No kidding. 3 and half years as unloader. I'm 21 and I can't even tie my shoes without stretching first. It's a good job that pays well, but it was tough at times.

That job SUCKED and it paid awful

This is the thing most people don't get about automation. "A person could be employed to do that!" but that person would be *wrecking* their body doing that job all day.

@@chrissugg968 Yeah you can bet most jobs that get automated won't be physical

@@chrissugg968 yeah but that person might have trouble finding another job

hell, ill go further than this, i think in the future major surgerys will be commanly done by machines.

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"but he hoped" He hoped to be out of a job?

it took them long enough and honestly im not impressed

@@PistonAvatarGuy With that evolves new jobs, like people who make the parts for the robots... cannot be done without humans (so far). Also, the energy for robots cannot be done without humans. Energy for robots relies on humanity.

now let's see them load the trailers!

@@skmetal7 yeah I'd like to see it unload a grocery trailer that wrapped in saran wrap. This whole video was fake, no truck load of packages is perfectly stacked like that.

​@@johnames6430 i searched for videos of truck unloading and yeah, this video is far from reality. while robots could do a good job in a world with standardized packages, the reality looks different, there are packages which are tiny, or a bunch of cans, stuff which is only box shaped at the bottom, boxes which are damaged and not stable enough if picked up wrong, boxes with weight imbalances, which will break if picked up wrong, boxes which cause "avalanches" if picked up... and a human is so much faster, especially with many small packages - like 3 times faster and throughput is often kinda important ,you don't have all night. There are solutions for that stuff, but at the end, you replace relatively cheap labor (low pay, easy to train etc.) with a very expensive system, so... but at some point it will be ready.

@@johnames6430 There is usually a crushed mess to clean up when unloading for sure. I guess it may be ok for a factory that uses their own boxes and are loading the trailer.

Why do you need a robot to not work there? You could have just not taken the job or quit and the effect on your life is exactly the same.

You can trust they're working on it. Warehouse jobs bout to be a thing of the past.

Compared to what they have already accomplished that is easy.

It's not about the boxes, it's about showing that the human workers are happy and feel assisted rather than replaced

Not only that but not all boxes are perfect cubes. I used to unload trailers like that but where the boxes were smashed due the weight. Each box was probably half the size of those in the video at about 50-60 lbs each. They were near impossible to grab easily and they never really laid flat on the conveyor. Plus that thing is very slow. I would have been fired if I unloaded a trailer with that much space between each box. I think instead of taking the picture when/after it's setting the last box down, it should be gathering that information as it's moving so the arm doesn't stop.

Even in this perfect conditions, it is "dropping" Boxes on the belt. -> Broken glass inside.

It needs to suck even harder, i guess. Also, i would think they would know the weight of the contained goods to figure if a cardboard wall is good to be sucked in to. If the box is wrinkled, then of course it can detach.

There is definitely room for improvement on the way it grabs packages, I would have designed it so that the sucker portion could slide back and forth over a big metal spatula, that way it could support the packages from below to avoid ripping the cardboard or dropping heavy packages.

Heavy packages are often handles with vacuum lifters, even when manually handled. Those often use one big suction cup - and dusty boxes are easily dropped

@@AlexanderBukh I think they can't know the weight until it gets scanned, which only happens in the next step once it's on the conveyor. ( They can't scan it already before picking it up because the barcode might be hidden on the wrong side )

@@AlexanderBukh ayo ⁉️

Yea, light weight demonstration boxes do wonders. They will have to force customers to put everything is a six-sided box to eliminate the majority workforce if they are going to make this work. I want to see it pick up rolls of carpet, tires and buckets. Not to mention it's still dropping packages.

For the robot it doesn't matter. It takes picture of each box before picking it

I'm always a little sceptical of how new automation will be received by the workers. In this case it sounds like people aren't exactly enjoying the job and robots are probably the way to go.

Serious question man. Are trailers often loaded like this with nothing on a pallet? I've been in manufacturing for over twenty years and every piece I've seen go into and out of a plant has been on a pallet and wrapped. This seems so staged. I'm not saying it's fake, I've just never seen it. Now, if there was a robot that could go in, investigate the trailer layout, pick up a pallets, and unload. That would be cool af.

