Stretch at DHL | Automated Trailer Unloading
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- Опубліковано 30 січ 2023
- DHL Supply Chain is deploying Stretch to automate trailer unloading and support warehouse associates.
In the past 8-10 years there have been tremendous advancements in warehouse automation. DHL has been a leader in deploying automation technology to improve efficiency, drive cost-effectiveness, and support exceptional employee experiences. Discover how they are putting Stretch to work.
Learn more about automated trailer unloading: www.bostondynamics.com/resour... - Наука та технологія
Years ago, I was a package handler for UPS, doing precisely what Stretch is doing. I'm very happy to see this role automated. This repetitive task was hella rough on the body.
No kidding. 3 and half years as unloader. I'm 21 and I can't even tie my shoes without stretching first. It's a good job that pays well, but it was tough at times.
That job SUCKED and it paid awful
This is the thing most people don't get about automation. "A person could be employed to do that!" but that person would be *wrecking* their body doing that job all day.
@@chrissugg968 Yeah you can bet most jobs that get automated won't be physical
@@chrissugg968 yeah but that person might have trouble finding another job
About 18 years ago me and another worker were unloading boxes like these for months in a company in my hometown.
I talked to the guy about how in the near future all that would be automated.
Ofcourse he did not believe me, but he hoped. Well, here you go.
Awesome work guys!
hell, ill go further than this, i think in the future major surgerys will be commanly done by machines.
iLLiGal AliENdS R sTEAlinG oR jOBs!!! OoH wEt a mINET!
"but he hoped"
He hoped to be out of a job?
it took them long enough and honestly im not impressed
@@PistonAvatarGuy With that evolves new jobs, like people who make the parts for the robots... cannot be done without humans (so far).
Also, the energy for robots cannot be done without humans. Energy for robots relies on humanity.
The new base on Stretch makes a lot more sense than the original concept. Would love to see a full spec sheet.
I did this same job at a Walmart distribution center and I absolutely hated it and so did my coworkers. In the summer it's 120+ degrees in the trailer and in the winter it's below freezing. Glad the robots are taking this job, it's not fun.
now let's see them load the trailers!
@@skmetal7 yeah I'd like to see it unload a grocery trailer that wrapped in saran wrap. This whole video was fake, no truck load of packages is perfectly stacked like that.
@@johnames6430 i searched for videos of truck unloading and yeah, this video is far from reality. while robots could do a good job in a world with standardized packages, the reality looks different, there are packages which are tiny, or a bunch of cans, stuff which is only box shaped at the bottom, boxes which are damaged and not stable enough if picked up wrong, boxes with weight imbalances, which will break if picked up wrong, boxes which cause "avalanches" if picked up... and a human is so much faster, especially with many small packages - like 3 times faster and throughput is often kinda important ,you don't have all night. There are solutions for that stuff, but at the end, you replace relatively cheap labor (low pay, easy to train etc.) with a very expensive system, so... but at some point it will be ready.
@@johnames6430 There is usually a crushed mess to clean up when unloading for sure. I guess it may be ok for a factory that uses their own boxes and are loading the trailer.
Why do you need a robot to not work there? You could have just not taken the job or quit and the effect on your life is exactly the same.
Glad to see it’s finally been put into use
So glad all humans are being replaced by robots by the Elites ohhh yeah
@@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz When cars were made, horse carriage drivers were laid off as well. Progress waits for no one.
@@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz go away you bot.
When all boxes are the same size 😂
I mean it already was. Just not in the public eye
I like that it still drops boxes sometimes 😁. And I like that this showcase video doesn't hide that fact.
It needs to suck even harder, i guess.
Also, i would think they would know the weight of the contained goods to figure if a cardboard wall is good to be sucked in to.
If the box is wrinkled, then of course it can detach.
There is definitely room for improvement on the way it grabs packages, I would have designed it so that the sucker portion could slide back and forth over a big metal spatula, that way it could support the packages from below to avoid ripping the cardboard or dropping heavy packages.
Heavy packages are often handles with vacuum lifters, even when manually handled. Those often use one big suction cup - and dusty boxes are easily dropped
@@AlexanderBukh I think they can't know the weight until it gets scanned, which only happens in the next step once it's on the conveyor. ( They can't scan it already before picking it up because the barcode might be hidden on the wrong side )
@@AlexanderBukh ayo ⁉️
I've never seen a trailer loaded so nicely. Let's see it in the wild.
