Handle Robot Reimagined for Logistics
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2019
- Handle is a mobile manipulation robot designed for logistics. Handle autonomously performs mixed SKU pallet building and depalletizing after initialization and localizing against the pallets. The on-board vision system on Handle tracks the marked pallets for navigation and finds individual boxes for grasping and placing.
When Handle places a boxes onto a pallet, it uses force control to nestle each box up against its neighbors. The boxes used in the video weigh about 5 Kg (11 lbs), but the robot is designed to handle boxes up to (15 Kg) (33 lb). This version of Handle works with pallets that are 1.2 m deep and 1.7 m tall (48 inches deep and 68 inches tall). 
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It's really beautiful to see them in their natural habitat.
Haha
Ah yes ...
The warehouse
Play the Horizon zero down
I read this in a David attenborough voice in my head.
@ARTHUR DO TELETRANSPORTE No it doesn't care, yet
I always knew we would be replaced by giant robotic ostriches.
They look like something from a Dr. Seuss book
bjornsmasher66 they called me a madman
They are Robot raptors
Glad they’re more careful about putting down packages than UPS is.
Maybe it's not about care, but fun. It's more fun to kick your package like a soccer ball across your lawn than set it down. lol Reminds me of that scene from Ace Ventura.
There's something incredibly elegant in the way it moves, using its heavier electronics and moving parts as a counter-weight to make it easier to stop and go.
Well, it is a counter weight, you can be almost guaranteed there is a weight in it 😜
@@cameronmalchow1837 maybe the battery?
They move like giant, awkward but extremely precise birds, and I love them dearly.
Very... specific
You won't be loving them
Robochickens wiggling with there tails lol
I have constant nightmares about this hellish mechanical bird picking my house up and putting it in a volcano.
Using his butt to balance.. That's clever
its his ballsack
Birds do it!
Probably a whole bunch of batteries in its ballsack
@@LIFEOFSTUFFEDANIMALS actually pretty clever, a balancing mechanism for robots can have the batteries in it that power it as w eight. Really goes to show how advanced Bosto nDynamics is. They and darpa combined are l ike IRL skynet. in probs 10 - 20 years we'll have transformers roaming the streets
Man, working at Boston Dynamics must feel like working at Skynet.
Today, they were bought by Hyundai 😔
i feel they're wasting perfectly good free electrons, in every video this dumb ai of yt suggests to me...both of them
@@ivok9846 cry about it
@@lookstothetroon nah, i'll laugh at them, we all soon will.... hehe....oh yeah at self driving cars....waste of free electron flow too...
@@ivok9846 What are you on about
So much negative feedback. Look at the skill and hard work it takes to imitate us, we are quite a machine, and we made that.
:)
It’s not trying to imitate humans, they designed it so it’s more efficient.
The battery pack as the counterweight.. brilliant..
V-mount batteries were always the counterweight of Steadycams and such
Real question: can you cover them in feathers?
They really do look like birds. There's actually a video here on YT that shows how birds change their posture when they are given an artificial counterweight that simulates a tail, like dinosaurs had. And these things are really similar, their "tail" (which might be the battery pack?) helps them keep their balance. So we have robot dinosaurs now.
@@Blaze6108 do you by any chance have the link to that video?
@@martinjuniors6973 ruclips.net/video/oGOQ1Igy6Do/видео.html
These seem to be working at roughly the same speed a normal human would be moving these boxes, depending on weight, so I'm dying to know how much electricity they use and how often they require maintenance and spare parts.
Because if everything combined is less than twice the pay of a human warehouse worker (since these can work 24/7) and if it functions reliably, there won't be too many people working warehouse jobs 10 years from now.
Not just pay is saved, but also ton of other costs. Labor, if I'm not mistaken, can easily be the highest cost overall
@@loopingdope It doesn't help the US gov will likely incentivize using them as a "Green option" and give tax incentives due the them running on batteries.
I can't help but see this guy as a robotic ostrich with roller blades for feet
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They say they're slow, but they don't consider that they'll be working 20h per day every day
More if they recharge via battery exchange or if they're plugged into a roaming cable above them. No breaks, consistent, efficient.
EDIT: Forgot to mention:
- Companies won't have to pay for employee health insurance.
