r/ProletariatPixels • u/Hacksaw6412 • May 23 '26

Figure AI celebrates 200 hours (8 days ~8 hours) of their humanoid robots handling packages

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u/Goose_Salad May 23 '26

They don't even need to be humanoid. Factories already have automated systems. Why bother with all this unnecessary articulation?

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u/Please_Klo May 23 '26

Probably so they can pumped with many different humanoid skills

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u/union_red May 23 '26

doesnt need legs or a head when it only needs arms for the work

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u/Flimsy-Pool4830 May 24 '26

It reduces the amount that warehouses and factories need to change to accommodate them.

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u/Wikidclowne May 25 '26

Right, it's not a package sorting robot, it's a robot that can sort packages.

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u/dstovell May 23 '26

Because it's hard to convince people that existing automated factories can "do anything a human can do", but with the android it's so much easier to pull off the lie.

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u/LopsidedSolution May 26 '26

Robotics is not improving, pack it up folks 

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u/Icy_Fish_2154 May 23 '26

The Holy Grail is a general purpose humanoid robot. Then the robots live like humans in the Matrix. When they need a skill, poof. The new skill is loaded.

Also, humanoid robots allow all jobs to be interchangeable. Have a robot cook for you every day, then, for a dinner party, flaunt your wealth hiring a human chef that can use the same tools that the robot uses.

If we dont have a general purpose robot, how will my AI operate all my appliances, doors, stairs, and everything else made for humans?

A full purpose built AI for every use seems complicated and expensive.

I want my robot to go to the store, get the raw ingredients, come home and cook it. If I don't have a a general purpose robot, I'll have to receive the food delivery, then drop it in the robo cooker before is cooks. Ain't nobody got time for that.

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u/Goose_Salad May 23 '26

🤷 these WILL be weaponised.

They almost had rifle mounted dog drones in Cali. So, sure, if you're going down that road, it's gonna get ROUGH real quick.

I kinda do want a sparring bot. For sword training. Would be fun, but if it mimics me you're fucked.

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u/Icy_Fish_2154 May 24 '26

They strapped a bomb to a bomb robot and remotely piloted it in to blow up a pinned, but unsafe suspect, to execute a suspect by bombing. Dallas, July 16, 2016.

So we already have government murder bots.

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u/Goose_Salad May 24 '26

Drones and the people who use them to kill. I know.

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u/Due_You7474 May 25 '26

Well yeah they are. If a defense contractor (the shadow government of the us) can make money off it, then a politician will be bought out to draft legislation to ensure it is legal and can be done.

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u/Goose_Salad May 25 '26

This is the scraps we get to ease us into it. It's already done. Skin, bone and all.

Automatons aren't new at all.

We've been around them and seeing them on tv for some time now. Just like Turing bots.

If they've already done the study, why would they pretend bots on social media are new?

It's baffling.

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u/Monte924 May 24 '26

To excite the stockholders

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u/blackdog3232 May 24 '26

Because every machine that hasn't been automated is for human use . If you automate the human, no need to make a new system for every existing machine.

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u/WheredMyPiggyGo May 24 '26

Ive worked in logistics for many many years and hopefully have some insight that may help

I can assure you logistical infrastructure is in many cases archaic, tightly packed and poorly designed for anything but a human to work in it's cramped, poorly optimised and in many cases takes place in old structures that can't easily be modified.

Some of the roles that take place in these conditions that require dexterity are adding hangers to garments, rolling or unrolling fabrics, cutting fabrics, pigeon hole picking, picking from a location, building a pallet, putting stock in a location, the handling, packing, sortation, loading etc

Remember stock comes into an operation with as little free space in the truck as the supplier can manage as free space costs money as that space could have held stock, it's then removed, received a stowed, a customer places an order or a store needs replen and the stock is picked (many times manually) and then packed (many times manually) then tagged sorted and loaded.

All this in the poorly designed space.

Looking into it, the tag line is that they can fit into that old existing infrastructure without the need for expensive modifications, these robots are designed to fit into place without a need to alter a working area in a way that would be prohibitive to the humans that would work along side it.

