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.

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?

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.

Non-consentually arbitraged

Package delivery simulator, pre-order on steam

Ea-nasir strikes again!

That is how you get to be this big.

I'd be very glad and a bit richer

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.

humanoid robot: dances

amazon: shock

humanoid robot: makes coffee

amazon: shock

humanoid robot: delivers package

amazon: friendly shock

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.

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.

The main problem is walking on unpredictable terrain, which spidery or doggy robots can do with fewer balance issues than two-legged humanoid ones.

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

Gif compression definitely makes it look more believable, I remember falling for this the first time I saw it

43.9454776, -123.5393014

^ no address, GPS is very very precise.

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

Take a look at ziplines upcoming drone delivery service for instance, it will be significantly better than Amazon's and will be way better than a human delivery driver.

They will train it so well, it will even collapse like a human when overworked! https://youtu.be/6Kp5qrCExps . I recognized that bot from the photo.