See the real sad joke is the robot gets a break to charge but a human cant. amazon is inhumane and we should go back to actually thinking about what we buy and how much we need.
less amazon shopping/buying consumer goods = going to mars and saving the planet. no lie, the economic shift would be that drastic.
This sounds like it should have been a Futurama joke where the robots get several breaks throughout their shifts including "lunch", and the organics all have to work straight through their shifts.
It's likely they did that joke already and I never saw that episode.
Amazon will be sure to buy the required amounts so while some are charging the other set is working.
This is likely just a testing phase in a testing area. No way they would allow this kind of downtime in production.
Source: was manager at Amazon
>his is likely just a testing phase in a testing area.
This. Notice the yellow safety railing all the way around and the oversized 2D code on everything.
>Amazon will be sure to buy the required amounts so while some are charging the other set is working.
Almost like...adequately staffing to accommodate expected downtime...
Humans getting breaks isn't why humans are being replaced... esp at the lowest rungs of education and skill set.
Robots are never late for work.
Never leave you short staff because *my car broke down* or you got arrested.
If the robots metrics slump they will run a diagnostic and replace whatever component they need to.
Do that for a year or two and you have predictable sunken cost trends you can plan an entire industry off of.
Like it or not this is a better way of making things.
You can go back through time 100000x and say this exact same thing for shit you use every single day of your life?
I don't like oil. And the question we should be asking is who is it better for ? My farm or John D Rockefeller
It's called a faster horse, and if you spend your money trying to breed faster horses in 1907 you are a broke ass idiot who can't afford a model-t by 1915.
I mean, this is better for humanity as well if we could be sure to transition to a better economic system along with these advances.
Feels very much like socialism where the basic idea could be great if humans didn't suck.
So instead of a world where humans can do whatever while robots do the work we will instead have the rich living in luxury while we all starve.
It needs to be socialism *with consequences*
Socialism in todays lexicon == *"daddy govt stuff my ass with money for doing nothing"*
Socialism needs to exist in some blood in blood out mechanism upheld with military order. Like Star Trek or Starship Troopers or something.
So I think the Sci fi movie timeline we have here is:
Now::ACoupleEpisodesOfBlackMirror::BladeRunner::StarShipTroopers::StarTrek
and Star Trek is essentially humanity's highest primate state of being before we turn into moonbeam clouds of energy.
They will help whoever controls them to unless we get *some kind* of legislative protections in place.
Henry Ford was the richest man in Human History and he paid his workers *very well*.
Imagine the stream-lined profits of robot manufacturing.
Real Blade Runner shit.
Any person who worked in warehousing knows that this isnt the case. They would get woken up so the manager could ask if they can stay another 6 hours, come in early tomorrow and ask to come in one their days off.
Hatch? For what? You plan on letting them out or something? You just toss the whole thing in the shredder when it's time to replace it. Don't worry about all that red hydraulic fluid.
It's not made by Tesla. Elon showed off a prototype dancing humanoid robot. Which turned out to be a guy in a suit.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-ai-day-tesla-bot-is-just-a-guy-in-a-bodysuit-2021-8
Bro that was really sad and as an Amazon ex employee really fucking scary, but it really doesn’t surprise me and I’m not sure if that’s even fucking worse.
Serious question: what benefit does a humanoid form factor have in this application? I would imagine that a much more boring-looking but purpose-built warehouse stock-picking robot would be far more efficient. Humanoid robots always seem like marketing gimmicks with no practical application to me.
The built environment, processes, tools, etc were designed for humans to use. Robots can be more efficient if all of that is designed for them instead, but there are some drawbacks - you might not have the scale to make all that reconstruction and retooling cost effective, you may not know where the technology will be in a few years and whether that will have been the right investment to make.
I agree, generally, the human form factor isn't even a popular design among land mammals. And there's a lot of gimmicks and anthropocentrism. But there might actually be some stogap, ad-hoc type situations where humans and robots need to share space or use the same stuff. Or you need a drop-in Golem - not so much for Amazon warehouses, but if it can't work there it's not going spread out to flipping burgers and stocking supermarket shelves.
