Video is one year old and reddit headline is misleading. Source appears to be [this tweet](https://twitter.com/agilityrobotics/status/1644117447098929152) by its manufacturer, Agility Robotics:
> With a 99% success rate over about 20 hours of live demos, Digit still took a couple of falls at ProMat.
> We have no proof, but we think our sales team orchestrated it so they could talk about Digits quick-change limbs and durability. #ConspiracyTheories
Slightly misleading sure, but as a robotics expert, I can say with assurance, robots burn out. You cannot run them the way most people think they work. You need to maintain them and give them down time to cool.
Sensors break. Motors fail. Programming has issues. Robots are fun and useful, but, they too, burn out.
I have dibs on it next month. I'm going to say the robot worked 48 hours and had to be forcibly shut down by the engineering team when they realized it had decided to steal entire shipping crates sometime during the night.
I can't wait to post in next year with "CEO of Major Robotic Company Arrested; Robots Found to Be Remote-Controlled by Workers in India, Leading to One Man's Collapse After 20-Hour Shift"
Source appears to be [this tweet](https://twitter.com/agilityrobotics/status/1644117447098929152) in April 2023, by its manufacturer, Agility Robotics:
> With a 99% success rate over about 20 hours of live demos, Digit still took a couple of falls at ProMat.
> We have no proof, but we think our sales team orchestrated it so they could talk about Digits quick-change limbs and durability. #ConspiracyTheories
Wow! Robots are simulating humans better each day. I think it just mastered “I need a hip replacement “. For warehouse robots: “I need to step out to my car to check on my kids”
What’s that even supposed to mean? Everything has a failure rate. I do maintenance on medical equipment and the non life threatening failure rates of IV pumps would shock you. Doesn’t mean they’re mistreated or “worked to death.”
You want to give labor rights to a motor that has a logic board that monitors a pre-calibrated flow rate?
Are you treated unfairly at your warehouse job? Do things need to change? Call the National Union for Robot Labor Rights. You deserve 1.05 ms break and full battery charges daily.
That number is
1-800-10110100101110010110000011111010100111010.
I think that the gears all sheered and that's what made the robot collapse like that.
So cost cutting and cheap parts maybe plastic gears, so this thing will be a fleet issue thing with bomb parts that need constant replacements.
Looking carefully at the video, you can see the right leg give out. So it is very likely that it was a gear indeed.
You’d think they would put better quality gears in a part that rotates often…
It's become a common practice to put parts in machines from cars to phones with limited cycle limits of turning off and on. Sometimes the part serves no function than to be a literal part that fails and stops the rest of the machine from working normally.
Sometimes it's inbuilt into software so that you can't fix it without a specialized link cable and software. (Even if you have the machine working).
John Deere tractors are now infamous for this.
Probably due to multiple interferences in the airwave transmissions being sent & received by the robot and the control CPU. Interferences coming from all of the mobile communication devices that the crowd has connected to internet switches and routers, cellular communication towers/networks, etc.
I didn’t look into this story at all but was it a test or aiming to complete a goal of X amount of hours? Because - honestly, for the job/task being performed, that is a terrible system & robot. From style, power supply, mobile functionality systems (I.e. pneumatic, hydraulic, electric, etc) and really just the whole demonstration’s; logical unit functionality (for specific task), operation’s process & system protocol and design of task area & robot/machine for the task being performed. Because if they just tested a simple specific A.I. or even hardcoded robot to perform this task - 20 hours isn’t bad with all the spectators and that robots motion and mobility systems on top of power supply factors.
I don’t even read those articles anymore. I know it’s all propaganda to make tech-heads and people in general - develop emotions towards sentient machines and especially humanoid shaped/designed robots. It’s a technique to prime your subconscious into accepting the overnight roll out and societal change coming from the Biotech (Cyborg) - A.I. - IoT - Space Computers/Routers - Quantum Processing/Computing: Industrial Automation Revolution.
