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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-warehouseReplying to @eicker@lemmy.world
Walmart spent billions replacing warehouse workers with robots, only to discover the robots can’t lift dog food and the engineers cost more than the workers did. Apparently the automation revolution has reached its greatest technical challenge yet: doing the job it was supposed to automate. Somewhere, a PowerPoint deck is quietly being deleted.
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
So instead of hiring actual people again, they’ll look for cheaper engineers and robots.
Replying to @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
Nah it’s at least another decade of sunk cost management style then they will pivot back to humans once minimum wage has been repealed and the labor camps are in place