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.

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>

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

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

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.

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;?

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

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 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.