A new robot called Figure 02 is sorting packages nearly as fast as a human being. The robot is built by a company called Figure AI. In a recent video, the robot goes for a full hour without stopping. It picks up boxes, bags and envelopes and sorts each one in about 4 seconds.
The secret behind this robot's new capabilities is a smarter brain called Helix. It allows the robot to remember what it was just looking at and also know how hard to grasp something. Because of this artificial brain, the Figure 02 is able to handle soft bags, tip them upside down and even pat down envelopes to allow better barcode scanning.
It also learned to hand a package over to a person simply by seeing an open hand. This means the robot can easily learn new tasks, without anything complicated to instruct it.
Right now it is just a demo, but this is giving everyone hope that perhaps in the future, we can have more time on our hands doing other things while the robots sort things out for us.
I don't see this from the perspective of jobs getting lost but from the value we will drive because robots are doing all the work.
In the near future, robots like Figure 02 could be working full shifts in a warehouse, doing the exact same jobs, as people. We can raise up buildings faster, have more efficient customer service and servants in the house without having to abuse a human being.
I personally would prefer a robot to a person. People as servants to people is cool when you're the master but not when you're the servant. That era can be over and robots take on the job.