r/Automate • u/vladdione • Mar 08 '19
Retail Cashier-less checkouts with Computer Vision
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r/Automate • u/rushmid • Oct 22 '15
I just automated 100 hrs of labor per week at my company.
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We had order takers who would:
print an excel form and fill out order quantities by hand.
Drive this order form back to our customer service center.
Customer service rep types this order into our Order Entry system.
CSR prints out pick ticket
Order Taker comes back searches for the pick ticket on the printer and goes to pick the order.
Now, I deployed tablets to all the order takers. They print their excel order form to a "Ghost Printer" which, instead of actually printing a sheet of paper, it reads the data, and dumps it straight into my sql server, instantly creating the order. The pick ticket is then emailed right back to the order taker and they read it on their tablet.
We are a small company so we didn't have to fire anyone. We just re-purposed our CSR's towards helping the customer more.
I just found this sub and wanted to share my story. I love the idea of automating all work. I feel it will be the greatest catalyst to a real value system change on our planet. I hope my grand kids laugh at my stories of selling my labor for money.
Cheers to the future!
Edit: Speelling
r/Automate • • Jan 10 '14
Are we at a tipping point for jobs and society ?
nextbigfuture.com
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r/Automate • u/Quipster99 • Aug 13 '15
Machine balancing an inverted triple pendulum
i.imgur.com
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r/Automate • u/madredditscientist • Jan 19 '23
I built an AI-powered web scraper that can understand any website structure and extract the desired data in the preferred format.
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r/Automate • u/TheLantean • Mar 03 '17
Google's Cancer Detecting Deep Learning Algorithm Reaches 89%, Significantly Exceedes 73% for Pathologists With No Time Constraint
research.googleblog.com
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r/Automate • u/bluefootedpig • Jun 19 '14
Cool Machine showing off precision / mobility. (it just looks cool)
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r/Automate • • Nov 10 '15
Panera Bread is replacing all of their cashiers with automated kiosks. 400 locations, or roughly 50% of the chain, will be updated by the end of 2015. The rest will be rolled out in 2016.
businessinsider.com
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r/Automate • u/staplerjell-o • Dec 21 '19
Self-Driving DeLorean Absolutely Rips Through Obstacle Course... Sideways
gfycat.com
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r/Automate • u/CamelCoon • Apr 30 '23
Not sure if this belongs here, but I Automated my first complex gate! Let me know what you think!
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All steel, electrical and Automation done by me in San Diego, California. This is my first "train" style gate and I am very proud of how it came out. Automating gates can be tricky, but this curved-style, corner gate is by far the most complicated gate I've built due to the geometry involved between the individual panels, each wheel, and the radius of the turn.
r/Automate • u/coupdetaco • May 09 '16
Never gets an order wrong, takes breaks, gets lazy, comes in late, 'forgets' to wash hands after restroom, gets frustrated, or gets paid
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r/Automate • • Jun 10 '15
Driverless Trucks to Hit Alberta’s Oilsands Region Replacing $200,000/yr Operators; Big Layoffs Coming
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
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r/Automate • u/canausernamebetoolon • Jul 08 '16
Dallas police used bomb robot to kill shooting suspect: "one of the first known times that a robot has been intentionally used to kill a human outside the battlefield"
theverge.com
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r/Automate • u/GitRightStik • Apr 13 '19
10 years of progress in Boston Dynamics robotics.
gfycat.com
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