Breitbart Tech: Amazon received a patent in 2016 for a system which would place employees in cages to maintain robots.
According to the Boston Herald, “Illustrations that accompany the patent, which was granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office in 2016, show a cage-like enclosure around a small work space sitting atop the kind of robotic trolleys that now drive racks of shelves around Amazon warehouses.”
“Amazon says it never implemented the technology and has no plans to, but the design appeared to be an effort to allow humans to safely enter robot-only zones in Amazon’s highly-automated depots to make repairs or pick up dropped objects,” they explained.
Despite owning the patent, Amazon currently has no plans to use such a system, according to a spokesman, who claimed speculation about the patent was “misguided.” Keep reading
It’s a trap!
Why not? Hipsters put their kids in chain-link cages on the roofs of Seattle buildings. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
That would be to protect the employee. Fanuc use to be the largest Robotics manufacturer. I speak fluent G and M code. Live it. Pick and place stuff. All cool. Now we have all these AI companies coming out with killer robots.
That was mine damn it ^^^^^^^
” The all new Amazon GITMO technologies system “
How is this Different than a Crane or Heavy equiptment operators enclosure,
except for the Check size ?
Hey Brad, I work with GE/Fanuc PLC’s.
Yes, robot arms that don’t have light curtains, ESD Safety, dead-man switches, proximity switches, etc. can be deadly.
It would be like a shark cage.
Skynet, Cyberdyne Systems is actually Boston Dynamics. Which was a cool gear manufacturer back in the day. WTF happened? tell me this isn’t evil.
https://youtu.be/8vIT2da6N_o
Loco/Bad_Brad
Brothers at last. Born and raised on Fanuc controllers. Love them. There’s no better controller on the market, from servos to steppers, to computer. I have a Mori Horizontal mill that will circular interpolate a diameter within .0002. That’s all Fanuc.
“I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!”
If you’ve ever stood near high speed industrial robot manipulators you’d think a steel cage to stand in a very good idea.
Worked on robots, and after one malfunctioned and tore out a long section of ceiling with one arm, a steel cage was required to lock it up in anytime it was serviced.
“Free the Robots”!
“Cage the Humans”!
“Automic Socialism”!