- They can work every single day of the year. (not including breakdowns)
- Zero chance of a lawsuit if a unit gets damaged from safety hazards.
- Keeping maybe 10% to 15% of total units on standby means even in the event of a broken unit, productivity wouldn't be hindered as they can be replaced (maybe have an auxiliary limp mode on the units to check the unit's status and slowly move away from the work area if it detects damage or malfunction. Another unit takes its place).
- Cleaner facilities as robots do not shed skin and hair. They leak if they're damaged, like humans. They may cause rubber skid marks, like those made by shoes. But they do not shed hair and skin; Less cleaning thus lowered expenses.
- This one is big for warehouses: Temperature regulation can be minimal. Meaning warehouses don't need to blast their HVAC systems throughout the year to keep the temperature between, for example, 70F to 80F. They can increase the range to, say, 50F to 85F thus spending less on heating and air conditioning.
- Less damage to products from rough handling by a lazy or impaired employee.
@@TheArabsolga You could even have them follow tracks in the floor for power.
Spacial charging is already a thing for phones, so maybe in time...
I see what you mean. Battery charging station with itself an installment robot. 23.9 hour charging
Still, they could be faster.
There you have it. 24/7, 365 days. No breaks, No annual leaves. No sick leaves. No complaints. No promotions.
Until the poor rise up.... let self driving take over truck drivers. It will hit the fan real fast.
Since these robots were designed to do only one thing, what are they going to use them for after all the boxes are stacked?
The one thing that us humans are the best at is creating our own destruction.
Len R Amazon will always have boxes to move
@@gonepostal474 yeah destruction. though misspelled but you actually got it right.
@ShortyOrc 1 Well robot police, military and killing machines are easy solutions for the rich to ward off the poor. The rich won't need the poor anymore once these robots become more capable and mass produced. They'll probably be two societies in the future a wealthy and automated one and a poor one with people living the traditional lifestyle.
They're so organic and fluid with their movements, it's mesmerizing to see them work.
They did a good job with the physics Algorithims
No breaks, lunch hour, benefits, sick days....
Poor things...
infinite electricity
Well they probably break at some point and need to be fixed
That’s only because they have yet to unionize.
The scariest part of these Boston Dynamics videos isnt how good the machines are, its how they all resemble animals, and move in an almost natural way. I feel like the engineers are definitely looking at existing species to determine the best way to design these robots.
Engineers have done this for centuries! ;) But yes, this is pretty much what makes Boston Dynamics robots so lively and creepy.
Where is the guy that always kicks the robots. WE STILL MUST SHOW DOMINANCE
Ha ha ha !
Terminated
Todd Roy no thats we get killed by robots in the future
Much better than the previous "terminator on rollerskates" model. Thank you for your mercy.
Can’t believe all the comments like “humans are more efficient”. Have you learned nothing about technology over the past couple decades?!
Humans are (currently) more efficient. I don't doubt that these will one day reach and surpass the level that a team of humans can perform this job at, but the humans will still very likely be much cheaper.
Well a human would get the fork truck and move the whole pallet... who's more efficient now?
@@jrea424 right now these are in a "beta" phase and arent programed that way.
also why would you need to move the pallet if you only need one box? thats literally what the robot on the right was doing with the conveyor.
@@09jjohns in my opinion, these are already almost more efficient solely for the reason that they do their job 100% of the time. Humans get distracted or think they know a faster way to do stuff, when in reality it slows down production. These robots though, all they do is their job.
@@Not_Ciel that’s a good point!
0:36 throwing with the boxes! Just like real postal workers do :D
I like the use of the giant swinging ballsack on the big ostrich robot for balance. I do something similar to help keep my balance as well.
To the people asking why it only has two legs/wheels...
Its because it uses counter weight to carry its load (the huge anvil looking black thing between its legs... balls of steel 😎). Giving it more legs or wheels will make it harder for it to balance the weight as it can't shift itself that easily with such huge surface area (2 legs/wheels are enough). This counterweight thing are also utilized in elevators and tower cranes... mechanical systems that does load carrying.
We are living in an age where autonomous robots on rollerskates are a viable and useful technology. Amazing.
