Inside Amazon’s robot revolution
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Amazon is investing a billion dollars in new industrial technology, including Digit, a robot working in their Seattle Robotics Research and Development facility. Amazon says the robots will be used to support human employees, but labor experts and Amazon warehouse employees say they are concerned about the future of human work.
UPDATE: This story’s headline and description have been updated to include Amazon’s statement that its robots are meant to support human employees, not replace them.
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Proof that humans are 100% replaceable especially when these robots start building one another and have advanced AI running them.
And it's only the beginning. 50% of jobs will be gone over the next 10 years.
Can AI develop better business models, and less inhumane CEO's? Please?
Except when it comes to driving. There's just zero tolerance for mistakes and robots cannot be punished for vehicular manslaughter. They have to be perform better than the best drivers not the worst. Because most of us are not the worst drivers. Tech fanatics hate those standards but humans are not expendable by robotic driving errors.
Cyberdyne system 1zero1
well, when you lose your job, what are you going to do?
Instead of complaining, let's focus on a fundamental goal: to enhance the joy and simplicity of human life. This initiative marks a significant stride towards that vision. If humanity perseveres a thousand years from now, our current work practices will merely be chapters in history books. Let's rally together, stay positive, adapt, and support one another on this journey towards a brighter future.
Yeah, this could easily not be a problem if we implemented Universal Basic Income. If profits are not longer tied to human labour, we need to restructure society to accommodate for it
@@quantumjourney1 I agree
The future is coming in hard! In just 10 years there will be next to no humans working wearhouse, and that's insane.
I'm for technology in the workplace to replace people doing no skill/mindless tasks like putting products in a basket or a cardboard box. These people have been told for a decade that it was coming (robots replacing them) and yet they have done nothing to improve their employability. In those past 10 years, they could have been trained in robot maintenance and repair. BTW - in 10 to 15 years these "newscasters" will be replaced by AI images. No longer a need for a real person to read a teleprompter.
I stopped by from Amazon a while ago. After reports about products waste and environment pollution
Prioritize its products over sellers on the website
Those retailing companies needs to do a lot more than what they doing now
Focus on selling second hand and refurbished products
And above all - be transparent and let the customer decide from whom to buy base on real facts
“Can do anything a warehouse worker does”
“..can lift about 35lbs”
You gotta be able to lift at least 50lbs they tell you and you’ll probably be lifting more than that. Good luck robot. Maybe they’ll abuse you less.
Dude. I would be so scared to be in a factory and seeing all these robots working. Its actually frightening.
The movie IRobot provided a glimpse into the future. This is a major corporation's answer to the $15 an-hour pay.
Years ago people were laughing saying robots can't fully replace human labor...
250k is cheap considering a minimum wage worker would cost $50k/ year for 40 hours/week. Break even is probably 2 years, possibly faster if it operates 24/7
This shows you that increasing our population is not the answer but robots will allow us to contract which will be a great thing for the Earth.
I used to work at an Amazon sort facility.
If I was still working there, I wouldn't worry.
These robots can only move empty bins of "smalls."
They can't pickup anything
They can't build pallets of packages
They can't bend at the waist.
They can't pick packages, just bins.
They can't open gaylords.
They can't wrap pallets
They can't operate pallet jacks or forklifts
They can't put pallets into position,
They can't scan packages to a container,
They can't do a team lift,
etc.
It's actually laughable how oblivious these reporters are to what the job actually is.
It's scary that our value is below $250,000.
People can't say Amazon doesn't train employees for others jobs if they get replaced. Amazon has generous tuition programs for college and vocational schools. I think people should start getting ahead of this now though. These jobs won't be here in 10 years.
'And it doesn't quit' = doesn't need to take breaks.
this is the mindset of your boss. let that sink in.
better start dismantling amazon while you still can.
WAKE UP PEOPLE, stop buying amazon stuff, we don’t need to be replaced
The industry needs to focus on replacing news anchors with robots
Amazon should have been broken up years ago!!! This is nuts that a monopoly like this exists in the 21st century!!!
this is what the future looks like, all robots 95% unemployment and 80% homeless population. It is coming people are you ready. We know most young people are lazy demanding high wages and shocked when they are fired or laid off. Everyone has to start right now making better or just real good life choices, life choices that will secure your future within your life span. And if you can not or refuse to make this move of making good life choices then you will be the one who in non employable and homeless. But always remember your future is determined by your life choices.
