This seems like it has pretty powerful potential for space flight.
Being able to aggressively min max packaging materials to secure materials could be critical for reducing payload sizes on shuttles, where every single individual gram counts.
Each kg of packaging is thousands of dollars to get into orbit, so that’s really appealing.
I’d be curious to see if Amazon is also working on box packing algorithms for maximizing fitting n parcels across x delivery trucks.
IE if you have 10,00 boxes to move, what’s the fewest delivery trucks you can fit those boxes into as fast as possible too, which introduces multiple complex concepts. Both packing to maximize space usage and the order you pack it in to minimize armature travel time…
I’d put money down amazon is perfecting this algorithm right now, and has been for awhile.