Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages

• 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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