Well, looks like Amazon will soon have less problems with work ethics
And the robots will demand for more charging breaks
@@angeber1178 not if they have cables connected.. 🤔
Absolutely incredible how the automatic counterweight maintains the center of mass over the wheels while accelerating and extending!!!
People worried about losing their jobs -
When the cement mixer was made, did anyone complain about not having to mix cement? No because it allowed us to build faster! Its the same logic here, these fixes will have a knock on effect and speed up everything else.
Seeing how the world is I would say people definitely complained at first.
Amazon is watching this video.
Estimates are that most jobs -- including legal and medical -- will be completely automated within a century. We'll need whole new political and economic systems because we won't need to work as hard to survive.
Holy fuck, I didn't know that robotics were this advanced already, I feel like *the future is here*
Nick Valentine it is fake , cgi
@@user-wl3ts5rd1i why?
@@user-wl3ts5rd1i what the hell no it isn't lmao
@@user-wl3ts5rd1i Nope
The future has been here. You just never knew it.
Those desktop drinking birds have come a long way!
Lol!
Its the ones under the desk ya be worried bout
this is legit amazon in a decade
@dota vinkz they can probably pick up odd shapes and dont need all the infrastructure of an automated warehouse
People here acting like automation is a bad thing. Its a necessary step for society to make human lives easier, this also creates a bigger need for skilled workers to manage these systems. 100 years ago the job economy was very different from what it looks like today just like how 100 years from now it will look completely different again.
How do you make all those workers who are made obsolete into skilled workers and create a skilled job position for them in order to avoid mass unimployment?
@@NochSoEinKaddiFan UBI, Yang2024
Yes. Some day I hope to become a big fat blob that never lifts a finger, like those folks in Wall-E
@@NochSoEinKaddiFan It's not like it is going to happen overnight. Over the next few generations these types of jobs will just progressively become less necessary as advances like this are more prevalent. Optimistically speaking as education systems get better and more available more skilled workers will already be in the job market while this shift occurs. So I personally don't believe that there will be mass unemployment because of robotic workers. Every industry new and old will always require human ingenuity to function and prosper.
@@HJima As I said in my other response I don't personally believe that robotic workers will ever cause mass unemployment. However, I do definitely agree that if there was consistent mass unemployment of numbers that we have never seen in a prosperous society that the correct response to this would be some form of UBI. This is exactly why I think advances like this are so important because I believe eventually we will get to a point in which people don't have to spend their lives doing grueling unfulfilling jobs and they can rather spend their time doing something that they enjoy without having to worry about their basic needs.
These robots suffer the same development as us humans; first starting to walk, learning to jump, having fun; then doing stupid, mind-boggling work. Those poor creatures.
Lol, but do they pay taxes
They can't feel pain.
and then they become the lord of the world.
Imagine these robots replacing those senseless people throwing suitcases like garbage when unloading them from airplanes and imagine not having to buy a new suitcase each time it is destroyed. BostonDynamics guys - sell these to the airports if possible, we who are about to travel salute you!
Think about it like this. They may be slightly slower than a human, but:
They dont get paid
They don't need healthcare
They dont need time off
They don't get hurt
If they need repairs or to recharge, another can replace them within the hour
They instantly know how to do their job
Their workspace needs less cleaning
They never retire
They don't get into fights
They never need raises
They never need maternity leave
They're just better than people in every single way. They might take more power, but with how much better they are, it doesn't matter. The same thing already happened to the automotive industry. This is the future. Humans will move to jobs that a robot just can't do now. Like retail, which often requires problem solving. Robots are not capable of complex thought. (for now)
One time payment of a 5 year salary. Haha
@@MrBmxbrawler in the future they'll be cheaper though
god if i wasn't burnt out as fuck, i'd try and go into engineering so i can help hurry these big fuckers up and get people out of warehouses. warehouse work is repetitive and backbreaking, and the conditions a lot of warehouse workers are in is inhumane. the machines won't kill or replace us, they'll free us.
And then we use UBI or some other system like that, so those warehouse workers can have a new source of income when they get put out of a job.
i love these people saying "cgi" or "fake" when this is from boston dynamics, an actual robotics company planning to release robots to the public
I heard they hide the real cool stuff for classified govt. projects.
