Windparadox
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"At least for now" means as soon as they develop the technology. Then, it's by-bye jobs. Also, (my opinion) the push for a minimum wage wage of $15/hr, however good as it sounds for many workers, is just too much, too little and too late. The fast food industry is also working on automating their restaurants and a wage increase of that magnitude, will only hasten the process.
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"In order to fulfil its many orders in a timely fashion, Amazon employs a large number of people, and a key part to the company's order fulfillment process are pickers. These employees are the ones that pick items from fulfillment center shelves, collect them into bins and send them to packers that put them all together into boxes to be mailed out. So far, this job has been carried out by humans, but The Information reports that the company is working on robots that can do the task on their own.
According to people familiar with the work, Amazon is currently developing picker robots that can collect items and place them into bins. One person who saw a demonstration of such a device said it was able to identify items moving on a conveyor belt, pick them up with its gripper and move it to another area, like a table or shelf.
Naturally, there are concerns about what these types of robots will mean for jobs. But Amazon says, at least for now, this technology isn't yet sophisticated enough to handle all of the many items it stocks and ships." - Source
According to people familiar with the work, Amazon is currently developing picker robots that can collect items and place them into bins. One person who saw a demonstration of such a device said it was able to identify items moving on a conveyor belt, pick them up with its gripper and move it to another area, like a table or shelf.
Naturally, there are concerns about what these types of robots will mean for jobs. But Amazon says, at least for now, this technology isn't yet sophisticated enough to handle all of the many items it stocks and ships." - Source
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"At least for now" means as soon as they develop the technology. Then, it's by-bye jobs. Also, (my opinion) the push for a minimum wage wage of $15/hr, however good as it sounds for many workers, is just too much, too little and too late. The fast food industry is also working on automating their restaurants and a wage increase of that magnitude, will only hasten the process.
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