Humanoid robots are publicity stunts. They are not well-designed for any task. Humans relate to them because they look like humans. That's it.
Robot-shaped robots have been doing factory work for much longer than 30 hours at a time for decades.
You don't need a humanoid robot to use computer vision to sort packages. Robots at mail sorting facilities have been doing that for decades too. The most effective way to sort a package is some sort of diverter that swings out diagonally across a conveyor belt, so the package falls off the side at that location, into a collection basket or onto another conveyor belt.
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skywal_l•29m ago
Yes but they are also a quick win to replace humans because they don't need accommodation or specific R&D. Any job by a human that has no been automated yet is because the ROI was too low to develop a specific robot and adapt the work environment for it.
The human is basically the standard API. A humanoid robot is a drop-in replacement implementation of this API.
Haven880•56m ago
Nothing burger. Factories in Shenzhen fully automated with specialized robots running for the past 5 years. Generic humanoid robots not going to outperform those specialized robots.
kgeist•31m ago
Generic robots are potentially faster to configure and set up in many different environments, and they're more accessible, no? If I wanted a specialized robot right now for my small business, I'm not even sure where to begin. But if I could just order a bunch of generic robots off Amazon and tell them what to do, that would be great. Sure, specialized robots would outperform them, but for many tasks, that would be overkill.
pocksuppet•1h ago
Robot-shaped robots have been doing factory work for much longer than 30 hours at a time for decades.
You don't need a humanoid robot to use computer vision to sort packages. Robots at mail sorting facilities have been doing that for decades too. The most effective way to sort a package is some sort of diverter that swings out diagonally across a conveyor belt, so the package falls off the side at that location, into a collection basket or onto another conveyor belt.
Also, this article is paid advertising.
skywal_l•29m ago
The human is basically the standard API. A humanoid robot is a drop-in replacement implementation of this API.