Stretch at Promat 2023 | Boston Dynamics
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- Опубликовано: 29 мар 2023
- We demonstrated Stretch, our autonomous case handling robot, automating trailer unloading at Promat 2023. From efficiency to ease of use, hear from our team to learn how Stretch works, what's new, and what's coming next for warehouse automation!
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If you would have told me 10 years ago that an autonomous robot would be unloading trucks, I would have said "That's a stretch".
Punny
That's a stretch.
Go home
Buh-Dum-Tssssh 😂
That's because it WAS 10 years ago😭
A lifetime ago, I was in a situation that brought me to check up on how work was being done in a loading/unloading facility like this. They were walking us down the conveyers and showing us what was being done. People were asking how many boxes you were supposed to pick up and put on a conveyor belt, how long and how frequent breaks were.
Ignoring the details to the answers, I was focusing on the people working there. They were most of them covered in sweat, working in terrible lighting and very little air circulation inside truck trailers, looking miserable. But I will never forget two things: How empty their eyes looked, how drained their souls were. And how robotic they appeared.
This type of job is not fit for a human, to do for hours, days and months to an end.
I can’t imagine any sane human going there and working if they did not have a terribly pressing reason.
Yet, they were there.
One side of me applauds relieving humans from horrid work. The other side feels the dread of the people who had to do this job and what will happen to them when they no longer were needed.
Imagine the brainstorming sessions that happen at Boston Dynamics. It must feel amazing to be on ground zero designing the future.
They’re getting instructions & insights from extraterrestrial beings. Not much innovation is going on there.
@@HeartlessWon506 what
@@destroyerofturtles5024 you read what I said and I know it is a fact.
@@HeartlessWon506 it obviously isn’t, why would aliens give blueprints to a robotics company?
@@HeartlessWon506 as an extraterrestrial being, i can confirm this is true
so happy for you guys love to see it, you're one of the very few robotics companies i have confidence in
coz they got viral for making dancing robots?
@@deadpianist7494 what kinda brain dead take is this?
@@deadpianist7494 stfu pessimist
@@deadpianist7494 😂
@@deadpianist7494 well they know how to do marketing that's for sure
Maybe there are other, better robot companies but I don't know about them
We here at FedEx already have an excellent unpacking system that is suitable especially for fragile and other sensitive packages. You see, our large container trucks have a tipping mechanism-similar to a dump truck-to raise one end of the container. The boxes practically unpack themselves into our patented _package pit._ From there, large bulldozers carefully move each box to its own sorting area where our specially trained RacCoon units inspect them and sort them.
I don't know if I need to even mention this, but yes, this is hyperbole.
“Raccoons” gave it away.
Everyone knows raccoons are only good at sorting human garbage and inspecting cat feces.
Hold up, how do you do italics in the comments?
@@SmolPotatowo _whachu talkin’ ‘bout_ ?
@@SmolPotatowo You put underscore on each side of the word, like _this._
You can also do bold with asterisks like *this.*
And even *_both!_*
@@ConstantlyDamaged You can also do -strikethrough- with hyphens. Worth mentioning that it only works if the formatting character is not in the middle of the word or is not between the word and a punctuation mark.
DHL, maybe they'll actually ship packages that should take a day or two at most in less than a month now.
Give us an Autonomous Humanoid robot already .That is All We want .😊
This is such a great advancement. Can we see a video with more heterogeneity of case sizes / orientations?
I think they have a video of DHL using it to unload trucks somewhere on their youtube page.
That would interest me too. Will stretch leave boxes that are oddly shaped, will he even fail from such boxes or will he master all that is thrown at him? :)
There is so much that can be sent: round boxes, suitcases, appliances that aren't in cardboard ...
The DHL video also shows only similar shaped rectangular boxes.
Many happy returns to the ester Sunday of boston dynamic
I like robotics. Because, this is future and doing easy our work.