@@clonkex i did this job in my younger days hurt my back doing it that still gives me trouble today, robots doing this is a blessing

@@josephcitizen4195 yes most of the trucks are like this, because this is where they come to get sorted to other places to be put on pallets if that makes sense, what I mean is most of the packages in the back of those trucks are going to a different destination, source is I did this job in my younger days and it sucked

@@AGMI9 Got it. I'm on the manufacturing side. I never really thought about the shipping side of things. But it makes sense, individual packages from all over need to be sorted. Very interesting man. Today I learned something new. Thank you so much for responding and I hope you have a great evening!

Too slow and robots still lack dexterity of humans. This thing can only pickup very square boxes...

@@MaxCaud ...for now.

@@MaxCaud Don't think it's that much sloer than a person, unless the person is going full speed on every box, which I doubt they would, also not much of a problem when the robot can work 24/07

this is one of the worst jobs i have ever done, your body is dead after a day of work.

@@rizizum An Amazon warehouse for example would process 40-60k packages a night. Packages have to be ready in the morning.

So glad all humans are being replaced by robots by the Elites ohhh yeah

@@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz When cars were made, horse carriage drivers were laid off as well. Progress waits for no one.

@@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz go away you bot.

When all boxes are the same size 😂

I mean it already was. Just not in the public eye

Nice to see good hard working factory workers in the unemployment line after being replaced by these robots.

@@blueblade455🎉

@@blueblade455 cope

I miss the chicken legs though...

But also less work for people to do which is..... well what people want in the first place.... is to work

@@-never-gonna-give-you-up- Well, the number of jobs in the tech industry will probably be increasing.

@@-never-gonna-give-you-up- people want to work?

@@user-vf9ee6kn1e Not for you. Congress keeps farming them out to cheaper Indian and third world countries , so they can lay off American workers. You guys sure are geniuses with your support of this shit.

@@-never-gonna-give-you-up- No, people want to cover their needs, work is just how it allows us to get that until full automation

What makes you think they have not got enough length for a standard sized container? Also those rollers can have additional section added in.

@@kaspernbs often the rollers are quite beat up by wear and tear, and at peak times their is a very low likelihood of having enough belt to make it to the back of every trailer.

@@wgkgarrett then the robot can move back and forward. Or it sets up half way across the gap. As the said about a 10ft reach. So reaches out. Attaches to box. Pulls box to itself. Turns and the pushes out to roller and then let's go.

I'm always a little sceptical of how new automation will be received by the workers. In this case it sounds like people aren't exactly enjoying the job and robots are probably the way to go.

...or when the truck driver drives away with the robot in the trailer. Whoops!

Ball bearings:

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uhm- your what?

Hehehe

Bro No no no no no no no no What are you all thinking of I mean my DHL package What else?

Hahaha, no doubt. It’ll hold your dick while you are out of a job, too, lots of Brainsteins here.

Exactly

@@atomixfang ...and fewer injuries for workers, quicker shipments, lower shipping costs

For companies they can do anything they want, since they won't be on their payroll anymore.

Have you not been paying attention? Artificial intelligence is beginning to do creative work too, like music and writing and visual arts, also computer programming. Soon there will not be much that a person can do for a job.

The only thing corporations are going to need people for is inspections. AI will take over the "creative things" like marketing.

Good luck trying to afford the education for that

You’re on the right track, but give these things AI and they will build, program, and operate themselves.

@@doctordestructo3360 boots camps don't cost much + you start paying after you start earning

@@pelpadesa AI is just getting started. Give it a few years. AI will do everything if we let it. Or perhaps, even if we don’t!

She is excited for innovation. She will most likely be trained as a robot operator instead of being a laborer. She will acquire a new skillset, that is more valuable and marketable to her. People obviously don't want to do that jobs because it is labor intensive, requires you to work in excecively hot or cold environments, is monotonous, etc. This is how to workforce will change moving into the furure and it requires employees like her, that are enthusiastic and excited to learn about new technologies, to propellel organizations forward. I am a manufacturing engineer. I have studied and lived this.

