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The latest Amazon Robotic Challenge took place over July 27-30 in Nagoya Japan, hosting a competition to develop a grasping machine that can pack boxes for shipment in the company’s warehouses. Or as ZeroHedge put it so clearly: Amazon Hosts Robotics Competition To Figure Out How To Replace 230,000 Warehouse Workers. Amazon warehouses depend on […] July 31st, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon robots, automation, immigration, job displacement, robots, technological unemployment, warehouse |  Email This Post |  Print This Post In St. Louis, a midwestern grocery chain is making news with its test run of an inventory-taking robot, called Tally by its manufacturer. The machine is not unrelated to the LoweBot-type machine that guides customers to desired items in the store which the robot has filed in its database of what and where. The Tally […] July 28th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon robots, automation, inventory, job displacement, job loss, retail, robots, smart machines, Tally robot, technological unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post Wired’s video below, sketching out the automated future vis-a-vis jobs, uses the idea that smart machines are helpful collaborative robots, or “co-bots” that allow humans to work more efficiently. But that relationship will end when the machines become able to replicate human abilities and perform them far more cheaply. One of the bumps along […] May 26th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon Robotic Challenge, Amazon robots, automation, immigration, job displacement, Kiva robot, robot, technological unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post When Amazon bought the Kiva company with its warehouse robots in 2012, CEO Jeff Bezos made the unusual decision to keep the machines in-house and not support Kiva’s existing customers. That decision created a market for similar machines, and engineers got to work on inventing comparable robots that could perform warehouse-type tasks of pulling items […] August 21st, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon robots, automation, immigration, Kiva, robot, warehouse robot | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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