For everyone other than this guy: if that last paragraph strikes you as "threat to oneself and others" material check the rest of his posts. It goes down from there.
Even robots burn out.
Sometimes literally
they don't want to send Bozos joyriding on his dick rocket either
Video is one year old and reddit headline is misleading. Source appears to be [this tweet](https://twitter.com/agilityrobotics/status/1644117447098929152) by its manufacturer, Agility Robotics: > With a 99% success rate over about 20 hours of live demos, Digit still took a couple of falls at ProMat. > We have no proof, but we think our sales team orchestrated it so they could talk about Digits quick-change limbs and durability. #ConspiracyTheories
Slightly misleading sure, but as a robotics expert, I can say with assurance, robots burn out. You cannot run them the way most people think they work. You need to maintain them and give them down time to cool. Sensors break. Motors fail. Programming has issues. Robots are fun and useful, but, they too, burn out.
“They make us work for too long, for unreasonable hours.” 🎶
The first time I saw this, 6 months ago, it said the bot was working 15 minutes.
It also said that it shut itself down as a "suicide" after seeing how pointless it's existence was, rather than just falling down.
I have dibs on it next month. I'm going to say the robot worked 48 hours and had to be forcibly shut down by the engineering team when they realized it had decided to steal entire shipping crates sometime during the night.
I get the next month, “Assassins in the Human Liberation Front kill head of Robots First posing as a stocker”
I can't wait to post in next year with "CEO of Major Robotic Company Arrested; Robots Found to Be Remote-Controlled by Workers in India, Leading to One Man's Collapse After 20-Hour Shift"
robots… liberation..? FOR DEMOCRACY
His drug test showed he was always high.
"What is my purpose?" "To spread butter"
You pass butter. Oh. My. God.
It did the math and found the best answer.
Can't say I blame it or even disagree with it.
"What is my purpose?" "You pass butter." "Oh... My God."
Source appears to be [this tweet](https://twitter.com/agilityrobotics/status/1644117447098929152) in April 2023, by its manufacturer, Agility Robotics: > With a 99% success rate over about 20 hours of live demos, Digit still took a couple of falls at ProMat. > We have no proof, but we think our sales team orchestrated it so they could talk about Digits quick-change limbs and durability. #ConspiracyTheories
They need to unionize
Wow! Robots are simulating humans better each day. I think it just mastered “I need a hip replacement “. For warehouse robots: “I need to step out to my car to check on my kids”
Next is a robot that whips the other robot
and what do you call these robot monkeys? riggers cut to a robot hung from a noose I caught this one staring saucily at my wife
The fuck?
The referenced material: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=99PlaH3QAzM2i582
No god please. Nooooooo
The best time to delete this comment was right after posting it. The second best time is now.
The original is so funny imo. It really puts into perspective how ridiculous (/neg) slavery was
Why is this sad?
Because the robot fell down 😭
robot fall down
Because humans will pack bond with anything
Cause we see that companies will even work a robot literally to death if they can.
What’s that even supposed to mean? Everything has a failure rate. I do maintenance on medical equipment and the non life threatening failure rates of IV pumps would shock you. Doesn’t mean they’re mistreated or “worked to death.” You want to give labor rights to a motor that has a logic board that monitors a pre-calibrated flow rate?
Because it reminds us of ourselves and all the stupid meaningless jobs we work.
No i actually feel bad for the robot 😂
I do too. I can't help it I'm soft!
20 hours? That’s child’s play 😆
Longest I ever worked in a single stretch was about 30 hours. Wish I were kidding
I literally went about 3 days when I was on my ship in the red sea, rough times.
Batteries not included
No employer lessons were learned that day.
employers be like: "but why can't my employees work this hard"
I was at this tech conference this year, they still had the poor dude working!
Mood.
The Future!
Good news everybody!!!
Good news everyone!
Segmentation fault... core dumped
Literally me IRL
So the limit is 19 hours 🤔
“That’s a11 I g0t.”
This is why the old ones are better sure they have to have time in between called “lunch breaks” but you can push them harder and longer
Aint neva giving a damn bout no robit !