At least you’d have a fkg job. Not Mensa IQ are you?

DHL is the same shit here in Germany. Only ruda package deliverers because they don't fear getting fired which such a low payment

@@azmo_ that industry in general is payed poorly, but compared to dpd, hermes etc. DHL pays a bit better and also more importantly gives you the time you need to deliver your packages. They are the only company in my region that actually delivers packages to my door instead of just throwing in letters.

He literally says at the end "This is a very labor intensive operation there's extreme temperatures as far as extreme heat and extreme cold" yet instead of solving that they're spending as much or more on a slow robot

@@mehrschwein7378 Shipping agents that deliver pickup notices instead of actual packages don't deserve to survive in the marketplace and I seriously doubt they would if recipients consistently had a choice (rather than that choice being made by suppliers/sellers).

Like either coding or being unemployed, apparently, as more and more jobs are automated.

@@Blueshirt38 thank god for that

@@VioletPrism Thank god for people losing their jobs?

@@Blueshirt38 If you think coding or unemployment are the only options, then you need some education...in common sense & using Google.

@@Cuaedria ^

Throwback to Star Trek where the red uniform people were expendable.

And green for the diversity stock 👀😉

Humans look faster when they're working. But in an 8-hour day, you might get 6 hours of actual working time out of a human being. With up to a hundred percent up time, you'd get up to 4 times as much work per day out of a robot. The equipment works up to 365 days a year instead of 246. With proper maintenance, even without upgrades, factory equipment can sometimes last 30 or 40 years. I've seen forklifts last that long. With major retrofits, and overhauls and upgrades, some equipment's been flying for up to 70 years. I'd imagine you could easily justify investing a couple hundred thousand dollars per year per machine, even before considering employee satisfaction and fewer workplace injuries. By the time you figured all the arithmetic, you could invest nearly a million dollars per robot, financed over 5 years and you'd still come out ahead eventually. It's potentially a better investment than a lot of real estate deals. Anything less than a million bucks, even working at a fraction of the speed of a human could be a bargain price for a logistics company. The other thing to consider is human beings cost a lot more than their salary. You got to manage and supervise them, pay for social security, LNI, training costs like breakage, other costs like leakage. That's before we've even thought about worker's unions.

Also try to get 3 people willing to do this shit job nowadays, AND do it right.

How many warehouse machines currently work 24/7????

People could unload even faster with boxcar style side loading, but robots are more fun than proven strategies

@@iCakeMen no one wants to work a job that can't pay near living wage... with atlest one roommate.

Yeah the pace is surprisingly slow.

Over a year, It's going to shift a lot more than you, it can work 24/7/365, you need breaks, sleep, recuperation, weekends, holidays. You can win the sprint atm, but you will never win the marathon.

@@JohnSmith-df4vb There are humans on the receiving end of those conveyors Stretch is putting the boxes on, though, so when they take a break, Stretch is going to have to take a break, too.

@@TiberianFiend and you don't think the other end will be automated eventually? Probably sooner than people realize.

did you work 24 hours per day with no breaks? Did you never get sick?

You can't have a girlfriend

still the difference between 10 men unloading 10 trucks and one man picking up what the robots left.

When robots are the only ones unloading containers, those containers will also have been loaded by robots which made sure that humans are not needed to unload them.

This thing is trash I could easily unload faster than this. Its still going to need a human or another robot. It has no dexterity and it's arms move very slow. It can also drop things and it still has no intelligence. It's to early. I think it's just a helper for right now.

it'll be slower locally but more consistent ie no need for bathroom breaks and doesn't get tired, so probably faster in the long term. its main purpose it so allow employees to focus on other tasks. automation isn't going to take away jobs, it's just going to give you different jobs that are probably less tedious and more suited to humans. plus, technicians and programmers for the robots will still need to exist.

It can work 24 hours 7 days a week with no breaks. And will only get faster.

24/7 operation is a plus, as long as there isn't some random problem during the night. But for trucks that are on a timetable, that's what I'm concerned about.

It's a matter of time. Have you seen the welding robots used in automobile factories? They are scary fast. That's more or less the benchmark.

