I like this solution. People say they are too slow, but I can tell they have the capability of being much faster. Once the squid is locked into the rail, I bet it can hustle. The transition from floor to wall while keeping the pallet axis horizontal is phenomenal.
They're also not accounting for the amount of time it takes for a human to locate and retrieve the same package using a forklift. I Imagine the total time is at least comparable.
Most importantly, if a catastrophic shelving collapse happens (which is lessened since forklifts aren't being driven near the shelving), only replaceable robots get hurt.
@@skellious well, and the security gaurds. maybe some poor bloke walking through for an inspection, would still lessen the possible deaths by quite a lot though.
There will be new jobs... people are scared of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, since it will be bigger than the 2nd and 3rd... will be more like the 1st one... people back then we're also scared and everything, but it all got sorted out, new jobs came to exist, it will be fine...
@@Neimit there will be new jobs but nowhere near as many as before automation... 1 worker can replace 20 workers - saving the company money. There is plenty of information about this, you are dreaming if you think there will as many jobs after automation - human workers are expensive and inefficient compared to automation. Its not the duty of companies to provide jobs, and people are not entitled to jobs just because they need money... only if there is a real need. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7Pq-S557XQU.html&ab_channel=CGPGrey
When I started my current job in a warehouse, I'd had a stress nightmare of endless steel racks, both horizontally and vertically. I was required to work it all alone, save for the automated pallet shifting systems which would bring down, put up, move, etc, any pallet needed. The things in my dream that did the pallet moving looked like industrial-sized versions of these. Like, ones that could easily haul 2 ton pallets up and down the walls.
This is an ok solution for retrofitting a warehouse where you can't rebuild, but automated warehouses ARE NOT a new concept. Automated warehouses are way faster than this. These robots can only move each axis individually.
Say you run a small to medium size business, lets say computer repair because thats the example I choose. you could easily turn any room into an automated warehouse with decent capacity with relative ease. And on top of that you have a robot that can bring you whatever parts you may need at any given time upon request. that could easily save time and money in the long term. Also I like an example somone else gave in the other comments. Amazon could easily use something like this to cut back on labor cost, It may not be something some people agree with but amazon could do it.
If I may give a suggestion... I understand we are 2 years later, maybe the robots are faster to get in and out of the rails now, but I can see that they spend a looooot of time getting on the the rails. I would make the system so the robots try to stay on the rails as long as they can, handing off packages to floor robots to save time. if the robots worked in teams instead of individually, I think you could save a lot of time getting on the rails, making your system faster at basically no cost.
that could also make it a nightmare for coding as you would need to double handle for a single package instead of one robot going to the package then its destination then getting a new command
from an engineers perspective that would make sense they also need to replace the shelf joints (where it changes from vertical movement to horizontal) to a cross pattern so that once a bot turns down an isle the next bot can still go up.
man I hate to see those break down >< Hey Mac the squids are down go get me the package from row3-bin2 Umm boss I can't even fit between the steel let alone my forklift.... Boss: $hit!
you dont send humans to recover the lost package, you send another robot that does maintenance to fix it. it will be a couple of humans at a screen just monitoring the robots at first, and later this job will be done by AI. the idea is to minimize human workers to save money
@@JcoleMc What is human got broken also? The same answer. I can say that someone got drunk.. or sick is a more probable thing than this one got broken.
It's not really comparable to a forklift. Most bulk or raw products come in on palettes much too heavy for something like this. I could see this being more for smaller packages at like Amazon or something.
1:06 Did you not listen to the video? It is made to be paired with other robots like depalletizing arms and stuff. This would likely be more used as a way of sorting items, reorganizing, applying sku stickers, taking inventory counts, etc.
Lots of funny answers here, but I suspect that packages too large to be handled by squids are kept near the doors and handled by regular stevedores, or guys with fork lifts/hand trucks. Don't think of it as less demand for people, think of it as the same number of people can now handle it three times faster, or even handle three times the load.
@@stevejordan7275 No. Definitely less demand for people. There is no infinitve growth and robots are cheaper. Look at china, whole production lines get rid of their workers in Shenzen.
Incredibly heavy packages might cause an issue, but weighimg packages is already so standard in the industry that sorting between what is suitable for the robots, and what needs to be in a seperate forklift operated facility is trivial
I'm very curious about these. How much does each unit cost? How long do they hold a charge? What sort of weight can they hold? I would love details about them, and the sorts of data they require to run. Are they modular? Can they work in a swarm? Many questions. I would love to get the warehouse I work for using automation tech like this.
I'm curious of thr weight it can lift. There must be a limit. Only hanging in by 2 thin rials. The weight will pull it off.. No mention of weight. For big warehouse lile ikea or big DIY stores I don't think this can work. And lift heavy items
I think in a much larger environment (their demonstration setup was very small) the ends of the shelves could have servos or something to reset all of the rails for each shelf. Having to retrace would create a large backup of robots if a single shelf was getting all the traffic, and a warehouse with unknown order frequencies or densities (what's being ordered and when) would definitely need a better solution for exception cases like the one you brought up.