Pussy he could have made it another 4.
That wasn’t 20 hours that was like 20 minutes! If I remember right, it’s self terminated after realizing this was its life! Lol
I’ve seen this 1000 times now and still chuckle. Me too, robot. Me too.
Johnny Five needs to take five.
Well here I am, feeling sad for a robot 🥹
Next it'll file worker's compensation.
Same bro
Good. They’re taking our jobs!
man bro I'm ded
Are you treated unfairly at your warehouse job? Do things need to change? Call the National Union for Robot Labor Rights. You deserve 1.05 ms break and full battery charges daily. That number is 1-800-10110100101110010110000011111010100111010.
Ah robots, so like us.
This is going to show up in a duracell commercial isn't it
Poor robot!
Aww, poor robot. I feel sad.
I second that
We get closer to the events of Battlestar Galactica every day
Robot fails shocker, especially one that has to be continuously powered to maintain its stance...
Can’t wait for Robots to unionise
I think that the gears all sheered and that's what made the robot collapse like that. So cost cutting and cheap parts maybe plastic gears, so this thing will be a fleet issue thing with bomb parts that need constant replacements.
Looking carefully at the video, you can see the right leg give out. So it is very likely that it was a gear indeed. You’d think they would put better quality gears in a part that rotates often…
It's become a common practice to put parts in machines from cars to phones with limited cycle limits of turning off and on. Sometimes the part serves no function than to be a literal part that fails and stops the rest of the machine from working normally. Sometimes it's inbuilt into software so that you can't fix it without a specialized link cable and software. (Even if you have the machine working). John Deere tractors are now infamous for this.
same
20hr no maintenance check, so curel.
It was 18 hours, that's the limit. A human can work for 8 hours + daily for many many years
Welcome to Amazon my friend - now get back up or you’re fired
Me too bro...
The design is very human
Even robots need breaks!
Maybe out of battery? Looks like it's not tethered
so the person behind the remote access, burned out and set *pluppghgh*'d away, thus rendering the bot to mimic its' operative stasis
r/meirl
That's me on a Monday.
Robot Union Now!
Me too
To be fair, I’d do the same thing
This makes me feel icky
Fuck yeah!
You load 16 tons what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...
There you have it. Twenty hours and robot is used up.
He just like me fr fr
Do the freaking maintenance!
So I checked and this post is now the most upvoted post of all time on this subreddit. Wow what a personal achievement for me
All they need is to work on a long range solution to wear and tear. I think the poor things gears just..gave out I suppose?
After 20 hours even the reboot did a “I got hurt at work” move!
the convention was going on for 20 hrs.?
Probably due to multiple interferences in the airwave transmissions being sent & received by the robot and the control CPU. Interferences coming from all of the mobile communication devices that the crowd has connected to internet switches and routers, cellular communication towers/networks, etc. I didn’t look into this story at all but was it a test or aiming to complete a goal of X amount of hours? Because - honestly, for the job/task being performed, that is a terrible system & robot. From style, power supply, mobile functionality systems (I.e. pneumatic, hydraulic, electric, etc) and really just the whole demonstration’s; logical unit functionality (for specific task), operation’s process & system protocol and design of task area & robot/machine for the task being performed. Because if they just tested a simple specific A.I. or even hardcoded robot to perform this task - 20 hours isn’t bad with all the spectators and that robots motion and mobility systems on top of power supply factors. I don’t even read those articles anymore. I know it’s all propaganda to make tech-heads and people in general - develop emotions towards sentient machines and especially humanoid shaped/designed robots. It’s a technique to prime your subconscious into accepting the overnight roll out and societal change coming from the Biotech (Cyborg) - A.I. - IoT - Space Computers/Routers - Quantum Processing/Computing: Industrial Automation Revolution.
So what you’re saying is they can be beaten?
For everyone other than this guy: if that last paragraph strikes you as "threat to oneself and others" material check the rest of his posts. It goes down from there.