Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I tend to disbelieve this, mainly because a humanoid robot would be overkill. Custom-purpose robots would be much cheaper to design, build and maintain, with fewer potential failure points.
crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 4 days ago
Eh I dunno there’s so much infrastructure that is human centric; if you could make a humanoid robot it could easily traverse all the human designed places
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The driver would have to look at the location and decide yeah, this is a straight walkway and two steps up to a porch, I’ll use the drone, or no there’s a gate and some lumpy grass, or whatever, I’ll get my ass out of the truck.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Like what… stairs?
Just leave the package at the bottom of the stairs like humans do.
trashboat@midwest.social 3 days ago
Also doors and gates
They may also have concluded that the public finds a humanoid robot more acceptable than those cube 4-wheeled robots that never took off that people like to tip and kick over and stuff
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
You don’t really need to be humanoid to manipulate ddmoors and gates