Yea, light weight demonstration boxes do wonders. They will have to force customers to put everything is a six-sided box to eliminate the majority workforce if they are going to make this work. I want to see it pick up rolls of carpet, tires and buckets. Not to mention it's still dropping packages.
For the robot it doesn't matter. It takes picture of each box before picking it
Floor loads are the hardest thing to do in a warehouse. We used to hire temp workers, cause the regular employees would quit if they constantly had to unload trailers by hand.
I'm always a little sceptical of how new automation will be received by the workers. In this case it sounds like people aren't exactly enjoying the job and robots are probably the way to go.
Serious question man. Are trailers often loaded like this with nothing on a pallet? I've been in manufacturing for over twenty years and every piece I've seen go into and out of a plant has been on a pallet and wrapped. This seems so staged. I'm not saying it's fake, I've just never seen it.
Now, if there was a robot that could go in, investigate the trailer layout, pick up a pallets, and unload. That would be cool af.
@@clonkex i did this job in my younger days hurt my back doing it that still gives me trouble today, robots doing this is a blessing
@@josephcitizen4195 yes most of the trucks are like this, because this is where they come to get sorted to other places to be put on pallets if that makes sense, what I mean is most of the packages in the back of those trucks are going to a different destination, source is I did this job in my younger days and it sucked
@@AGMI9 Got it. I'm on the manufacturing side. I never really thought about the shipping side of things. But it makes sense, individual packages from all over need to be sorted. Very interesting man. Today I learned something new. Thank you so much for responding and I hope you have a great evening!
Would show more of the robots abilities if the trailer was filled with boxes of many different sizes.
You can trust they're working on it. Warehouse jobs bout to be a thing of the past.
Compared to what they have already accomplished that is easy.
It's not about the boxes, it's about showing that the human workers are happy and feel assisted rather than replaced
Not only that but not all boxes are perfect cubes. I used to unload trailers like that but where the boxes were smashed due the weight. Each box was probably half the size of those in the video at about 50-60 lbs each. They were near impossible to grab easily and they never really laid flat on the conveyor.
Plus that thing is very slow. I would have been fired if I unloaded a trailer with that much space between each box. I think instead of taking the picture when/after it's setting the last box down, it should be gathering that information as it's moving so the arm doesn't stop.
Even in this perfect conditions, it is "dropping" Boxes on the belt. -> Broken glass inside.
If you have ever had to unload containers, you know this is awesome.
Too slow and robots still lack dexterity of humans. This thing can only pickup very square boxes...
@@MaxCaud ...for now.
@@MaxCaud Don't think it's that much sloer than a person, unless the person is going full speed on every box, which I doubt they would, also not much of a problem when the robot can work 24/07
this is one of the worst jobs i have ever done, your body is dead after a day of work.
@@rizizum An Amazon warehouse for example would process 40-60k packages a night. Packages have to be ready in the morning.
I did this job years ago and its incredibly difficult to do for 8 hours. It gets incredibly hot inside those containers when it’s sunny outside, and it’s just quite a mind numbing thing to do.
Boston Dynamics is just the most exciting company out there at the moment. Every video they release just astounds!
As someone who spent a year and a half loading and unloading trucks I'm glad this exists.
It's one of the hardest jobs out there because of the extreme heat, and cold.
I want to see what the robot does when the rollers can't reach the back of the trailer
What makes you think they have not got enough length for a standard sized container? Also those rollers can have additional section added in.
@@kaspernbs often the rollers are quite beat up by wear and tear, and at peak times their is a very low likelihood of having enough belt to make it to the back of every trailer.
@@wgkgarrett then the robot can move back and forward. Or it sets up half way across the gap.
As the said about a 10ft reach. So reaches out. Attaches to box. Pulls box to itself.
Turns and the pushes out to roller and then let's go.
I'm always a little sceptical of how new automation will be received by the workers. In this case it sounds like people aren't exactly enjoying the job and robots are probably the way to go.
...or when the truck driver drives away with the robot in the trailer. Whoops!
