grocery robot
(midwest.social)
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Stores don't actually own Towelie. They rent it for $2000-$4000 per month per robot.
For those curious, this is 9-18 hours of (US federal) minimum wage per day.
To be fair, I'd imagine most of these are deployed in places with much higher minimum wage.
It's only 4-8 hours in California for example, using the same math.
Not saying it's good. Just saying that they probably don't have a wide deployment in, say, Mississippi.
Also most places don’t pay federal minimum wage these days. Even McDonald’s pays $15 an hour in most areas.
I thought this was just a meme. Stores use AI robots for inventory now? What?
Yeah, they make droid noises.
What the absolute fuck. This has got to be the most ass-backward way of designing and implementing an inventory tracking system I have ever seen. They put no effort into the thinking behind "How do we replace employees walking the aisles regularly to check?" and went straight to "We need a robot to walk the aisles regularly" instead of any sort of sensible system that uses known shelf locations and sensors, for example. This is just really lazy on both the product designers and the supermarket chains.
I've read all the site and I still don't know what that thing is supposed to do. The meme is right.
Tell your local crackhead that there's 10 lbs of copper wires inside
Does it have RAM in it?
Almost certainly. Probably not DIMMs though
probably. but soldered. probably just a toradex calibri or something doing iot shit.
or a nuc with a shitty dimm form factory.
Thank god for the humble hot air station
indeed!
Why do you think it costs $35k?
Those eyes, and have you seen the backside?
No, but I'll pay $500 to get at it.
Watching for $200 is a steal.
Kinky
That... Took a turn..
the robot does more than "nothing", no?
weird that the meme says that
The googly eyes. Other models use screens for animated 'eyes' but this thing? Just stick some giant eyes on it and call it a day.
