Meet Stretch, the ultimate warehouse employee that can lift boxes with ease and never needs a lunch break.
Be happy that you are alive now, and not 100 or 200 years into the future. Why is that? Eventually there are not going to be any jobs left for flesh and blood humans, not when robots rule the world. Perhaps nudging us in that direction, Boston Dynamics has announced Stretch, its second commercial robot that is right at home in a warehouse setting. What can Stretch do, exactly? Quite a few things that normally fall on the shoulders of a human worker, like lifting boxes and packages. It is essentially a high-tech warehouse employee that does not need to take a lunch break, and can work « beyond a full shift » through optimized software. « Stretch is a versatile mobile robot for case handling, designed for easy deployment in existing warehouses.
