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Amazon seems to be hiring the wrong people for the job. They are hiring humans when they really are looking to hire robots.
by _fat_santa 4y ago
Amazon seems to be hiring the wrong people for the job. They are hiring humans when they really are looking to hire robots.
- Scalestein 4y agoYou might say they are using humans as an MVP/POC test for what their robots should be like. Make the humans as robotic as possible to see what features are really needed in the robots they eventually use.
- WillAdams 4y agoI dunno. I worked part-time in an Amazon warehouse for over a year, then full-time for a couple of weeks in-between jobs. Once, when rolling up to a bin full of non-descript boxes, I was able to choose one, flip it in hand for the six-sided box check, and scan it to determine I had the correct box, w/o having to consider any of the other boxes. A trainer and a group of trainees nearby asked how I had done this --- it took a couple of minutes to break down the description from the scanner and compare it to all of the boxes and explain how the box I had selected was the only possibility based simply on a visual examination. Given how many singles Amazon ships, I'm really surprised that they haven't gone to a standard of just packaging on receipt of product, then shipping the boxes by pulling them and slapping a shipping label on --- it would be far more automatable.
- CodeWriter23 4y ago> Given how many singles Amazon ships, I'm really surprised that they haven't gone to a standard of just packaging on receipt of product, then shipping the boxes by pulling them and slapping a shipping label on --- it would be far more automatable. Because physical volume matters and directly correlates to all transportation expenses.