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No, they aren’t saying that “humans are meant to be shuffling around a warehouse picking and packing orders mindlessly.”

The point is that the processes are designed around human operators with specific considerations for the abilities and constraints of an average human. Dropping a robot into a process without updating said process around the abilities and constraints of the robot creates new problems. Humans and robots work in different ways and cannot be substituted 1:1 without creating problems.

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No, they aren’t saying that “humans are meant to be shuffling around a warehouse picking and packing orders mindlessly.”

The point is that the processes are designed around human operators with specific considerations for the abilities and constraints of an average human. Dropping a robot into a process without updating said process around the abilities and constraints of the_robot_ creates new problems. Humans and robots work in different ways and cannot be substituted 1:1 without creating problems.