Nice to see real world deployment of stretch. Looks like it’s come a long way since conception.
Nice to see good hard working factory workers in the unemployment line after being replaced by these robots.
@@blueblade455🎉
@@blueblade455 cope
I miss the chicken legs though...
What i am hyped about in the future,is that even though there is gonna be a lot of automation,people are going to avoid loads of work accidents and hazards,and possibly get an overall higher quality of life through technology
But also less work for people to do which is..... well what people want in the first place.... is to work
@@-never-gonna-give-you-up- Well, the number of jobs in the tech industry will probably be increasing.
@@-never-gonna-give-you-up- people want to work?
@@user-vf9ee6kn1e Not for you. Congress keeps farming them out to cheaper Indian and third world countries , so they can lay off American workers. You guys sure are geniuses with your support of this shit.
@@-never-gonna-give-you-up- No, people want to cover their needs, work is just how it allows us to get that until full automation
I remember doing this backbreaking work 10 years ago at my local delivery. The amount of times I hear something break is too many. Im happy that this technology is now being utilized, it saves people's backs and lessens item damage plus it makes the process faster.
That's so fascinating to watch. Here I am looking at trying to get jobs at warehouses doing what Stretch is doing, when I should be looking at getting a job that does the programming and operation of these things.
Good luck trying to afford the education for that
You’re on the right track, but give these things AI and they will build, program, and operate themselves.
@@doctordestructo3360 boots camps don't cost much + you start paying after you start earning
@@pelpadesa AI is just getting started. Give it a few years. AI will do everything if we let it. Or perhaps, even if we don’t!
Finally
I can't wait for Stretch to hold my package
Edit: my DHL PACKAGE!
👀
uhm- your what?
Hehehe
Bro
No no no no no no no no
What are you all thinking of
I mean my DHL package
What else?
Hahaha, no doubt. It’ll hold your dick while you are out of a job, too, lots of Brainsteins here.
Give the Robots Heavy Lifting and Boring things, and lets Humans again be ordinary People doing meaningful and creative things! Keep going, Boston Dynamics!
Exactly
@@atomixfang ...and fewer injuries for workers, quicker shipments, lower shipping costs
For companies they can do anything they want, since they won't be on their payroll anymore.
Have you not been paying attention? Artificial intelligence is beginning to do creative work too, like music and writing and visual arts, also computer programming. Soon there will not be much that a person can do for a job.
The only thing corporations are going to need people for is inspections. AI will take over the "creative things" like marketing.
I get such an overwhelming sense of childlike wonder and amazement when I see what you guys are capable of creating. I can’t control the smile I get when I see Stretch in action, it looks like CGI but it’s real! We are in the future. Thank you for everything you do at BD!
Great to see this development in the world of freight handling!
Glad to see DHL coming out on top. UPS would have you in those trucks close to heat stroke telling you to pick up the pace.
At least you’d have a fkg job. Not Mensa IQ are you?
DHL is the same shit here in Germany. Only ruda package deliverers because they don't fear getting fired which such a low payment
@@azmo_ that industry in general is payed poorly, but compared to dpd, hermes etc. DHL pays a bit better and also more importantly gives you the time you need to deliver your packages. They are the only company in my region that actually delivers packages to my door instead of just throwing in letters.
He literally says at the end "This is a very labor intensive operation there's extreme temperatures as far as extreme heat and extreme cold" yet instead of solving that they're spending as much or more on a slow robot
@@mehrschwein7378 Shipping agents that deliver pickup notices instead of actual packages don't deserve to survive in the marketplace and I seriously doubt they would if recipients consistently had a choice (rather than that choice being made by suppliers/sellers).
I was doing this for a full year. Every single day I wished I could be replaced by something like this.
It’s awesome to see!
Brilliant i delivered to warehouses like this for years and that was one of the most arduous and accident prone areas of the warehouse. Now people can finally get a break from this repetitive task and focus on something more important!
Like either coding or being unemployed, apparently, as more and more jobs are automated.
@@Blueshirt38 thank god for that
@@VioletPrism Thank god for people losing their jobs?
@@Blueshirt38 If you think coding or unemployment are the only options, then you need some education...in common sense & using Google.
