MIT - April 26, 2024 Speaker: Aaron Parness Seminar title: Stowing and Picking Items in E-Commerce Affiliation: Director of Applied Science, Amazon Robotics
I'm an inventor that's started to work on industrial robotics. IMO, the problem with the bin packing robot is that you haven't deconstructed the problem to take advantage of a robot's strength. For instance, one advantage could be a very long arm. So, rather than place the items into the bin, as a human would, the items are placed from the top of the bin. That is, they're placed in order from bottom to top. This can only be possible if a robot has a large arm. There are other advantages such as the use of gravity to filter and push the items together, that only a robot could do that a human can't. In any case, thanks for the presentation.