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Robots move Shanghai city block [video]

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140 points surprisetalk | 3 comments | 03 Jul 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.791s | source
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selimnairb ◴[04 Jul 25 22:36 UTC] No.44468496[source]▶
This title is misleading. It makes it seem like the robots did this autonomously, when in reality hundreds if workers were involved. The “robots” were “smart jacks” I would say. Humans couldn’t have done this without hydraulic jacks, they used fancy hydraulic jacks.
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1. ddtaylor ◴[04 Jul 25 23:51 UTC] No.44468961[source]▶
I was not really lead to believe they did this autonomously. It seemed to me like either (a) they were doing the lockstep in a pre-programmed way that required timing of the equipment working together or (b) the same but with humans operating the timing. In either case I find the use of robots impressive.
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2. mixdup ◴[05 Jul 25 02:39 UTC] No.44469724[source]▶
Calling these robots is like calling a wrench a robot
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3. stevenicr ◴[05 Jul 25 21:46 UTC] No.44475821[source]▶
I was expecting to see a few hundred humanoid robots picking up things and moving them. Appreciate the comment here as it informed me and saved from the click and drain of youtube things.