▲ 425 ▼ 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) submitted 1 week ago by eicker@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 93 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] AntonioAndolini@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 child) Unfortunately robots are not able to think critically permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago They don't need to. No more than a conveyor needs to think critically. I think people are envisioning the robots moving through a warehouse that was built for humans. That is not the case. Special purpose warehouses are built with the robots in mind. The bots don't need to navigate an uncontrolled environment as the environment was meant for them. It's basically a really big, really performant conveyor belt. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago They don't need to. No more than a conveyor needs to think critically. I think people are envisioning the robots moving through a warehouse that was built for humans. That is not the case. Special purpose warehouses are built with the robots in mind. The bots don't need to navigate an uncontrolled environment as the environment was meant for them. It's basically a really big, really performant conveyor belt. permalink fedilink source parent