Amazon is experimenting with humanoid robots for warehouse work.

  • admiralteal@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Conceivably, to increase the performance of the humans WITHOUT making them lose their jobs.

    These warehouses all act like they’re perpetually short-staffed and under intense demand. If they boost overall performance, one reasonable outcome would be easier working conditions for the same workers, or shifting workers from jobs robots can do to other areas that were short-staffed.

    It won’t be because fuck the workers. But that possibility should exist.

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      1 year ago

      I mean let’s be honest from the minute 0 Amazon has wanted to automate all the warehouse… Like the people were meant as transitory thing or for the parts were there wasn’t any alternative at all.