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> * Stock picking in an Amazon warehouse - robots taking over. I just wanted to offer a data point here, my buddy worked at the Amazon warehouse in Breinigsvil
by exhilaration 10y ago
> * Stock picking in an Amazon warehouse - robots taking over.
I just wanted to offer a data point here, my buddy worked at the Amazon warehouse in Breinigsville PA a few months back and said he never saw a robot. Reading Hacker News I would have thought that Amazon had their robots widely deployed but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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- Animats 10y agoAmazon has fulfillment center generations. They usually don't automate existing fulfillment centers; they build new ones and close the old ones. Kiva robots went in at Gen-8, in 2014.[1][2] Breinigsville PA was built in 2011, so it's not a Gen-8 center but is too new to replace. [1] http://www.scdigest.com/ontarget/15-03-03-1.php?cid=9051 http://www.scdigest.com/ontarget/15-03-03-1.php?cid=9051 [2] https://vimeo.com/113374910 https://vimeo.com/113374910
- castle-bravo 10y agoIs this an anti-union strategy?
- simonbarker87 10y agoPeople seem to think that robots are everywhere, but they just aren't. To repeat a comment I've made before, some industries are starting to roll back some of their robot numbers (automotive for instance) as they are realised that robots are only generally good for one thing and when something changes take a lot of capex to modify. There is a move instead toward pairing humans with helper robots, essentailly to robot does the (literal) heavy lifting and then the human does the finesse bit. Source: wife is an engineer in high volume new model automotive
- chrshawkes 10y agothey outsource plenty of jobs to India though.