I'm a simple man. Boston Dynamics posts a video, I click it.
I go even further and share it before watching
Просто уходи
i go even further and like it, share it and hit the notification bell before watching
the way the move is so smooth that the video feels like a render.
I love that they're using their.. mechanisms as counterweights.
This legit looks like something from Half-life
Flappy Pancake I KNOW IT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HL
Or Black Mirror
I'm sorry, but I won't be using any services that use these bots. I want my packages to be kicked and thrown around
Probably u work in this service section.
Would you settle for dropped and run-over? Its the new kicked and thrown. There's also some exciting work being done in robotic graffiti.
@@loteknomad5032 clearly Lotek and Paul missed the sarcasm there duy ;)
I'm not sure what it is about handle, but i love them so much. I guess ive just never seen anything move like that, and its fascinating. i think having something like that with a cockpit would be so cool
Yea untill your left without a job @jamesonAtwell
@@debreonn.5097 moving boxes...
@@debreonn.5097 Yes because they can do our tasks better than we can. It's called employment evolution or optimizing the work place. Who wants to lift boxes forever anyway?
When the cement mixer was made, did anyone complain about not having to mix cement? No because it allowed us to build faster! Its the same logic here, these fixes will have a knock on effect and speed up everything else.
@@blazemkds Yea your right but who does ? But everyone is not capable of getting a professional job due to mental disabilities or criminal records . so why would you vouch for a robot replacing hundreds of employees . That will lead to another economic depression . Soon they will have computers replace administrative employees , and robots replacing fast food workers. So unless you have a million dollars i wouldnt be talking. Think of the bigger picture !!
@@debreonn.5097 You are right but it will not cause economic depression at all. Automation is expected to create a $17 trillion economy boost. All easy jobs will be gone by 2030s, fast food, deliveries, basically all high street jobs, and there's nothing we can do about it the benefit for the companies is massive. Things will change a lot in the future, everything essential will become very cheap like clothes and food etc because of nano tech/3D printing. The whole concept of "work" will need to be reevaluated eventually since there will just not be enough jobs left by the 2040s/2050s.
I assumed they'd stack the boxes far more precisely then that. Took them ages as well. At least they got that authentic "chuck it on the conveyor" ethic down 😂
I assumed you'd know the difference between "than" and "then", but...life can be disappointing at times.
@@logomoko78 life's too short to be such a boring pedant dear, autocorrect is a bitch though 😘
its disturbing how fluid and smooth the movement looks dude
it doesnt feel real
Fr bro
Robot: -What-is-my-purpose?
Engineers: -You stack boxes.
Robot: -...Oh-my-god.
Yeah ... welcome to the club, pal.
David
It’s a robot voice. :P
But are they fulfilled in their work?
Do they take their breaks?!
It's just fascinating to see these bird bots work
That robot has no business being that scrumptiously thicc
People in the comments griping that this isn't efficient obviously dont grasp that this could have multiple uses, and this video is just showing off one of them
And this is 2019. With machine learning, the more we use things, the *better* they get - the first time in human history this has happened. Crazy time to be alive right now!
Yes, this is similar, but also much different than the industrial Revolution
@@scsi_joe I mean, I don't see ANY similarities to the industrial revolution other than maybe general "innovation". The internet is arguably the greatest invention humans have ever created. And yes, I'm considering fire and the wheel (and sliced bread). Consolidating human knowledge and making it accessible across the globe has really changed EVERYTHING. We've essentially wiped out "locality". And we're still in the infancy of this human "hive mind". If ones mind doesn't boggle at this planet and humanity, I don't think you really see the big picture.
@@OwenIverson well, it's kinda difficult to compare what was invented before, with what has been invented now... Prior inventions or discoveries lead us up to inventing the internet and other things in the modern world. It was a process, took time.
And I can't completely agree that getting rid of 'locality' is necessarily a good thing.
I have the feeling that they are going to lay an egg
I have a feeling that they are going to lay off alot of people 🙃🙃
@@lpollock16 Me too... 😕
"How tough are you?!"
"I use my balls as a counterweight while I work"
"Right this way, sir..."