@@kyleallred984 Well fortunately the robot is on some kind of wheeled base, so if time is that much of an issue for a trailer they can just wheel it to the side and get it emptied by people.

Thought the same thing

Same. Exciting tech, but doesn't seem ready for 'real world' logistics just yet.

I use to work in a pharmaceutical warehouse and I can't wait for the buckets of salt test lol I wonder if the suction cups could lift them? Maybe they could make a curved plate for buckets?

while making us obsolete!

​@@paulconnelly6560 well, it forces us to adapt. Will this be abused somehow in the future? probably. Companies should be capped at how many robots they can order, so that they are not laying off at an alarming rate. Perhaps this could be contingent upon how many other manual labor jobs they have open that are needing to be filled. Companies should be required to have optional training program that employees being replaced can attend to learn a different skill, to have the opportunity to stay with their company. They would just be eligible to fill the position of one of those open jobs after passing one of those programs

*replacing us

the boxes are a mess because humans can deal with that, you just standardize the packaging, and if a problem then it summons a human, it still cuts down the workforce dramatically, you might only need one employee to deal with any problems that occur as opposed to whole teams of employees unloading.

@@JohnSmith-df4vb Just my two cents here but I imagine standardizing packaging would be very difficult, for 4 reasons. 1. It seems to be uncompetitive I believe shipping companies charge the customer for the service of shipping and not packaging. A lot of customers take care of that themselves. If you have to ship something and are given a choice between two companies but one requires you to pay more to package the item in one of their boxes that might not even fit it well, you'd probably use the company that didn't standardize shipping. 2. It would likely be difficult for there to be a consensus between companies. Maybe that's fine if the item is being transported by just one company, but sometimes different delivery services use each other (I think). 3. It would be difficult to enforce. This is similar to point #1 but some people just package things themselves. sometimes an item has to be packaged a certain way. Would shipping companies turn down a customer for not using one of their packages even if said package is secure? I doubt it but who knows. 4. It seems to be impractical. It would be a high task to create a few one-size-fits-all boxes or packages that can be stacked neatly and economical. Keep in mind all sorts of items get shipped. Glass chandeliers, lamps, and tables that are very large and light and fragile sometimes ride in the same trailers as heavy and irregularly shaped parts for trucks, weightlifting equipment like the bench press bars, and heavy rolls of carpet and spools of wire that don't like to be stacked or have things stacked on them. Even supposing one could create packages that were very sturdy so items getting crushed wasn't a problem (an almost impossible task considering the density of some items that get shipped)- if the packages all had to be rectangular prisms the trailers would not be able to carry as many packages. The way I see it the more restrictions one would create in standardizing a package or set of packages so that the trailers are able to be unloaded by robots without human help, the less the trailers can hold. For more on the optimization issues of trailer loading I recommend looking up "Packing Problems". In conclusion: Standardizing packages might be possible but I don't think it would work well. I also don't think many companies would use it. Some might though, as there could be some niches where such standardization is not too big of a drawback. And for those companies, that's great and this robot might be useful. That being said I wonder how Stretch performs on actual trailers. If it can still work decently with few hiccups then that's awesome. If it can't, then perhaps a better system of unloading trailers is needed. All in all from what I can tell I think this robot can still help reduce the workload on humans as it is, so I believe you are right about that. Just wanted to share my thoughts on the difficulties of standardizing packaging.

@@ekinebobmanuel4551 standardizing is already starting to happen, in the last 2 weeks i have received 4 items of varying sizes from Amazon, they all came in the same dimension box, it will be the ones who can not standardize that will not be competitive in the long run, it will allow much more automation on the floor.

@@JohnSmith-df4vb Fair point

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More like 10 years...in 20 years most people will be gone from most jobs. Except the very rich and powerful who owns the robots.

@@ToneyCrimson true

Breaks*

Would be shocked if she had a whole husband, maybe 2 pokie and 1 ray ray 😉

And perfect lighting 🤐

More important work like art or writing things? :p

Many have the illusion that automation will come one day and just take everyones job. The process of switching to efficient automation is slow and is normally applied to new infrastructure. To implement this, they will most likely apply it to new wharehouses built for this process because is better to than modify the old one. Even if they apply it to old wharehouses the current employes can be more efficient by monitoring machinery rather than doing physical labor so productivity can be increased without the need to hire more people. Also automation will increase demand for jobs with higher pay which is better for the economy.

