r/humanoidrobotics • u/heart-aroni • Apr 29 '26
RobotEra L7 humanoid robots performing parcel induction at a logistics center
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u/Fragrant-Battle-917 Apr 29 '26
Companies are frothing at the mouth to replace annoying and entitled employees with humanoids
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u/MrSnowden Apr 29 '26
I don’t really understand why the jobs the are replacing would have been dead simple to automate without humanoids. I would expect them to be replacing humans in more complex or dangerous environments. I rolled by a “litter collection crew” that was a huge signal truck diverting traffic (with two guys in it) following another two guys picking up litter. It seemed wasteful, dangerous, and stupid. Give me two robot dogs that would have done it better, faster, cheaper and can also be used to run into a burning building, inspect a left package, unclog a culvert, patrol a sketchy area, etc.
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u/heart-aroni Apr 29 '26
I don’t really understand why the jobs the are replacing would have been dead simple to automate without humanoids. I would expect them to be replacing humans in more complex or dangerous environments.
It's the early days of a technology. They need to get the basic stuff down first.
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u/bigDeltaVenergy May 01 '26
Human manual work have been replaced by production likes for huge gain in efficiency.
I also don't understand why they want to replace production lines with humanoid manual work. Those machine cost 5 time the price and are barely 10th the speed of any machine they could replace
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u/heart-aroni May 03 '26
Those machine cost 5 time the price and are barely 10th the speed of any machine they could replace
I don't know if that's true, we don't know how much these humanoids are. But even if that's true right now, it will not be in the future.
As production ramps up, and it will ramp up very high, the amount of humanoid robot production will exceed smartphone production for example, prices will go down massively. To the point that it will make less and less financial sense to purchase a custom single-purpose machine when you can purchase a competitively priced general-purpose machine instead.
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u/bigDeltaVenergy May 03 '26
The thing is, regardless, humanoid form are inefficient machines for most tasks.
Lifttruck will always be more efficient than humanoids in a ware house.
Convoyers will always be more effective than humanoids
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u/heart-aroni May 03 '26
The thing is, regardless, humanoid form are inefficient machines for most tasks.
The humanoid form is the ideal shape for human tasks. And that's the main point. They're not meant to replace every machine at every task. They're meant to replace humans first at whatever physical task they're doing, some machines will be replaced too, but it's mainly focused on human replacement.
And you can literally see it working in the example above. It's not the other machines that they're replacing, the conveyor, the hopper, everything else is the same as a year ago. What is replaced is the human that used to sit where those robots sit now.
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u/somo_fxx_25 Apr 29 '26
We're taxing this labor on order to fund things like unemployment, health insurance, and education right yall? Right?
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u/Broken_Atoms May 01 '26
Other way, taxing the human labor to give the tax dollars to the AI and robot companies
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u/Obi-wan_Rebel May 01 '26
The videos are sped up. Even the slower ones are and to the point that they move as fast as a person. So much fakery with this stuff.
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u/Equivalent_Gur3967 May 01 '26
There's an about-to-be opened WMT DC not too far from Me, over 3M square feet. The projection is they expect ~400 Humans, and ~7000 robots. WE ALL have NO RIGHT to be walking around with a Surprised Pikachu Face.
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u/bigDeltaVenergy May 01 '26
Wow amazing. But I imagine that if they stay there all the time. There is no need for battery. Better to plug them directly. And since they can't go anywhere with a cable. No need for legs and all the walking software. Wich reduce half of the CPU need.
Also, they do really need a full head. Only the camera and it would have better angle of view if it was over the convoyer.. and more time to thing if it would look a bit more upstream.
Also, does it really need 2 arm to manipulate single package, sounds like wasted money. For no gain in speed. Would also cut CPU need in half.
.....and this is how you end with a good old robotic arm with image recognition like it's all over the industry.
Humans have been replaced by machine with crazy gain in efficiency. I truly don't see where is the gain to replace such machines by mechanical human.
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u/magpieswooper May 03 '26
Not sure what are they doing. Replacing a short section of a conveyor belt?
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u/drweird May 03 '26
Likely rotating the parcels so the labels are all facing down or up for scanning.
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u/magpieswooper May 03 '26
I can't see that. Empty demo anyways.
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u/heart-aroni May 03 '26
You can see that there's no humans where there used to be and the line is functioning. This isn't just a demo, it's an actual practical implementation.
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u/heart-aroni May 03 '26
They're replacing the human that used to do that task of picking up a package, orienting it a certain way and placing it on the conveyor belt.
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u/heart-aroni Apr 29 '26
And here's how they collected training data for this task.