Who Sorts Packages The Fastest? This Competition Was Decided

The package sorting competition between robot Figure 03 and trainee Aime ended in a close victory for Aime, who sorted 12,924 packages to the robot’s 12,732. The trainee processed each package slightly faster than the robot, but benefited from breaks, unlike Figure 03, who has still not stopped working at the time of writing.

This May 14, it was not a question of a boxing match between the machine and the human being, but of a competition of… sorting packages. Indeed, the American robotics company Figure AI organized a confrontation between its robot Figure 03 and a fictitious intern named Aime. The goal was to detect the barcode, move the package and place it on the conveyor as quickly as possible.

Machine vs human being, who wins?

The parcel sorting competition organized by the American robotics company Figure AI therefore pitted the robot against each other Figure 03 and a fictional intern nicknamed Aime. Good news for those who fear being replaced by a robot, intern Aime won the competition, but only narrowly. In total, Aime sorted 12,924 packages compared to 12,732 for the robot. A victory which is therefore played out on 192 more parcels sorted compared to Figure 03. On average, Aime processed each package in 2.79 seconds, while Figure 03 took 2.83 seconds per package, a difference of 0.04 seconds. Suffice it to say that we are not in for an overwhelming victory for human beings.

Congrats to Aime!! He said his left forearm is basically broken 😂

Final scores:
→ F.03: 12,732 packages (2.83 seconds/package)
→ Aime: 12,924 packages (2.79 seconds/package)

This is the last time a human will ever win pic.twitter.com/CalDzPZz4d

— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) May 18, 2026

Furthermore, it should be noted that Aime benefited from regulatory breaks to eat, rest briefly and go to the toilet. The robot, no. In fact, he is still busy sorting packages, more than 117 hours after the start of the competition, and has exceeded 145,000 packages sorted, as we can see in the video below.

For his part, Aime ended up with blisters on his fingers and an “almost broken” left forearm.

« This is the last time a human will win »

Brett Adcock, boss of the company Figure AI, assures us: “ This is the last time a human will win “. And it’s hard to prove him wrong. Certainly, the human wins by sorting 192 more packages and having a faster processing time of 0.04 seconds per package, but these differences are minimal. And if we add the fact that the robot hasn’t taken any breaks and is still working, we can wonder who really won this duel.

This competition also reminds us that the most coveted performances of robots are found in everyday gestures. In China, workers “train” humanoid robots by repeating the same movement hundreds of times. In the robotics sector, a robot that manages to use a fryer is just as impressive as a robot that smashes the human world record in the half marathon.