Grammar😂
This most definitely was _not_ written by chatGPT. 🤣
apply this for efficent calculating & loading of containers too with minimum empty space left and finally focus on whole process of keeping that from truck to warehouse by using different models or something.
Amazing, always, What you do is really the future, your work is perfect and consistent. I hope for continued progress.❤ (sudan 🔥)
Wow, I need this for my many boxes that I have to move a very short distance!
10/10 for whoever decided to have the boxes be for Spot and Atlas!
You guys are really STRETCHIng this one out!
THIS is what automation should be for - alleviating human labor
Great, thanks for sharing share.
Lovely!
I need Stretch to increase the efficiency of me getting out of bed in the morning...
Cool!
This is too cool
I wish my managers let me go that slow
I'm just as impressed by the flexible, movable conveyer-belt.
Boston Dynamics did not invent that. They have those already. The aspect is that they connected a robot to instead of the human that does it currently.
Thanks!
I have such a difficult time understanding how to set up washing machines these days - and I'm an electronics engineer! 🤣 I'm not sure if this means setting up Stretch is as easy as they want it to sound, but I love it!
BD's software is pretty straight forward and UI is easy enough like working a video game on a tablet, they use a visual XYZ diagram for stretch and you can preset positioning. It also has plugins for machine learning optical tracking, and injecting custom scripts using C++.
The internet has made you dumb. ChatGPT will increase that metric so just be aware mate 👴
Pretty sick.
Так это же круто ещё несколько лет и тысячи людей без работы 😅
This is evolution, people will be forced to switch to a different type of work, namely mental work, where machines cannot yet replace us, but they are also taught this.
Everyone laughed at Jacque Fresco when he said that in the future we will not have to work physically and everything is going to this and at some point we will say lol remember how we ourselves loaded the goods bought in the supermarket, such things as loading furniture or household technology will be automated and will not require anything from people other than payment for goods and delivery. Only 30-80 years will pass and everything around us will be massively automated.
Do you have to characterize each box's contents beforehand, or can Stretch judge on-the-fly? I ask because it looks like Stretch picks up boxes from the top of the box. However if a box contains a very heavy object that said box cannot structurally support the weight of, its contents will spill out of the bottom of the box. Does stretch have a method to determine if the box's interior contents could damage the box's integrity, and alert human staff that it needs assistance?
all 100% autonomous. stretch uses a weight sensor so no need to categorize. it knows the size of the box and it knows the weight so it can figure out the structural integrity from there. stretch even learns from its mistakes and the mistakes of all other stretch units in service so it will get better and batter as it goes on. and if the contents of a box is too heavy, stretch has ways of handling it. human intervention would be a last resort tho, not the first thing tried
Curious why Stretch drops the boxes from about 6" height onto the conveyor rather than getting it closer before releasing. This isn't the first video of Stretch where I've observed this.
Because in Engineering, "good enough" is perfect.
Efficiency.The less it needs to move, the less energy, wear & tear, and less time overall to move packages and itself.
nice! This will free up warehouse workers to do engineering desk jobs using chatgpt
Yes!
Woah robots evolving 😮
Cool
Great technology ...
nice!
In all your videos, I have seen stretch unload trucks onto a conveyor. I always assumed that it can also take items from a conveyor and put them into the truck. Is that a capability?
This product will put Boston Dynamics on the commercial compass. I predict exponential growth.
- It should be mounted to the actual trucks for loading and unloading.
And then it should have a conveyor setting or a pallet setting, depending on how you want to load and unload.
Edit, it should be mounted on top of the back of the truck, and just the arm comes down to do all the moving.
Nah, that would add weight + expense in gas costs. Also, in our current system, warehouses are responsible for offloading trucks, not the truck companies.
i used to unload trucks sometimes random things will happen needing human intervention anyway
Yay for Boston Dynamics! (Hire me lol)
Thanks for sending doggo for mine searching to Ukraine . Thanks a lot 😊
let's see that puppy with 8 arms, cranked up to full speed
Perfect if every parcel is squarish with the same dimensions and weight.
cool.. now make a big version for cargo planes that fit along each side and the rollers fold down . Alternating left to right . Make getting choppers out much faster.