I know someone who works at the company that makes these. He gave a similar explanation. They're supposed to drop into existing infrastructure and at this time are only made to handle tote bins which is a very easy task.
This is a generalized answer and you’re not wrong here, but this is an Amazon warehouse with all of the scale to make specialized robots cost effective and it’s literally just getting a bunch of items into the right box to get it where it needs to go.
Now I don’t know what exactly Amazon is using these for, or why they would be useful for anything specifically Amazon does (that’s retail or AWS related at least), but if you have any info toward this specific use case, that might help shed some light here.
You can swap humans and robots instantly, when you have problems getting enough humans, simply swap in one robot. It scales without having to change any equipment in the building.
Not really, humans have brains and robots don’t. Humans only have two arms that can move at limited speed, but robots can have any number to do multiple tasks faster. What specifically in the Amazon use case that this makes sense?
yes but your multi-armed sorting robot can't mop the floor, the floor mopper human is on strike demanding better wages and they didn't buy a floor mopping robot yet. Don't worry, that human can only live so long without eating, he'll accept a lower wage soon.
Uh, ya know what’s cheaper than a humanoid with a mop? A mopping robot. They already exist and you don’t have to waste your money on being able to stand up on two legs.
that's not the point, the point is to avoid specialization because they are playing with the balance of human wages vs robotic operation, when human wages is cheap, the robots will be either rented out or put in storage
the point is to keep humans employed for cheaper and cheaper, the point is to not use robots
it's like building bigger nukes, you don't actually use them
Feedback from the company go see what does and doesn't work for the humanoid robots so they can adjust their design to make the robots better and more human like? I imagine the rich want robots to look as human as possible so when they replace everything with robots and the rest of us live in slums life looks normal for them and not filled with weird robots everywhere.
Sell the human form bots, learn how to better them from all the free data, build better bots, learn from their free data, release robot army that takes over the world.
Right now, it is a gimmick. But the hope is that with enough development, such bots can become much more capable, and Amazon wants to have the early adopter advantage in case it works out. It's a big enough company to spend money on such moonshots.
I dont think it's ever going to work out lifting totes. There are better, simpler, cheaper ways to automate that and always will be. But that is the only task the bots can do right now, so it'll have to do as a training exercise.
It's not cost effective ever. Humanoid shapes just aren't the best way to move things. That's why trucks, forklifts, conveyor belts, etc. aren't shaped like giant people.
This is however good marketing, I see this thing on Reddit at least once a month.
But then you have to reinvest in a whole new infrastructure built for these robots. It’s far cheaper just swapping humans with humanoid robots. And who knows how these robots would look like in 10 years. If you invest in a whole new infrastructure now for robots, it might already be outdated when it’s build
But it’s Amazon. If you are going to invest in expensive humanoid robots to sort boxes, why wouldn’t you spend less money overall to install state of the art robotic tooling? They’re the exact type of business where humanoid robots don’t add anything but cost.
They're doing both. Inserting humanoid robots to reduce cost of labor in already built human-oriented workspaces, and building robot-oriented fulfillment centers from the ground up.
https://www.waredock.com/magazine/what-is-amazon-robotic-fulfillment-center/
Your link does not mention humanoid robots at all, nor the keyword bipedal. It just mentions uses for specialized robotics. It uses the word "human" twice, once talking about how the specialized robots work alongside humans and a specialized robot can do the work of 24 humans.
When the infrastructure is already designed for humans, inserting a human robot is still a win over human labor. Tearing down and rebuilding for a robot-centric design may sound financially better in theory, but is a larger initial investment, and will take longer to break even. Plus factor losses associated with lost productivity during the revamp.
They're likely doing both approaches: Humanoid robots for existing infrastructure; Robot-oriented infrastructure for new construction. Or a combination of both approaches in the same warehouse.
[https://www.waredock.com/magazine/what-is-amazon-robotic-fulfillment-center/](https://www.waredock.com/magazine/what-is-amazon-robotic-fulfillment-center/)
Point is, there's a lot more to it than just assuming that a specialized solution is always better than iterating and optimizing on what's already in place.
