[Ipg-smz] This robot is freaking amazing.

[Stephen Satchell]

On 10/12/2018 05:55 AM, Sally Wiener Grotta wrote:
> It's body/space perception and coordination is remarkable. Just
> yesterday, I was having lunch with three well established science
> fiction writers who were claiming that it would be a long time before
> robots would be able to take specific products off shelves in
> warehouses. I told them the technology already exists. The Parkour Atlas
> has elements that would be useful for those kind of tasks. 

There are specialized robots all over the place that perform this sort
of operation.  For example, inn some TV stations, robots will pick,
insert, and put back videotape cassettes.  Ditto large data storage systems.

Perhaps the science fiction writers were thinking about robots replacing
human pickers without modifying the warehouse in any way.