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@dreadinajeep
May 15, 2026 at 5:58 pm
The progress here has been amazing.Glad to have this US company doing great things.I think they are on the cusp of scaling this.
@Dan-h7d2s
May 15, 2026 at 6:12 pm
I think Tesla teleoperates their robots.
@AgentSmith2K
May 15, 2026 at 6:16 pm
Error rate is about 2%. We see them throw or knock parcels off the belt, not correctly have the box barcode underneath, not checking parcels to make sure it’s not moving an obscured parcel
@kingshark7596
May 15, 2026 at 6:23 pm
Brett Addock is brilliant. Keep up the good work!
@howlinhauler
May 15, 2026 at 6:28 pm
Yep, he said “like I robot” , this guy is totally trolling.
@howlinhauler
May 15, 2026 at 8:38 pm
@Laura-e5ui found that video today and thought it was great but weird for a ceo to compare their bots to I-Robot 😮
@Laura-e5u
May 15, 2026 at 8:39 pm
They have a video on their channel showing off their robots, and at the end of the video, all the robots are lined up, but you see one rogue robot peak over, like in the movie
@Stackablekey
May 15, 2026 at 7:02 pm
Why do you need a humanoid robots to push that thing? lol
@raydosson2025
May 15, 2026 at 7:04 pm
the copers, doubters, and haters are in for a RUDE awakening lol
@HoldMyBeerFam
May 15, 2026 at 7:12 pm
Freaking dope
@Dafastso
May 15, 2026 at 7:28 pm
the idear
@Dafastso
May 15, 2026 at 7:29 pm
flippy doesnt get tired, flippy doesnt get sick, flippy doesnt call in to work
@Dafastso
May 15, 2026 at 7:53 pm
didnt all of the robots in i robot go haywire
@Derpy1969
May 15, 2026 at 8:49 pm
Murder mode.
@Marcus_Wulfhart
May 15, 2026 at 7:57 pm
That thing looks absolutly terrible…
@TEHLTs
May 15, 2026 at 8:21 pm
brett looks so tired, he should give it a break.
@r0c0ffeebabe
May 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Using a laser weapon to make a peice of toast essentially. Me when I cook my breakfast with a nuclear reactor. My flying at 1.5 Mach for 0.25 mile in the x-59.
@forretresss
May 15, 2026 at 8:38 pm
Figure > Tesla
@rokrok27
May 15, 2026 at 8:50 pm
No
@Derpy1969
May 15, 2026 at 8:48 pm
I want to see the robot wrap chocolates and slowly speed up the line to the maximum.
@Eric-rs1zu
May 15, 2026 at 8:55 pm
Only take smoke break when short circuit
@wm6746
May 15, 2026 at 8:57 pm
TESLA fanboy Ed is upset that it’s not OPTIMUS…. Don’t cry Ed.
@arielcatli2962
May 15, 2026 at 8:58 pm
I am always wondering how are the noise levels on these robots? I mean if we put them in our homes, are we willing to live with their constant whirring or are they reallllly silent?
@kengol2357
May 15, 2026 at 9:06 pm
F.03 Livestream – Day 3: 56:02 hours 70,550 packages and counting
@dllemm
May 16, 2026 at 12:10 pm
They aren’t trying to MATCH humans but EXCEED them by 10-20x. They will move at a blur 24/7 and not humanoid.
Amazon lays off and consolidates 90% of their staff and packaging factories. It’s a huge savings. But Amazon employees 1,570,000 people, so this is going to be really bad for them.
@georgehart5182
May 16, 2026 at 12:13 pm
The hardware is cool, but their software is lacking. it’s not general, it is typically doing imitation learning, not generalizable learning (using RL etc). There are only around 100 people out there who are truly good at that right now. none work at figure
@TheMagicJIZZ
May 16, 2026 at 3:22 pm
I don’t mean that matters actually because this is for industry
It’s not AGI. It doesn’t need a world model
A six-axis industrial robot from kuka is the same as a humanoid. It just picks up boxes and moves it. There was some dynamic programming to it in terms of sensors, determine what is good and what’s bad
But generally speaking, do you even need a model if you’re trying to build something that’s generalist sure
@Mr_Fahrenheit_200
May 16, 2026 at 12:19 pm
Because tech CEOs are famous for being honest about how their demo never cheat 😂. Just ask Elizabeth Holmes
@ArnaudMEURET
May 16, 2026 at 1:05 pm
It feels dumb that charging immobilizes the robot. A self-hot-swapping system only needs a tiny secondary battery to power the hot-swap for a few seconds.
@michaelhubbard623
May 16, 2026 at 1:58 pm
no downtime on the belt we saw it working and failing..
@ottofrank3445
May 16, 2026 at 2:41 pm
accusations of teleoperation I would take as a compliment, which shows how good they are
@UserName-q4i5d
May 16, 2026 at 2:47 pm
That’s a guy in a VR headset
@UserName-q4i5d
May 16, 2026 at 2:49 pm
You can see the same thing with Tesla bots. The funniest part is when a teleoperator takes the VR headset off and puts it down on the table together with the controllers the robot gets confused and falls over.
