Posts tagged "robots"
  1. Notes: 5 / 1 year ago 

    Sand Flea jumping robot

  2. Notes: 468 / 1 year ago  from theatlantic
    theatlantic: Meet The Little Orange Robots Making Amazon’s Warehouses More Humane For $775 million Amazon has acquired robot company Kiva Solutions, looking to “improve productivity” in those fulfillment centers we’ve heard such un-fun things about. Specifically, the little orange bots will bring products to workers, who as of now can walk up to 13 to 15 miles a day hand-picking and delivering items,according to a report from last September. Amazon bought the organization hoping to improve its margins — a packer working with Kiva bots can fulfill three to four times as many orders per hour, according to Kiva via The Wall Street Journal. But it looks like the tech will also reduce the exhausting walking that Amazon warehouse work now requires. […] The robot to human delivery system will replace this kind of painful-sounding work we hear Amazon’s warehouse workers now experience, as described last September in a Morning Call exposé:  One former temporary warehouse employee said he worked seven months before he was terminated for not working fast enough. In his 50s, he worked 10 hours a day, four days a week as a picker, plucking items from bins and delivering them to packers who put them in boxes for shipment. He would walk 13 to 15 miles daily Read more. [Image: kiva] (I knew they’d catch on eventually)

    theatlantic:

    Meet The Little Orange Robots Making Amazon’s Warehouses More Humane

    For $775 million Amazon has acquired robot company Kiva Solutions, looking to “improve productivity” in those fulfillment centers we’ve heard such un-fun things about. Specifically, the little orange bots will bring products to workers, who as of now can walk up to 13 to 15 miles a day hand-picking and delivering items,according to a report from last September. Amazon bought the organization hoping to improve its margins — a packer working with Kiva bots can fulfill three to four times as many orders per hour, according to Kiva via The Wall Street Journal. But it looks like the tech will also reduce the exhausting walking that Amazon warehouse work now requires. […]

    The robot to human delivery system will replace this kind of painful-sounding work we hear Amazon’s warehouse workers now experience, as described last September in a Morning Call exposé: 

    One former temporary warehouse employee said he worked seven months before he was terminated for not working fast enough. In his 50s, he worked 10 hours a day, four days a week as a picker, plucking items from bins and delivering them to packers who put them in boxes for shipment. He would walk 13 to 15 miles daily

    Read more. [Image: kiva]

    (I knew they’d catch on eventually)

     
  3. Notes: 109651 / 1 year ago  from mentalhotline (originally from anglophilium)
    dumpjunky: theshirlphord: WE LOST SOME SOLDIERS. cuteness is killing. Cats and floorbots always go together

    dumpjunky:

    theshirlphord:

    WE LOST SOME SOLDIERS.

    cuteness is killing.

    Cats and floorbots always go together

    (Source: anglophilium)

     
  4. Notes: 8 / 1 year ago 

    The plot centers around a trio of factory workers that have been tasked by the company president to develop a humanoid robot. With only one week left before the robot’s unveiling at a major trade show, disaster strikes when their prototype accidentally falls out a window and is smashed.

    They recruit a retired senior who just happens to perfectly fit inside the humanoid robot’s shell and attempt to con everyone, including the press, into thinking that the new robot is every bit as good as ASIMO.

    It’s kind of like Weekend at Bernie’s except with an old guy in a robot suit and funnier. (All three trailers in clip)

    (Source: robots-dreams.com)

  5. Notes: 6 / 1 year ago  from wntrmute

    wntrmute:

    Transformers Dubstep - You can watch it in HD (here)

  6. Notes: 4 / 1 year ago  from jessnevins
    jessnevins: text of a radio broadcast of the Rumanian Home Service.

    jessnevins:

    text of a radio broadcast of the Rumanian Home Service.

     
  7. Notes: 8 / 2 years ago  from antistigma (originally from resetnetwork)
    resetnetwork: When the Earth itself betrays us, the technological world can step in to save us. PopSci’s gallery of Earthquake Rescue Robots, from snakelike debris crawlers to the breath-sensing Quince, is an eerie glimpse into the pragmatic reality of mechanically-aided human survival. But try not to think of the word “harvesting” while looking at this photo.

    resetnetwork:

    When the Earth itself betrays us, the technological world can step in to save us. PopSci’s gallery of Earthquake Rescue Robots, from snakelike debris crawlers to the breath-sensing Quince, is an eerie glimpse into the pragmatic reality of mechanically-aided human survival.

    But try not to think of the word “harvesting” while looking at this photo.

     
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