Humanoid ice cream maker, now on shift in Shanghai.
Sharpa’s wheeled North is behind the counter at DQ on Wujiang Road. Open the cabinet, fit the ring, pull a paper cup, dispense, scoop Oreo, blend, flip it upside down. 55 steps, no cuts. Same machines, same cups…They didn’t rebuild the kitchen.
Two Wave hands work the sequence the way a person would, left and right together. Even with gloves on, the tactile sensing stays precise enough to hold a soft cup through blending and the upside-down flip. CraftNet( VTLA)is what’s driving that.
It’s still slow…6–7 minutes a cup; a good crew member does it in 2–3. But,I don’t mind that yet. What I’m watching is whether a long, messy sequence can stay together on hardware that was never designed for a robot.
(Humanoid robots are gradually entering people's daily lives.)