Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages

• Dojan@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At my old workplace we ended up getting like a thousand toilet seats delivered to us. We were a web publishing firm.

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Perhaps it wasn’t an accident… 😂

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• ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Stop redirecting them. Make it cost them.

  Tell your neighbors to file an “it arrived late” or “it didn’t arrive” complaint. Get two and send one back. Their fault for being shit companies.

  If something is delivered to you by mistake, it’s not your responsibility to fix the mistake, you just got free stuff.

  If it goes through USPS, it might be a federal offense to open stuff delivered via USPS, but is that true of third party parcel delivery? Almost certainly not, because USPS is a government org and those third party shit delivery companies aren’t…

  So now any package that’s delivered to me by anyone other than USPS… it’s mine now, and I open it to see if I want whatever trash my neighbors are buying.

  I used to try to fix the problem… but then I realized it’s NOT MY PROBLEM.

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• IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What makes you think you can’t have individualized instructions for harder to reach addresses? After the first failure it’s pretty trivial to go out and fix it. Google does far more work maintaining maps and directions services.

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• Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What you just described is humans causing the issue, drome delivery would absolutely solce your problem.

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  • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The drone’s only as good as its software, the map it’s using, and the address data it’s given. All of which were created by fallible humans.

    Ain’t it fun having turtles all the way down?

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    • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      43.9454776, -123.5393014

      ^ no address, GPS is very very precise.

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      • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        When you order something, do you express where you want it sent in coordinates or as an address? You can’t assume that the device’s coordinates at the time the order is made correspond to where the order is supposed to be sent, even if the device gives coordinates. Plus, they’re either not precise enough (could encompass the yard of the house next door, or just the snowbank at the edge of the property) or too precise (“drop this in the center of the roof because that’s where the coordinates are”). You’d need software capable of parsing building layouts well enough to figure out where the main entryway is and leave the parcel there, or you’d have to require that people interested in receiving deliveries by drone put a beacon where they want the drone to drop stuff.

        Beacons are the simplest solution, but they immediately put Amazon in a position where most people won’t care enough to set them up.

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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even as pitched, you still have to print out a QR code and staple it to your front lawn for every package. Presumably, they want you to be home for it since it’s dropped out in the open and might bounce into the street.

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    • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Amazon’s drone delivery is trash, you’re correct. But eventually it will be significantly better than humans, input gps location and the product will be at that exact location give or take 1 foot

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      • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        eventually

        It’s been ten fucking years. They are one of the top five companies in the world. What are we waiting for here?

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Can you point to deliveries that actual use any of that?

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  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Down voted for the obvious observation. A drone just needs to get explicit instructions ones a report is filled and it won’t be an issue. Google does more work on Google maps IMO.

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