Stabilizing a two wheels robot with varying centroid is a challenge on its own. Boston Dynamics has such a remarkable expertise in robot engineering/ AI and great ideas that I'm always fascinated by their work
Can't wait when they explain all the math behind this balancing. I suspect it is very simple.
There goes my dream of a career in palletizing!
Amazon: I want your entire stock.
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Father, what am I created for ?
- Well, you take those boxes and put them here.
Денис Димун “you pass butter”
As a warehouse combo selector, this looks amazing, and simultaneously feels like looking into the face of my destroyer.
I love the way the thing on the back moves it makes the robot look natural
Everybody gangster till dinosaur robot steals your job
damn that robots got big balls
Work 24/7 with minor supervision, never get hurt, no need to pay overtime or benefits. Goodbye to these types of jobs.
Yep but hey according to some people they say people who do this type of work will be able to find other work, of course they don't say what kind of work that might be but other type of work is what is claimed.
Em we shall see no doubt.
Well technically they can still get hurt
@@ninjacat230 I believe you mean damaged, hurt suggests they have pain receptors, would a robot understand what pain is?
Probably not, some people don't understand what pain is, until they feel it themselves of course, and even then they don't always understand it.
flitsies they have force sensors. It wouldn’t be hard to program a threshold so the robot prevents itself from being damaged by a force that would exceed the materials’ capabilities. Isn’t this the same purpose of pain for humans? So the robot could, by your logic, still get hurt
Pain isn’t some difficult concept unless you want to be very philosophical about it. It’s just a signal that something is too much for the body
I think they're kinda cute, they're like robot chocobos
This is pretty amazing however, as someone who's done a lot of of warehouse work, there's a LOT of variance in how a box is loaded and sealed. But the potential is astounding.
My thoughts exactly, it’s definitely an interesting bot, but I’ve seen lots of boxes with damaged tops that would tear off if you tried to lift them by the top.
Good point I think this might be just a prototype they will probably make it better in the future
Looks creepy in action, but I can appreciate how difficult it must have been to engineer this giant butter robot.
The way it stabilises and how the counter weight moves is amazing
Their movements look so real and natural for me that it scares me
its physics
Because it is real..
The smoothness is so.. uncanny.
It's so alien how precisely it moves.
Silence nubty.
I like how they used a battery as counterweight.
That's the special N.A.D.S. battery pack.
Looks like they got the "carelessly drop the package on the conveyor" part down. :)
Damn this robot has some big balls.
It looks like it kept it's promise in no robonut november to forever
Very impressive. It looks unreal. They resemble birds or dinosaurs I dunno. Such smooth and precise motion 😲 So, so cool!
Those are some big balls.
This is a robot Ostrich.
You can't change my mind. Boston Dynamics is literally building Megaman stage enemies.
it's quite literally the vacuum robot from Wall-E
The conveyor belt one finished early and nipped off for a cheeky pint of oil leaving his mate to do all the work. The other one is going to be pissed off when he realises.
People say they are slow and inefficient, though these 2 robots can go on (minus charging) for 24 hours a day , 7 days a week, 365 days a year. No food breaks, no cigarrete break, no back pain, no salary, no raises, only maintenance. And they improve each year in precision and speed. No contest, pretty much all physical jobs will disappear within the next 30 years.
Plus as human beings will be freed from these types of shit jobs! They're low paid, physically devastating on your body and mentally and morally draining. Go robotics!
It also means more people who can't get employed because for some reason...ie lack of education and money because of the area they were born in...means that a greater welfare system will have to get created, like Universal income, to support the unemployed.
@@edd868 Or just use concentration camps. Much easier.
Im an orderfiller at a walmart distribution center. The center basically employs my entire small town. Its pretty gut wrenching knowing this is the future.
We need to get these in our warehouse. It stacked that pallet better than most I've received in the past year.
you still need someone to sort the skus, most pallets come with mixed skus and you have to break down the pallet to get the correct sku. Also its always recommended to pick a box up from the bottom, seems like heavy boxes will need extra secure bottoms, because i cant imagine what would happen if the bottom spilled out and the robot tried to keep stacking boxes with product all over the floor .
