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Robot arms are getting smart, and that’s bad news for human employees who work in warehouses. The New York Times reports that a new component-sorting machine is capable of performing tasks that formerly required a human’s intelligence and dexterity, which “raises new concerns about warehouse workers losing their jobs to automation” according to the paper. […] January 30th, 2020 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, immigration, robot, smart machine, warehouse |  Email This Post |  Print This Post Amazon has presented its re:MARS conference in Las Vegas over the last few days, discussing new tech advances in robotics, AI and other topics. For example, actor Robert Downey Jr. announced a project to clean up the environment using robots which he thinks could largely do the job within ten years or so. Jeff Bezos […] June 6th, 2019 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon, automation, Jeff Bezos, Kiva robot, re:MARS, Robert Downey Jr., robot hand, smart machine, warehouse, warehouse robot | Email This Post | Print This Post China says it has the world’s first totally robotic warehouse although the machines are made in Japan. What’s noticeable about the ‘bots is how much the little floor scooters look like knockoffs from Amazon’s Kiva machines. Often when a large company purchases a smaller one (Amazon buying Kiva for $775 million in 2012), it then […] October 31st, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, China, immigration, Japan, Kiva robots, Mujin robots, robot, technological unemployment, warehouse, warehouse automation | Email This Post | Print This Post Robots are good at counting and recording, so they are increasingly being used in stores and warehouses to keep track of the stock on hand. As part of Wal-mart’s competition with Amazon, the store chain is utilizing Amazon’s technology strategy by moving forward with automation to up its e-commerce game. Naturally, the efficiency and cost-savings […] October 29th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, inventory, job displacement, retail, robot, Wal-Mart, Walmart, warehouse | Email This Post | Print This Post 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 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 […] 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 |
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