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Boston Dynamics' New Stretch Robot
This thing is going to put a lot of stevedores out of work
Boston Dynamics' latest prototype is something like an industrial factory robot on a mobile base. Called Stretch, it consists of a large multi-jointed arm, a suction-based gripper and a "perception mast" all standing on a rolling box with the same footprint as a shipping pallet.
The roving robot is intended to replace human workers who load and unload boxes in warehouses or from shipping containers:
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It's almost a miracle that this thing didn't come out before COVID; I'm sure executives would've preferred to fire droves of potentially virus-carrying workers and plop down a couple of these instead. The future of blue collar labor looks grim indeed.
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I saw the 60Minutes interview where they unveiled this machine. I like the part the CEO said this thing wont take jobs away from workers because, "It creates an industry for what we like to call robot wranglers". Ummm...OK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns__YpRneBA
Best BS dodges at: 7:47 to 8:00 and 12:17 to 12:30
I like the part of the video where it shows just how much like human workers these gizmos are. When two of them meet, they pause to stare each other in the face, swap a snide comment about their human wranglers, then move on the the next task.
Why do Boston Dynamics' robots have to scare me so much?