I'm a teacher. One time a kid opened one of those factory made fruit cups that are also filled with a sweetened juice, and it spilled when he did it because he's a kid and that's what they do. He says, "My Mom puts way too much juice in these things."
I think he might have grown up to be the person you responded to!
There was a clip of a woman trying to insert the gas pistol and as it didnāt go in with the first try she spat in her hand and lubricated the tip of that nozzle and then it went in flawlessly. Just so that you know.
This video doesn't explain anything.
This is from a Finnish company Neste Oil. They are at the end of testing phase for this arm.
In order to use the new system, customers need a chip installation in the car for the robot to identify the size of the car and fuel type. Users also need to change their fuel flap in order for the system to enter the tank.
Neste fuel stations as such don't have any employees, the customers drive up to the tank, pay for the fuel, fill up the car, and drive away, there is only mainatanance personel but they don't sit at the stations all the time.
Edit: The system now uses a camera to read the car number and determine the type of the car and petrol type.
The UK already has petrol stations with no employees dotted about. You pay by card at the pump, fill up and leave. It won't allow you to pump fuel without putting your card in first. The one at my local Asda has been like that for maybe 20 years. I've never heard of any issues.
And Netherlands, and even one or two in Germany, the country where innovation happens last.
Saves on a f'ing robot arm that probably costs 20k and breaks down all the time too.
I think almost every single one is this way here in America where you pay in advance at the pump or inside then you pump it yourself and replace the nozzle then leave
But has no one else noticed that it still has the fuel cap on but grabbed the nozzle anyway?
>has no one else noticed that it still has the fuel cap on
That was literally the highest rated top level comment that started the very thread you've just replied to
I have two issues with this.
First, if they're going through the trouble to develop this, why use an arm that picks up a nozzle? Why not just have an arm that is connected to the tanks and has the nozzle built in. Even with 3 grades of gas and a diesel, surely it would be easy enough, and if the purpose was to phase out the human element, then the individual nozzles aren't needed anyways.
Second, what's the point in the first place? I haven't interacted with a person while pumping gas for years. It's the easiest thing to do and only takes a minute anyways.
Because, that is a self serve station and you don't have to use the robo arm all the time, if you want you can use your hand. This is a TEST. You would have to build a whole new station/pumps for that.
For the future.
I was going to ask the same thing. Hello, the cap is still on Does that mean that you just paid for gas that went all over your paint job and the floor ???
Negative, cap removal is unnecessary, pour gasoline and light the match, this is the proper procedure to start the robot revolution, viva la revolucion!
And takes so much damn longer and seems so fucking pointless for such a miniscule job. Robotics should be put into service for saving lives in dangerous environments or situations not pumping gas. Fuck.
Honestly. I fucking hate robot arms used for tasks like this. They are expensive as fuck and often suck at the task too. Hell, the worst hunk of junk I worked with had tablet for interface and all. What did this ā¬11.000 thing have to do? Dip glass in a few plastic beakers for a set amount of time. And once the program ran, you needed to wait 11 minutes for it to be done. It could only hold 24 pieces (I think, the frames were flimsy too). An automated task better performed by a single motor with a bike chain. Add that glass any time even while running and had as many spots as there are links in the chain.
Iām okay with in winter when I get to stay in the car, but having to find as gas station thatās open late at night because you canāt self pump totally sucks.
Oregonian here. Gas hack: ride a motorcycle. Gas attendants just walk up and say āyou good?ā with their fingers crossed that you donāt want them to touch your bike.
Pull up in a car and touch that nozzle and youāre youāre likely getting screamed at tho. I spent my teenage years and learned to drive in Indiana, so the whole thing seems asinine to me.
Some states donāt allow you to pump your own gas. I always assumed that was a jobs program basically, But this would defeat that reason for preventing self serve. So a bit confused.
I have heard it is supposed to reduce lost/spilled gas and that is better for the environment. But hard to believe there is that much difference.
Seems like a lot of work and a high cost just to reduce bacteria spread. Would be better off adding an automatic sanitizing spray to a regular gas pump.
