Note that this is just Amazon demonstrating a prototype in their Innovation Center. I take it to be a mostly PR move showing “thought leadership.” Replicating t

Note that this is just Amazon demonstrating a prototype in their Innovation Center. I take it to be a mostly PR move showing “thought leadership.” Replicating the functionality of the human hand is notoriously hard, although it has been tried many times before by many companies, AFAIK there has been no great success. The push for automation currently is not about replacing workers and cutting costs (although, of course, those are desirable): there’s tremendous churn in all warehouse roles so much so that most companies are hard pressed to find workers. Many new hires quit during the two week training programs.