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Robot Orders a Scone in Mountain View, Ca.
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.Finally Delivered...The package is a QB robot from Anybots. It's on it's way home from London to San Jose (we thought) for an upgrade. Over the last 18 days, FedEx has literally flown it across the Atlantic 7 times.
The sender inadvertently reversed the Sender and Receiver on the waybill, and was advised to 'just put arrows between the two, it happens all the time'. It got as far as San Jose distribution, who apparently missed the arrows and shipped it right back to London. Since then, and in spite of literally dozens of phone calls, this guy has been racking up frequent flyer miles.
QB in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4FshiMu3U
⬐ peterwwillisInterestingly, based on the fastest crossing of the Atlantic by ship, the same feat would take just over 24 days by sea using a transatlantic liner (which don't really exist anymore as they were obsoleted by the 747 and replaced by cruise ships). Of course it's not in any way a direct comparison because one flight across would take <8 hours, but I just figured the crossing by sea would take much longer. By sail it would depend on the boat - 19 days for a small vessel averaging 5 knots a day, a week for a larger one averaging 12 knots, and 3.5 days for a racing trimaran doing 30 knots.
The package is a QB robot from Anybots. It's on it's way home from London to San Jose (we thought) for an upgrade. Over the last 14 days, FedEx has literally flown it across the Atlantic 6 times.The sender inadvertently reversed the Sender and Receiver on the waybill, and was advised to 'just put arrows between the two, it happens all the time'. It got as far as San Jose distribution, who apparently missed the arrows and shipped it right back to London. Since then, and in spite of literally dozens of phone calls, this guy has been racking up frequent flyer miles.
QB in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4FshiMu3U
⬐ informatimagoSo, in San Jose they're dumb enough not to understand the problem, and in London they're dumb enough not to correct it (they understand it, since they resend the package).
this was posted before, but didn't get much attention:Robot Orders a Scone in Mountain View, Ca. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4FshiMu3U
(yes, anybots...)
⬐ tbrookshttp://www.anybots.com/YC shares offices with Anybots.