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by isomorph·5y ago·view on hn ↗
I’m impressed by this thing lifting cardboard boxes by sucking on the top of them. I’m surprised that it works at all, and that the top of the box doesn’t rip off
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These are all preprepared boxes, maybe it wouldn't work so well on a random sampling of Amazon packages
My university won a competition run by Amazon, attacking this exact problem. Mostly it was a computer vision problem over actual handling of goods.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robo...