【看新聞學英文】美國新型倉庫機器人 首次公開亮相｜#大千英語新聞

🔊First look at Boston Dynamics' new warehouse worker robot 波士頓動力的新型倉庫機器人首次公開亮相 U.S. robotics company Boston Dynamics unveiled a brand new robot called 'Stretch', designed to perform one very specific warehouse job: moving boxes. 美國機器人公司─波士頓動力，推出一款全新的機器人名叫 'Stretch', 是專門設計來執行一項非常特定的倉庫工作：搬箱子。 They built Stretch for one task that was based on requests received from companies around the world. 波士頓動力之所以製造出機器人Stretch，是基於世界各地的公司都提出此項工作需求。 MICHAEL PERRY, VP OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AT BOSTON DYNAMICS, SAYING: "With every new automation project that we go into, we start off by asking the people who work in a physical location, 'what is your most difficult challenge?' And we heard pretty much universally across warehousing that truck unloading is one of the most physically difficult and unpleasant jobs. You can actually see that in a lot of the turnover rates where people are entering that position and then leaving pretty quickly because it's really, really tough." 波士頓動力公司業務發展的副總裁 邁克爾 佩里(Michael Perry)：「在我們參與的每個新的自動化任務中，我們首先都會詢問現場的工作人員：遇到最困難的挑戰是什麼？我們幾乎普遍聽到整個倉儲業都在抱怨：卸貨是最費力、最令人不悅的工作之一。事實上，你可以從許多員工的離職率上看到：人們進入該職位後，很快就會離職，因為這真的、真的是非常費勁的工作。」 'Stretch' has a small, omni-directional mobile base that allows it to move around tight spaces in existing warehouses without having to reconfigure them for automation. It is equipped with an arm and a smart-gripper with advanced sensing and computer vision cameras that can identify and handle a large variety of boxed and shrink wrapped cases. Stretch擁有一個小巧又全方位的移動底座，可以在倉庫內狹窄的空間中移動，且毋需重新調整其自動裝置。它配備了一個手臂，和一個具有先進感測和電腦視覺攝影機的智能抓手，可以識別和處理各種已打包裝箱與收縮薄膜包裝的箱子。 We're looking at picking up boxes around 50-pounds (23 kilograms), and our maximum rate of picking up and moving boxes can reach up to 800 cases per hour. So, it's a fast moving, highly versatile robot," Perry said. 我們預期Stretch能搬運大約50磅（約23公斤）的箱子，最高速度可以達到每小時800箱。因此它是一種移動速度快，用途廣泛的機器人， 佩里說。 unveil (v.) 揭幕；推出 brand new (adj) 全新的 warehouse (n.) 倉庫 request (n.) 要求 unpleasant (adj) 令人不開心的 來源：Reuters 編譯：Ria Wang (CAN) 共同主編：William Chen (CAN) & 洪毓瑛 (譯有《蕭瑟的童顏》) 配音：Eddie Wei (CAN) 🔠【大千英語新聞】播放清單歡迎+到媒體庫 http://bit.ly/3b9y352 細選自國際上新奇、趣味、具指標性的新聞報導，通過閱讀、收聽與影像記憶等多功能加速學習。短短的影片，讓忙碌的現代人也能通勤學英文，天天練聽力。在台灣迎向國際的浪潮下，看大千學英文培植國際素養，是普羅大眾快樂的好幫手。大家說英語，全民一起來！ 🔔請訂閱我們 https://youtube.com/user/NTDAmazingWorld 🆗再開啟小鈴鐺 ✅定時來點正成長喔