Introducing Multipick for Stretch | Boston Dynamics

49 thoughts on “Introducing Multipick for Stretch | Boston Dynamics”

1. 🤔 why not just load the container with a sled under all the products and pull everything off at once to then be "picked" and stored when the container is long gone and a new full one in it's place?

2. Criadores de miséria e desemprego.

3. Hats off, as always – this is how hard it is to make real AI in practice. We're verrry far from AGI!

4. Do we want a future where boxes have plastic surfaces by default to ensure better adherence to robot suction cups for those heavier loads? Probably not. And you'd expect that with the advancements in ANNs and AI embodiment, Atlas type robots could learn to handle boxes like humans. Still waiting for someone to show us a robot that can do this with just a simple 'put the boxes on the conveyor belt' instruction.

5. Why people are misunderstanding this?
   This is not for your mother's package full of food leaking out and has a single tape on it.
   This can be revolutionary for companies like amazon which only handles managed products. (Which they can order sellers to match certain standards of packaging)

6. Si es paquete son pesas esa cosa no va a funcionar

7. I hope this replaces all the Amazon employees so those crybabies can know how much it sucks to NOT have a difficult job.

8. "We look at how these very skilled people do their work, so we can make a product that will make them loose that job." 😅

9. inserter stack size research complete

10. Boston Dynamics is doing very badly with android robots if they have taken up the outdated technologies of robotic manipulators from the 70s and 80s of the last century.

11. It will never replace a roadie.

12. Reinventing the octopus one tentacle at a time.

13. Not only is it adaptive and intelligent, there's also a safety factor in this potentially stopping many accidents with people during unloading.

14. You realize this will put a shot ton of people out of work

15. or could just hire some humans

16. Will this cost jobs? yes.
    The fact that the guy was told to say otherwise is creepy

17. Are these engineers aware that in a few years AI robot design design systems will be doing THEIR jobs???😮

18. Some one’s gotta know how to turn these machines off… and back on again. -Mr. Jetson

19. The future is going to be amazing millions of people jobless… thanks 🙏 I can’t wait to see crime going more up in the future.. 💯✌🏻

20. Good luck when all the packages are different size and weight, demo is on specific boxes with specific weight and size. I know for a fact that piece of crap would melt down if it did a sort at fedex ground. Wouldn't last 15 minutes, like some humans

21. It's like that inserter upgrade in Factorio.

22. What if the boxes are open or slighty open??

23. What happens if one of the boxes is much heavier than the others? And suction may not work on lifting from the top because the box is relatively weak and requires lifting from both sides?

24. So they just upgraded from regular inserters to stack inserters? 😝⚙️

25. The speed of this thing is way too low. I can do that 10x faster and he also needs to be placing the boxes with labels facing a certain direction which sometimes means spinning it upside down vs where it has it grabbed.

26. They should use this to my travel box.

27. Next feature idea: Topple. I've heard that human unloaders often find a weak-link box near the bottom, remove it like a bad Jenga move, and cause a whole stack of boxes to topple closer to the conveyor.

28. Only feature we require: can it vibe?

29. But you need another stretch or some sort of bot on the other end to store the cases or place them in inventory. Unloading is great, but where the box is going is also a consideration.

30. I hear the sounds of Amazon in the BD shopping cart "we'll take 1000 please"

31. However, the trucks rarely arrive as cleanly loaded as in your test setup. I have worked for a long time at DHL Germany…and also put packages from the truck trailer on the belt… there they are partly so that if you pull out the one falls a whole tower of packages over. Or they are broken and open because a liquid has leaked.

32. "До чего дошёл прогресс,
    До невиданных чудес!..
    Вкалывают роботы, а не человек…"

33. What about weight in the box ? .
    The bottom should be supported

34. Hurry up, robot! We need more stuff! I’m still waiting for my Steam Deck so I have something to do when I visit my grandma dying of cancer in the hospital!!! MORE STUFF!!!!!

35. Would like to see hiw it deals with boxes of different size and weight and chaotically arranged.
    I worked at inbound for the warehouse, used to do robots job and unload trailers onto conveyer belt,and I had never seen such a perfectly loaded trailer 😅

36. Definitely a start. I worked at UPS and I hated unloading the truck. Was such hard continuous work and I hurt my back twice. If this could be automated in a more efficient way, it will definitely be helpful and preferred.

37. kinda shit no?

38. Why not move the conveyor to the package and pull the packages on the conveyor with a gripper, the weight is supported by the conveyor, and no time is wasted for the movement to the conveyor. the form factor would not be the same tho

39. This is way too slow for Fedex.

40. it puts the boxes back in truck?

41. GOOD WORKKKKKKKKKKKKK

42. Can we get catgirls with soft plump flesh and no sass next?

43. put a kettle bell in one of those boxes

44. Whats the maximum load that a single suction cup can handle? Seems like those boxes are full of feathers.

45. I look forward to the day when Stretch will outperform my younger self. When I unloaded for UPS in my 20s, my unload quota was 1,200 packages per hour, and the boxes were not uniform in size and shape like they are here.

46. Один таджик заменит этого робота, будет универсальнее и обойдется дешевле, даже если его взять на пожизненное обеспечение.

47. They did with Homer Simpson. And look how that turned out?

48. Needs 2-3 arms and more eyes so it can pick, plan the next pick, and drop at the same time.

49. Ex furniture mover here. They are a long long ways from replacing us. That trailer would be loaded with freezers, dressers, boxes, pianos, garden rakes and every possible conceivable household item. And then it’s gotta go up three flights of stairs….🤷‍♂️

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