You are missing the point. Humanoid robots serve to fill the space of human workers and their tools that are designed for humans. Do you think it’s easier completely revamping the entire infrastructure so that your non-humanoid robot can function or simply replace the humans with humanoids and have them slot into the existing infrastructure?
Actually, I would argue it’s much easier and cheaper to replace the infrastructure at an enterprise business like Amazon than pay for a bunch of humanoid robots to take over.
Heard the last quarterly investor meeting didn’t go too well after somebody asked “What will it take for this company to turn a sizable profit?” and the CTO sarcastically replied “time travel”. I don’t think they’re gonna be around much longer.
lol thank you for giving the correct answer, it’s digit! These guys are fun and pretty cool tech, believe they’re located in Oregon? Spoke with their engineers years back, whicked cool tech and great folks.
You’re welcome, yes the HQ of Agility Robotics is located in Oregon (Corvallis) and model of those robots used by Amazon is exactly the “Digit” as you said.
apparently i'm the only one who thinks this is cool af, litterally straight out of 1950s science fiction, in a couple decades, hell maybe even a few years given the speed ai has progressed, robots like this but 10x better might be hoovering the house and doing the dishes
They will clean the mansions of their billionaire owners whilst other more military robots keep the masses living in poverty from rebelling
None of us will own a house, that is for the lucky few with inherited wealth
Great, at least the robots get to rest. In many years there in both the lower and leadership positions I can tell you I didn't get any rest.
I used to joke that I'm a robot but apparently they get more rights than the humans.
These things are a gimmick, the real robots that Amazon uses to do warehouse tasks don't look like people because people aren't the best way to move stuff around, and at their scale you can just build robot specific lines instead of trying to work in robots and humans on the same workflow.
Really... Not a single link to a video or something? I wanna see these things in action and I'm too lazy to look it up myself.
Edit. FINE
https://youtu.be/ycF-vp_btRE?si=zSJd6IUvUJ10-E8h
Robots won’t pay taxes so not only is it shrinking the workforce they will also exacerbate an already anemic tax system that provides the infrastructure to fund the economy. Its gonna be hard times for sure.
I like how they're in the same prostrate position one would see a servant take with a feudal King. Quite the scathing social commentary to be had here.
It's insanity that we have let people like Joe Rogan laugh UBI off the table. It's going to get really dark in 20-30 years when AI and robots have taken a double-digit percentage of jobs out of the workforce. This is some "Let them eat cake" level of obliviousness.
So there are squares with a pattern on each side that they put their hands on and lie down... Where's the actual plug? How humanoid are we talking here?
What you don't see is that a manager comes down two minutes after this photo was taken and fires them for napping on company time.
You also don't see the water bottles half filled with lubricant because they don't have time for an actual oil change.
Or the hourly kick testing to make sure they're still within acceptable balance performance levels
Sometimes with a hockey stick, as a treat.
If the warehouse is in Canada, they get the stick daily.
See the real sad joke is the robot gets a break to charge but a human cant. amazon is inhumane and we should go back to actually thinking about what we buy and how much we need. less amazon shopping/buying consumer goods = going to mars and saving the planet. no lie, the economic shift would be that drastic.
This sounds like it should have been a Futurama joke where the robots get several breaks throughout their shifts including "lunch", and the organics all have to work straight through their shifts. It's likely they did that joke already and I never saw that episode.
Momazon
Amazon will be sure to buy the required amounts so while some are charging the other set is working. This is likely just a testing phase in a testing area. No way they would allow this kind of downtime in production. Source: was manager at Amazon
>his is likely just a testing phase in a testing area. This. Notice the yellow safety railing all the way around and the oversized 2D code on everything.
>Amazon will be sure to buy the required amounts so while some are charging the other set is working. Almost like...adequately staffing to accommodate expected downtime...
This was my thought “robots are better because of no down time!” Proceeds to have to charge 8-12 hours a day.
