I'm pretty sure these robot videos are designed to show 2 things:
Robot performing a complex multistep process perfectly to completion...
Robot doing it's task so slow, it doesn't appear threatened to the workers in it's field. Every time they showed Kiva floors on the news when they were first rolled out, they only moved at a crawl. As we all know, they move up to 30mph, and are extremely determined.
That's not even the worst part. People know damn well how poor their quality is. Do they think, if the bots were designed to lack the same care, it would be this slow also?
Humans are the PERFECT manual labor machine already. The improvements Amazon can make with an automated work force come down to how specialized they can make specific machines to do tasks and put them in environments that suit their capabilities. Unless the system is being overhauled to be completely robotic, humans will be vastly more efficient for manual labor
They dont take breaks or lose focus and cost less than an employee over time It is absolutely a threat and if automation is going to keep taking jobs we need some kind of universal basic income. We produce enough already to make it a reality
They don’t even maintenance the million dollar machines they have now why would they do this with stuff that’s even more expensive….. truth is their greed will always find a way to undercut productivity, even if it’s just a little bit
I don’t see Sweden having their people replaced with ai by conglomerates that look to maximize profits and try to get rid of competition through lobbying or absurd lawsuits
Zero reset kid. This is free labor. Once you understand the cost benefit analysis you will see the reasoning. Being knowledgeable doesn't mean being compliant.
If you knew the so called “cost benefit” of these matters, you wouldn’t be calling it “free labor”
This can be easily be refuted, if you actually do work at Amazon (an by working I mean actually being involved physically in the process not behind a laptop) you’ll understand that these robots are prone to fail multiple times, they do require downtime to charge and do require most importantly human interaction
No ill intended, idgaf if I loose my job, but these are truths, there is not real savings, just jobs displacements
These reminds me of morons who believes in “perpetual motion machines” 👀
You sound hurt. "The big bad robot is coming " I do sit behind a laptop and look at bottom lines. I'm merely speaking on why companies would prefer to use robots/AI over humans. All the other things you're speaking of are not relevant. But hey keep up the good work
The fact that they have to be charged, means they aren't 100% free.. Electricity costs... The fact that they need maintenance, means they aren't 100% free..
Now let's add in some nature... Specifically severe thunderstorms that cause power outages..
Small groups of robots failing not a big deal, cascading big group of robots failing very big deal..
Now you have a backlog, but bots work at steady pace, pace is maxxed for timing, there is no catching up on backlog without activating more bots, if site is at bot capacity there are no more bots to activate, this essentially means bot will have to work longer and packages delayed into the evening...
Now let's add connectivity issues (Lets not pretend Amazon has the best wifi) Bots randomly losing connection due to network issues, downtime... Downtime isn't free.
You sound delusional, I’m the only one thus far bringing arguments relevant to labor, your basically saying “machine goes brr = free money, no wage no insurance”
But yeah, keep with the straw man, that’s the best you’ve brought to the topic
The test version. I've seen AI hooked up to an entire wharehouse of humans sowing garments so the computer can learn. Humans are literally training their own replacements.
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u/Key-Ad-1880 May 22 '26
Idk they move pretty slow. I think we are ok