That emergency stop button makes me feel safer.

This is an amazingly well designed product. Kudos! And way to prevent the robot uprising with the emergency stop!

With driverless cars you can pick the wares you need from the sofa using an app. Let a fetch robot pick the items in the supermarket you have chosen. Let your driverless car drive to the supermarket and let fetch place its picked items in the trunk, and then drive back with the wares. Voila. You can relax on the sofa while the shopping is being done for you. All you have to do is to pick the groceries from trunk once the car comes home again.

@nleigh11

9 жыл бұрын

peter poulsen "All you have to do is to pick the groceries from trunk once the car comes home again." eurgh too much effort, maybe the amazon air drone will fly through a window/chimney to drop it in you lap lol

@scottmarlow6018

9 жыл бұрын

nleigh11 But what about the robot that chews food for me? I'll call it M.A.M.A.. Mobile Autonomous Mastication Android. :D

@valken666

9 жыл бұрын

scott marlow it's called blender.

not picking off of shelves. hmm. still working that part out, "refinements..."

Ah, Tobor, you are looking so good!

basically its a toy, it doesn't pick things up. a grasper that can't grab glass? could it place things a bucket and not break the contents? like bread on bottom, eggs on bread, bleach on all? i can see that happening, because the arm just isn't flexible or nimble enough.

@nischitgs2706

6 жыл бұрын

u need to program it through ROS(Robot operating system). u can make it work autonomously through image processing and SLAM(simultaneous loacalisation and mapping). its open source, u get everything in ros wiki. but u need little skills of linux to program. that supermarket owner has not tried it. its works perfectly well. i ahve simulated it. works like other industrial robots

Fetch didn't pick up a single item... I thought that was the purpose of the robot...

@Keith_Ward

9 жыл бұрын

Stein-Erik Dahle I thought the same thing ... must be working on that still.

WTF. I saw no video evidence of him "fetching" anything. This is purely a follow robot.

@nischitgs2706

6 жыл бұрын

u need to program it through ROS(Robot operating system). u can make it work autonomously through image processing and SLAM(simultaneous loacalisation and mapping). its open source, u get everything in ros wiki. but u need little skills of linux to program. that supermarket owner has not tried it

@hackman669

5 жыл бұрын

Crazy fortune 500 non-union companies!!! The hell with the robots!!! Give some poor college kids a job and pay your fair share of taxes to support healthcare and housing!!!

i wouldn't mind having freight follow me at the grocery store instead of always pushing that cart with the squeaky wheel

Freight is cool.

if you want some automated distpatch of products, instead of a robot working around picking some products that already humans took the time to arrange, why not simply make an automated warehouse itself? given that the products all come in containers, design some kind simple product dispatcher to bands running around and it's basically done? 0.o kind of a huge soda vending machine. Somebody could tell me the benefits/downsides of both approaches? I think that If that "fetch robot" goes around scanning all products in the store it would take too much time to find all you need, it would be more efficient to have already everything set in place and the robot just confirm if the product is really there or not.

@ThomasLeavitt

9 жыл бұрын

Pretty simple... these robots fit into the existing infrastructure. They are also easier to justify than a totally new warehouse designed on principles yet to be proven, etc. I believe that some warehouses along the lines of what you mention have been built by companies like Amazon, but the vast majority still use pickers.

Is that a Kinect in its head? Lol

@Saxoprane

9 жыл бұрын

explorer47422 when prototyping, you dont reinvent the wheel and use whats available now

Freight is a good idea but for fetch I'm sorry but the warehouses I've been too don't look that pretty or well organized.

used xbox kinect