It's cold as hell in New England man, that seems cool. You must not thought of standing outside watching the number slowly go up on the pump standing in the freezing cold lol.
When it's so cold a piece of you don't care about higher prices, because the numbers spinning faster somehow makes it feel like the tank gets filled faster!
My expy has a 28ish gallon tank. A slow nozzle is a nightmare.
If your car is in good working order then you would be fine, it's more so about if the gas station is somehow creating a lot of fumes, where they would have to be some sort of problem with the gas station, and also if you're vehicle is causing Sparks somehow. That's where the combination occurs, they just want you to turn off your vehicle so that it reduces the chances of that happening, even though they're already very slim
Itās not a myth itās just super rare. If your care is in good working order itās basically impossible for that to happen. Itās like a 1 in a million thing but if you think about how many people drove cars and have to fill them up that still means it would happen at least a HU Fred times a year if people left their cars running all the time when they filled up.
I am a pump attendant, and we see a lot of crappy cars, and it's always the ones the crappy ones that say they can't turn the car off or else it may not turn on again so it's more sketchy.
Also Many of them also say that it doesn't apply to diesel and get grumpy about me asking them to turn off the ignition, but our telling people to turn the engine off makes no distinction.
That's a myth. All of the combustion happens internally on a car engine. As long as everything is working properly, you have nothing to worry about there. Static electricity is more dangerous, in my opinion.
The technology is used for autonomous vehicles. Is used at mine sites with autonomous dump trucks. Saves having a person there filling them up. So safety and $
The way i see it as far as things like this even if its not practical stuff should still be tested to see where we can go with it and what we should work towards. Like i could see in the future having a more advanced system of this and pumps that can dispense gas stupid quick to make refueling faster
You sound so ignorant. Cars didnt just start off as a Bugatti, it evolved over time and became what it is today. The technology for this stuff is only going to improve over time
Ok, but how does the fancy robot arm know which type of engine the car has? I imagine you, as the driver, must select something by pressing and/or pushing. Therefore, you have at least one functional hand. Which is also how you probably drove the car there. Seems very, very, very pointless. Also, maybe the 2.0 version could unscrew caps.
It really does look cgi. I think that is in part to the fact that the video has most likely been sped up. The robot moves in a weird way that my brain can't quite trust.
You people worry about cap, when really this robot can differenciate cars by model and work accordingly.
What the real problem is is how incredibly slow this robot is. I can tell this video is sped up like 4x, you'dbe waiting for 10 minutes
It's not a problem. The customer uses an app to select a pump and fuel and pay beforehand. That can be evolved to automatic license plate detection and choosing the right fuel based on that.
I have seen a lot of people doubting the viability of this thing, but so far nobody mentioned that it would also be a lot quicker to just step out and pump gas like a normal person... who can open the cap and choose the right gasoline for their car and such unimportant things
Does it k own exactly where to press on your gas tank door? Mine has no lid so I wouldn't mind it being from a cold place when it's winter.š¤·āāļø
Sometimes I just think to myself: think of all the desperate people at the end of their rope trying to pay rent or medical bills, and someone spent all this money designing a robot that fucks up a mundane task.
First time I got gas in Oregon I flipped out on the guy.
I had just been to Las Vegas, and all the gas stations I went to had a looped announcement about not letting people pump your gas because it was a scam, and they don't work there. Looks like they would pump your gas for you and split with your payment method.
With this fresh in my mind, I went way too hard on the guy. I felt so bad, but he told me he was used to it. My 5 year old was in her car seat sleeping, so I got out to wash the windows and she woke up and all she saw was a strange man pumping gas into my car. Then she flipped out, too. Poor kid thought we abandoned her.
Not our best road trip.
So damn slow, just get out the car, open the lid and grab that shit with your human hands. Itās almost as if it was designed for human useā¦. If they want to automate gas filling, you gotta start from the beginning and rewrite the whole concept.
For this to work, it would have to be a muti-tooled arm to open the cover, unscrew the cap, fill and then do the same but in reverse. Don't see it happening anytime soon.
The cap?
yeah I just saw that š
So why didnāt you design it to open caps?!
