Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

I worked as stow, that job is brutal man, you gotta last 2-3 hrs at a time 3x a day for a 10hr shift. They don&#x27;t like you listening to music so you gotta just sit there in silence. Luckily I got to unload trucks and I started drinking to get through it on my breaks.<p>Still it&#x27;s tough to beat a place where you can walk in with no skills and start making $20&#x2F;hr

Henry Ford famously wanted his workers to be able to afford his cars. When Bezos replaces everyone with robots, who will be left to buy his junk?

It&#x27;s interesting how Amazon is embedding robots in human-designed warehouses whereas Ocado has humans overseeing a robotic warehouse.<p>The later is a much easier problem.

Are companies designing product packaging to be more compatible with robotic handling?

Great they can stop killing people. Only place I ever worked where the ambulances came 1-5 times a day to save the old people they abuse

Warehouses is definitely not where I expected robots with retractable blades to first appear.<p>The demo video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=oWXco05eK28" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=oWXco05eK28</a>

This is good news actually, while you have less jobs, hopefully new ones are created, people in the future don&#x27;t have the option to work slave like jobs.

This seems insane. We&#x27;re trying to teach Longshoreman&#x27;s Tetris to machines, instead of using the system of standard containerization that almost completely replaced longshoremen, despite lower packing densities.

&gt; 500,000 stows in operational warehouses<p>Isn&#x27;t that a pretty tiny number?<p>I assume a human probably does 1 every 5 seconds (it&#x27;s much easier to put an item on a shelf than to take it off).<p>So that&#x27;s about 5 months human output.

Does this have any potential to get costs down for customers though?

What does &quot;a genuine sense of touch&quot; actually mean? Surely there have been robots in the past that can detect how much force they are apply to an object? Was that a &quot;fake sense of touch&quot;?

This isn’t the factory of the future.<p>The factory of the future will have only two employees, one human and one dog.<p>- The human feeds the dog.<p>- The dog makes sure no one touches the equipment.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quoteinvestigator.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;30&#x2F;future-factory&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quoteinvestigator.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;30&#x2F;future-factory&#x2F;</a>

Is there a future where we stop buying so much garbage?

Average humans. Not stowing masters apparently.

Why do we think this is a good thing without socialism? I am not a fan of socialism, but with the level of automation we are reaching, do we really want to be ruled by our incel tech-bro overlords, living out of UBI, in a permanently bi-strated society without even the illusion of social mobility and democracy we have nowadays?

And yet some people think AI will take over jobs. I am amazed this robot was not in place 20 years ago. Really ?

It&#x27;s clear we are near an event horizon moment.