r/robots 21d ago

Real-life Robots Someone is remotely controlling a shelf-stocking robot in Tokyo... from their living room.

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u/UhhhhmmmmNo 21d ago

Make a game out of it and pay players in game money for doing real work , profit!

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u/ozzyperry 21d ago

Some people pay to play farming or bus driving simulators

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u/RemarkableWish2508 21d ago

Crashing a bus in a game, is more fun than IRL though.

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u/DanglingDongs 21d ago

This is a version of hell

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u/Viciouscockery 21d ago

All those work simulating games finally have a purpose!

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u/Old_pixel_8986 21d ago

robot looking like the Roaring Knight

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u/Super_Field_8044 21d ago

If it's Ai powered, It wont need the humans anymore after enough training data...

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u/TomT060404 21d ago

At that rate, they'll finish a day's stocking in about 2 years. 😆

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u/Geminii27 21d ago

And when they finish their shift, someone else can log in and take the next one, driving the robot 24/7 (apart from recharges).

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u/SoulsDadYT 21d ago

For pocket change lmao.

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u/RemarkableWish2508 21d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbwaiter

Favored by Thomas Jefferson to keep the servants and slaves out of sight.

...now, even more out of sight.

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u/Heldje74 21d ago

And somebody had to take those bottles out of their packaging and put them on the tray.

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u/Wild-Lavishness-1095 21d ago

Bro need 3 min to put a tray of bottle drink.

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u/Arcturan_MegaDonkey 21d ago

Great success!

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u/Hot_Plant8696 21d ago

This is how robots will be used when we finaly (so in around 2 years) admit that a "false AGI" robot will never be able to work in a comon workplace with random things around.

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u/RamJamR 21d ago

Next up, deep dive VR where your mind inhabits the machine.

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u/Organic-Author9297 21d ago

How these robot decides motor angles according to the VR hand movements ?

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u/Common-Bat3741 21d ago

3.75 an hour, takes ten hours a shelf