Figure robot sorts packages in broadcast demonstration
Figure robot sorting packages on a conveyor belt featured in a broadcast demonstration pitting man against machine. The demonstration setup uses an infinite conveyor loop to replicate client use cases, enabling repeated robot training and maximizing package handling uptime. Observers inquired about package origins, reuse on the belt, contents, weights, unboxing video plans, and tracking of human vitals and battery status with devices such as Whoop or Apple Watch.
Figure is great at PR but I really don't get what this "nonstop autonomous operations" is supposed to prove. Hardware reliability? It's doing the same trivial sorting procedure at every moment, it doesn't need to maintain a context. And it's not error-free, even.
@MollySOShea This is an exact replica of a client use case but the packages are on an infinite conveyor loop. We do this for training the robots so they get a lot of package uptime
Molly O’Shea@MollySOSheaQuestions: 1. where are the packages coming from 2. are they the same packages over & over on a conveyer belt 3. what’s inside of them / weight 4. when are we going to do Figure unboxing videos? 5. do you have a whoop or Apple Watch on the human? How are you measuring human vitals and battery?
