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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.
Last time I looked, over 10 million workers make federal minimum wage, tens of millions make less than fifteen an hour.
Our entire workforce is 160 million people or so, so it’s a huge problem for our consumer economy.
Your numbers are way off. It’s <2% of workers making minimum wage and a significant fraction are waitstaff who are getting most of their income from tips.
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.
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Wouldn’t literally just one stationary camera be more effective?
The have been a thing for a few years now, since way before the AI boom and even Covid in some places.
They also alert when there are spills, some can scan items for price checks or give directions to customers, and they’re like a roving security camera that can catch angles you don’t get from ceiling cams (although it of course has to be nearby)
Rumor is that Boston Dynamics is working on integrating this into one of those Dog Robots so that if it detects you shoplifting it can run you down and tear you to pieces right there in the cereal aisle
It’s not shoplifting if you haven’t left the aisle yet. Are they also developing a future crime prediction chip?
Are they also developing a future crime prediction chip?
Yes, here’s the training data they’re using. Its 99% as accurate as current police.
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Have you though about an OnlyFans account once you have the robot? Might cover your lifestyle needs.In the store where I work we have a cleaning robot that autonomously cleans the aisles. At least, that’s what it’s supposed to do. It’ll only enter an aisle that’s completely empty, and if someone goes into the aisle it’ll back out, so that means the highest footfall areas basically never get cleaned except overnight, while the aisles very few customers visit… are still not particularly clean because it’s not very good at its job.
And store manglement fired our only cleaner, so if we have a spill, all we can do is put a cone on it and leave it until the store closes.
Please lemme know what store so I can come in and “accidentally” slip and fall and hurt myself on one of these uncleaned messes. I could use some sweet corpo cash.
Watching for $200 is a steal.
Why would anyone sell it when they can have sex with it themselves?
Hey, $300 is $300.
Does it have RAM in it?
Almost certainly. Probably not DIMMs though
Why not? I would figure off-the-shelf components would be easier to work with.
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probably. but soldered. probably just a toradex calibri or something doing iot shit.
or a nuc with a shitty dimm form factory.
Why do you think it costs $35k?
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