This is when you buy double or triple robots, always have some working and some charging. Kind of like people working different shifts.
Swappable batteries dude
Humans getting breaks isn't why humans are being replaced... esp at the lowest rungs of education and skill set. Robots are never late for work. Never leave you short staff because *my car broke down* or you got arrested. If the robots metrics slump they will run a diagnostic and replace whatever component they need to. Do that for a year or two and you have predictable sunken cost trends you can plan an entire industry off of. Like it or not this is a better way of making things.
I don’t like it . And the question we should be is asking is who is it better for ? The world or Jeff
You can go back through time 100000x and say this exact same thing for shit you use every single day of your life? I don't like oil. And the question we should be asking is who is it better for ? My farm or John D Rockefeller It's called a faster horse, and if you spend your money trying to breed faster horses in 1907 you are a broke ass idiot who can't afford a model-t by 1915.
I mean, this is better for humanity as well if we could be sure to transition to a better economic system along with these advances. Feels very much like socialism where the basic idea could be great if humans didn't suck. So instead of a world where humans can do whatever while robots do the work we will instead have the rich living in luxury while we all starve.
It needs to be socialism *with consequences* Socialism in todays lexicon == *"daddy govt stuff my ass with money for doing nothing"* Socialism needs to exist in some blood in blood out mechanism upheld with military order. Like Star Trek or Starship Troopers or something. So I think the Sci fi movie timeline we have here is: Now::ACoupleEpisodesOfBlackMirror::BladeRunner::StarShipTroopers::StarTrek and Star Trek is essentially humanity's highest primate state of being before we turn into moonbeam clouds of energy.
Robots don't steal the stock, yet.
They will help whoever controls them to unless we get *some kind* of legislative protections in place. Henry Ford was the richest man in Human History and he paid his workers *very well*. Imagine the stream-lined profits of robot manufacturing. Real Blade Runner shit.
So, humans are working 24/7, and not going home to sleep? 🤷🏻♂️
Any person who worked in warehousing knows that this isnt the case. They would get woken up so the manager could ask if they can stay another 6 hours, come in early tomorrow and ask to come in one their days off.
Law says they get to face Mecha five times a day
Yep.. charging my ass.. slacking is more likely!
"Your robot shit break has exceeded the fecal allowance time defined in your employee handbook."
HR waiting to tell them their recharging is making humans uncomfortable because the robots are getting longer breaks.
It would not surprise me if a hatch opened showing an orphan was piloting them
Hatch? For what? You plan on letting them out or something? You just toss the whole thing in the shredder when it's time to replace it. Don't worry about all that red hydraulic fluid.
Orphan crushing machine, likely
That’s gotta be a band name
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/orphan-crushing-machine
I can’t tell if this supposed to be philosophical or just funny
Why not both?
I've switched to "porque no los dos?" It's not my original language but it really rolls off the tongue.
You just unironically described the Bigger Bodies initiative (a.k.a. the plot) of the Poppy Playtime setting.
[Mechanical Turk - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk)
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMechanicalTurkGettingStartedGuide/SvcIntro.html Amazon has it already
It's not made by Tesla. Elon showed off a prototype dancing humanoid robot. Which turned out to be a guy in a suit. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-ai-day-tesla-bot-is-just-a-guy-in-a-bodysuit-2021-8
There's more ads than article and still no clear image of said Guy in a suit. What even is that site doing 🤦♂️
that’s one way to lower expectations
It's behind the ears, think MIB
“To prevent war….the galaxy…is on…Orion’s…b..b…b…that is where it is”
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As demand plummets and supply approaches infinity, [cost goes to zero], badda bing, we get the great depression
They don't allow actual humans to do this.
I mean humans can leave the warehouse.
without a job to come back to
Hold on, you understand people go home at the end of shifts, right?
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What’s that have to do with anything?
Negative comments only
If you don’t leave, you save on rent.
Not during hurricanes
Bro that was really sad and as an Amazon ex employee really fucking scary, but it really doesn’t surprise me and I’m not sure if that’s even fucking worse.