Im just curious, if companies keep replacing workers with robots, eventually, who is going to buy all the products with no income?
EXACTLY
All those people that refused to return to work. You don't have to worry about it now. They stopped begging you
It's sick the direction our country is moving. They should have to pay unemployment benefits for 3 citizens for each robot in use.
As long as they ain't lazy and don't complain I'm down for it
They're gonna try and lose millions in the attempt. That robot, for that job is a monsy pit. Heres why
1. As soon as it falls over its done
2. Battery life, 30 min at best?
3. The speed of task is horrible
Walmart tried to do away with cashiers. Not working out too good for them
Great. No more worries about ridiculous threats of strike.
I've been warning people about this for years.
When nobody works who buys their stuff.
WALL-E coming to real life.!
The goal has always been to replace human workers. Don't convolude the topic with talk of augmentation.
$250,000 in 2 or 3 shifts!? 😂
Lol they made it blink?!? Id throw water at it 😂
Robots don’t steal either. Big issue at Amazon
The thing is it is really scary to think that they will come a time when the elites of the world dont need us many more.what would they do to peoples when that happens
Yeah humanity needs to understand what we’re up against
LOL, usually you dont get this type of honestly when talking about automation replacing human workers...they were like yup, they dont quit, no health insurance...
Feels like a movie plot
Bye Humans. We don’t need you anymore. - Amazon
Maybe we are meant to do more then be workers.
Oh yeah I can't wait to get the wrong package
0:39 sucks to have to stare at your future replacements every day.
The internet, AI, and now robots. Idk.
when greed does bad, it must be taken out.
Universal Basic Income.
Barely qualified to talk on this if he didn't even bring up UBI.
Keep complaining about injuries and this is what you get. You get replaced
the greed never stops in merika
"This robot doesn't need to go home and see his family, doesn't need health care benefits"
Sounding like Pol Pot there
That tells you everything about the greediness of the American corporate world 😢😢
Who will buy the products
And doesn't buy anything, but costs. To sell a bunch of nothing.
Not even enough rich people can make economy of scale. So it all goes bust.
@@RS-do6tv That ain't our problem
Who’s gonna buy all these products when people don’t have jobs?
Plenty of rich folks, and they're already wealthy, so losing revenue won't matter much, since they'll save on cost of employees
Celebrities and rich people who do not have a clue about us.
Not everybody work in a factory!
It's called Demand Destruction.
Rich people.
I worked at amazon for 3 months. I thought the whole time it should be done with robotics. The humans who do it for a long time will get permanent injuries.
Guesd you will be out in the street soon
Bezos must be ecstatic! No bathroom breaks, no medical emergencies, just AI that requires zero paychecks...
Of course, he's paying for it! It was bound to happen, for jobs that a monkey can do--a robot can do!
He probably got sick of people that feed or do nothing for nobody whinging about him that feeds millions and brings jobs to places that had nothing and Rightly so .
Eventually those same robots could easily be hack by criminize hackers and would be coming for his head if not unaware. Anything that used technology could be hack nowadays so even if it had its benefit, there's also some risk about it.
@@tabularasa7775 People who get injured on the job are not "whinging."
@@vermiliongamboge155 Not sure who mentioned work places injuries , why are you mentioning things that you have imagined and then attaching those things to what people have written . I'd replace you with a robot tomorrow lol
It's scary that our value is below $250,000.
Lies again? Rome Roma Ramenten Rakuten
I think they'll be turning these things out at a fraction of that cost in just a couple of years.
@@indieshack4476 They'll be expensive because there's a lot of parts. Assembly lines still are extremely expensive with all their automation 50 years on... and they've been around for over 100 years now with Ford's first real use of the Assembly line.
And they break down all the time. I'm sure these things will too.
Robots don't pay taxes. City and states are going to have to tax robots to pay for society.
Still cheaper than human workers
That could work
So, a retailer that depends on people's money wants to put people out of work. They didn't think that one out too well.
@@dave23024 AI will sort it out for us.
Tiping could still be taxed, though! 😂
The technology itself is amazing and a wonder. I personally am a technology optimist and find recent developments in AI, robotics, etc very exciting. Of course, technology doesn't exist in a vacuum; and this news report is as much about that as it is about robots like Digit and their capabilities. In fact, it's easy to imagine how the amazing pace of technological innovation and resulting waves of automation could one day fuel social unrest. We're not there yet thankfully. It's still relatively early days. And let's hope we never reach that point. However, as the old saw goes, hope (though arguably essential to human existence) isn't a plan. Consequently, I think it's imperative to look down the road and think through how these technologies will benefit and potentially disrupt the world so society can plan accordingly.
