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The machines, which were being tested in a few warehouses in recent years, are able to scan goods coming down a conveyor belt and put them in custom-built boxes a few seconds later.
The machines can pack up boxes at a rate of 600 to 700 per hour, or four to five times as fast as human workers, according to Reuters, which first reported the development.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday May 20 2019, @02:50PM
What is considered skilled and unskilled, however, dynamically changes with technology advances. Burger Flipper versus Executive Chef - both will produce a cheeseburger but the Burger Flipper can be automated. Perhaps it would be better to view it as deterministic versus non-deterministic tasks. With what passes for Artificial Intelligence now, though, even that definition is fairly plastic today.
Though I will believe MIT about the reality of automation losses: Nobody really knows for sure [technologyreview.com] what will happen tomorrow.
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