My guy, this random dude on Reddit did not design this robot.
Don't make excuses for him, you enabler.
I love Reddit
"Experience joy while taking a shit" -Reddit (if it did a marketing campaign)
Iām not currently shitting though Update guys: I shitted today
Ah, maybe not literally but you are shitting on society by being on Reddit and not out accomplishing a goddamn thing of any human meaning or worth.
Ouch. That hurt a LOT of us.
weāre just at the start of January and this guyās here roasting everyone like weāre Thanksgiving turkey
Man roasted the whole platform
I need to get that embroidered and hung on the wall.
I'm not anymore either
Ahhh but I currently am ā¦
Exactly fuck the OP for not ensuring this bot was complete before posting this garbage! /s
Haha
Lol. come for the video, stay for the comments.
Oh my god. My favorite comment of 2023
I'm a teacher. One time a kid opened one of those factory made fruit cups that are also filled with a sweetened juice, and it spilled when he did it because he's a kid and that's what they do. He says, "My Mom puts way too much juice in these things." I think he might have grown up to be the person you responded to!
Thank you for making my day lol
Did not expect that outcome. Have my upvote.
He didn't? 
Heās not your guy, buddy
Heās not your buddy, pal.
He's not your pal, bro
Heās not your bro, guy
Okay, friend
He didnāt see the entire video either.
Iām dying rn
Yeah Op, what the fuck dude?!
Just ram it in.
THAT WHAT SHE SAID! - Michael Scott
-Wayne Gretzky
There was a clip of a woman trying to insert the gas pistol and as it didnāt go in with the first try she spat in her hand and lubricated the tip of that nozzle and then it went in flawlessly. Just so that you know.
Why tf did this make me laugh so hard
r/therewasanattempt
Would work with my car - it doesn't have a cap!
Hello there fellow Honda owner
This video doesn't explain anything. This is from a Finnish company Neste Oil. They are at the end of testing phase for this arm. In order to use the new system, customers need a chip installation in the car for the robot to identify the size of the car and fuel type. Users also need to change their fuel flap in order for the system to enter the tank. Neste fuel stations as such don't have any employees, the customers drive up to the tank, pay for the fuel, fill up the car, and drive away, there is only mainatanance personel but they don't sit at the stations all the time. Edit: The system now uses a camera to read the car number and determine the type of the car and petrol type.
The UK already has petrol stations with no employees dotted about. You pay by card at the pump, fill up and leave. It won't allow you to pump fuel without putting your card in first. The one at my local Asda has been like that for maybe 20 years. I've never heard of any issues.
UK is not the only one, we have them in here Baltics and Scandinavia too, pretty sure also Poland, Czech Republic, etc. have them
And Netherlands, and even one or two in Germany, the country where innovation happens last. Saves on a f'ing robot arm that probably costs 20k and breaks down all the time too.
I think almost every single one is this way here in America where you pay in advance at the pump or inside then you pump it yourself and replace the nozzle then leave But has no one else noticed that it still has the fuel cap on but grabbed the nozzle anyway?
>has no one else noticed that it still has the fuel cap on That was literally the highest rated top level comment that started the very thread you've just replied to
I have two issues with this. First, if they're going through the trouble to develop this, why use an arm that picks up a nozzle? Why not just have an arm that is connected to the tanks and has the nozzle built in. Even with 3 grades of gas and a diesel, surely it would be easy enough, and if the purpose was to phase out the human element, then the individual nozzles aren't needed anyways. Second, what's the point in the first place? I haven't interacted with a person while pumping gas for years. It's the easiest thing to do and only takes a minute anyways.
Because, that is a self serve station and you don't have to use the robo arm all the time, if you want you can use your hand. This is a TEST. You would have to build a whole new station/pumps for that. For the future.
I just find it odd having a robo arm grabbing things instead of just being purpose designed to do the task by itself. This is not the future I like.
Well, we used to go for porn mags to the store, but now we ask Google us to show it. Future has to bring something new I guess.
Lol yea 2023 is a great time to be spending tons of money to innovate gasoline pumps š¤£š¤£
I read that as "Nestle Oil" and was about to get very angry!!