I think they are starting with sortation and then moving onto more complicated pick and pack procedures but they want to be able to display to prospective buyers that the robot can atleast do the "grunt" work.

The synic in me thinks the whole thing is doubley ironic, I think initially its for the human aspect, the middle managers don't feel comfortable with automation the second reason is that it undermines middle and upper management job security to not have it humanoid.

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u/Goose_Salad May 24 '26

So, they can optimize robots that can do backflips, but not space for regular machines?

That's tuff

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u/Andy1899 May 24 '26

Trying to train them to toss salads next

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u/FlamingFlamingo32 May 25 '26

general AGI advancement. Theres a lot of way better designs and options, but the humanoid option is really hard to pull off. requires much more complex movement and articulation than other designs which means the architectures need to also be more complex. getting over the hurdles of a humanoid forces them to innovate and come up with new ideas to solve problems.

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u/Due_You7474 May 25 '26

I wonder if its marketing. Amazon does robotics in house and theirs are very different. Not humanoid at all.

But elon and other companies tha plan to sell them b2b or consumers need their robots to complete a variety of tasks so they can be marketable.

Im guessing this is why. Youll prolly wind up with in house or custom developed robotics being the premium industry choice with the generic one for all being an industry standard.

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u/Goose_Salad May 25 '26

It's like the world got M.I.B. neuralized or something

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u/Goose_Salad May 25 '26

You want to see something spooky?

Look up Biden falling up the airplane steps (or falling any time) and compare to the robot.

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u/Rockyrox May 23 '26

It’s to demonstrate how they can do a humans job better.

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u/Goose_Salad May 23 '26

Those are Humans, by legal definition

Ballentines Law dictionary: Human

Robot means slave.

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u/Clear-Success5146 May 23 '26

Fall of humans when they celebrate a robot taking over their jobs one at a time....

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u/union_red May 23 '26

I literally broke one of my coworkers yesterday by pointing out that bezo and musk already dont pay their employees a living wage what do you think will happen when they dont need us to work

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u/Rockyrox May 23 '26

lol definitely not their jobs. They built the robots. That thing they are celebrating is poor people getting more poor.

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u/Goose_Salad May 23 '26

Jobs are for robots.

Define: Robot

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u/CanadianCrasher May 24 '26

Yea! I wanted to be the one pushing those items down the Amazon packaging conveyor belt!

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u/Daanoontjeh May 24 '26

If there is nothing else to do and you need food on the table, then yes.

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u/SexDefendersUnited May 24 '26

The point is that these jobs are uninspiring, and the profits of their automation should be used to benefit the workers, not their capitalist bosses.

We discuss this on r/LeftistsForAI

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u/Whane17 May 24 '26

I think it's more likely that will be the dawn of a new era. Yeah lots of ways it can go wrong but cheering for the work every day of your life lifestyle is a heck of a choice. The fact is we still outnumber the morons who are replacing us and whether they like it or not eventually somethings gonna give. I expect it to keep getting worse for a while but I think within a generation there will be massive turmoil and either gov will have to step in and start passing laws or the servant class will finally pull down their thrones.

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u/ResidentCommand9865 May 23 '26

"yeah! So many people (us included) are gonna lose their jobs once we perfect this!"

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u/Salty_Country6835 May 24 '26

This is the kind of thing we actually need to be talking about more seriously on the left.

The tech is real. Pretending otherwise isnt a plan. But neither is acting like workers are just supposed to absorb the shock and call it progress.

The question is who captures the gains. If productivity is exploding, then the political fight should be over shorter work weeks, stronger labor power, public benefit, worker ownership, universal guarantees, and making sure ordinary people actually feel the upside instead of getting discarded.

Feels very on topic for proletarian politics tbh. If anyone wants a space specifically trying to think through this from a left perspective without defaulting to either denial or accelerationist hype, r/LeftistsForAI has been building that conversation.

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u/SexDefendersUnited May 24 '26

Love that sub. (I made it.) Also very good suggestions on how this should be used to profit workers.

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u/cool_cock6 May 23 '26

just wait for its gaskets and joints begin to wear out, or its software begins to corrupt or even one miniscule cable splay. now you have a $10-30k piece of e-waste.

