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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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[–] 14 points 6 days ago (4 children)

So much of automation is trying to put robots in places humans were ment to be instead of designing processes that are for robots not people.

It's no wonder to me there is often issues

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago* (2 children)

    I’ll never understand takes like this. You think humans are meant to be shuffling around a warehouse picking and packing orders mindlessly?

    I get being annoyed at corporations for greedily trying to save money at the expense of workers, but ultimately, I can’t be that upset over shit jobs going away.

    In my view, we have to be focused on how to help The displaced workers which we have historically done a terrible job of. It only becomes more important as we are able to automate more and more tasks that previously required a person. Automation absolutely can be a tide that raises all boats; we just have to demand that it be so. Otherwise, all the benefit will go to the oligarchs instead of the people.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago

    The process is designed around human ability, not what is easiest to implement in a machine.

    Our capabilities are different. I don't mean that humans are biological geared towards working on a warehouse. But that we design warehouses around what humans can do

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    No, they aren't saying that "humans are meant to be shuffling around a warehouse picking and packing orders mindlessly."

    The point is that the processes are designed around human operators with specific considerations for the abilities and constraints of an average human. Dropping a robot into a process without updating said process around the abilities and constraints of the robot creates new problems. Humans and robots work in different ways and cannot be substituted 1:1 without creating problems.

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