You keep showing Stretch unloading and that is great, but can Stretch also load a container? I'm assuming yes, but just wanted to make sure.
ypu, watch the video closer, they have footage of it loading in the background
Should have had the boxes going to an empty container with another Stretch loading up, then reverse back again when the boxes are done
Everone in an Amazon shipping unit liked this
Seems like it should be equally as good at picking up the boxes from the conveyor and loading the truck.
But it's nuts that simple!
Just imagine how different it would really have to be to do the exact same thing backwards.
But think of the gains!
When there's 100 trucks being unloaded, and 100 trucks being loaded, at the same time, with predicted forecasts replacing just in time inventory, and truly smart scheduling of your facilities facility, things are going to change.
It can load too, they use optical tracking and machine learning to stack!
if you rewatch the vid and pay attention they do show clips of both unloading and loading. cool stuff!
cool
it does well with empty boxes
it would be cool if you would unload from one container and immediately load it into another container along this conveyor line with exactly the same manipulator!
I'm just waiting for Boston Dynamics to become some kind of Faro Automated Solutions ...
what conference was this at? I wanna go
What we are showing here is the end of human labor which we ALL knew was coming. What is bad is that we have no replacement labor for most low end workers going forward. If you thought the American dream was gone it is. If you thought the amount of homelessness was bad, its only just begun.
Three people to describe one product ? , maybe you can get stretch to help you streamline your presentations.
It will outstrech many workers.
How does it work when the boxes are not equally big and maybe they have been shaking around during transport and are therefore not evenly stacked ?
Machine learning
Yeah it's cool, but when the boss needs that container empty, it's just not quick enough. Seeing 5 people emptying a container is something else.
Former DHL night shift worker, when a plane needs to take off, it will not wait, that container has to be emptied and sorted with haste. So don't see this as a job stealer any time soon.
You should see 5 robots emptying a container.
It doesn't have to be perfect to start replacing some labor, just has to be good enough for the typical job. Once they are out in the field, speed will improve over time, it's inevitable.
@@teamofsteve You should see 5 of those being able to fit in that storage container that clearly is impossible to fit 2 side by side, because you are clearly delusional. Once that happens, it will be great, but isn't there yet. 5 people unloading does exist, and it is undeniably faster (if you are not delusional.)
@@BrianPeiris *cheaper, not good, main advantage of capital production is no wages, doesnt matter if it takes 5 times as long as a human when its a 20th of the price long term, obviously were not at this point yet but when we get there, to put it lightly the phillips curve suggests that the worlds inflation problem will be solved ;)
Can stretch do loading as well? that would be incredible and a game changer.
if you look at 0:33 you can see it loading on the video display in the background
@@coreysuffield could be in reverse. I hope it can load though. Unloading is such a waste of resources for a robot at the moment. Humans will always be better and faster at unloading for many obvious reasons. So it's pointless having a robot do it until they can create perfect packages that never get destroyed
Was half expecting something kind of centaur looking that could field pick fruits and vegetables. How many arms can you actually fit onto a modified Spot? :p
Can it also load?
Where I work, we have machines for heavy stuff but the machine takes like 10 minutes to get it out and set it up when I could just call another guy over and we can get it loaded in less than 30 seconds. We use machines as last resort. It's way too slow.
Now, i would like to see it build a pallet
What is about top-full container? Can it reach top row?
I have done that job in the past and it's back breaking work the boxes are not a uniform size or shape some are fragile and some very heavy also most warehouses don't have a conveyor system people's backs are cheaper
More type of boxes!
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How do make the robot walk I want to make one it’s my dream so pleasssseee answer
What if the boxes AINT neatly stacked or pushed in? or its not just boxes but other stuff? ye
big dog 🐕❤
Lol I work in a warehouse and things very rarely work that smoothly. But hey maybe someday.