@@Cuaedria ^
“Stretch doesn’t need breaks”
Robot Mechanic enters chat.
Ball bearings:
when automat is on a series, it is really good to see it.
If I threw freight at Target as slowly as that robot I'd have been fired day one.
That said, there's obviously some great advantages here, since robots don't need breaks and can't get injured. I'm excited to see what v2 can do.
Yeah the pace is surprisingly slow.
Over a year, It's going to shift a lot more than you, it can work 24/7/365, you need breaks, sleep, recuperation, weekends, holidays.
You can win the sprint atm, but you will never win the marathon.
@@JohnSmith-df4vb There are humans on the receiving end of those conveyors Stretch is putting the boxes on, though, so when they take a break, Stretch is going to have to take a break, too.
@@TiberianFiend and you don't think the other end will be automated eventually? Probably sooner than people realize.
did you work 24 hours per day with no breaks? Did you never get sick?
Luv u Renetha! “…when he looks around..” you have a great heart to see Stretch as a person. You brought joy to my day, thank you. 🎉
8 years ago i was doing the same job stretch is doing and i can say it was hard on my body and the temperature gets colder the deeper you get in the trailer glad to see this automated as i know its all to make it easier for the employees
I worked at UPS for five years, and never once saw a truck loaded that perfectly. It's most often just a shifted mountain of crap, with random packages thrown over to top and backfill. Not only would a realistic load be harder for Stretch to negotiate, anybody who's done this work immediately recognizes Stretch simply is not fast enough. A truck that size will typically have the rollers in the center, with two guys on each side, throwing boxes like they're bailing water from a sinking lifeboat in shark infested waters. This technology is marvelous, and it's come a long way, but it has quite a way to go before it becomes an industry standard. Within the next ten years though, Stretch is probably going to put a lot of people out of work.
1:43 I love how exited she is about a machine that makes her job obsolete
She is excited for innovation. She will most likely be trained as a robot operator instead of being a laborer. She will acquire a new skillset, that is more valuable and marketable to her. People obviously don't want to do that jobs because it is labor intensive, requires you to work in excecively hot or cold environments, is monotonous, etc. This is how to workforce will change moving into the furure and it requires employees like her, that are enthusiastic and excited to learn about new technologies, to propellel organizations forward.
I am a manufacturing engineer. I have studied and lived this.
Being honest that’s the nicest trailer I’ve ever seen, in the real world, everything is stacked like crap and is incredibly hard to pull out
I used to work in an Amazon warehouse doing stuff similar to this. Amazon desperately needs some of these to reduce those safety incidents they keep getting fined for.
Very cool stuff, BD.
I like the standardized use of black vests for people who the company considers human and orange vests for the people considered expendable
Throwback to Star Trek where the red uniform people were expendable.
And green for the diversity stock 👀😉
It's cool seeing my old job starting to be automated. My only concern is just how slow the robot moves.
We're I was at, if the rollers had an empty space the unloader was moving to slow.
Although to be honest I enjoyed racing my coworkers, keeping the line full while they tried to keep it empty.
it'll be slower locally but more consistent ie no need for bathroom breaks and doesn't get tired, so probably faster in the long term. its main purpose it so allow employees to focus on other tasks. automation isn't going to take away jobs, it's just going to give you different jobs that are probably less tedious and more suited to humans. plus, technicians and programmers for the robots will still need to exist.
It can work 24 hours 7 days a week with no breaks. And will only get faster.
24/7 operation is a plus, as long as there isn't some random problem during the night.
But for trucks that are on a timetable, that's what I'm concerned about.
It's a matter of time. Have you seen the welding robots used in automobile factories? They are scary fast. That's more or less the benchmark.
@@kyleallred984 Well fortunately the robot is on some kind of wheeled base, so if time is that much of an issue for a trailer they can just wheel it to the side and get it emptied by people.
This is so great! All those jobs being automated out of existence.
What stretch is doing, was my first job out of high school. They arent lying about extreme temperatures, in the summer months the trailer is an oven, my boss bought cases of water out of his own pocket and stacked them by the trailer entrance, you would come out of there looking like you went swimming in your clothes just from sweat, the turn around rate for that job was less than 2 weeks. Not to mention the injuries to your muscles and back.. This is definitely a job best left for robots.
