Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages
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I imagine a post-scarcity world where all basic needs are met for everyone on the planet without question, and with minimal need for human labour, and that more as technical overseers. People would be free to work as much or as little as they want at whatever they want for their own betterment, or the betterment of the world, or do nothing at all if they want, or whatever. Is that too much to ask?
It sounds utopian...
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Bro that is so gonna get HitchBot'ed
a photo was tweeted, showing that the robot had been stripped "beyond repair" and decapitated in Philadelphia. The robot was located by some people following its progress on its website. The head was never found.
Also, like... if you wanna replace human workers, fine, just give us the UBI.
Otherwise, riots would be justified.
Just one shitty makeshift EMP and that thing is toast.
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No. I don't want them to starve when they get replaced by robots, which is the current plan, apparently.
Well if you're ignorant enough to think things will stay the same for the rest of your life while digitalization is ramping up... With all respect, who's at fault here?! Just diversify and find different avenues.
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There will always be some jobs. That's no guarantee that there will be enough jobs for everyone to live modest lives on.
Some will be left behind. It's not good. But if you look at the course of our past 10.000 years history, it has always meant progress and a better quality of life for the majority.
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There will always be some jobs. That's no guarantee that there will be enough jobs for everyone to live modest lives on.
There is guarantee. Because it's illogical if it wasn't. Imagine nobody having a job. Who are these robots going to deliver packets to?
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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.
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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They'll be vandalised almost immediately.
Non-consentually arbitraged
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Wanna bet its 7000 Indian workers again?
Package delivery simulator, pre-order on steam
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I'm pretty sure it will be a valuable amount of copper.
Edit: Except of course I guess it won't, because they're just bullshitting to drum up invetor interest, and only three of these will ever exist.
Ea-nasir strikes again!
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Companies like Amazon would do anything. Except paying living wages
That is how you get to be this big.
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I'd be terrified if that thing showed up at my door.
I'd be very glad and a bit richer
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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.
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The head was never found
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humanoid robot: dances
amazon: shock
humanoid robot: makes coffee
amazon: shock
humanoid robot: delivers package
amazon: friendly shock
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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.
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
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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
Like what... stairs?
Just leave the package at the bottom of the stairs like humans do.
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...okay, I really want to know the story behind that picture!
I'm gonna say CGI. Arm isn't mounted to the floor (I can tell by the pixels), no cables going to the arm, holding the bowling ball like that is extremely unsafe.
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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
The main problem is walking on unpredictable terrain, which spidery or doggy robots can do with fewer balance issues than two-legged humanoid ones.
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Like what... stairs?
Just leave the package at the bottom of the stairs like humans do.
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
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I'm gonna say CGI. Arm isn't mounted to the floor (I can tell by the pixels), no cables going to the arm, holding the bowling ball like that is extremely unsafe.
Gif compression definitely makes it look more believable, I remember falling for this the first time I saw it
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