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Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

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209 points Luc | 8 comments | 09 May 25 11:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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omneity ◴[09 May 25 11:53 UTC] No.43935797[source]▶
Warehouses is definitely not where I expected robots with retractable blades to first appear.

The demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWXco05eK28

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krapp ◴[09 May 25 11:56 UTC] No.43935812[source]▶
That's still far slower than a human being, and those bins are far too neat.
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1. wielebny ◴[09 May 25 12:04 UTC] No.43935853[source]▶
Slower than a human making one operation.

Not slower than human stocking items for a whole day.

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2. vntok ◴[09 May 25 12:08 UTC] No.43935878[source]▶
Surely the robot does not stop at the end of the day.
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3. nosrepa ◴[09 May 25 12:20 UTC] No.43935950[source]▶
The article says they plan on it operating continuously for 20 hours at a time.
4. CoastalCoder ◴[09 May 25 12:38 UTC] No.43936067[source]▶
Until they unionize.
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5. dataviz1000 ◴[09 May 25 12:45 UTC] No.43936122[source]▶
The tortoise and hare allegory? Slow and steady wins the race.
6. ta1243 ◴[09 May 25 12:46 UTC] No.43936135{3}[source]▶
Do robots rely on being ionized? I'd have thought a robot which wasn't ionized would work just fine
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7. CoastalCoder ◴[09 May 25 12:51 UTC] No.43936177{4}[source]▶
You're thinking of "Onionized", when their exploits are covered by one of the world's best publications.
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8. cusaitech ◴[09 May 25 14:18 UTC] No.43937078{5}[source]▶
Are you talking about the "Soviet Onion"?