The robot's human-like shape is bound to reignite workers' fears of being replaced, but Amazon says they're designed to "work collaboratively."
Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced.::The robot's human-like shape is bound to reignite workers' fears of being replaced, but Amazon says they're designed to "work collaboratively."
People bitch about working conditions and the actual work in these warehouses yet don’t want to be replaced by a robot who doesn’t care about any of that? Yeah, no. I’m all for robots doing this kind of soul sucking work.
No one is complaining about working conditions for the sake of it. There's literally nowhere else to go for them. You are not helping anyone but the rich fucks by having them replaced by robots.
In isolation the automation of roles is a great thing, but the way society is currently run your entire quality of existence is tied to your job, and retraining and getting a new job is harder than ever and costs a lot.
If society made it easier for people to retrain and get better jobs and slowly replaced all those bad jobs with an automated workforce it would be better for everyone.
Maybe but I don't know how they can realistically do anything worthwhile. As forcing companies to keep staff on and not automate isn't a good outcome and isn't fixing the societal issues that make this a problematic scenario.
If a robot/ai/machine can do a job safer, more efficiently, quicker than a person, it should 1000000% be automated by the given thing. This has been happening for hundreds of years in all industries.
Yeah, that has worked really well in the past. At least here in the US when people are pushed out of jobs to enrich capitalists we tend to find a way to criminalize them and warehouse them in prisons while their communities rot.
But they'll produce the same work continuously for 24 hours a day, with x hours per month maintenance, and much closer to zero mistakes.
The automotive manufacture industry is a perfect case study. One of the first industries where such robots really made sense and were worth the cost.
Especially becuase they removed people from the more dangerous tasks. Another angle I hear people arguing for robots (and makes sense).
In June 2021, the company introduced a fleet of four robots named after characters from "Sesame Street" and "The Muppets," — Bert, Ernie, Scooter, and Kermit.
In November 2022, Amazon introduced Sparrow, a picking robot arm with a suction cup hand that's meant for handling individual items in the warehouse inventory.
"Digit can move, grasp, and handle items in spaces and corners of warehouses in novel ways."
"We are passionate about technology that makes the work experience of our employees safer, easier, and less repetitive," Amazon says on its website.
"Doing so gives our employees the time and opportunity to take a step back, look at how orders are moving though our sites, and find new ways to delight and serve our customers."
Amazon has pushed back on these concerns, saying that its robots will only create new categories of jobs within the company.
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Governments need to be proactive in getting taxes and strategies in place ready for corps that do this to offset the increases to recipients on welfare.