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Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses(www.theguardian.com)

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Amazon is experimenting with humanoid robots for warehouse work.

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dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de
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Grunt can never be safe. I have seen warehouses of a few online retailers, and the people working there always are at risk of life debilitating injuries.

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HubertManne@kbin.social
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I don’t see why the rail robots they already had could not do the empty plastic bin recycling. I wonder if this is specifically for warehouses not big enough to automate like that so its cheaper to bring in even if its not as efficient overall.

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EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

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First they scrape them with their metal knives!

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