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AGV=advanced material handling. : Michael Anderson
Amazon is now offering up to $5000 to warehouse workers who quit. : Bill Roe
Hello Robots. Good bye Jobs.Good luck selling your robot produced, robot shipped, and online marketed goods when no one has money to buy them because they don't have a job.The job replaced by a machine isn't the only job lost. The person who used to have a job isn't buying goods and services. So the restaurant they used to go to closes, and then ripples keep going through the economy.Then the people who have jobs have to compete with the ever increasing numbers of unemployment and this drives down wages. : C. John Smith
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Back in the olden days of robotics (OK, I'm only talking about 10 years ago or so), distributed networks of robots were more of a concept than a reality. Using robots in warehouses seemed obvious, but the prevailing approach was to have a robot run around to the stationary warehouse shelves and pick up all of the items for an order. Flash forward to today, where cooperative networks of robots are powering some of the biggest retailers in the world. A lot of hard engineering problems were solved to make this a reality (navigation and localization, keeping track of inventory location, etc.), but the really key breakthrough seems like a simple one: robots can move quickly but have trouble recognizing and grasping objects, and people are great at finding objects but take some time to walk across a warehouse, not to mention the fact that a person can only be in 1 place at a time. Why not get an army of robots to bring all the needed shelves to a person in parallel, then let the person pick the items off each of the shelves? Amazon is able to process 2-4x more orders per hour with this systems than with people doing all of the labor. Genius. : Stephanie Brubaker
All of this is done autonomously. Remarkable !http://youtu.be/gvQKGev56qU : nearBuy
All of this is done autonomously. Remarkable !http://youtu.be/gvQKGev56qU : Elan K
All of this is done autonomously. Remarkable !http://youtu.be/gvQKGev56qU : Blue Ocean Retail Services Pvt. Ltd.
yes, let's collapse the economy. We could start again, build a better world :D : Mikael Murstam
As an engineer, things like this make me excited. All those people gripping about jobs being lost to machines, you're thinking too narrowly. The real problem isn't a failure of technology, it's a failure of capitalism. Let's just face the facts. As people like me invent more and more advanced forms of technology, mundane jobs will disappear at a more frequent rate. This isn't a bad thing. It just means that capitalism is becoming more irrelevant. : dkwroot
No its not, its seeing the world for what it is rather than deluding oneself about stupid agendas and white elephants because of the lack of work. People do automatable work all the time that they find meaning in and just because a few people say it's not our purpose doesn't mean everyone all of a sudden creates some social revolution : Go Jo
Pretty soon, it will be possible to replace nearly all jobs with machines, which will mean free food, water, and shelter for everyone, whether they work or not. That would leave everyone free to pursue their passions regardless of economics - although economics as we know now it will have ceased to exist by then. Personally, I can't wait for money to become a thing of the past. : Onihikage
If you think these robots are cool you should check out AutoStore who in my opinion are a much cleaner solution than this. Good luck Kiva , you gonna need it! ;) : Svein Engelsgjerd
Probably psychological issue , we could automate 75 economy tomorrow , but that would mean imminent collapse of market economy. : shogu666
You're saying that, given the choice between a cheaper and more efficient way of completing tasks and a more costly, labor-intensive manual way, companies should choose the latter. Thus raising their operating costs, thus necessitating higher prices. Are you beginning to see why being blindly anti-technology doesn't necessarily make sense? : BHSPitMonkey
The world wars was not due to collapse of capitalism... : Mikael Murstam
Looser! : Patricio Gallardo
It good, but why use personnel to pack the products. -_- It can't be that hard to create automatic packing and distribution. : Mikael Murstam
First of all, calm down. I won't talk to someone who resorts to vulgarity and petty insults. I never said machines couldn't or shouldn't do my job. In fact, I encourage it! When machines can improve upon themselves, we will finally see a technological singularity which will benefit everyone. I'm not being unsympathetic to the unemployed, I just think we can build a world where no one is poor. I agree about green run amok, the economy has to adjust to a new reality. Search resource economy. : dkwroot
Amazon bought Kiva last month, will be interesting to see if it has the same effect.. Robots are a blessing as well as a curse, it's awesome that they can do the repetitive and labour-intensive tasks - but the human cost is terrible :/ : klipdriftfan
If history is any indication collapse of capitalism already caused two world wars and socialist revolution in Russia. I would rather live through smart transition. : shogu666
Great way to get rid of all those middle-class jobs America has relied on for so many years, now if we could just get rid of the people, we'd be on to something. The company that owns the warehouse shown in this History channel special is now bankrupt, nobody has jobs anymore, customers just dried up, and so now this fully-automated warehouse is no-longer "running at full capacity 24/7," it's no-longer running at all. Robots equal more-profit, but they don't consume products, employed people do. : runninghoove
I completely agree and I'm a huge critic of the system we have today. I'm not idealistic in the least, heck, I even took part in the occupy Wallstreet movement. In my opinion, that protest was just a prototype for the real deal which I think will happen around 2025-ish. When it happens, we need a solid message! Corporate greed must be addressed, taxes for the top 1% must return to pre 1970's levels and safety nets for displaced workers have to be put in place. True economic reform must happen. : dkwroot
Yes they were , both of them , learn some history. : shogu666
@igon5150 It's great! Nobody wants to work in a warehouse. The more automation the better, the more automation = less price of good, to the eventual price is negligible. : Cameron Bankord
This is a ridiculous sentiment. You would have us all striving to find the most inefficient ways of doing everything in life in order to maximize the number of humans doing repetitive, meaningless work. This is not our purpose as human beings. Any time that we spend doing automatable work by hand is a waste. : BHSPitMonkey