Fwd: [RSSC-List] Re: Figure 03 8 hour shift livestream (sorting packages)

[Thomas Messerschmidt]

You have to see this.  

Thomas Messerschmidt

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From: Alan Timm 

Holy smokes I may have to take back the "prerecorded" comment.

The three bots are still going strong in the livestream and are nearing 24 hours of continuous work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU57hMhkak

And the CEO slapped name tags on them. There's a Frank and a Gary. I didn't catch the name of the third bot.

On Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 2:03:27 PM UTC-7 Alan Timm wrote:

A few things I've noticed so far:

• The job is to place the packages label side down for the scanner at the end of the conveyor.  Seems obvious but I assume that the conveyor just funnels the packages back into the hopper for continuous testing.
• It's not perfect, but it's very good and pretty fast..  seems to be almost perfect on placing soft packages label side down, but there have been many box packages where the labelled side was facing to the side instead, and I just saw a soft package fall off the side of the conveyor
• Each shift is 1 hour before the robot is swapped.  There are 2 additional robots behind.  Seems that at present you need 3 robots for continuous operation.  There are main reasons for this.  The obvious one is that at this activity level the battery only lasts this long.  The less obvious reason is that after an hour of work like this the robot needs a cool-down period.
• If you're tuning in to see something spectacular happen I wouldn't get my hopes up.  While this is a "Livestream" if I were Figure I would have prerecorded it just to make sure there were no surprises.

Still it's very cool!

Alan

On Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 11:01:46 AM UTC-7 Alan Timm wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU57hMhkak

It's fascinating to watch in the background while I'm working.  

He's fast, his hands have pretty accurate grip behaviors, and if anything the package counter is undercounting.

It actually gets me wondering how to teleoperate multifinger hands for training.

I currently have a trigger that works good for claws.  I'll need to dig into how they're doing it.

The future is (almost) here?

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[Marco Walther]

On 5/14/26 09:05, Thomas Messerschmidt wrote:
> You have to see this.
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> F.03 Livestream <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU57hMhkak>
> youtube.com <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU57hMhkak>
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> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU57hMhkak>

Nice.

But that place looks permanent. So a humanoid is there no real help.
Install four stereo cameras fixed above and 'upper bodies (two arms and
some hip flexor)' fixed on both sides of the belt and you got almost
twice the productivity with less complexity. No battery, almost same
amount of motors, more productivity, more speed down the line.

-- Marco

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> *From:* Alan Timm

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>
> Holy smokes I may have to take back the "prerecorded" comment.
>
> The three bots are still going strong in the livestream and are nearing
> 24 hours of continuous work.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU57hMhkak
>
> And the CEO slapped name tags on them. There's a Frank and a Gary. I
> didn't catch the name of the third bot.
>
> On Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 2:03:27 PM UTC-7 Alan Timm wrote:
>
> A few things I've noticed so far:
>

> * The job is to place the packages label side down for the scanner

> at the end of the conveyor.  Seems obvious but I assume that the
> conveyor just funnels the packages back into the hopper for
> continuous testing.

> * It's not perfect, but it's very good and pretty fast..  seems to

> be almost perfect on placing soft packages label side down, but
> there have been many box packages where the labelled side was
> facing to the side instead, and I just saw a soft package fall
> off the side of the conveyor

> * Each shift is 1 hour before the robot is swapped.  There are 2

> additional robots behind.  Seems that at present you need 3
> robots for continuous operation.  There are main reasons for
> this.  The obvious one is that at this activity level the
> battery only lasts this long.  The less obvious reason is that
> after an hour of work like this the robot needs a cool-down period.

> * If you're tuning in to see something spectacular happen I

> wouldn't get my hopes up.  While this is a "Livestream" if I
> were Figure I would have prerecorded it just to make sure there
> were no surprises.
>
>
> Still it's very cool!
>
> Alan
>
> On Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 11:01:46 AM UTC-7 Alan Timm wrote:
>

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU57hMhkak <https://
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU57hMhkak>

>
> It's fascinating to watch in the background while I'm working.
>
> He's fast, his hands have pretty accurate grip behaviors, and if
> anything the package counter is undercounting.
>
> It actually gets me wondering how to teleoperate multifinger
> hands for training.
> I currently have a trigger that works good for claws.  I'll need
> to dig into how they're doing it.
>
> The future is (almost) here?
>

> screenshot_20260513_101718.jpg
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[Karim Virani]

it's just a repeatability test - and impressive. the real gap it's designed for is to walk to the next place in line where dedicated machinery hasn't been deployed and the temporary human has called in sick.

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[Thomas Messerschmidt]

I noticed that a number of the cube-shaped boxes were put on the conveyor belt with the shipping label in the wrong direction. Of course, you learn by making mistakes. I am sure that in time, this will be fixed. 

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[Karim Virani]

all of the labels are being placed face down on purpose - it's doing that for the boxes and the bags. likely the scanner is underneath somewhere along the way. it seemed very accurate to me - i saw one error (bagged item) in 5 minutes of watching.

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[Thomas Messerschmidt]

It placed several boxes in the wrong direction (not face down) when I was watching. 

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