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Walmart Running Into Trouble as Its Super-Expensive Robots Can’t Handle the Realities of Warehouse Work: It's an automation "arms race."
futurism.com/robots-and-machines/walmart-trouble-expensive-robots-warehouse
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
Robots are more expensive and are less capable than people? What a surprise! Not. I saw that coming years ago… 🙄
Replying to @EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Unfortunately the robots are substantially faster and more effective than humans. Can you run at ~45 mph?
The issue is complexity and that’s something that’s getting better over time.
Replying to @RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip
Unfortunately robots are not able to think critically
Replying to @AntonioAndolini@lemmy.world
They don’t need to. No more than a conveyor needs to think critically.
I think people are envisioning the robots moving through a warehouse that was built for humans. That is not the case.
Special purpose warehouses are built with the robots in mind. The bots don’t need to navigate an uncontrolled environment as the environment was meant for them.
It’s basically a really big, really performant conveyor belt.