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Warehouse workers get paid around the same rates in California yet you don't see automated warehouses. You see things like some goods to person robots and aut
by adrr 3y ago
Warehouse workers get paid around the same rates in California yet you don't see automated warehouses. You see things like some goods to person robots and automated sortation and with the big retailers like Amazon, they still throw labor at the issue.
Industry has been trying to push automation with app based ordering(eg: starbucks) even before this change.
https://www.indeed.com/q-amazon-warehouse-l-los-angeles,-ca-jobs.html?vjk=e009d03c5ab184e2 https://www.indeed.com/q-amazon-warehouse-l-los-angeles,-ca-...
- jchonphoenix 3y agoThis is because humanoid robotics is a hard and unsolved problem. But it isn't for lack of trying. Order taking is a simple and very much solved problem. And kitchen robotics is more assembly line esque than warehousing.
- brightball 3y agoI wonder how many high school kids take warehouse jobs though?
- adrr 3y agoIt was common for in the past for high schoolers to work manual labor. I worked on a farm during the summer in my youth for example. Teenage labor participation is at record lows. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300012 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300012
- Izkata 3y agoThey may not be there yet, but Amazon at least is absolutely going towards full automation: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/22/amazon-debuts-a-fully-autonomous-warehouse-robot/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/22/amazon-debuts-a-fully-auto...