The Evolution of Stretch | Boston Dynamics 

I hope also Atlas finds its place soon..

I agree, Clive. It’s definitely interesting to see how Stretch became so uninteresting in the end lol. I mean that in the best way, though. It went from a dynamic, spazzing ostrich to a rolling box that looks like it belongs in an Amazon warehouse - exactly as it should.

Hoping to see the day robotic technology get so common that can reach the test bench of Clive to be reverse engineered.

Handle is a very cool concept which was too easy to be a solution looking for a problem to solve. Luckily the engineers recognised that they needed to look at the problem first, take their baby behind the shed and start over with an actual solution. Stretch will find it's real world application, because it was actually designed for it. (Something Elon keeps forgetting to do)

Hmmm... i find them rather shallow and pedantic.

It would be awsome if they turned it into some sort of smart offroad vehicle with the capabilities to pick up objects like logs or whatever on your adventure(the first model with the hands)

Robots twerking to do their warehouse job. That's the future we could have had if BD had stuck with it. 😢

@@echthroi9 It looks inefficient and unreliable. And expensive. The flat base of Stretch is better where you have level floors.

It's just not elegantly moving. I imagine if it was taught martial arts, it would probably have some pretty good kung fu and parkour skills like the wheelie people in return to Oz

@@hyperverbal w in the h f are you talking about.

People hate AI because it replaces jobs, but thats lowkey our only option to compete with the likes of China or India. All the jobs that could be automated, have been outsourced anyways. We have nothing to lose, and everything to gain. I firmly think we need some sort of UBI in the future though once AI really takes off. I hate socialism so maybe instead we should have UBI for "fun" jobs so people wont get paid for sitting around. Psychologically being unemployed without hunting/gathering might be bad. I think jobs like park rangers, arts, Research, and community stuff, should be subsidized and created as a UBI imo.

@@honkhonk8009 To quote a famous mad scientist "Where we're going, we don't need jobs"

@@honkhonk8009 tech would be stolen by China though.

@@honkhonk8009the problem is more that the idea of needing to work a 9-5 in order to survive is a very outdated concept in an era where one person’s work can provide for hundreds.

@@honkhonk8009 That is actually not a bad idea for a futuristic UBI implementation.

@@user-yv4gg7jb2f As someone who works within the escort service industry, stretch excites me more than any of the humanoid robots.

hopefully we can keep our jobs for a few more years.....

They terk err jerbs!

​@@Chris-Phantomview 5 years?

I think humanoid ones still have a place. Namely where theres stairs and whatnot.

I would guess that lubrication/maintenance is not more than other mechanical stuff in a warehouse, conveyor belts, forklifts, etc.

@@bennylloyd-willner9667 I think that’s a reasonable assumption

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Interesting questions. I don't know the details. If I made a guess. The machine learning could be trained to detect this stuff as well and avoid it or raise a "help me" message and shut off. If it detects a box collapse. Just give it some bad boxes in the lab record the data of the breakup in a controlled environment. then use that data to train the AI on these situations.

Yeah, any particularly heavy or compromised boxes picked up from the top like that seem likely to just dump the contents out of the bottom or have the top rip off.

I agree to an extent. I will say I worked in the storage in the back of walmart for a single day (I was a cashier that wanted to try out other better paying positions and they allowed me to try it and I didn't like it at all.) And people were dropping boxes, throwing them to each other, and just not seeming to care. This is another instance where if the robot damages 3% of boxes badly enough to damage the content of the box, but humans damage 5% of the boxes that bad, then this is still better than a human, as humans are not perfect and make mistakes so the robot just needs to make less mistakes.

​@@GamingWithNikolasi am going to hazard a guess, you FIRST concluded the robots were better than the humans 😉 How's that working for self driving cars in San Francisco 🤭🤐

@xaxfixho I was just pointing out that robots don't need to litteraly be perfect in every situation to be usable. It just has to do better than humans.

Assuming the plastic wrap has been slashed, lets say for a pack of pepsi cans. Well wouldn't the vacuum gripper not do an excellent job of holding the plastic wrap together still? Basically the weakness that is caused by the slash to the plastic is redundant because the plastic is being held by many grippers all over. Basically many "hands" holding the plastic together in it's initial position. But if the plastic has actually fully opened, then yeah, then you're boned... If we can get to this level of automation though, maybe it just makes sense to have a "spillage channel" and the machine just moves on to the next package, allowing the unpacked product to fall off into a waste disposal?

Do you think they are going to viable long-term 🤔 They are competing with cheap labor that can adapt to different tasks. How much do you think it's costs to buy one vs hire some cheap labor. Returns on investment?

Yes I do because eventually these will speed up to point they're doing the work of 5-10 people, accurately. They don't need HR/payroll/managing/security and they do it without complaining. I lost count the number of times we had guys call in sick when they knew multiple containers were coming in that day. These machines don't get sick (assuming no regular breakdowns). If they can stack pallets rather than just throw on a conveyor, which I've seen them do in other demonstrations, then that increases the return on investment even further. And labour in the UK is not that cheap even when it's cheap.@@xaxfixho

@@xaxfixho cheap labor can adapt to different tasks, but cheap labor cant work 24/7 year round. I can only assume that eventually the cost between a robot and human labor would equal out or eventually be better for the robot, because the robot is able to make up difference through infinite work hours and durability in weather conditions (extreme heat or cold). And a robot won't complain about working conditions..