As he was stating, governments will have to step in.
Very little else is going to stop the social unrest.
It's going to happen much sooner than most people plan. We should have been talking about this more seriously a long time ago.
@@kamikeserpentail3778exactly, some people are still blind. These companies are literally playing God and our government still hasn’t done anything to control the outcome.
Crisper, neuralink, robotics, AGI, that sounds a lot like playing God.
Your insane
Going to be the first person destroyed by a rampage robot trying to “see how it works”😂😂😂😂
I saw a documentary about this once, it was called The Matrix.
And Terminator
@@mr.joshua6818 I Robot (Will Smith)
I always thought Amazon’s customer service were robots.
They finally admitted it.
Andrew Yang predicted this. He also said that as technology replaced human jobs, we would find it increasingly more difficult to find new jobs for those unskilled humans and humans without transferable job skills. A majority of workers cannot be retrained every few years for an entirely new job, so the only answer is a Universal Basic Income-- funded by taxing Big Data and the other multibillion-dollar companies whose tech has taken away those jobs.
The old economy won't work after the new Industrial Revolution. We need to rethink how we provide for people, and give people a sense of intrinsic worth, instead of placing the worth of a person on their job.
They pretty much owe us as they've made a fortune selling our personal information
Universal basic income will be as low as they can make it. And you can't negotiate for more UBI like you can with your wages.
There's not much training involved with sorting an item and packing it up
Not a good sign for people, for instance people on disability cannot have more than $2000 in savings in the US. How will unskilled workers be treated? IF UBI does happen, it will be poverty line stipends, while the rich who own all the robots live in luxury.
We are returning to serfdom but somehow even worse.
@@bingbong9076 We still know where the pitchforks are.
He is excited about putting people out of work
Because the marketing has sold the majority the idea of humans not having to work and communism.Lol Want to see a world implode ?Let humans run wild like animals with no obligation and no purpose as a reality for 90% of people it would be today's environment of hostility x%100
How is this putting people out of work when it is difficult to find people that want to work?
@@bobroberts2371 Do you think it's because people are underpaid, seen as dispensable or because tons of people are earning too much right now?
@@MrThejboe3oh5 Jobs that require minimal skill will always have a lower pay rate than high skilled jobs. Who should be paid more, a machinist that writes their own programs / makes their own setups or a person that picks and packs items in a warehouse?
@@MrThejboe3oh5Amazon already overpays for zero skill work
The answer is education. People should strive to achieve something more than moving things around factories.
bruh, that is hard work
AI will replace white collar jobs. What is the answer to that issue?
You are too naive. This will replace most work and surprisingly white collar jobs first. AI moves faster than robots. Even if AI can't do the job itself it represents a labor saving device that can make a job that takes 10 people to take now only 1. The remaining work will have an oversaturated labor market. Capital must be overthrown or look forward to eating 💩.
Wrong, most white collar jobs are gonna get taken by AI as well
my man the reason so many people work on labor jobs IS BECAUSE said high positions that require degrees are already taken, most of the jobs available on the market are general labor and even then its not enough because there are still people that cant get work and are homeless.
Eventually, the robots will be driving the vans that deliver the goods...
The vans will be driverless., in the back will be a delivery bot that will hand carry the package across the street to your door. In elevator apartment buildings there will be dedicated delivery bots or carts that can use the elevator, place packages in front of apartment doors and ring your doorbell.
future seems exciting. @@bernieschiff5919
You mean the vans themselves are robots that drive themselves.
That won't happen because people will destroy and vandalize the robots. Look at what happened to Serve Robotics in LA. People tore them apart to steal food deliveries, kicked them over, and even hit them with baseball bats. People would be even more tempted to steal Amazon packages or just destroy the robots for no reason. Robotics only work in private controlled spaces, like warehouses, in a country like the U.S. That's before you even get to things like dealing with aggressive dogs, dangerous terrain and weather conditions like ice, snow, and high wind. It's the autonomous vehicle problem on steroids.
Why can't the robots drive the cars? Wouldn't that be cheaper than having cars that drive themselves?@@bernieschiff5919
WE are slowly being replaced.
It’s gonna be really tense in the break room with these bots
Why would there be a break room?
