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Amazon.com Inc dismissed the idea of running a fully automated warehouse in the near future, citing the superior cognitive ability of humans and limitations of current technology.
Scott Anderson, director of Amazon Robotics Fulfillment, said technology is at least 10 years away from fully automating the processing of a single order picked by a worker inside a warehouse.
There is a misperception that Amazon will run fully automated warehouses soon, Anderson said during a tour of Amazon's Baltimore warehouse for reporters on Tuesday.
The technology for a robot to pick a single product from a bin without damaging other products or picking multiple products at the same time in a way that could benefit the e-commerce retailer is years away.
Amazon is exploring a variety of technologies to automate the various steps needed to get a package to shoppers, Anderson said.
"In the current form, the technology is very limited. The technology is very far from the fully automated workstation that we would need," Anderson said.
Your job is safe...for now.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday May 04 2019, @02:56PM (1 child)
New "report" out and Jeff Bozo's Amazon is one of the MOST DANGEROUS places you can possibly work at. Look out!!!! dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6959345/Amazon-tops-list-dangerous-workplaces-second-year-running-Facebook-named.html [dailymail.co.uk]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 04 2019, @03:43PM
Gees dude, when yer not trolling the stuff you post can be scary
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 04 2019, @03:13PM (6 children)
Amazon Dismisses Idea, Automation Will Eliminate All its Warehouse Jobs Soon
Better?
Also, I helped my Uncle John Jack off a horse.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday May 04 2019, @03:17PM (4 children)
EF posting as AC?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 04 2019, @03:29PM (3 children)
Seriously, why do people keep thinking that I am ethanol fueled.
I should make a new account. Just so the world can tell us apart.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday May 04 2019, @03:45PM
Sounds like a good idea. Just don't use ethanol fueled, or anonymous coward as your user name. ;^)
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday May 04 2019, @03:54PM (1 child)
And wash the horse jizz off your hands before you touch the keyboard too.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 04 2019, @04:15PM
We have devices for this now to excite the stallion and collect the love juice.
No need to use your own mouth and hands anymore.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday May 05 2019, @07:27AM
Amazon Dismisses Idea Automation, Will Eliminate All its Warehouse Jobs Soon
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday May 04 2019, @03:39PM
I probably should have submitted this when I saw it:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/google-teaches-robot-to-toss-bananas-better-than-you-do [ieee.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O-E1nFm6-A [youtube.com]
compiling...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 04 2019, @03:47PM
http://investvine.com/malaysias-first-halal-airline-grounded-authorities/ [investvine.com]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday May 04 2019, @03:50PM (3 children)
We're attempting to eliminate our human workers, but you'll need to wait a few more years.
We can't fully automate the process just yet, but we can automate 90% of it.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday May 04 2019, @09:13PM
That's your translation. My translation is "we're eliminating jobs as fast as it pays".
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday May 04 2019, @10:27PM
More like "people are still cheaper than robots for some tasks"
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:56AM
Disposing all the dead bodies in a very short time will require extra human personnel and we'd end in a positive feedback loop if we rush the things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 04 2019, @05:09PM
Considering that hardware is practically standing still or maybe even getting slower and software progresses as always I won't be surprised if in the future lots of jerbs will be taken back by meatbags.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 04 2019, @05:53PM
"The technology for a robot to pick a single product from a bin without damaging other products or picking multiple products at the same time in a way that could benefit the e-commerce retailer is years away."
why is the shit in a bin in the first place? did elves make the products and throw them in there? maybe have the robots that make the shit put the shit into a fucking tray of some kind. where's my golden parachute?
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday May 05 2019, @07:55AM
Minimum wage needs to increase to make it relatively cheaper to automate these crap jobs