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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers

www.forbes.com

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Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers

www.forbes.com

return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Figure got a job at dad’s company. Not literally, of course, because humanoid robots don’t have dads. Or moms. But figuratively (sorry).
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    Exactly will these robots being doing at JC Penny?

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      rtfa. they’re doing a trial at distribution centers. this is mostly training for the AI at this point. there’s no way they’re putting these things to work in stores yet. one Flipper Zero incident away from losing a half a million dollars.

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        I should really get one of those. I have no idea what I’d do with it, but I want one.

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      If I know anything about their training, staring at their phones and avoiding eye contact with customers.

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      Become the first generation … the founding generation of the AI Robot Brotherhood … that we will be battling in the global AI war in 2050.

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      The humanoid robots will first assistant employees in the facility’s Joey Pouch sorting system sequencing, a computerized induction, sorting and packing system. Moving forward, Figure and Catalyst will identify the best use cases for humanoid automation across the system. ~ from a different article

      So basically this: https://youtu.be/rTej9ym9UQc

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        Imagine being employee working along side the thing that going make you unemployed and out on the street. What fuck no way would I put up with that.

        I’m shocked that Amazon isn’t putting this in its warehouses.

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          Amazon already had this automated without humanoid robots. They don’t need a drop-in solution, but they’re most likely not selling this. https://youtu.be/0MCMB53jlIk

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          they kinda do, it’s called forklift

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          It’s iRobot happening in real time

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