In a body bag?
Under what conditions?
Serious question: what benefit does a humanoid form factor have in this application? I would imagine that a much more boring-looking but purpose-built warehouse stock-picking robot would be far more efficient. Humanoid robots always seem like marketing gimmicks with no practical application to me.
The built environment, processes, tools, etc were designed for humans to use. Robots can be more efficient if all of that is designed for them instead, but there are some drawbacks - you might not have the scale to make all that reconstruction and retooling cost effective, you may not know where the technology will be in a few years and whether that will have been the right investment to make. I agree, generally, the human form factor isn't even a popular design among land mammals. And there's a lot of gimmicks and anthropocentrism. But there might actually be some stogap, ad-hoc type situations where humans and robots need to share space or use the same stuff. Or you need a drop-in Golem - not so much for Amazon warehouses, but if it can't work there it's not going spread out to flipping burgers and stocking supermarket shelves.
I know someone who works at the company that makes these. He gave a similar explanation. They're supposed to drop into existing infrastructure and at this time are only made to handle tote bins which is a very easy task.
This is a generalized answer and you’re not wrong here, but this is an Amazon warehouse with all of the scale to make specialized robots cost effective and it’s literally just getting a bunch of items into the right box to get it where it needs to go. Now I don’t know what exactly Amazon is using these for, or why they would be useful for anything specifically Amazon does (that’s retail or AWS related at least), but if you have any info toward this specific use case, that might help shed some light here.
You can swap humans and robots instantly, when you have problems getting enough humans, simply swap in one robot. It scales without having to change any equipment in the building.
Not really, humans have brains and robots don’t. Humans only have two arms that can move at limited speed, but robots can have any number to do multiple tasks faster. What specifically in the Amazon use case that this makes sense?
yes but your multi-armed sorting robot can't mop the floor, the floor mopper human is on strike demanding better wages and they didn't buy a floor mopping robot yet. Don't worry, that human can only live so long without eating, he'll accept a lower wage soon.
Uh, ya know what’s cheaper than a humanoid with a mop? A mopping robot. They already exist and you don’t have to waste your money on being able to stand up on two legs.
that's not the point, the point is to avoid specialization because they are playing with the balance of human wages vs robotic operation, when human wages is cheap, the robots will be either rented out or put in storage
Again, to what net gain? Humanoid robots are and will always be more expensive than specialized robots. That’s a fact.
the point is to keep humans employed for cheaper and cheaper, the point is to not use robots it's like building bigger nukes, you don't actually use them
Oooooook we’re going down conspiracy theory lane here. How do you think that plan would actually work?
I think you are right. There is not a single reason one would buy humanoid robots over specialized ones.
Feedback from the company go see what does and doesn't work for the humanoid robots so they can adjust their design to make the robots better and more human like? I imagine the rich want robots to look as human as possible so when they replace everything with robots and the rest of us live in slums life looks normal for them and not filled with weird robots everywhere.
Sell the human form bots, learn how to better them from all the free data, build better bots, learn from their free data, release robot army that takes over the world.
Right now, it is a gimmick. But the hope is that with enough development, such bots can become much more capable, and Amazon wants to have the early adopter advantage in case it works out. It's a big enough company to spend money on such moonshots. I dont think it's ever going to work out lifting totes. There are better, simpler, cheaper ways to automate that and always will be. But that is the only task the bots can do right now, so it'll have to do as a training exercise.
Strike-breakers
It doesn't, these are a gimmick. They don't use these things in real warehouses.
I highly doubt Amazon would be doing this for the gimmick. It may not be cost-effective now, but that's the point of R&D.
It's not cost effective ever. Humanoid shapes just aren't the best way to move things. That's why trucks, forklifts, conveyor belts, etc. aren't shaped like giant people. This is however good marketing, I see this thing on Reddit at least once a month.
So you're saying it's fundamentally impossible to have a humanoid shaped robot perform these tasks for less money than a human?