Imagine if a calculator was shaped like a brain 🧠 😳 💀 😅 Or a car was shaped like a horse 🐎 😂 Or a boat was shaped like a fish 🐟

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@@measlyfurball37 Finally .. somebody gets me!

It's called buying 2 of them.......

@@johnsmithe4656I suppose they mean having two arms on one base. Having two would indeed take up a lot more space. I think a two-armed version would be worth more than two one-armed versions

@@johnsmithe4656 Can't fit two of them in a semi trailer.

If you look closely when the arm is on one side the lidar scan the other one so it always as a fresh scan for every box placement and the environement. This way if one box fall or something happen when moving it will instantly adapt the next move instead of doing a mess until the next scan ;). So with two arm you'll need two lidar but the movement will be slower because the arm will still have to wait for the lidar to scan before taking the box so the second arm will not take the box while the other places it and also every movement for both arm will not take the same time to achieve so one arm will delay the other before alowing the platform to turn at the end it will take more time to turn and will cost more money to make.

@@Skidline_ I didn't say it would be easy to just add another arm and I do realize it would need two lidars. Why would the arm picking need to wait for it's lidar to scan. The data from the other lidar could easily be used when it picked up the previous box. The idea is to get both working symbiotically. Even though not every pick and placement will require the same time increment, (i.e. placement on the conveyor would likely always be less than the time to pick), you would be cutting the time to turn in half because when it's turning to place, it's also turning to pick up. As far as the cost, even if a two arm Stretch only meant a reduction of 1/3 versus a one arm Stretch, that still is a huge savings that will pay for itself.

If only maintenance was also accessible to the layman lol

​@@quantumblur_3145ultimate vendor lock-in 🔐 Especially vs cheap labor, NOT going to work 😂

@@weird-guy showcases exist to show its specific strengths in real-world use cases so investors know what they're getting into

Yea sure, because they would allow us to procreate uncontrolled when human cattle is no longer needed.

It is sorta humorous how they started with such an advanced design then optimized it into a simple robot arm on a rolling pedestal.

I suspect the humanoid shape would be more suitable in the future for a robot that can do a little bit of everything, not only moving boxes.

@@petal9547 Absolutely! Specifically, once AI is incorporated into such robots enabling complex task via simple verbal commands.

You are the master of your destiny

​@@MegaSuperCriticdestiny and self have 50/50 custody of the next destiny

@@MegaSuperCritictell that to all the robotic companies that reject me from entry level jobs due to them wanting more work experience

@@Jacksontruman92 That's sad and a bit demotivating. Anyway, keep it, hopefully someday you'll get the job of your dreams!

​@@Jacksontruman92 I feel you, some companies don't understand you can't be fresh out of university full of ideas and knowledge, and have "seven to ten years experience in a narrow industry field". It can be difficult and demotivating, but don't give up. Somewhere down the line, someone needs you - not only your skills, but also your side of the dreams and wishes.

It would never work in the real world. Too many variables...

​@@mikeblazthere are niche markets, where all that is known. It's like tesla truck 🚚 vs regular diesel truck. Will only make sense in very small markets. Unit cost ,plus battery replacement costs not withstanding

That's twice the movement to balance, but if anyone could manage another arm it'd be BD

@quantumblur_3145 True, but easy these days. The two arms would counterbalance each other to some extent, too. The near double productivity is the real benefit. Maybe for version 2.0

Two robots working together could do that

@@nathanbirks8876 like that guy in sprited away XD

@cursed_cats5710 or 2 robots in one, lol. You would save $ on the base and they wouldn't have to move around each other 😉

The company you are looking for is definitely TESLA

😂

Your current boss will be proud 🙌 😂

What is the success?

I think it stops if you get close to it

accidents will always happen, in regular warehouses accidents are quite common

Sad to hear 😢, we need more safety for the workers 🙏

@@weird-guy the sun also rises with or without robots. I also y-e-p my rz with or without robots. That's a non statement, changes nothing. Add nothing to the conversation

thats probably why stretch has an auto-safety lock that goes off when your near, so it doesnt accidentally confuse you for a crate

There's a that's what she said joke somewhere in there 😂

My company works on that exact idea. It's used to prepare orders.

It seems to be already able to grasp several smaller boxes at once then release them one by one, so it can probably do smaller boxes too as long as you can grasp them with at least one vacuum plot.

it looks like it already is, it was grabbing some pretty small boxes in the video

I think there are multiple players in that space. I doubt it would make financial sense, look at yhier history. Probably to their 👁 eyeballs in debt with all the custom hardware they have tried over the years

You're thinking of the Tesla humanoid robot. BD robots don't have a brain, Tesla's do.

@@jamesspencer641 no it was from another BD video where Spot was using AI and was talking. It was wearing a hat and had a few different personalities. I know it's sounds like I'm trolling you but it was real lol

Exactly. Boston Dynamics robots are very impressive mechanically. However, they don't have the software brain to back it up. Thus they will always be limited to very specific and regimented tasks that require no intelligence. The Tesla humanoid robot, Optimus, does have a brain based on their Full Self Driving software. That is the brand of robot that will be in your factory within two to three years. If you have not seen Optimus you should check it out!

The box tears open?

Maybe it can sense the weight and retry from a different angle, eg the side?

​@@frag0638even worse

@@frag0638 exactly

@@frag0638 don't think so. The suckers are situated from the top so this robot lifts only by sucking from the top of the box. It's stupid idea and you can't apply this to everything.