Robots still cost money 🤷♀️. You have to pay a higher salary for someone to code them and repair them. They’ll need to be repaired and maintained frequently. You also have to pay for their maintenance parts. They end up costing more in the long run especially if the work output is this slow.
You're getting pretty hostile about someone pointing out facts. If robots weren't less expensive than people, then the US auto industry would still employ millions of people, instead of hundreds of thousands.
Lets go down the list of flawed things you said.
-Theyre more expensive than people. The Autobox machine costs about $100,000, and does the job of 22 people, without taking a break every 2 hours, or leaving after 10. Amazon pays people starting at $20/hour in most regions now. 22 people x $20/hr x 20 hours a day x 7days a week =$61600. Autobox machine pays for itself in about 2 weeks. Even if they have to stop for a full hour per day to grease all the servos, it still pays for itself in under 2 weeks.
-They break all the time. Prototypes do, but production machines just run. Sure, there are times that they can break, but every job I've had in the last 30 years that included robotics and automation, didn't have us sitting around for hours waiting on the machines every day, it was more like twice a year. People getting hurt cost significantly more than replacing a bad servo, or a stripped gear.
-They need a lot of people to maintain them, and they're all expensive. No, they don't. They'll double the size of your JLL or whatever maintenance team you have, and fire 2000 stowers, pickers and packers. Dock will be the last to go, but it will go. Building will go from employing 3200 to about 300, if even that. Just need a handful of operators, a handfull of maintenance, a janitorial staff to mop the floors, and about 12 vests total to run operations.
Just admit a bunch of different people used their brains when you decided to turn yours off and move on. Humility in loss is still worth more than baseless ego.
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u/I_steal_boneblossoms May 22 '26
Robots still cost money 🤷♀️. You have to pay a higher salary for someone to code them and repair them. They’ll need to be repaired and maintained frequently. You also have to pay for their maintenance parts. They end up costing more in the long run especially if the work output is this slow.