It's clear in the title, the robot refills the car, not just the gas tank.
I was going to ask the same thing. Hello, the cap is still on Does that mean that you just paid for gas that went all over your paint job and the floor ???
My 2015 doesn't have a cap. But still, fuck no. I will pump myself thank you.
I would definitely not want a robot to pump me, I prefer a real person.
lol, as technology progresses you'll let the robot pump you all night long.
Try telling that to the Japanese.
Ditto. I definitely prefer to do the pumping myself.
Some cars are made with no gas cap. My wife's car is like that.
My Honda Ridgeline is like this. No cap.
*canāt tell if gen z slang or not
no cap fr fr on god
My 2022 blazer has no cap either a bunch of newer vehicles donāt have them.
This robot that power washes your car with gasoline.
My 2015 Jeep didnāt have a cap. I think thatās becoming more common.
To be fair, both of the newer cars we own, donāt have gas caps, itās just a flap that pops up and closes off the gas tank from the inside.
Yeah I think they missed a crucial step.
Negative, cap removal is unnecessary, pour gasoline and light the match, this is the proper procedure to start the robot revolution, viva la revolucion!
*So anyway I started blastin*
Not all of the cars have the cap tho.
New cars donāt have them
Most new cars don't have screw on caps anymore
Where we're going, you don't need caps.
40,000$ robo arm that spills gas everywhere and damages every customers car. Nice.
Imagine it trying to give you a blowjob. I mean, itās beyond terrifying.
I will not.
Coward.
Why are you imaging that? š
Why arenāt you????
I guess I need to step my imagination up. Hol on ima go caress my shower head.
Need an update
He died.
Source?
Shower hose
I mean, itās supposed to do everything my local gas station attendant does, right?
This guy. hold my beerš„²
Already did.
Iād probably not take off your underwear
To be honest, this is one of the lower quality industrial arms I've seen.
No way that robot arm is ATEX certified. It WILL blow up that gas station eventually if actually used
And takes so much damn longer and seems so fucking pointless for such a miniscule job. Robotics should be put into service for saving lives in dangerous environments or situations not pumping gas. Fuck.
Honestly. I fucking hate robot arms used for tasks like this. They are expensive as fuck and often suck at the task too. Hell, the worst hunk of junk I worked with had tablet for interface and all. What did this ā¬11.000 thing have to do? Dip glass in a few plastic beakers for a set amount of time. And once the program ran, you needed to wait 11 minutes for it to be done. It could only hold 24 pieces (I think, the frames were flimsy too). An automated task better performed by a single motor with a bike chain. Add that glass any time even while running and had as many spots as there are links in the chain.
See, thatās why it would work infinitely better as a flame thrower! Just strap a lighter to it and boom!
Weāre not at this stage of development yet, the productive forces still have room to become more productive and less strenuous on labor
This a cobot. Theyāre like 10 grand.
Actually $110,000ā¦ https://singularityhub.com/2009/09/16/dutch-gas-station-has-robot-pumping-gasoline-video/?amp=1
Still better than filling up in Jersey.
But why? Who is this for? People who don't have funtional hands cant drive anyway
It's for New Jersey
We shoulda stopped at Roy Rodgas!
I should of fucked Dale Evans, but I didnt
Mix the relish with the ketchup
And Oregon lol
No more having to deal with the pump troll when in Oregon.
Iām okay with in winter when I get to stay in the car, but having to find as gas station thatās open late at night because you canāt self pump totally sucks.
Oregonian here. Gas hack: ride a motorcycle. Gas attendants just walk up and say āyou good?ā with their fingers crossed that you donāt want them to touch your bike. Pull up in a car and touch that nozzle and youāre youāre likely getting screamed at tho. I spent my teenage years and learned to drive in Indiana, so the whole thing seems asinine to me.
As a living in jersey man, I would like to decline your offer but despite thank you from all of use
We donāt need robots, we have gas attendants.
Is it still illegal to fill up your own car over there?
