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Walmart Running Into Trouble as Its Super-Expensive Robots Can’t Handle the Realities of Warehouse Work: It's an automation "arms race." (futurism.com)
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[–] 25 points 6 days ago (5 children)

That's a bad engineer problem. Tasks must be reduced to absolute minimums, and operating scenarios must be maximized. Otherwise failure conditions will win.

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  • [–] 39 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    They might have underestimated the mix of items. From bagged dog food with 20kg, boxes of all shapes down to small poly‘s is hard to handle. For picking robots as well as the sorting AGV‘s.

    Amazon didn’t robotize its entire item spectrum yet, as far as I know. It focus on robotizable items.

    If such a heavy dog food bag brakes, all the small pieces lie on the floor that those dumb AGV‘s drive upon. That’s immediately causing clogged wheels and even more. And to clean the mess up, one has to stop the entire AGV area as it’s not safe for humans to enter. One broken dog food bag can cause some expensive maintenance and drives operational costs up. 1 broken bag per month can likely kill your business case.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    They just need robots that will clean up the dog food.

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