Cost is about $4 per hour. That includes normal maintenance and repairs. Automation is coming, dropping in cost and rising in A.I. capabilities. America better get it together because there is no going back. Adapt or get crushed by China...
There won't be any electronic failure most likely, as long as it is mechanically sound I dont see any basis for this claim, the robots aren't expensive in terms of parts, the expense is mostly assocoated with the development
I fly drones. they require too much power and break down easily. Motors burn, propellers break, and flying them close together is asking for trouble. Payload is seriously limited.
The turning track pieces for shelf access look to be simple uncontrolled mechanisms, so setting up additional vertical access wouldn't help much for getting around other robots if there is no way to configure them remotely, which would make the system far more complicated.
Well this IS a very cool robot, and it does not look like it would be unreasonably expensive. That being said, couldn't you just run a fixed track along the roof and have dedicated robots wind up and down on cables in order to grab things, and move them up and down. If you wanted more rigidity they could wind up and down a rigid pole. It still is just XY motion, needs even less change to existing infrastructure, and could probably handle more weight. The items would need to be picked up by floor robots at floor level, but it seems to me that 2 simple robots doing a single job well might be more cost effective.
But,.. if there is only one meter of space between racks, what do you do when (because it's not an "if", it's a "when") one of them gets stuck at the top of a rack? You can't drive your forklift in anymore...
Im waiting for the fast food chain to start using robots so my order will be done right. Plus I don’t have to worry about some kid taking selfies putting something in my food.
Amazing so that means you only need a dozen people just to watching everything, and making sure that the machines do the jobs and the paperwork is completed, and fill in if their an emergency "loss of power " . Or some technology you will save a lot of back and nee pain and sore feet and rsi injuries.
Automation makes products cheaper. So more people can afford these products. Automation makes people cheaper, so less people can afford these products. So nothing changes. Except control goes to big corporations with no ethics.
Reducing operators cost using robots ,will lift down economy of the world ,then later who will be able to buy thinks or purchase thinks ???? Robots ???? Use your brains !
Same shelves? Doesn't look like those shelves would take a 1.2m pallet. Doesn't look like Squid can carry a 1.2m pallet. Way to prove a concept - only 5 out of 15 bays robotized! This is a total fail! Probably some Goldman Sachs banker! lol
The fear of those in the comments shows a deep problem in our society: working is needed to live, even if there is no work to do. I don't understand why anyone should fall into poverty if the work is still done. I know that only workers are paid and robots don't need pay, I get that. But still, why should I fear of starving when a robot harvests wheat and bakes bread instead of me. The work is done, but our obsolete concept of money and payment prevents anyone from benefiting from that robot work. I don't have a solution, but the problem is obvious.
@@thatonegoblin7051 Innovation is a response to a problem, not just monetary gain. Automation is a response to the inefficieny of human workers. These would still be a thing in a world where human labor is not required to keep us alive. I don't think money itself is entirely obsolete, but the way we handle it is certainly far from perfect
So who is going to buy all the stuff in the warehouses if nobody has any jobs? Gee - it's almost as though capitalism is breaking under the weight of its own contradictions, just like an old German guy predicted, about 150 years ago.
I dunno, maybe the guys on television? Maybe those in the entertainment idustry? Therapists, artists, and other jobs done by just people? Maybe in there are actually packages that are not bought but just stored and delivered wothout money involved? If there are no jobs left, we can live in peace whilst robots do the work. If no jobs are left, human labor is obsolete.
@@MrCool-lo3ls Well quite - unfortunately we have inherited European models of land-ownership from the Feudal era, the purpose of which is to force the majority of the population to work. Capitalism optimises for reducing the value of human labour, which creates wealth inequality which creates corruption which accelerates this process.... and lo, govts are printing trillions of dollars that winds up in the capital markets... which creates hyper-inflated real-estate markets And here we are. Middle-class communities going to the wall because you simply cannot do enough yoga classes for each other to pay for the property market. Working class communities not actually doing any work at all because there isn't any, living 7 to a room, unable to feed their own children... and a huge and growing number of people living in cars and tents. This is New Zealand by the way. Average rent is 3/4 average wage, we have 40,000 homeless and 140,000 empty houses. Only 1/4 of houses are own by people who only own one. In 2020, average prices went up by 13%.
Competition and inequity are built into the very nature of the human, to construct a system that does not account for them is incorrect at best. Even in a future of extreme automation and low employment, Marxism will continue to be a simultaneously doomed yet (from un-informed perspectives)appealing system.
@@thatonegoblin7051 You're only saying that because you don't understand what Marxism actually is. As to the tired old cliched arguments about "human nature"... yea, rape and murder are human nature, but why in the actual fuck would anyone be trying to design ways of living that optimise for the worst in human nature rather than the best? Cunts I guess. Sociopaths... or people so heavily indoctrinated that they simply cannot see the bars of the cage they're in, and think that the fact they are going to waste their entire lives working their arses off to pay for someone else's yachts and prostitutes is "human nature".