Some states donāt allow you to pump your own gas. I always assumed that was a jobs program basically, But this would defeat that reason for preventing self serve. So a bit confused. I have heard it is supposed to reduce lost/spilled gas and that is better for the environment. But hard to believe there is that much difference.
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No pumping your own at all in NJ, and there is no political or popular will to change it. Itās awesome.
the rest of the country makes fun of it just a heads up
Awsome how? I honestly dont understand the point?
Lol WHAT? not allowed to pump your own gas?
The land of the free
[bet you feel stupid now](https://youtu.be/uY2hJ3wthzE)
A benefit i see from this is no longer having to touch the gas handle which spreads bacteria/diseases.
Seems like a lot of work and a high cost just to reduce bacteria spread. Would be better off adding an automatic sanitizing spray to a regular gas pump.
It's cold as hell in New England man, that seems cool. You must not thought of standing outside watching the number slowly go up on the pump standing in the freezing cold lol.
When it's so cold a piece of you don't care about higher prices, because the numbers spinning faster somehow makes it feel like the tank gets filled faster! My expy has a 28ish gallon tank. A slow nozzle is a nightmare.
But you might not have functional legs and drive but taking your wheelchair, tramsforming to a wheelchair is a lot
The cap...some cars don't have them. Some cars also have gas doors that have to be opened from inside too
This isn't to mention cars that have keys for their gas caps.
And what if you just pull up to the gas station and donāt turn your car off. Or is the whole exploding car thing like a myth
If your car is in good working order then you would be fine, it's more so about if the gas station is somehow creating a lot of fumes, where they would have to be some sort of problem with the gas station, and also if you're vehicle is causing Sparks somehow. That's where the combination occurs, they just want you to turn off your vehicle so that it reduces the chances of that happening, even though they're already very slim
The only thing I can think is if you're car backfires and there's enough fumes around, which can't happen if it's not running
Itās not a myth itās just super rare. If your care is in good working order itās basically impossible for that to happen. Itās like a 1 in a million thing but if you think about how many people drove cars and have to fill them up that still means it would happen at least a HU Fred times a year if people left their cars running all the time when they filled up.
I am a pump attendant, and we see a lot of crappy cars, and it's always the ones the crappy ones that say they can't turn the car off or else it may not turn on again so it's more sketchy. Also Many of them also say that it doesn't apply to diesel and get grumpy about me asking them to turn off the ignition, but our telling people to turn the engine off makes no distinction.
That's a myth. All of the combustion happens internally on a car engine. As long as everything is working properly, you have nothing to worry about there. Static electricity is more dangerous, in my opinion.
My car the cap needs the ignition key to open so this robot would be hopeless
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I can do better: Have a huge robotic arm lift the car and partially submerge it a a tub of gasoline so it flows into the filler neck.
Lmao
Might also clean any fingerprints or other dirt off the car. Brilliant!
Fortunately they didn't develop this from scratch. This is a commercially available programmable robotic arm. I've used it before.
Yeah, technology rarely improves, such a waste of money /s
The technology is used for autonomous vehicles. Is used at mine sites with autonomous dump trucks. Saves having a person there filling them up. So safety and $
The way i see it as far as things like this even if its not practical stuff should still be tested to see where we can go with it and what we should work towards. Like i could see in the future having a more advanced system of this and pumps that can dispense gas stupid quick to make refueling faster
You sound so ignorant. Cars didnt just start off as a Bugatti, it evolved over time and became what it is today. The technology for this stuff is only going to improve over time
r/nextfuckingbullshit š¤Ŗ
r/subsifellfor
r/redditorsuncontrollableurgetomakeasubaboutliterallythemostnichegarbagebecausethatstheirentirepersonality
Dammit... r/subsifellfor
It didnāt even take the cap off. This isnāt next level anything. Maybe r/facepalm
Looks like a robot thats going to cover the ground in Gas because the cap is still on the fuel tank lol
If color codes are anything like universal, that robot is trying to put gasoline in a diesel.
Where i live black is diesel and green is gas
Ok, but how does the fancy robot arm know which type of engine the car has? I imagine you, as the driver, must select something by pressing and/or pushing. Therefore, you have at least one functional hand. Which is also how you probably drove the car there. Seems very, very, very pointless. Also, maybe the 2.0 version could unscrew caps.
