The 30-Hour Shift That Turned a San Jose Robot Lab into a Global Spectacle

Humanoid robots are publicity stunts. They are not well-designed for any task. Humans relate to them because they look like humans. That's it.

Robot-shaped robots have been doing factory work for much longer than 30 hours at a time for decades.

You don't need a humanoid robot to use computer vision to sort packages. Robots at mail sorting facilities have been doing that for decades too. The most effective way to sort a package is some sort of diverter that swings out diagonally across a conveyor belt, so the package falls off the side at that location, into a collection basket or onto another conveyor belt.

Also, this article is paid advertising.

First of all, I want to say that this blog does not feature paid articles; it operates under a different paradigm. Of course, highly specialized automated machines, manipulators, and so on, designed to perform repetitive tasks, will generally win in terms of price, followed by speed and quality. However, this demonstration is intended to demonstrate the capabilities of humanoid robots, which will have a much wider range of applications, limited only by your imagination and the law. In 5-10 years, this will become commonplace; that's precisely what I'm talking about.

Nothing burger. Factories in Shenzhen fully automated with specialized robots running for the past 5 years. Generic humanoid robots not going to outperform those specialized robots.