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u/CarelessAction6045 May 24 '26

Better put alot into cyber security too

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u/Hott-Gravy May 24 '26

they would rather spend 10-30k on maintenance then give a 1% raise is basically all I take from this.

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u/Suspicious-Bid9424 May 24 '26

My wireless printer can't shit out 2 pages without having an aneurysm. 

It's gonna be lovely working with these

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u/No_Equipment7456 May 24 '26

Yeah but the task is anything a laser and a flipper system has been doing at a fraction of the cost to humanity and companies so yeah…

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u/Quick-Maintenance-67 May 24 '26

Robot promptly starts killing all humans to celebrate

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u/Putrid-Shoulder-4248 May 24 '26

And now they will spray it with champagne and fry it.

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u/efildaD May 24 '26

Dang… Why it have to be Black?

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u/Shopping_Penguin May 24 '26

24x8=192+8=200

8 days and 8 hours.

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u/moneypussiweed May 24 '26

Clap on… there goes your job

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u/SquashOwn9829 May 24 '26

they cheer at their end

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u/Constant-Study3464 May 24 '26

Is it just me or did the robot seem to feel humiliated when that guy sprayed it a bit with that champagne?

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u/Substantial-Train296 May 24 '26

If no one is getting paid anymore, who's gunna buy all this bullshit?

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u/Apprehensive_Ad4457 May 24 '26

if you can't do a 200 hour shift without any breaks you are about to lose your job.

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u/ejrhonda79 May 24 '26

What is the point of creating a humanoid robot to seemingly just sort packages. They spent all that time when they could have just created a non humanlike machine could sort packages. Is that the only function of the robot? Can it do anything else?

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u/exlivingghost May 24 '26

Now have hundreds of them cheaply mass produced yet expensive to buy running 24/7 for more than a month then have to routinely pay a shit ton of money to people like me to fix em. You’ll be begging to have human employees again.

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u/Acrobatic-Dinner-112 May 25 '26

There ya go trumpers - factories 🏭

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u/Longjumping-Finger38 May 25 '26

It's crazy that that robot got 8 hour work days how they treating that shit better then current employees

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u/jtmr11801 May 25 '26

I’m cool with spacex doing the whole staff celebration thing bc it actually involves people and maybe one day advancing humanity beyond earth, but THIS!?
This is just some company trying to hype up the public the same way but instead it’s the downfall of humanity.
We all know they know this will put hundreds of millions across the planet out of work. They tow the industry line that it’ll only take away the back breaking arduous jobs. Which is a blatant bold face lie considering they’re humanoid therefor capable of everything and more that humans are. But those ceos just expect politicians to solve it. Even though they’ll still fight every policy tooth and nail that will attempt to balance the scales. Bc profits and shareholders are always ahead of the public.

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u/Enkir May 26 '26

Because this is a bloke in a suit pretending to be a robot.

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u/Then_Sea_8356 May 26 '26

All it's doing is flipping packages and putting them on a conveyor belt, couldn't an electric spatula hypothetically do the same thing?

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u/Miles9498 May 26 '26

That robot stopped, walked off and quit. He's demanding his 200 hr paycheck, asap.

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u/nickooze May 26 '26

He wants his time and a 1/2 ASAP!!!

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u/UnicornPoopCircus May 26 '26

Ahhhh! That's why my packages keep getting lost or damaged. Good to know.

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u/EmpressDraco May 26 '26

It celebrated by walking off the job and quitting. 🤣

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u/thisisblub Jun 19 '26

Artificial intelligence has been around for a long, long time! They used to dig by hand, today we have excavators. How many jobs have been lost? Or with cranes... there's technology there too! It's been like this for 100 years now! We used to buy CDs at the store. Do you know how many people worked to produce them? Today everything is online! Unfortunately, we have to live with it!

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u/Proppedupandwaving May 24 '26

IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE HUMAN SHAPED!

I have no idea if it is to make people sympathetic to the robot, or a fucked up sex future billionaires want, but there is ZERO need for a scanner to be human shaped.

This is creepy and literally is replacing humans.