@TheMagicJIZZ
May 16, 2026 at 3:21 pm
No tele operation is much more complex and harder than dude than autonomously programmed
It’s very easy to program a robot. Difficult to control a robot tele-operated
We’re not talking about AGI here. We’re talking about a robot picking up a box that’s red and telling it not to pick up the blue one using a simple depth camera
It’s no different than what kuka or fanuc does
@djayjp
May 16, 2026 at 3:01 pm
We’re cooked!
@i.AM.ANGEL.619
May 16, 2026 at 3:06 pm
IM ONE OF THOSE WATCHING TY FOR THE STREAM CHAT SAYS WE NEED MORE CAMERAS VIEWS AND COME SAY HI BRETT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE U EVERY NOW IN THEN TY
@TheMagicJIZZ
May 16, 2026 at 3:17 pm
There’s nothing actually wrong with teleoperation
In fact, it’s harder to tell the operate a robot than it is to have it autonomously programmed to do a simple task over and over
I mean tele operation is very difficult because how do you actually control a robot? Its body its hand simultaneously. It’s not like a video game controller. I can Xbox or a PC keyboard
@andrew8531
May 16, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Lying sack of shit love it another Therinos.
@Kushert
May 16, 2026 at 5:12 pm
BS
@JCIIIBULLET-birddog
May 16, 2026 at 5:15 pm
🤖 obey
@Kushert
May 16, 2026 at 5:23 pm
Tesla and Optimus will crush this company
@StraightThruTheHeart
May 16, 2026 at 5:51 pm
Robots doing jobs that humans can’t do is one thing, robots doing jobs that humans are perfectly capable of doing is more wealth consolidation.
@zairkadian
May 16, 2026 at 6:17 pm
1:26 Having robots just walking around like it’s normal. Crazy, but cool at the same time.
@F8Tributo
May 16, 2026 at 6:37 pm
1:15- “24 hours.. without a failure”. Not if you count the packages on the floor and label-up packages as “failures”. But Figure 03 with Helix 2 is the most practical, most useful humanoid bot there is today. Atlas takes the prize for acrobatics, Unitree is best at CGI and falling down, and Optimus takes the prize for tele-pumping TSLA stock!
@CRW340
May 16, 2026 at 7:14 pm
Frank seems chill but he dropped like 50 packages before scary gary told him to go charge himself
@RobertA-hq3vz
May 16, 2026 at 7:27 pm
The robot was not actually doing any work. Its a conveyor belt and the packages are supposed to move on their own. It was just tapping the boxes and flipping them for no apparent reason. Then there was this mysterious pile up, while the conveyor was travelling real slow. Conveyors aren’t built to run slow and have mechanisms in place to prevent pile ups. Also when the robots are making the bed, one robot looks to the other, and then gives a small nod, and then they both proceed pulling on the sheets. You’d think Robots would have internal Bluetooth communications and didn’t need to nod at each other. Its so fake dude. The CEO is desperate for investor money so he’s happy to commit fraud to get that investor cash.
@Andrew-ug8wl
May 16, 2026 at 7:54 pm
Satanic 🔥
@PHARA0H
May 16, 2026 at 8:04 pm
TAKE A SHOT everytime you hear the word “Like”
@suigip
May 16, 2026 at 8:06 pm
RIP to the low IQ worker 😞
@xmj6830
May 16, 2026 at 8:16 pm
Well this is it. It’s happening…
@JayRebackup
May 16, 2026 at 9:07 pm
I don’t believe him.
@MoritzFischer
May 17, 2026 at 4:01 am
It seems background more in focus than him. Why he looks so blurry. 😅
@JerryKindle88
May 17, 2026 at 5:13 am
Your monitor
@JerryKindle88
May 17, 2026 at 5:10 am
What does Elon think about this? Something is strange here
@oligarchy73
May 17, 2026 at 5:10 am
I want clanker slaves to work for us humans so we can focus on enjoying life, reading, doing exercise, travelling, spending time with family and friends… Let AI and robots produce the goods and services that we will consume.
@kabaduck
May 17, 2026 at 5:19 am
They should loan out their robots to work at a customer pilot site in a Faraday cage
@WoolyJumper5
May 17, 2026 at 6:57 am
Amazing, all that great tech and the CEO’s video feed is out of focus.
@shitPoorLife
May 17, 2026 at 7:12 am
just hire some islamists like libturd bumberg has done and be some rich assholes and die out. fuck your useless tech and robots..
@diablodubedd4444
May 17, 2026 at 8:08 am
Crazy how in a 70-hour demo they pick the 5 seconds where the robot struggles grabbing a package. Classic Bloomberg Tech negativity.
@Howtofewithlove
May 17, 2026 at 6:20 pm
You watched for 70 hours?
Typical YouTube commentary bullshittery..
