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omneity ◴[] 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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djtango ◴[] No.43936230[source]
How does the robot assess whether there is enough space available in each bin?
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1. abricot ◴[] No.43936428[source]
It also stowed the other items, and know how much space they take up.

From the article:

> “When you’re a person doing this task, you’ve got a buffer of 20 or 30 items, and you’re looking for an opportunity to fit those items into different bins, and having to remember which item might go into which space. But the robot knows all of the properties of all of our items at once, and we can also look at all of the bins at the same time along with the bins in the next couple of pods that are coming up. So we can do this optimization over the whole set of information in 100 milliseconds.”