The San Jose, California-based robotics company Fetch has released a new robot designed to replace the forklift in warehouses.
According to a company press release, it is called the PalletTransport1500.
The square-shaped robot can lift pallets weighing up to 2,500 pounds. The robot is powered by Honeywell Intelligrated’s Momentum software suite designed to maneuver in a warehouse-type setting.
Fetch claims that forklifts account for roughly 100,000 injuries a year. This new robot seeks to drastically reduce these injuries.
In a tweet the company stated,
Our new autonomous warehouse robot is designed to replace forklifts—which are involved in about 100K accidents every year.
Meet PalletTransport1500, designed to sport payloads of up to 2,504 pounds 🦾🤖
Even the most well-managed distribution centers are struggling to keep up with the ongoing growth of e-commerce, which is putting tremendous stress on facilities and warehouse associates to move goods in and out of facilities at record speed.
By combining Fetch’s new PalletTransport1500 with Honeywell Intelligrated’s Momentum, distribution and fulfillment centers will now be able to orchestrate every aspect of automated warehouse execution for maximum facility efficiency and safety.
Stefan Nusser. Fetch Chief Product Officer
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Proverbs 28:19
More jobs will be eradicated in the near future. The draconian lockdowns have and are killing small businesses – businesses that will never return. This forces many of those laid-off to work for less at the mega corporations and factories; but face the inevitable reality of those jobs quickly disappearing.
Once these robots, and other like it, take over the factories and warehouses of Amazon, Walmart, Target, Costco, postal services, Home Depot, and many others, those jobs will disappear as well. What will those people do then? We have already reported on how Walmart is automating their local fulfillment centers, and this technology is going to aid in the destruction of physical labor. This is Agenda 2030 being accomplished.
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My husband is a material handling equipment technician and has worked for about everyone in the industry. If you have the aptitude and ability, it’s a high demand job. Dirty & awkward, everything close to the ground & compact, but semi-independent & competitors compete for good techs. Having said that, these things may be coming, but whether they’ll work properly or efficiently is another question. Electronics & robotics tend not to work very well in dirty applications. The more they over-engineer the things, the more they fail has been his experience, and as for accidents, those have increased with the dumbing down & refusing to hold anyone accountable for anything, or to encourage or allow them to use their heads & common sense.
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And the only thing worse than the IRS is a yellow-vested power-gone-to-the-head woman or wannabe with a ‘safety’ degree and an OSHA checklist. It worked fine to a point for reducing accidents, but there came a break- even point where it got stupid, nit-picky and a game of politics and tit-for-tat that destroyed morale and productivity.
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We have a lot of thoughtless snowflakes who can’t be trained because they take offense at everything, and many are on drugs, and with the conditions of college edjitated management gods and the poor rank-and-file dehumanized ‘human resources’ divide that many are forced to work under these days, it’s almost understandable. All of the above sin related issues that have sadly been promoted, encouraged & conditioned by both labor and education backed by big government attitude & parasitism.
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On the other hand, if they don’t do what they’ve done with many jobs in science & technology, which is to routinely place trained immigrant college students from Asian and Muslim countries ahead of certified & trained Americans, there will be a certain number of maintenance jobs required in the clean applications where they will likely be phased in first. Plus, someone will have to build them & provide parts.
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The more that comes out on these things, the more the cunning of the planners behind it for getting around the ‘problem’ of American freedom & exceptionalism in business, technology and healing medicine to ‘merge’ us all into a ‘resource’ pool of unquestioning & culled sea of dehumanized mediocrity becomes apparent. In Europe, and here, it’s a means of demoralization, transferring money & strength out, and bringing in enforcers who will do to native nationals what their fellow nationals prove reluctant to do to one another. The same reason sodomites were in the first ranks of revolutions like Hitler’s. (Pink Swastika and other historical sources.) Natural affection is dead in them, & the spirit of lies, superiority, pride and brutality has their reins.
I’d love to see that thing read a bill of lading/manifest and unload pallets and skids from the back of a trailer… it can’t, you need a forklift or pallet jack to do that. And if a company is so big and busy that it needs to move a lot of product, they won’t be using a pallet jack to unload a trailer, it’d certainly be a forklift as they are much faster. I can see how the robot would assist in getting product that has been unloaded by a forklift (like in the video) moved out of the way for more product to be unloaded if the docks are always busy with inbounds and outbounds, but forklifts can do the same thing much faster.