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Amazon: Building better robots with human flesh. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Amazon suddenly announces a secret R&D project involving a floor of robots p
by eksith 13y ago
Amazon: Building better robots with human flesh.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Amazon suddenly announces a secret R&D project involving a floor of robots pretty soon. In fact, the type of monotonous line-following, retrieval and packing fits well within the line of past factory workers who've been all but replaced with robots.
I'd even cheer them on if they did that instead of dehumanizing those workers.
- fiatmoney 13y agoThey bought Kiva, which is exactly that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRjuuEVEZs&feature=youtu.be&t=10s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRjuuEVEZs&feature=youtu.be&... http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/amazon-com-buys-kiva-systems-for-775-million/?_r=0 http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/amazon-com-buys-kiva-...
- jwoah12 13y agoI'd even cheer them on if they did that instead of dehumanizing those workers. And I'm sure those workers would be grateful for your cheering when they're standing in the unemployment line.
- eksith 13y agoOnce upon a time, I've stood in both a factory floor and in the unemployment line. At one of them, I still felt like a human being. Guess which.
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