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selimnairb ◴[] 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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ddtaylor ◴[] 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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1. mixdup ◴[] No.44469724[source]
Calling these robots is like calling a wrench a robot
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