@SUS CLIPS
Plenty warehouses are staged incredibly well. By far, most are not. Also this machine is good for factories too where a production line runs the same product all day, in the same boxes. I've had multiple jobs stacking the same products all day
There will be no issues with SKUs- because it'll be done by robots end-to-end. It can all be preorganized
@@neopabo what about the bottom of the boxes? reinforced or nah?
@@GodBlessHipHop Reusable boxes. Reduces waste, and its cheaper
There will likely be other variants. Heck, the original form had two arms to grip items from the sides. Should be possible to have an arrangement similar to forklift blades.
It looks as if this is for moving already-packed containers.
Every time BostonDynamics posts a video, we get closer to a robot rebellion.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
Every time BostonDynamics posts a video there's a shit storm in comments
Those movements are uncanny. Who the fuck came up with the idea of making giant robot chickens on wheels??
good job
Boston Dynamics. Also, you would say the same thing to the computer about 90+- years ago
@@joeybarela363 But computers arent uncanny.
I can see these being useful for overnight prep to set things up for humans to start work in the morning.
Their movement make them look like they breath and it makes them look so alive. I love it!
Worker: I love my job
Boston Dynamics: hold my beer
This is why we need UBI. Soon there won't be jobs for people without very high intelligence and creativity, and not everyone has that.
Yeah but then the job wasn’t meaningful anyway.
@@dmitchel0820 they'll just make new unnecessary jobs to keep the peasants busy and please the more skilled people. Like ass wiping or something lol
YANG GANG WE OUT HERE
@@dmitchel0820 AI is coming for those jobs too. If it's profitable to do so it will be automated within a generation or two.
Losing your job to a metal ostrich will be tough...
@Oshe Shango and then there's the dropouts
We'll be so advanced that the dropouts will have something to do as well.
Plant some trees, clean the ocean, customer service, hookers, etc.
Better than having people doing soul-destroying warehouse jobs, starting to talk about the weekend on Tuesday so that they can drink all weekend, rinse and repeat for 40 years.
Except you forgot they those people still need a job, considering how most work in a warehouse I'd assume their education level is not very high meaning it will be tough to employ them.
Maybe the workers should hire these robots to work for them ;-)
@@tiefensucht unless those workers wanna buy those robots and hire them to a company sure
This is much better than watching dancing with the stars
These ones don't get pissed that they're payed less than minimum wage and throw the boxes around out of spite.
@Niko Kapanen but the jobs that need a soul, unfortunately aren't vital to the functioning of the economy.
@Niko Kapanen why would the economy need robots to clean houses by themselves, when the people who live in the houses no longer have jobs because they were replaced by robots and AI?
Great to see Boston Dynamics continue on with developments.
The way they move around is like some stuff you’d see in video games
A few years ago I toured the Volkswagen Audi plant near Sindelfingen, Germany. The immaculate plant was highly automated but with human technicians. I joked with my guide that soon the factory would be manned by robots and humans would not be required. He turned to me an said seriously: "That is already possible. But the Unions will not allow it".
That so many of you cheer to displace all workers is hilarious. If no one is making any money who will buy all this unnecessary stuff?
The rights we have in the workplace were the result of fights to the death led by unions against corporations that would prefer slavery.
Tech is coming and so is automation but we need to do the work necessary to make sure humans are ok. If you think your corporate run world won't affect you, look at the the billions of people who have suffered needlessly over that last few centuries.
Trust me, unions aren't stopping anything; it's costs. It's still cheaper to use humans.
@@robertnicholls9917 yeah if they are replacing everyone .... Unions wouldn't matter because they wouldn't need anyone
Yeeeessss, I waited so long for an other boston dynamic video!!!
The robot in the foreground is the rookie and places the packages very carefully. The other one is just pissed off from his job and smashes them on the rollers xD
they have an individual personality 😲
Это концепт роботы. И что им таскать им похер. Они машины. Человек тут в проигрыше будет 200500%
The movement is so graceful it's amazing
You didn't search for this, the robot recommends itself.
Damn
Now imagine this thing with a T-Rex costume on.
Weird. I hear heavy breathing coming from the Amazon fulfillment center about 20 miles away.
I don't know why, but this particular Robot makes me so happy..
Makes it's how it moves 😀
Put a saddle on these bad boys and race them at the track!
Chaotic suggestion: put a saddle on these bad boys and try to stay on, at the rodeo!