I love how the folks at Boston Dynamics don't hide the fact that sometimes even the robots make mistakes, using them instead as an opportunity to show how they can "pick-up and dust-off" and get back to work :-)
This is so amazing. I can't wait for Boston Dynamics to develop consumer models that can help me out with my personal needs.
You can't have a girlfriend
I didn't even know you are working on this and boom, here you have a fully grown product already put in real life use. Amazed with Boston Dynamics yet again...
Stretch deserves some robot coffee! Fabulous job, Boston Dynamics!
So Cool. I wonder where this can be implemented. Honestly, this has great potential.
Still looks a bit slow. A crew of 2-3 men could unload it much faster. But in the end a single robot with a 24/7 schedule is hard to compete with :)
Humans look faster when they're working. But in an 8-hour day, you might get 6 hours of actual working time out of a human being. With up to a hundred percent up time, you'd get up to 4 times as much work per day out of a robot. The equipment works up to 365 days a year instead of 246. With proper maintenance, even without upgrades, factory equipment can sometimes last 30 or 40 years. I've seen forklifts last that long. With major retrofits, and overhauls and upgrades, some equipment's been flying for up to 70 years. I'd imagine you could easily justify investing a couple hundred thousand dollars per year per machine, even before considering employee satisfaction and fewer workplace injuries. By the time you figured all the arithmetic, you could invest nearly a million dollars per robot, financed over 5 years and you'd still come out ahead eventually. It's potentially a better investment than a lot of real estate deals. Anything less than a million bucks, even working at a fraction of the speed of a human could be a bargain price for a logistics company. The other thing to consider is human beings cost a lot more than their salary. You got to manage and supervise them, pay for social security, LNI, training costs like breakage, other costs like leakage. That's before we've even thought about worker's unions.
Also try to get 3 people willing to do this shit job nowadays, AND do it right.
How many warehouse machines currently work 24/7????
People could unload even faster with boxcar style side loading, but robots are more fun than proven strategies
@@iCakeMen no one wants to work a job that can't pay near living wage... with atlest one roommate.
That's awesome - I did Stretch's job for a few summer, hated it! Good to see
Awesome technology. What a great innovation. Will obviously revolutionize the supply chain. Seems like just the beginning.
Great to see it in a finished form!
dude this was my full time job when i was 16 . this is remarkable. complementing a machine who would replace me lol. geez
Yes, I wanted to see more of this one. I think it's cool to watch.
I've seen a lot of shipping containers in my life and they never looked like that one. Such beautiful size similar shaped boxes. Amazing...SILLY
Thought the same thing
Same. Exciting tech, but doesn't seem ready for 'real world' logistics just yet.
I use to work in a pharmaceutical warehouse and I can't wait for the buckets of salt test lol
I wonder if the suction cups could lift them? Maybe they could make a curved plate for buckets?
Boston Dynamics keeps amazing us.
while making us obsolete!
@@paulconnelly6560 well, it forces us to adapt. Will this be abused somehow in the future? probably. Companies should be capped at how many robots they can order, so that they are not laying off at an alarming rate. Perhaps this could be contingent upon how many other manual labor jobs they have open that are needing to be filled. Companies should be required to have optional training program that employees being replaced can attend to learn a different skill, to have the opportunity to stay with their company. They would just be eligible to fill the position of one of those open jobs after passing one of those programs
*replacing us
It's been long enough that I thought stretch was scrapped. Glad to see it's still kicking
as someone who used to load/unload trucks by hand (wheel dolly) daily, this is a great thing to see. my back hasn't been the same...
It should be noted that the trailer it is unloading is consistently box shaped and very uniform in size. Humans will still be needed for damaged packages and irregular packages. Suction is limited in that it has to adhere to a flat surface and will have a weight limit. If that flat surface has holes, it will also lose grip. So those concerned about losing their jobs should be aware that their responsibilities will shift from being hard labor to being a responsive/supervisor type employee. Customers to automated shippers should also be aware that packaging will also be more restricting.
still the difference between 10 men unloading 10 trucks and one man picking up what the robots left.
When robots are the only ones unloading containers, those containers will also have been loaded by robots which made sure that humans are not needed to unload them.