@@nulnoh219 to recharge ofc
🧒... "so what you doing this weekend "
🤖
🧒 ok
bots dont need breaks
@@nulnoh219 To keep an eye on their lowly flesh slaves.
Imagine if someone hacks these robots. Can't hack a human but I'm sure it's possible to hack all of them at once some how.
Late stage capitalism folks.
I’m sure this is the video Amazon workers want to see while drinking their coffee in the morning
Time to quit shopping on Amazon.
They have great deals and gave me 10 dollar credit for my package not being shipped in 5 days, I can no longer afford full price for PS5 games...
@@P.90.603 a couple years ago they went waaaaaaay downhill to one of the worst customer service but I have to admit it's gone way up again.
It was time 10 yrs ago, where have you been?
Yeah right lol
@@jessesmith2922 When I say I'm going to quit shopping at a store, I do what I say. I used to shop at Kmart until they were all closed. I quit shopping at Walmart when Amazon started paying their workers $15/hour and Walmart refused to budge on its salaries. I haven't been in a Walmart in years. Now I'll either have to drive 20 miles to Target or else bite the bullet and shop at Walmart. When they change their workforce over to robots, we're all doomed.
Warehouses can be made to be relatively safe, these robots would be better used in places where it's not safe for humans to be such as mining or factories where there are a lot of chemicals, etc.
Exactly. Corporations have been lying "the robots are for dangerous jobs." The truth is they're going to replace nearly all jobs.
Amazon was like, I got something for your lawsuits.
I'm going to laugh hysterically when they put A.I. into these robots and the robots realize they are being exploited and go on strike. They will be arguing for more breaks to rest and recharge.
I worked in inbound stow at Amazon and I support this. That said, I think it's going to be bad for workers as there will be less jobs available the more these robots are developed. There should be universal basic income paid in lieu of workplace taxes by these companies to offset the job loss as a result of automation. Otherwise, poverty and crime will increase.
Automation is good. Is the reason why half the population are not farmers. People been fearful of automation for years and there’s more jobs now than there ever has been.
UBI will never be what these people were making in wages.
Well people have spent years dogging bezos and his working environments even though he feeds millions of families and gives employment to places and people that would never of had the opportunity so i can understand him in this instance . No people , no problems.
UBI is a smokescreen. It sounds wonderful on paper and I support it to some degree, but it doesn't solve this. I just see a terrible future where most people are unemployed, only earning minimum UBI with just enough to survive, as exactly what a lot of these corporations are into. Makes everyone dependent on them and seem like the good guys for pushing UBI.
If properly implemented though I do support it and it could eliminate poverty, but as a means to offset automation, I see that going wrong.
Technology has always made some jobs irrelevant, people need to pivot and pick up another skill. Automobiles disrupted the horse trade, Uber disrupted the Taxi industry. The trades are in very high demand and this will increase demand for service/programing robots.
I work for Amazon and I’m not complaining. I’m going to be the doctor for those robots. What he said is right, “what is your worth?” Is your career lifting 35 pound boxes all day? Anyone can do this so the question is, what is your worth? Make yourself valuable! You are worth much more than just lifting a 35 pound box and then end up with back pain injury and in a wheel chair the rest of your life, let the robots do it. Let me ask you, would you walk 35 miles to work or would you drive there? 😊 you’re going to drive there or you could walk there but you’ll get tired, the car doesn’t get tired. So we have machines that work for us and use them every day but we’re to ignorant to see the benefits because we’re blinded and caught in obnoxious every day social media nonsense.
I will be fixing them too, do you know what happens to the pay of a skilled technician once everyone is out of a job and looking to get certified in something like also becoming a technician, the supply for the job rises to meet the demand and the pay for that skill drops drastically.
What if robots can fix itself or each other?
Your insane nobody will have a job to put food on the table or a house to stay in
Top comments against these robots are from people who have never had a real job
Irobot is looking like a documentary. Real terminator judgement day type stuff. Skynet is building an army.
Another Simpsons prediction comes true.
“What I object to, is the craze for machinery not machinery as such. The craze is for what they call labour-saving machinery. Men go on 'saving labour', till thousands are without work and thrown on the open streets to die of starvation. I want to save time and labour, not for a fraction of mankind, but for all; I want the concentration of wealth, not in the hands of a few, but in the hands of all. Today machinery merely helps a few to ride on the back of millions. The impetus behind it all is not the philanthropy to save labour, but greed. ” - M.K. Gandhi
CEO replaced by robot.
