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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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[–] 1 point 6 days ago (5 children)

Expensive isn't really an issue though is it?

If I can guarantee you quadruple your revenue by doubling your expense, you'd take the deal no? That's basically what these things do.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (4 children)

    To be a bit more precise, is it about throughput or lead time? Because for throughput I imagine you can just have more workers, but for quicker shipping you need to do pick and pack in less time, rather than do a lot of them in a given time.

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

    Throughput primarily, the bottleneck is still shipping. These systems do allow for picking/packing faster as well but from a logistics standpoint if you want more output you just need more trucks.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (2 children)

    How does it help in getting more revenue then? Demand wouldn't change, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    Businesses tend to bank on demand for products being functionally infinite over the long term. Because of this it tends to be a safe bet that you'll make more money the quicker, and cheaper, you can get products on shelves.

    This has held pretty true thus far, though personally I have to wonder if there's an upper limit. Human's have to have a upper tolerance for buying junk right?

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