They are trying to solve last-mile delivery problem
Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages
Submitted 10 months ago by AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/680258/amazon-training-package-delivery-humanoid-robots
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vane@lemmy.world 10 months ago
andybytes@programming.dev 10 months ago
They are wasting tax payer dollars
doodledup@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tax payer dollars? Also, why waste? It might pay off with more efficient and cost effective delivery.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Wanna bet its 7000 Indian workers again?
Ledericas@lemm.ee 9 months ago
just like thier shop and go stores, were mostly india controlled.
Finch9678@europe.pub 9 months ago
Package delivery simulator, pre-order on steam
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Evil genius level right here
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Like Marty in the grocery store, a waste of space. Get out of my way, Marty!
Willy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
At first glance it looked like the robot has a tail. That would be cool and seems like it might help somehow. Add a tail!!
andybytes@programming.dev 10 months ago
Pass the blunt
frazw@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Amazon 1 year after launch: Unfortunately, the space needed for robots in the van means that the van has to return to base 5 times more often to reload with the actual packages and the extra weight of robots more than doubles the weight of the van being lugged around in the form of heavy robots. So that’s why we are having to charge more for delivery and why it is taking longer for you to get your packages. But at least we can pay fewer salaries.
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also we don’t pay taxes but will fuck up the roads with the extra weight. Good luck driving over potholes suckers!
Botzo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They can depreciate these assets over their useful life, because unlike your soggy flesh sack, these are capital expenses, not operating expenses.
… For now. I’m sure there are libertarians that think you should be able to sell yourself as the depreciable asset you are.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Be funny if hackers hacked them to kill CEOs.
victorz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’d be terrified if that thing showed up at my door.
Finch9678@europe.pub 9 months ago
I’d be very glad and a bit richer
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Better keep a big furnace full of molten steel ready just in case.
victorz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
brb popping out to get that right now
Jakule17@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Gallium would do
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 10 months ago
👍
ch00f@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Amazon announced using drones in 2014. In pop culture, drone delivery is like an assumed common practice. Yet fucking nobody gets their packages delivered by drone. It’s been over a decade.
These robots are vaporware. Amazon will get a stock bump and that’s the whole point.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Airspace rules are a huge factor there. I see delivery robots on the sidewalk often enough though.
I suspect most companies are still waiting out the testing and waiting for costs to be reduced.
andybytes@programming.dev 10 months ago
You are wise
Zetta@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Amazon just rolled out their first production drone delivery SSD site in Phoenix. It’s sorta shot though.
Zipline is way more interesting and I can wait for them to go live in my area.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 months ago
That’s a great point. Where are all those delivery drones? Lol
Buckshot@programming.dev 10 months ago
Yeah, humans regularly deliver stuff wrong on our street. There is no way robots will manage. I get packages for both by neighbours and they get mine more often than correct deliveries and one of my neighbours is a business.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months 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.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Zetta@mander.xyz 10 months ago
What you just described is humans causing the issue, drome delivery would absolutely solce your problem.
Dojan@pawb.social 10 months ago
At my old workplace we ended up getting like a thousand toilet seats delivered to us. We were a web publishing firm.
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I hate that!
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 10 months ago
Companies like Amazon would do anything. Except paying living wages
Finch9678@europe.pub 9 months ago
That is how you get to be this big.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Remember that hitch hiking robot that made it across Canada but only made it to New Jersey (started in NYC) in America? These will 100% get the same treatment everywhere on earth.
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 10 months ago
Not only Canada, but also Japan and all of Europe.
The main difference is that these robots kind of deserve it. Not “personally” but for what they represent.
meliodas_101@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yep.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 10 months ago
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MrShankles@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Wonder how much copper is wired up in those things
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I’m pretty sure it will be a valuable amount of copper.