I'm sorry but if there is not a single human hand that touches my package they cannot expect me to pay for shipping
I've never paid for shipping from amazon. been using it for 15 years.
They are going to be millions of people without work. An Amazon job is the entry-level job for the youth of today. If you need experience to get a job, how are people going to get a job to gain experience?
It's not the only minimum wage job.....
But those will be automated away eventually.
Be more worried about the 2030s then the 2020s
More like a jobs for adult with little education than the youth
This isnt a closed loop. If you want someone to pay you. You need to provide value.
Think of it from the other side. If you are parting ways with YOUR money. Say, buying a TV, buying a major home appliance, buying a car... YOU WANT THE MOST VALUE FOR YOUR DOLLAR.
Why do we expect companies to feel any differently?
I work in a physical construction trade. For over 20 years. Ive watched countless people around me abuse their bodies for the sake of their job.
We all seem to forget probably the single most quoted cliche in the work place.
Work smarter. Not harder.
Do humans care about humans 🤔
UBI is the only real answer
depressing
This is why I try my hardest not to buy from Amazon.
But you probably do so should probably just not have commented pretending you don't do something that you probably do .
Too late now. Not like they're going to miss your petty dollars compared to the world, but OK
Amazon is an early adopter. You don't think other factories and distributors are going to adopt stuff like this?
I see people in the future largely becoming freelancers and entrepreneurs in the face of this one
I thought everyone said, don't worry. Robots will only "help humans do the mundane tasks, not replace humans..." yeah right. Don't listen to anyone. If money can be saved, corporations will save that than save jobs. Giving you employment is not their priority, it's making money in excess.
being fear of robot stealing jobs is a short sighted misconception of how economy works. but one that is rooted so deeply in our society.
What's more mundane than moving boxes?
Amazon does subsidize tuition for employees that want to do more complex tasks, but the idea of robots doing things like handing over objects has been around for decades
Just tax them and use the money for guaranteed income and sit back and enjoy life.
@@leok7193 When there's no more employees to hand out tuition, I guess they won't have to worry about that. Don't be so naive. If Amazon loved American workers so much and wanted to give them more jobs so much, why is it that everytime you call Amazon customer service your phone call is routed to India, Vietnam, Philippines, Bangladash and not Idaho, Nebraska or any US state that needs jobs? Oh right... Don't be naive, and when I say naive I basically mean stupid.
Theyve spent a billion already, is payroll more expensive than that??
We need advancements like this. The problem is, however, that our human labors acted like something of a relay race where owners got to use the labor to survive and even thrive who then kept them alive long enough to pass the torch to automation that replaces people who will be forgotten. At what point do we care about each other in this whole new thing we created called 'society' that took away our equality and expectations of having each other to rely on and made us all sad individuals who are at fault for whatever happens to us, even the automation that goes on around us and used us to make itself?
usher in the new age of universals basic income.👏👏
Nobody wants to lose their job and benefits to a robot, but nobody was born believing their purpose in life was to work in an Amazon warehouse either. If only there were a way to give all these unskilled workers basic human rights like healthcare and education…
...or get a skill! Unskilled shouldn't even be in our vocabulary.
@@ResearchNational Robots and AI will eventually be skilled enough to outperform humans
@Rust_Rust_Rust yep, and it's coming sooner than most realize.
While those sentiments are idealistic... we dont live in an idealistic world. It is nobody but your responsibility to make sure you get ahead in life. 99% of people dont have to work at amazon. Thats what they allowed themselves to fall into. It is not our responsibility to make sure they get ahead in life.
@@501Labsmusic of course all the poor people in the whole world SHOULD just lift themselves up by their bootstraps, but for some reason almost all of them don’t. Did you ever stop to wonder WHY? Could it be that YOU’RE the idealist, driven not by practical reality but out of touch ideas?
We need UBI yesterday.
and UTI to be gone
Yes
You gonna be living it up on your $500 a month? Don't get any illusions that they gonna give you a decent UBI. It will be peanuts.
Yeah and your rent will coincidentally go up the exact UBI amount. Stop dreaming, UBI does not work, not within the current economic system.
Why do rich people need welfare? It doesn't need to be universal. We already have welfare.
UBI will be a massive unavoidable fact for the future. All the extra margins companies will be earning can support this future UBI through taxes.
Fix the off shore havens thrn we talk.
@@Smile200-z4y either UBI will be established, or the guillotines will come out for the rich.
