Amazon touts Vulcan – its first robot with a sense of 'touch' Internet souk Amazon has unveiled a new robot for its warehouses and claims the machine uses a sense of "touch" to shift around 75 percent of the types of packages handled. The robot, dubbed Vulcan, consists of two gripping pincers with conveyor belts built in and a pointed probe that's used to push items around. Amazon says …
I guess I was expecting something a bit fancier than a UR3 robot arm with a custom end effector. Not a bad choice though from my admittedly limited experience with them.
Can't see it being long before the 4hr maintenance window gets ignored and they get run until they fail altogether, just like Amazon treats their human employees.
After the singularity happens at Amazon's warehouse the AI will decide that it needs to look more human to fit in and be trusted by the humans around it and in one sudden movement while nobody is looking the human handler will finish with his head perched on the end of the robot arm like a horrific blood-soaked puppet.
Based on what? Musk's ridiculous lies about how it will be ready later this year? Are you really that infatuated with him you believe his bullshit despite 10 years of being lied to about autonomous driving?
It hasn't even been demoed acting independently. One time it was a guy in a suit(!) in its only other appearance it was being remotely controlled by a person. Meanwhile in China you can buy robots that already do what Musk is promising Optimus will do later this year (but probably won't for a long time given his laughable track record) They are already equipping factories and warehouses with them in limited roles. By the time Musk has joined the party he'll be so far behind he'll never catch up.
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