Warehouse robots are a big part of the revolution transforming a growing portion of consumer shopping from stores to online. Amazon led the way by purchasing the Kiva system and then keeping it for itself so other competitors could not spring up easily. (See my 2016 Social Contract article, “Amazon Robotics: A case study of […]
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April 8th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon, automation, job displacement, Kiva, robot, smart machines, warehouse |  Email This Post |  Print This Post Kudos to the Los Angeles Times for an excellent report of how automation displaces human workers in a warehouse environment, which unfortunately is a pattern followed by many industries: bring in the smart machines and employ fewer human workers. Amazon has been the leader of warehouse robotics, with its proprietary Kiva machines, and has received […] December 8th, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon automation, automation, California, immigration, job displacement, Kiva, robot, smart machines | 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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