This thing is trash I could easily unload faster than this. Its still going to need a human or another robot. It has no dexterity and it's arms move very slow. It can also drop things and it still has no intelligence. It's to early. I think it's just a helper for right now.
Awesome stuff, like a real life Wall-E robot!
I love how work placement proud they are goddam! People are excited for this stuff and its awesome!
So thats why my package from DHL is never broken. Good job!
Caught this one early. Nice! Oh, and good work Stretch!
The warehouse I work out would fall apart if fluid unload was going that slow.
Africa is really advancing in technology can't wait to see this implented in the states!
Boston Dynamics making life better every year !
I wonder what weight range the suction grabber is rated for? We used to shift 20+25kg boxes and most of those would've torn out if lifted by a side wall.
Also, I'm glad this machine exists, the number of injuries doing this type of work is shameful.
They should show how it can unload a usually filled container. In a real logistic environment these robots have to deal with a mess and not with such perfectly shaped boxes
the boxes are a mess because humans can deal with that, you just standardize the packaging, and if a problem then it summons a human, it still cuts down the workforce dramatically, you might only need one employee to deal with any problems that occur as opposed to whole teams of employees unloading.
@@JohnSmith-df4vb Just my two cents here but I imagine standardizing packaging would be very difficult, for 4 reasons.
1. It seems to be uncompetitive
I believe shipping companies charge the customer for the service of shipping and not packaging. A lot of customers take care of that themselves. If you have to ship something and are given a choice between two companies but one requires you to pay more to package the item in one of their boxes that might not even fit it well, you'd probably use the company that didn't standardize shipping.
2. It would likely be difficult for there to be a consensus between companies.
Maybe that's fine if the item is being transported by just one company, but sometimes different delivery services use each other (I think).
3. It would be difficult to enforce.
This is similar to point #1 but some people just package things themselves. sometimes an item has to be packaged a certain way. Would shipping companies turn down a customer for not using one of their packages even if said package is secure? I doubt it but who knows.
4. It seems to be impractical.
It would be a high task to create a few one-size-fits-all boxes or packages that can be stacked neatly and economical. Keep in mind all sorts of items get shipped. Glass chandeliers, lamps, and tables that are very large and light and fragile sometimes ride in the same trailers as heavy and irregularly shaped parts for trucks, weightlifting equipment like the bench press bars, and heavy rolls of carpet and spools of wire that don't like to be stacked or have things stacked on them. Even supposing one could create packages that were very sturdy so items getting crushed wasn't a problem (an almost impossible task considering the density of some items that get shipped)- if the packages all had to be rectangular prisms the trailers would not be able to carry as many packages. The way I see it the more restrictions one would create in standardizing a package or set of packages so that the trailers are able to be unloaded by robots without human help, the less the trailers can hold.
For more on the optimization issues of trailer loading I recommend looking up "Packing Problems".
In conclusion:
Standardizing packages might be possible but I don't think it would work well. I also don't think many companies would use it. Some might though, as there could be some niches where such standardization is not too big of a drawback. And for those companies, that's great and this robot might be useful. That being said I wonder how Stretch performs on actual trailers. If it can still work decently with few hiccups then that's awesome. If it can't, then perhaps a better system of unloading trailers is needed. All in all from what I can tell I think this robot can still help reduce the workload on humans as it is, so I believe you are right about that. Just wanted to share my thoughts on the difficulties of standardizing packaging.
@@ekinebobmanuel4551 standardizing is already starting to happen, in the last 2 weeks i have received 4 items of varying sizes from Amazon, they all came in the same dimension box, it will be the ones who can not standardize that will not be competitive in the long run, it will allow much more automation on the floor.
@@JohnSmith-df4vb Fair point
This makes me see DHL in a very positive light.
Why'd this put a smile on mah face?
In 20 years we won't even have humans working in these warehouses
More like 10 years...in 20 years most people will be gone from most jobs. Except the very rich and powerful who owns the robots.
@@ToneyCrimson true
Woah, they made the inserter from factorio into a real thing!
🤣
This is a good start for the robot industry 👏 doing things no one else wants to do, that being said,. . .it will eventually do things other people need to do.
