) I would like to see it work under real circumstances, especially differently shaped boxes.
Boston Dynamics amazing job you are doing ❤❤😊
Considering the increasing number of labour shortages in Europe autmatsation of processes is the only way to keep up with the Productivity
I want to see Mindustry become a reality. This is very promising!
Can it locate boxes of other shapes eg circular, triangular?
Amazi g great work guys never stop automating ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
That magically disappearing box on the floor at 3:09 will be my package 😅
There is no box disappearing.
@@Delibro it’s a joke, next scene 3:20 dropped box gone.
How will the integrity of the box hold together when it actually has a heavy load inside it? Only being supported on one side will deform the box and make it vulnerable.
TLRW - Its a robot that moves boxes with suction cups.
My thoughts - It will probably cost $500k up front per unit but will reduce compensation expense by at least $100,000 annually. Break even time will probably be around 6-7 years once you consider maintenance and service contracts.
Nice to see actual work
Congratulations Boston Dynamics.❤❤❤
🎉🎉🎉
That was good, seeing Stretch* in action, made a difference 😊 hey Spot & how is Atlas 2 doing?
It reminds me of automotive construction arms. I wonder if there is any applications there. Don't know how having a mobile welding arm would help in a factory setting though.
Stretch exclusively moved the boxes with the QR code on them. Are QR code labeled boxes a prerequisite?
Will Hermes have robots dedicated to losing or simply stealing your stuff?
But seriously some of these robots look good in these controlled environments with identical (and likely empty boxes) - a lot of boxes will collapse if sucked up from one end like that
soo0o it's a robot arm that is designed to complete a task in a fixed environment (a container) - ie it has standard guardrails? Like a robot arm in a car factory? .. and it has to be hauled into place to start? that seems to be robotics on "easy mode" . And we did not see it actually complete a load, or pickup any dropped boxes. Also.... how is that container packed so neatly?! Please show us a demo on "hard mode"
It's good at repetitive tasks, but can it adapt to variables, diffrent weights, sizes, are they fragile is the box broken, what if the box has no qr code? There is prob also many other variables that I cannot even think of
Your work is inspiring!
How much weight can it handle and what happens when the box itself isn’t durable enough to handle heavy weight and tears due to a lack of support?
Isn't using a walking robot like Spot on a smooth and level floor surface inefficient energy- and cost-wise? Wheeled robot could be cheaper (original price and repairs) and faster moving.
Yes, and in an industrial setting, with smooth open floors, that would seem better, but a walking bot can climb stairs and go over obstacles. Plus, they have a hammer, and they are looking for nails to hit with it.