@honestlee9921
May 17, 2026 at 9:25 pm
@Howtofewithloveits just funny that people cry when its not perfect yet. Its pretty damn good so far its only getting better
@Aresord8730
May 17, 2026 at 8:47 am
This is goofy as hell. “Guy’s, make sure you get the robot to walk down the hall behind me while i’m in my interview” 🤣🤣
@ErikLiberty
May 17, 2026 at 9:30 am
The robots are walking around the building there constantly.
@Aresord8730
May 17, 2026 at 11:15 am
@ErikLiberty
@malaudisa
May 17, 2026 at 9:11 am
Billionaires rushing to employ cheap slaves.
@careyraymartell
May 17, 2026 at 10:03 am
I guarantee you they are engaging in fraud and it is teleworkers. The whole thing is designed to trick people into giving them money. This is the next theranos
@michaelpowell775
May 17, 2026 at 10:09 am
Brett: Our big problem now is how to scale this up so that robots are as common as iPhones
Humanity: Our big problem is now how to stop you
@daniel19dj
May 17, 2026 at 10:10 am
i Robot 2035 is just around the corner ⏳
@PatrickHoodDaniel
May 17, 2026 at 10:15 am
How can anyone think this is teleoperated? The operator would need to have 10x more dexterity to be able to operate the robot. If anyone was awake for the last 5 years, they would have seen the evolution of this technology. I feel like the people that are saying these are teleoperated are in the same realm of mentality as flat earthers.
@Shaun_meeks
May 17, 2026 at 10:24 am
These tech bros and company tools love this because a Rob-Bot will never say ” I’m on smoko, so lemme alone!”
But seriously, if people don’t see the dark side of these things, come on. Would you want something so easily hackable in your home? Hard pass. Also, how much do these things cost to build, maintain, charge, etc, vs what people would get paid a decent wage over 40-50 years. The math ain’t mathing. Especially when you realize these will become obsolete every 3-5 years. And if the robots do all our work, who has money to buy anything they do or make?
@TheRealmfc90125
May 17, 2026 at 10:34 am
In watching this, I wonder why the sorter even chose a humanoid figure. I’ll bet there is a better configuration (multi-arm with built in cameras) that could process the packages even faster.
@AndreaMarquis-f4n
May 17, 2026 at 12:04 pm
Wally! 😂 After all of the jobs are taken. No one will be able to afford buying anything. So…. I guess humanity is useless. 😂
@aceboogie85-u2v
May 17, 2026 at 12:11 pm
Has anybody played Detroit: Become Human? We’re headed in that direction…
@4DCResinSmoker
May 17, 2026 at 1:08 pm
So…. why is this needed, what problem does this solve ?
@sole6744
May 17, 2026 at 1:57 pm
anything… all… solved…
@rwfrench66GenX
May 17, 2026 at 1:50 pm
Why wouldn’t you have a charger at each station you have a robot?
Why not send humans to the stations for hardware issues and use Wi-Fi for software updates?
Is there seriously not any conventional mass production sorting equipment available that couldn’t be used instead of robots?
@joelcane4698
May 17, 2026 at 2:50 pm
😃🙃👋👋✍️✍️
@joevanaken9791
May 17, 2026 at 2:58 pm
Just send in the clowns… I mean the robots and terminate capitalism.
@azioprism3635
May 17, 2026 at 5:39 pm
*flippy doesn’t need to pay the bills to the government, it so much more efficient than human.*
@azioprism3635
May 17, 2026 at 5:39 pm
fr fr on god 100
@tahunuva4254
May 17, 2026 at 6:36 pm
16:43 dude… She literally does.
@youarehere.0912
May 17, 2026 at 7:16 pm
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@tahunuva4254
May 17, 2026 at 7:49 pm
I understand your opinion, but I’m afraid I can’t disagree more in some cases. I really loved the hunt/track quests, which (along with the vocal main character) made silksong feel a lot more like an RPG than its predecessor. And I absolutely loved it for that. Grinding resources felt immersive, not boring. I actually spend a good hour or so in shellwood, mastering the diagonal pogo on those respawning surface-skaters lol. And it’s my favourite area now, partly _because_ of that time I spent just.. being. I wasn’t worried about progression, I was just happy to spend time in that world, making it my home – and the game literally encourages you to do that, making Bellhart your comfy HQ. Your Pavo idea would absolutely destroy that, it wouldn’t even give it a chance to flourish, and as a consequence a large portion of act 3’s gut wrench would also be lost.
Re: the 5000 rosaries needed. You haven’t accounted for enemy kills. The citadel alone gives around 2k on a single pass, and that’s strictly sticking to 1 kill per enemy (filling out the hunters’ journal is gonna require at least two passes, so just in that alone were already practically there). And that’s just the citadel alone. Even if every other area added together nets you less rosaries, that’s still _at least_ the 1 extra k required. And I’m betting it’s more.
Silksong isn’t a perfect game. It has genuine criticism to be made, some of which you touch on here. But for these points specifically, it ain’t it chief.