Those are some really realistic looking humans you guys made too
"I love stretch!" sure you do...
Im super hyped for robots and the future, and get excited every time boston dynamics release a new video.
But i think we need to do something about these workers that are going to be replaced, do we really need to relive industrial revolution?
I specially feel the companies that are going to make the robots that will replace tham have a moral responsebility to push for change like UBI.
Or make a UBI like system for the workers themselves until goverment catches up (always so slow).
You don’t hear the current administrations talking about UBI at all
I agree... but there's no way companies are going to do that. In fact, for most of them it'd be illegal, it would break their fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. They literally aren't allowed to be morally responsible.
In the uk we already have a haphazard ubi type thing. Its called universal credit. The only problem is like most countries they don't give enough to the people who need it. I'm ok but there are people who work who get less to spend then I do. I recieve mental health benefits and don't work
@@benruckel872 Oh, great. Just whose gonna pay the taxes for your EXTREMELY “BASIC” UBI, genius?
@@Huntracony companies are doing all kinds of shit that is the opposite of moral and getting worse, they will replace workers and expect the government to pick up the check, lock us into
\\].3.]=. 5Minute cities that are prisons and put us under bullshit climate lockdowns, while replacing the US Tech employees with third world and Indian imported low wage slaves, congress already does this bullshit. Wake tfup, those of you welcoming this shit and illegal immigrants to pick our fruit.
The robot speed seems super slow. Boston Dynamics is probably collecting real-time on the job data for future improvement in movement efficiency and speed.
Great news to see it in a useful work solution! Awesome work!
So glad you guys can get a commercial source of funding by offering this logistical product to large industries like DHL.
Anybody that works at fedex, ups ,etc. Can tell you that when a trailer comes with packages, it doesn't look like Tetris..
And perfect lighting 🤐
And, just like a real human, it will drop the box from a height onto the rollers out of spite for its job
On one hand, I am really happy and excited to see something like this, on the other, it's really easy to see how this could entirely displace workers and take another job away from those who could use the work in towns where there may not be many other options.
Many have the illusion that automation will come one day and just take everyones job. The process of switching to efficient automation is slow and is normally applied to new infrastructure. To implement this, they will most likely apply it to new wharehouses built for this process because is better to than modify the old one. Even if they apply it to old wharehouses the current employes can be more efficient by monitoring machinery rather than doing physical labor so productivity can be increased without the need to hire more people. Also automation will increase demand for jobs with higher pay which is better for the economy.
Renetha’s input was invaluable.
This robot is going to be in for a surprise when the boxes fall on top of it.
I love how joyful these workers are to see their jobs getting replaced.. but I believe we shouldn't have humans doing mundane, repetitive work that a robot can do with ease. We are destined for more important work.
More important work like art or writing things? :p
It's a really amazing development that can replace everyone
dari Malaysia 🇲🇾 I hope this advanced technology will enter the market.. our country😌
Goodbye jobs you heard him robots don’t get tired they don’t need brakes
Breaks*
Nice! But does it only work with these fixed-side boxes shown in the video, or can it handle diverse dimensions? Can imagine dealing with all the shapes and sizes could be hard.
Don't worry I've seen this robot in person (in their lab's [my teacher had connections and gave us a tour of their facilities in … not Boston I forgot where their headquarters is exactly but its very closed to Boston]) and they were showing off the robot picking up different sized boxes with un-even weights in rapid succession. Basically from what they explained to me the robot starts of slow because it needs to map out the boxes with a depth camera, but it cant do that if its a flat wall of boxes. So, the robot needs to remove some boxes and then its cameras (which take pictures every time it wants to pick up a box) can map out the boxes and more accurately predict were the boxes are in a 3d space. So, overtime it gets more confident in its prediction's and its starts going very fast (so fast that it made a mess on the other side in the demo because there was nowhere for the boxes to go). I honestly don't know why they didn't show of a better clip than the one that they did but I don't have all the answers.
I'm glad this is happening. This physical labor is for the birds. You take a serious toll after years of doing this as a living.
You're making the world so much better, thank you Boston Dynamics!
This is cool. Of course, those customers need to have jobs in order to be able to afford those packages for the robot to work on. This is 'not' a knock against the technology. It is a rap on the forehead of society to figure out what it is going to take for automation to proceed without endangering livelihoods along the way.
