Things typically *appear* out of the blue. It would be more appropriate to say they disappeared into the black, if an idiom of that sort were necessary.
At least the summary doesn't state that investors are "back at ground zero"!
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Do the printers have to be connected to routable IPs and have the admin ports wide open? Who connects their printer to the public internet?
Or is there something more sinister involved?
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"The first ones will likely navigate aisles to check inventory and alert employees when items run low, said Austin Bohlig, an advisor at Loup Ventures, which invests in robotics startups,"
Just tracking the inventory isn't enough. Some products are low when there are 20 still left on the shelf and others aren't low until only 2.
And you believe this is a problem for a centralized inventory tracker, but not for a robot? The inputs to the basic problem are the same (type of item, number of items on the shelf) regardless of the mechanism used to measure them. The problem of when to restock will be handled by rules, which are no easier for the robot to understand than for the central inventory tracker. In fact, the later doesn't require line-of-sight and doesn't have to worry about the problem of items in the front masking the total number on the shelf. Unless, of course, your robot is using some sort of non-visual technology, say, RFID, to count the items, in which case why did we take the centralized inventory platform and send it blundering around the store again?
Making all the shelving smart might be slicker but how and at what cost compared to a single robot that can check all the shelves?
I don't know how it compares. Do you? It seems to me that, if one insists on using visual scanning of shelves to track inventory, that some properly placed, inexpensive, fixed cameras employing the same recognition technology one would put in the robot would do the exact same job without having to build a mobile platform equipped with a myriad of sensors and software to allow it to navigate irregular spaces without training, which has to further handle the complex variables of human interaction, and which will always be a risk to do something like accidentally run over the hand of a toddler harassing it. Generally speaking, the simpler solution with no moving parts is going to be cheaper.
The proposed "problem" simply has no need for a robot. A robot is being proposed because the person proposing it is trying to make money selling robots.
According to Bloomberg's report, Amazon may bring the robots to the stores after automating Whole Foods' warehouses. "The first ones will likely navigate aisles to check inventory and alert employees when items run low,
This makes no sense at all. Seriously? Robots large enough to see the top shelves just wandering up and down aisles, getting in the way of and creeping out customers, just so they can inform employees that items are running low? What the hell happened to things like RFID technology keeping track of store inventory in real time, which would accomplish the same thing without getting in the way? Or just build the smarts into the shelving if you really think this is so damned important! Who on earth thinks this is a good idea?
said Austin Bohlig, an advisor at Loup Ventures, which invests in robotics startups,"
Slashdot Mirror
I bet this is hugely popular!
No, youâ(TM)ll find that in a roll next to your toilet.
But it's only a dollar a megabyte after that!
Fully half of Slashdot article comment sections are stuck in Forever Beefs! Step up your game, Wikipedia!
I'm a net neutrality proponent and ... this doesn't seem to have anything to do with net neutrality.
Things typically *appear* out of the blue. It would be more appropriate to say they disappeared into the black, if an idiom of that sort were necessary.
At least the summary doesn't state that investors are "back at ground zero"!
How about the vacuum cleaner bag?
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No, of course not! $4 at the most, surely!
Just to be clear, I agree with you about what *should* happen.
On the other hand: no real consolation to those locked out by the bug
Why a duck? The state flower of Colorado is the Venus Flytrap.
For my part, I intend to avoid this familial post-life bickering by being dead.
Do the printers have to be connected to routable IPs and have the admin ports wide open? Who connects their printer to the public internet? Or is there something more sinister involved?
Imagine how fast this Rust fanbot will run, as long as itâ(TM)s written in Rust! With this new processor family, the Rust bot will post up to 4 million odes to Rust per Slashdot story, per second! Youâ(TM)ll see no Rust gathering on this processor! Rust!!
https://xkcd.com/1827/
The only person quoted as thinking this is a good idea is some rando who funds robotics startups. I'm afraid you are missing the obvious motivation.
"The first ones will likely navigate aisles to check inventory and alert employees when items run low, said Austin Bohlig, an advisor at Loup Ventures, which invests in robotics startups,"
Just tracking the inventory isn't enough. Some products are low when there are 20 still left on the shelf and others aren't low until only 2.
And you believe this is a problem for a centralized inventory tracker, but not for a robot? The inputs to the basic problem are the same (type of item, number of items on the shelf) regardless of the mechanism used to measure them. The problem of when to restock will be handled by rules, which are no easier for the robot to understand than for the central inventory tracker. In fact, the later doesn't require line-of-sight and doesn't have to worry about the problem of items in the front masking the total number on the shelf. Unless, of course, your robot is using some sort of non-visual technology, say, RFID, to count the items, in which case why did we take the centralized inventory platform and send it blundering around the store again?
Making all the shelving smart might be slicker but how and at what cost compared to a single robot that can check all the shelves?
I don't know how it compares. Do you? It seems to me that, if one insists on using visual scanning of shelves to track inventory, that some properly placed, inexpensive, fixed cameras employing the same recognition technology one would put in the robot would do the exact same job without having to build a mobile platform equipped with a myriad of sensors and software to allow it to navigate irregular spaces without training, which has to further handle the complex variables of human interaction, and which will always be a risk to do something like accidentally run over the hand of a toddler harassing it. Generally speaking, the simpler solution with no moving parts is going to be cheaper.
The proposed "problem" simply has no need for a robot. A robot is being proposed because the person proposing it is trying to make money selling robots.
According to Bloomberg's report, Amazon may bring the robots to the stores after automating Whole Foods' warehouses. "The first ones will likely navigate aisles to check inventory and alert employees when items run low,
This makes no sense at all. Seriously? Robots large enough to see the top shelves just wandering up and down aisles, getting in the way of and creeping out customers, just so they can inform employees that items are running low? What the hell happened to things like RFID technology keeping track of store inventory in real time, which would accomplish the same thing without getting in the way? Or just build the smarts into the shelving if you really think this is so damned important! Who on earth thinks this is a good idea?
said Austin Bohlig, an advisor at Loup Ventures, which invests in robotics startups,"
Ah, of course.
Yes, clearly those are the only two options. In no way is this a false dichotomy.
Seriously - this is an idea whose time past many, many years ago.
Yeah! Just like spelling and grammar and stuff! It's all, like, so yesterday! We're just in it for the kicks, dude-bro!
Inconceivable!
AI: Not if you don't get out there and start talking up my services, meatbag!
What about Unobtainium?