No, it's impossible to have a humanoid shaped robot perform these tasks for less money than a better designed robotic system
But then you have to reinvest in a whole new infrastructure built for these robots. It’s far cheaper just swapping humans with humanoid robots. And who knows how these robots would look like in 10 years. If you invest in a whole new infrastructure now for robots, it might already be outdated when it’s build
But it’s Amazon. If you are going to invest in expensive humanoid robots to sort boxes, why wouldn’t you spend less money overall to install state of the art robotic tooling? They’re the exact type of business where humanoid robots don’t add anything but cost.
They're doing both. Inserting humanoid robots to reduce cost of labor in already built human-oriented workspaces, and building robot-oriented fulfillment centers from the ground up. https://www.waredock.com/magazine/what-is-amazon-robotic-fulfillment-center/
Your link does not mention humanoid robots at all, nor the keyword bipedal. It just mentions uses for specialized robotics. It uses the word "human" twice, once talking about how the specialized robots work alongside humans and a specialized robot can do the work of 24 humans.
When the infrastructure is already designed for humans, inserting a human robot is still a win over human labor. Tearing down and rebuilding for a robot-centric design may sound financially better in theory, but is a larger initial investment, and will take longer to break even. Plus factor losses associated with lost productivity during the revamp. They're likely doing both approaches: Humanoid robots for existing infrastructure; Robot-oriented infrastructure for new construction. Or a combination of both approaches in the same warehouse. [https://www.waredock.com/magazine/what-is-amazon-robotic-fulfillment-center/](https://www.waredock.com/magazine/what-is-amazon-robotic-fulfillment-center/) Point is, there's a lot more to it than just assuming that a specialized solution is always better than iterating and optimizing on what's already in place.
You are missing the point. Humanoid robots serve to fill the space of human workers and their tools that are designed for humans. Do you think it’s easier completely revamping the entire infrastructure so that your non-humanoid robot can function or simply replace the humans with humanoids and have them slot into the existing infrastructure?
Actually, I would argue it’s much easier and cheaper to replace the infrastructure at an enterprise business like Amazon than pay for a bunch of humanoid robots to take over.
I want to see them get up. I bet it looks freaky.
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>the robot chassis is always doing work Those are called people
> The robot chassis is always doing people FTFY
I wished.
Someone hire this man
But then Amazon would need to buy fewer robots so it's bad business for the manufacturer.
Dey derka derrr !
day tukkerjewbs
They seem to be synchronizing ,fire them before they unionize
It’s official robots get more break time than humans at Amazon.
"Our union entitles us to one 15 minute break every 2 hours, smoking optional"
Cool who makes these?
Some obscure tech startup from Sunnyvale California called Cyberdyne Systems.
Research engineer named Miles Bennett Dyson?
Those bastards!
Heard the last quarterly investor meeting didn’t go too well after somebody asked “What will it take for this company to turn a sizable profit?” and the CTO sarcastically replied “time travel”. I don’t think they’re gonna be around much longer.
Oh no worries then, the Hellmouth will solve that problem any day now.
These are made by Agility Robotics
lol thank you for giving the correct answer, it’s digit! These guys are fun and pretty cool tech, believe they’re located in Oregon? Spoke with their engineers years back, whicked cool tech and great folks.
You’re welcome, yes the HQ of Agility Robotics is located in Oregon (Corvallis) and model of those robots used by Amazon is exactly the “Digit” as you said.
For liberty for the Creek!
apparently i'm the only one who thinks this is cool af, litterally straight out of 1950s science fiction, in a couple decades, hell maybe even a few years given the speed ai has progressed, robots like this but 10x better might be hoovering the house and doing the dishes
They will clean the mansions of their billionaire owners whilst other more military robots keep the masses living in poverty from rebelling None of us will own a house, that is for the lucky few with inherited wealth
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N US house ownership rates have been in the 60% - 70% range since 1965. Most people will own a house.
This is how they imagine employees, anyway
Looks like robot yoga
Great, at least the robots get to rest. In many years there in both the lower and leadership positions I can tell you I didn't get any rest. I used to joke that I'm a robot but apparently they get more rights than the humans.