You don’t hear the current administrations talking about UBI at all

I agree... but there's no way companies are going to do that. In fact, for most of them it'd be illegal, it would break their fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. They literally aren't allowed to be morally responsible.

In the uk we already have a haphazard ubi type thing. Its called universal credit. The only problem is like most countries they don't give enough to the people who need it. I'm ok but there are people who work who get less to spend then I do. I recieve mental health benefits and don't work

@@benruckel872 Oh, great. Just whose gonna pay the taxes for your EXTREMELY “BASIC” UBI, genius?

@@Huntracony companies are doing all kinds of shit that is the opposite of moral and getting worse, they will replace workers and expect the government to pick up the check, lock us into \\].3.]=. 5Minute cities that are prisons and put us under bullshit climate lockdowns, while replacing the US Tech employees with third world and Indian imported low wage slaves, congress already does this bullshit. Wake tfup, those of you welcoming this shit and illegal immigrants to pick our fruit.

Absolutely. Not everyone can, or will be programmers. Obviously some jobs are too unique to be automated in the next 50-100 years, but automating all of the repetitive-task jobs and manufacturing removes a lot of the availability for the current workforce.

@@Blueshirt38 Programmers will likely be hit hard by advances in AI and automation too, at least on the entry and mid-level programming job markets

Right now jobs are being created to manufacture these robots. But yeah eventually our economic system will have to change.

I think a lot of people embracing automation may be surprised when their job is also automated with AI or robotics.

"You will own nothing and like it." There is already a plan...

Don't worry I've seen this robot in person (in their lab's [my teacher had connections and gave us a tour of their facilities in … not Boston I forgot where their headquarters is exactly but its very closed to Boston]) and they were showing off the robot picking up different sized boxes with un-even weights in rapid succession. Basically from what they explained to me the robot starts of slow because it needs to map out the boxes with a depth camera, but it cant do that if its a flat wall of boxes. So, the robot needs to remove some boxes and then its cameras (which take pictures every time it wants to pick up a box) can map out the boxes and more accurately predict were the boxes are in a 3d space. So, overtime it gets more confident in its prediction's and its starts going very fast (so fast that it made a mess on the other side in the demo because there was nowhere for the boxes to go). I honestly don't know why they didn't show of a better clip than the one that they did but I don't have all the answers.

@@hhjhj393 It's coming, baby steps. Once they perfect the technology then they have the excuse to set the standard. With the standard comes the pricing, so that's why it will be the last step because the customer has to buy into the process or have no choice. If they standardize now there will be to much push back, it needs to be a slow burn. Just like "two weeks to stop the spread" it's all about the long game. But most people are conditioned for instant gratification so they can't see that far ahead.

Probably more likely to drop boxes with the momentum, power consumption, and I bet it's faster than a human still for the fact it doesn't need breaks and is steady, like you said

It adjusts its speed based on how good of a grip it has (according to the whitepaper)

This thing can work literally 24/7, 365 days a year. All day, all night. No breaks needed. Do the math and this thing is unloading a lot more boxes than people. People take breaks, do shifts, get tired, get lazy, talk to eachother and slow down. This thing is always going at the same pace and it will outperform people in the long run. And this is just an early iteration.

Irrelevant if its 6-10x slower than 2 people. You can employ 6 people to get the same 24/7 coverage and in the time that thing can unload 1 truck, the people can unload 6x that *easily*. (Remember that the value is already including relax and slack.) If we say that the average 53 foot trailer holds ~2000 boxes, then where a team of two can unload a trailer in 30 minutes at a casual pace. As I recall the team record was 15 minutes. This robot will take 3.5 hours to do the same truck. They have a very long way to go. If this was maybe 3x faster than it is now you'd have a point. But right now you'd have to be crazy to actually use this in an actual warehouse.

@@voicetest6019 I don’t disagree. Factor in high turnover rates and the fact that nobody enjoys doing this shit, along with how this is an early iteration. This robotics isn’t going anywhere.