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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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[–] 6 points 6 days ago* (1 child)

These systems are MASSIVELY complicated and require quite a bit of technical know-how.

You named one main problem here.

The other ist cost. How much does a system cost that replaces one worker cost? INCLUDING the required technically skilled service staff?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago

    As I replied to others, in systems like this it's not as simple as cost savings. The selling point is increased throughput. The system costs more upfront and factoring future gains from increased throughput you end up making more money than if you had kept the cheaper manual workforce.

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