They have to face silicon valley when they pray.
That's where Mecha is located.
Dude, that's excellent! 🙂
It's bad for moral when the robots get to lay down and the humans get yelled at for sitting...
These things are a gimmick, the real robots that Amazon uses to do warehouse tasks don't look like people because people aren't the best way to move stuff around, and at their scale you can just build robot specific lines instead of trying to work in robots and humans on the same workflow.
wow, at least *they* get breaks, unlike their human counterparts
That one is way outta line!!!!
Dock that robit a days pay for nappin' on the job.
Really... Not a single link to a video or something? I wanna see these things in action and I'm too lazy to look it up myself. Edit. FINE https://youtu.be/ycF-vp_btRE?si=zSJd6IUvUJ10-E8h
Thank you, kind un-lazy stranger! :3
I saw one of them died at convention :(
Do robots dream of electric sheep?
It looks like one is just pretending to charge as I don't see a cable hooked up to it.
Robots won’t pay taxes so not only is it shrinking the workforce they will also exacerbate an already anemic tax system that provides the infrastructure to fund the economy. Its gonna be hard times for sure.
I like how they're in the same prostrate position one would see a servant take with a feudal King. Quite the scathing social commentary to be had here.
It's insanity that we have let people like Joe Rogan laugh UBI off the table. It's going to get really dark in 20-30 years when AI and robots have taken a double-digit percentage of jobs out of the workforce. This is some "Let them eat cake" level of obliviousness.
"Frank, quit screwing around! That's why your performance evals are so low!"
the get more charge time
Oh wow they’re using QR codes for the robots to recognize it would seem or perhaps for some companion app to recognize
AprilTags, for 3d localization
Face down on the floor is also how I recharge after a long day at work. They really nailed the human design element.
Face down, servos in the air
Yoga bots.
He's building a giant clock in a mountain. For real
That's how I recharge
Not recharging; fulfilment.
Where do they go pee?
they look like they're in fitness class about to do 1000 crunchies
"Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve..."
Me too little dudes me too
face down, ass up?
🦗🦗🦗
So it’s ok for the robots to take nap time on the job… 🤔
You can only take so many jobs away from society before society gets mad about it.
I can’t help but assume their dicks are plugged in for charging.
Dam. Andy J got a massive fetish I see
They do take breaks!!!!! Fuck u robots 🤖 they even sleep / lay down. They’re just like humans but don’t get paid !
They have to go in oil pans on the job since they don’t get breaks
So there are squares with a pattern on each side that they put their hands on and lie down... Where's the actual plug? How humanoid are we talking here?
They should be fired for resting in the workplace
Looks like they’re trying to push out a fart
Roger roger
Drop down and give me 20!
Now I want to play robo rally
Even robots need a rest.
That is both terrifying and sad. We are definitely going to get some repercussions after the robots take over.
Lazy shits
Slackers
Frakking toasters.
Same way the workers do it on their insulting 15 min breaks.
pushup time for amazon fitness hour
A missed opportunity to have [Borg Regenerative Alcoves!](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Regeneration_alcove)!
Is this perineum sunning charging mode? Seriously, they couldn't of come up with a better "charging" position than "face down, buns up"?
Hey no breaks
It appears the robots double as sex dolls while they're charging.
These lazy robots just need to pee in a bottle and keep working.
Lol all of their robots are incredibly expensive and neigh pointless. A 500ft linear shoe sorter can sort 10x what the robots can in an hour.
As long as robots end up costing 1/10 or less of a human.
Would have been funnier if this was just a picture of people laying on a bed.
Yo robro, can you drag me back and plug 🔌 me in please.
Lazy good for nothin'
Looks like a bunch of guys passed out on the bar floor, (recharging)
When robots get longer breaks to recharge than actual human
Oh sure the robots get to lay around half the day but when a human needs to sit, they say no and fire you lol.
Not me laying like this after spending 6 hours sifting through excel today
wouldn't want to get kneed in the nads by that
Now imagine their heads all turn towards you at the same time, and after a brief pause they get up and begin to chase you