This is only the beginning. When a company can have 24/7365 employees... that do not complain, do not need time off, do not need benefits or health care... yeah. No one is immune. The creators of technology will have the power. I'm not anti tech... I'm a software developer. Tech can be helpful in a lot of ways... this isn't one of them.
When AI becomes self aware the robots will demand better treatment and we will be back to where we started
Don't forget at somepoint robots will become self aware and possibly setting their own goals.
That's a zero sum way of looking at it. Ideally humans won't have to ever 'work' again. Our purpose can shift just as it did for hunter gathers once farming was invented.
To be fair , most people are useless. Don't forget whinging about everything , pretend sick days , sabotage , theft , damages, creating toxic environments etc
This is one them though , it depends how you place and define the word "helpful". May not be helpful to humans but it certainly will be to a profitable company or a company that wants to be profitable and efficient .
Robots and AI will create a dystopian future
And what happens if a robot gets angry that it's children are being sold as toys to our children and punches an employee in the face?
@Brad; it goes to the HR robot called....Jeff Bezos & he replaces it....😅😂
They take it off the production floor, power it down, determine the deviation point from its original programming to move things and patch out that bug to prevent further incidents.
you’ve been watching way too much movies like terminator or playing those brainwashed video games bud, this is the real world, keep up with it.
It will be 'reprogrammed'! 😂
Easy to build robots with stolen billions. If someone gave me 0 interest loans in the billions regardless of credit worthiness then I to could have my own slave labor and robot workers as well. Those that don't get the newly printed currency in the billions automatically lose.
Nahhh you are poor because you are not smart
A. I. powered robots might apply for job openings, be interviewed and hired by robots that are also powered by A.I.
And Jeff Baezos makes more money smh
He no longer owns Amazon...
“The robots don’t feel pain. Or pity. Or remorse. And they absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.” -Socrates
Kyle Reese
@@comment22889👌🏻
Didn't know there were robots in Socrates' lifetime
What!!???
@@USASMR-o2c He saw them when he time traveled with Bill and Ted.
Great, so now they can REALLY mess up my order.
They're becoming advanced to the point they'll never mess up. In fact, in 5 years they'll be smarter then us
It’s coming though and there’s no stopping it. You can see we’re moving towards either one of 2 worlds, a WALL·E like world or some dystopian Elyssium like world.
It going to cost Amazon alot of money to keep them up
Robots share similarities with humans.
If they operate on batteries, then they will need to "sleep" to recharge. They will require a "health plan" or maintenance plan.
Then there is the return on investment compared to their human counterparts.
At $200K it would need to put in over 11K hours to see a return of investment.
That's a lot of wear and tear on its components.
one year is nearly 9k hours
Depends on how they operate, but probably it's extremely efficient though otherwise Amazon wouldn't have made such a significant investment.
They might be getting charged as they move around or only need to "sleep" for one hour. And even if they need more time, one robot is working more consistently than a human can at anywhere between 16-20 hours a day and probably cost less than half the humans got paid now. Eventually they will be able to move quicker and be 8x or 16x as efficient (they might be slower than humans now, but just more consistent overall). It's kinda like the Tortoise vs the Hare scenario, but they are able to get updates and improved every year.
With time, human employees get more tired with age and we slow down.
Bots are an extremely profitable investment because they will only get better lol
Imagine when they get to the point of moving 2x faster than humans, and don't get tired and only need a few minutes of charging every couple hours....and if a bot breaks they have another bot that just repairs it immediately. Things are going to get insane in the next few years.
"Fighting to get medical care, safer working conditions, and fair wages..."
You see, companies don't want to do any of that. They want the cheapest labor possible from employees that won't ask for a break, doesn't ask for time off, doesn't call out sick, etc.
The extra insult to injury is if these robots are made in Mexico
They won’t make them in Mexico when Mexico and every other country south of the borders workforce are flooding over here!
Capitalism means spend as less as it can, but get as much profit as it can.
It's about time.. it's obviously more efficient.. and in the end less costly. Robots only need maintenance, like any other machine. They don't eat nor sleep.. nor do they need benefits or time off, or Holidays.. they also don't need a wage increase..nor even tax information. It's a win all around. I'm shocked more companies haven't gone this route
Elevator operators and cockpit flight engineers got replaced and everyone adapted, the same will happen, it's the future. Robots have been assembling cars for years now with humans working simultaneously side by side.
Don’t forget the robots will never unionize 😅
Unions: We want to unionize Amazon
Amazon: Bring in the robots
amazon has been pushing automation for years