Yeah maybe if the trucks are packed with the same robots. At Target the trucks where a mixture of pallets and flimsy boxs crammed to the ceiling. Quite a few times everything would spill out when opening the doors.
So much for human labor.
You had me until "operate a washing machine"
I have been a huge fan since the days of Big Dog, and still am! But having spent most of my life in blue collar employment I do wonder if BD also takes part in efforts to mitigate the financial impact your innovations will inevitably have on some of the already lowest paid laborers.
That's the job of the government, not of the private companies.
@@martiddy From their ethical priciples: "Nevertheless, the general mobility of our robots allows us to turn our focus to how this new type of automation can be used to improve our lives." I'd think it would be in prudent in terms of PR visibility and corporate social responsibility knowing that machines like this are displacing an already underpaid labor force.
The same way that mobile phone companies assisted in the retraining and employment reassignment of all of the people that were required to keep payphones functioning?
@@maifantasia3650 Did they do that? Nice!
Can when have a ride a AMP suits?
I unload trucks for a big box hardware store and they are a chaotic Mess, compared to the unloading environment shown with Stretch in the demo. I wonder what level of Chaos it will be able to handle in the real world....
How's it going MKBHD?
They took mah job!!!
Ok this is all very interesting but what I want to know is- when will I get my robot butler
These robots are still in their infancy, I have been working in different warehouses and it is very rare that you have an entire container full of the same-sized boxes orderly collected that could be easily removed by this robot.
So for most of the containers, this robot is still useless.
We need to bring back slave labor!
And its SLOW. This seems foolish to roll this version out lol.
@@thanos879 you have to start somewhere. While stretch may not be the preferred method, it is a beginning. It won't be much longer and they will have a version of stretch that works much faster, and is much more efficient.
Do you have any sources for your information?
@@LineOfThy
Be more clear. What sources for what information are you asking for?
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I wonder if it works with boxes of varying sizes, stacked terribly because some people didn't grow up playing tetris.
such boxes can be unloaded by one person, if their weight does not exceed 20 kg. If you calculate the timing of the upload by time, then a person will have a faster ... Here is the main question of saving money, but not time
Can a human work at that rate 24/7/365 ?
Can... The robot does not work quickly it saves the interval of feeding the boxes to the tape... A person can also do this, but it is faster to lay out boxes ... There are many nuances here, whether it is worth using a robot in this situation..
....... remuneration, cost and maintenance of the robot... Are these factors comparable...
@@user-hr5yc6us5r
Not a factor if subscribe to robotics-as-a-service, I've seen rates for $4-$8/hour per bot.
@@user-hr5yc6us5r What about the costs of a human? Sick leave, vacation, and they can only work for 1/2 the time!
excellent, now lets see this at a walmart truck unloading
I see this robot unload but how did the boxes get in the truck? I feel this is only half a solution.
ok but can it do backflips?
no, only side kicks
For the one time low price of a billion dollars! For one. And it breaks down a lot and requires a scientist to repair it. The future!!!
Almost like a human never breaks down
UPS doesn't like there boxes unloaded nicely and one by one though 😂😂😂
We call our robotics by their name! 😂
Can I get a robotic right leg to replace this old prosthetic I have now to fight crime like in comic books
BD best
Is it my imagination, or is the guy at 0:16 the guy that was harassing, Atlas with a hockey stick?
I wonder if stretch can lift really heavy boxes 🤔
Probably much more than a person and it doesn’t get a bad back
@@bottleneckgaming3881 or lifting all day every day?
Good because we were tossing packages like boxes of pop tarts at UPS. Hate that job
warehouse cool.....good purpose!
Nice. Eliminate that monotonous menial labor
Maybe for mail and parcels. But food and electronics is a waste of time unless it's unloaded in pallets
Ask Marc if any of my code is still in use.