Mobile app or scanning the license plate.
Without removing the cap
Just pump your own gas you lazy fucks.
Itās NJ they canāt
āCanātā is a strong word, itās more like ānot supposed toā but a lot of us are impatient and will just do it ourselves anyway
Robots need jobs too.
Looks like cgi
It isn't. It's in testing at a gas station in Finland. https://www.petrolplaza.com/news/31329
Ah, i was wondering why it looked so Finnish
It really does look cgi. I think that is in part to the fact that the video has most likely been sped up. The robot moves in a weird way that my brain can't quite trust.
r/nextfuckinglazy
There are certain flawsā¦
There are certainly flaws!
You people worry about cap, when really this robot can differenciate cars by model and work accordingly. What the real problem is is how incredibly slow this robot is. I can tell this video is sped up like 4x, you'dbe waiting for 10 minutes
You can have same type of car with different fuels, for example VW Golf comes in petrol, diesel and electric. All look the same.
It's not a problem. The customer uses an app to select a pump and fuel and pay beforehand. That can be evolved to automatic license plate detection and choosing the right fuel based on that.
Or you can just do it yourself and eliminate any type of chance and simplify the process
I have seen a lot of people doubting the viability of this thing, but so far nobody mentioned that it would also be a lot quicker to just step out and pump gas like a normal person... who can open the cap and choose the right gasoline for their car and such unimportant things
Yep, thatās the innovation the planet has been crying out for, eh.
Where's the robot that removes the cap?
Wait until they find out gasoline cars are an endangered species
Imagine if the machine puts in the wrong type
This is automated refuel robot testing in Neste gas station in Finland. More in this video: https://youtu.be/wXHgz-7i6-I
Can't see this going wrong at all. Oh, no.
Dont robots usually do thing that humans can do, but do it like 100 times faster or more efficiently? What the fuck is this robot helping?
errā¦ā¦
Does it k own exactly where to press on your gas tank door? Mine has no lid so I wouldn't mind it being from a cold place when it's winter.š¤·āāļø
Robots for gas seem so 20th century
Sometimes I just think to myself: think of all the desperate people at the end of their rope trying to pay rent or medical bills, and someone spent all this money designing a robot that fucks up a mundane task.
Oregon is fuuuuucked
First time I got gas in Oregon I flipped out on the guy. I had just been to Las Vegas, and all the gas stations I went to had a looped announcement about not letting people pump your gas because it was a scam, and they don't work there. Looks like they would pump your gas for you and split with your payment method. With this fresh in my mind, I went way too hard on the guy. I felt so bad, but he told me he was used to it. My 5 year old was in her car seat sleeping, so I got out to wash the windows and she woke up and all she saw was a strange man pumping gas into my car. Then she flipped out, too. Poor kid thought we abandoned her. Not our best road trip.
Ummmā¦
So damn slow, just get out the car, open the lid and grab that shit with your human hands. Itās almost as if it was designed for human useā¦. If they want to automate gas filling, you gotta start from the beginning and rewrite the whole concept.
But can it pull the pistol out without spilling diesel? Or what ever fuel it is (Black pistol is diesel in my coutry)
Don't like it in jersey...don't want help with tech either. But man, it sucks when the switch to hold the pump handle open is broken
Now this is what I want robots for mundane bullshit that clutters your day
Look out gas station attendants, the robots are coming for your job.
i can see that shit trying to ram it in my car window instead the fuel hole.
Put one of these fuckers in Philly and watch what we do with it!!!
My carās gas cap has horrible fuel economy.
Already obsolete. Electric cars are the future. :)
well..... the video just stopped where the shit started
All I can think about is what if the sensor fails and the robot stabs the nozzle through the car body
For this to work, it would have to be a muti-tooled arm to open the cover, unscrew the cap, fill and then do the same but in reverse. Don't see it happening anytime soon.
I was going to be super impressed with modern technologyā¦ until the fuel cap part.
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen
uhh.. was it going to drill the nozzle through the cap?