Figure AI conducted a packaging sorting competition between a robot and a human Over 10 hours, the human sorted 12,924 packages, while the robot handled 12,732.

A robot can work 24/7. Doesn’t take sick leaves, child birth leaves, doesn’t moan, take breaks for lunch, start a union. It doesn’t have to be paid, paid extras etc. this is the future. Get over it.

The robot doesn't need sleep, weekends off or vacation, and no pay raise... 😎

Why does this robot setup make sense when you can just have a conveyor belt, some rolls that can spin the packages around and a couple of cameras ? This would process more packages than both combined, and for much cheaper

"...and John Henry told his captain: well a man ain't nothin' but a man...then John Henry drove his steel 15 feet but the steam hammer drove it only nine..."

The guy thinks he won :) but the robot keeps working 24/7

It's obvious that humans are not robots, but it's still a threat to the future

10 hours....now do 100 hours or 1000 hours. Only thing stupid is that we still think a robot should look humanoid, which is like designing a multitool pocketknife to mow the lawn & that also does brain surgery. A missed opportunity is not to build optimized for a specific task.

Next year the robot will be a little bit faster. In 5 years the robot will be twice as fast.

Yes, but a robot will come to work the next day without any drop in performance, while humans slow down after a week. The robot will keep the same level and may even improve. Not to mention sick leave and related costs. I think robots may one day pay social and health insurance.

@grok what are they sorting? they look at the package for 1-2secs then pass it down the way. What do they mean by "sorting"? It looks like they just need to touch every package?

Probably the last one the human wins.

This is not a robot. This is a teleoperated machine. There was no autonomy here.

The robots 3 computer programmers (salary 100k year each) 3 technicians (salary 100k a year each) The companies that built the 5000 robot parts (each part 1000 dollars) couldn't beat a college kid making 15 bucks an hour

The robot has no salary, no vacation, no smoking, no toilet use, no illness... etc.

AI was built so humans could enjoy a hot bowl of noodles 7×24

This is bullshit. It is not clear what the work of both the person and the robot is. Where is the sorting? They just transfer packages from one conveyor to another.

The person on the right is Frank, has has been doing this job for 20 years ... they told him to slow down so it looks realistic ;)

Interesting. Except robot will be several times cheaper

A robot doesn't need sick leave, holidays or vacation. Nor sleep for that matter. Or wages. At this pace it easily beats humans at that job. Assuming it did its job correctly.

Comparison is utter BS as there is no need to build a humanlike anatomy structure to do this work. Also, the robot wouldn't tire, sleep,eat, crap, fornicate, reproduce....

Humans need breaks, holidays, payment, pensions, ensurances, and many many more... so yeah, basically these kind of jobs can be replaced by robots. All these robots will need supervision, maintenance and repair tho, so no worries there will be more jobs for everyone.

Yet they both lost.

At the beginning every car was bigger, slower and had bunch of special needs against horses. After few decades almost no one were riding a horses, almost all transportation moved to a cars. In this case it will take only few years (if not months).

The human work pays taxes and contributes to its local society. The robot does non of the above.

Two problems here 1. The Robot will keep going while the human sleeps 2. The Robot isn't being paid a wage Sadly, it's a massive win for the robot in the eyes of any company/investor/stakeholder overall.

Dummheit wird belohnt

Meanwhile...

Human need a rest, robot not 🤷

The only thing is that a robot could do that 24/7 without a break. I think these jobs will definitely be lost to robotics/AI. These kinds of jobs are inhumane anyway, but will require a new social contract.

That was the slowest human on earth. He couldn't have moved any GD slower. Any real Amazon warehouse worker eats that bot and shits CPUs. In fact, a real Amazon worker does that robots 10 hour shift in 5 easy. This is all so silly.

Dlaczego robót sortuje tylko paczki w workach foliowych, to jest prostsze i szybsze od sprawdzania pudełek

Why the need of human appearance ??