Absolutely. Not everyone can, or will be programmers. Obviously some jobs are too unique to be automated in the next 50-100 years, but automating all of the repetitive-task jobs and manufacturing removes a lot of the availability for the current workforce.
@@Blueshirt38 Programmers will likely be hit hard by advances in AI and automation too, at least on the entry and mid-level programming job markets
Right now jobs are being created to manufacture these robots. But yeah eventually our economic system will have to change.
I think a lot of people embracing automation may be surprised when their job is also automated with AI or robotics.
"You will own nothing and like it." There is already a plan...
This is a great first step, but as someone who has worked at unloading a truck like that, its roughly 10x too slow to just match a human.
To just start matching the pace my team used to do(one scanning, one unloading) it needs to be doing at least a box per second.
This thing can work literally 24/7, 365 days a year. All day, all night. No breaks needed. Do the math and this thing is unloading a lot more boxes than people.
People take breaks, do shifts, get tired, get lazy, talk to eachother and slow down. This thing is always going at the same pace and it will outperform people in the long run.
And this is just an early iteration.
Irrelevant if its 6-10x slower than 2 people. You can employ 6 people to get the same 24/7 coverage and in the time that thing can unload 1 truck, the people can unload 6x that *easily*. (Remember that the value is already including relax and slack.)
If we say that the average 53 foot trailer holds ~2000 boxes, then where a team of two can unload a trailer in 30 minutes at a casual pace. As I recall the team record was 15 minutes. This robot will take 3.5 hours to do the same truck.
They have a very long way to go. If this was maybe 3x faster than it is now you'd have a point. But right now you'd have to be crazy to actually use this in an actual warehouse.
@@voicetest6019 I don’t disagree. Factor in high turnover rates and the fact that nobody enjoys doing this shit, along with how this is an early iteration. This robotics isn’t going anywhere.
GO BD and GO stretch looking great :)
That's the most well organized container of identical boxes I've ever seen.
Love at 2:27 it's clearly showing stock footage of a Fedex location, not DHL
I think the Achilles heel of this current system would be poorly packaged items that are heavy. For example I ordered some dumbbells and the box was completely shredded when it arrived. There would be no way for this robot to pick it up properly, the suctions cups would have just ripped the top off. But it's perfect for the scenario it's depicted doing where it's a bunch of boxes from a factor that should all meet a certain standard.
@@hhjhj393 It's coming, baby steps. Once they perfect the technology then they have the excuse to set the standard. With the standard comes the pricing, so that's why it will be the last step because the customer has to buy into the process or have no choice. If they standardize now there will be to much push back, it needs to be a slow burn. Just like "two weeks to stop the spread" it's all about the long game. But most people are conditioned for instant gratification so they can't see that far ahead.
every upload makes my day, love all that you guys do!!
Skyne.... I mean Boston Dynamics is doing amazing things!
The day they put that robot in Fedex, Amazon, UPS and USPS is the day the Warehouse job died.
Nice - perfectly clean boxes, stacked uniformly, and it does 1 box for every 30 boxes a human could do. Sounds efficient and like money well spent on part of DHL... /s
All these guys are excited talking about Stretch and how great of an addition it is to their facility... but in 3-5 years it will be a Robot standing there talking about how cool Stretch 2.0 is and all it's new features.
I really enjoyed the b-roll of footage of FedEx trucks at the DHL depot.
I also really enjoyed the optimism and enthusiasm of the woman who will be the first to be made redundant when/if these roll out en masse.
The base line in this video is insane, feels like my ears have heartbeats lol
I am actually kind of surprised that it is not faster. It is steady though.
Probably more likely to drop boxes with the momentum, power consumption, and I bet it's faster than a human still for the fact it doesn't need breaks and is steady, like you said
It adjusts its speed based on how good of a grip it has (according to the whitepaper)
All the boxes are the same size and are clearly empty. I am 90% sure that DHL does not actually use this at all, this is just an advert
The diversity of the crew is nice.
Nice that all you see is race in everything
I am From Germany And I Love The Robots From Boston Dynamics an i Wish in Germany more Companys Works With Stretch Very Nice Job