The following report is by ZeroHedge:
Amazon has introduced two new robots to speed up deliveries, raising concerns among fulfillment center workers that the e-commerce giant might eventually reduce its workforce.
In a blog post on Wednesday, Amazon said its robotics team will begin testing a bipedal robot named “Digit” at a site just south of Seattle.
Digit can move, grasp, and handle items in spaces and corners of warehouses in novel ways. Its size and shape are well suited for buildings that are designed for humans, and we believe that there is a big opportunity to scale a mobile manipulator solution, such as Digit, which can work collaboratively with employees.
Amazon said.
Amazon explained Digit will “help employees with tote recycling, a highly repetitive process of picking up and moving empty totes once inventory has been completely picked out of them.”
In addition to Digit, Amazon revealed Sequoia, a new robotic system to help fulfill customer orders faster, already operational at a Texas fulfillment center.
“Sequoia will help us delight customers with greater speed and increased accuracy for delivery estimates, while also improving employee safety at our facilities,” Amazon said, adding it will “identify and store inventory we receive at our fulfillment centers up to 75% faster than we can today.”
It also “reduces the time it takes to process an order through a fulfillment center by up to 25%, which improves our shipping predictability and increases the number of goods we can offer for Same-Day or Next-Day shipping,” the e-commerce giant added.
Amazon said it has more than “750,000 robots working collaboratively with our employees, taking on highly repetitive tasks and freeing employees up to better deliver for our customers.”
At some point, Amazon will realize its robot workforce can do a better job fulfilling orders than humans because robots don’t get sick, take breaks, complain, strike, or waste time watching TikTok videos on their smartphones.
We’ve penned plenty of notes over the years, informing readers about the coming massive layoff wave corporations will have to unleash due to AI. Godman’s Jan Hatzius suggested in a note earlier this year,
Using data on occupational tasks in both the US and Europe, we find that roughly two-thirds of current jobs are exposed to some degree of AI automation, and that generative AI could substitute up to one-fourth of current work. Extrapolating our estimates globally suggests that generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs to automation [as up to] two thirds of occupations could be partially automated by AI.
… and more recently, younger folk in the labor market are beginning to realize their days are numbered as AI takes their jobs.
For more insight into the rapidly evolving job landscape, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu and Sabrina Lam – using data from MSCI – have ranked the industries where AI-driven automation will displace the most workers.
Now’s the time to evaluate your job and see how automation will impact your industry.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
“…freeing employees up to better deliver for our customers.” -What a non-lucid way of saying that you are firing and laying them off.
Actions such as these are helping to fulfil the Agenda 2030 goals, where the masses will “own nothing and be happy.” According to an essay published by the World Economic Forum on life by 2030, the author wrote:
When AI and robots took over so much of our work, we suddenly had time to eat well, sleep well and spend time with other people. The concept of rush hour makes no sense anymore, since the work that we do can be done at any time. I don’t really know if I would call it work anymore. It is more like thinking-time, creation-time and development-time.
For a while, everything was turned into entertainment and people did not want to bother themselves with difficult issues. It was only at the last minute that we found out how to use all these new technologies for better purposes than just killing time.
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Proverbs 12:24
Convenience is a killer, and all this will do is just further enslave us.
AI and robotics are taking over nearly everything, and according to that graph posted above, you can kind of get an idea of just how much automation is going and where. Manual labor like the actual hands-on construction, building, and repair, will still be done by hand. Therefore, it is imperative that you smart up your handiness skills. They’ll never fail and we are all going to need them more so than ever before.
[11] And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; [12] That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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At my fulfillment center (ROC1 (newly launched though some parts are still active construction) for I got promoted to assistant area manager (process assistant)), there are new ARSAWs (Amazon Robotic Semi Autonomous Workstation) & there is a new depart called pick to robin (it combines the picking and Amazon fulfillment Engine by eliminating induct and rebin. After a picker scans the item, the picker places the item in the wall and then presses a button that will release a robot). The only jobs that would be created are robot maintenance to make repairs & other AI jobs. So yes the fear of losing jobs is real.
Here is another vantage. If masses of human workers are fired due to the “convenience and reduced costs of these AI Terminator robots as seen at the Miami Dolphins San Diego Chargers game that some thought were people with headphones, PLEASE TELL ME WHO IS GOING TO BE BUYING ALL THE JUNK SOLD BY AMAZON, ETC IF NOBODY HAS ANY MONEY TO SPEND. AMAZON WILL START TO SHRINK AND LOSE A TON OF MONEY AND STOCK VALUE. NO HUMANS, NOBODY TO BUY STUFF. SELF DESTRUCTIVE THINKING ONLY FANATIC PSYCHOPATHS WOULD DREAM UP AND TOTALLY IGNORE THE OTHER SIDE OF THEIR EQUATION. THEY WILL SELF-DESTRUCT AND THE LAID OFF WORKERS ALL OVER INDUSTRY, WILL GET THE LAST LAUGH. UNFORTUNATELY, THE PRICE TO BE PAID FOR THE VICTORY IS UNCONSCIONABLE
FORGOT TO ATTACH VIDEO OF THE FOOT BALL GAME AI ROBOTS WEARING SAN DIEGO CHARGERS JERSEYS. THIS IS VERY, “VERY” CREEPY VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QHoKC9_UZpA
I ALSO DO NOT AGREE WITH THE AUTHOR’S THOUGHT THAT MANUAL LABOR LIKE CONSTRUCTION WILL CONTINUE TO BE JOBS FOR PEOPLE. THINK SO? THINK AGAIN JACOB THOMPSON…FROM THIS WEB SITE EARLIER THIS MONTH:
https://winepressnews.com/2023/10/03/fleet-of-robots-builds-3d-printed-neighborhood-in-texas-set-to-see-first-move-ins-soon/
THE AUTHOR NEEDS TO RETHINK WHETHER ROBOTS WILL REPLACE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS AS THEY ARE NOW DOING IN IN THIS PRIOR WINEPRESS ARTICLE
I’m not denying what I previously wrote. There will be replacements, no question. I’m just talking in terms in some form of dependance and getting away from complete desk jobs that will definitely get canned. It is still going to take some time for robotics to totally overthrow manual labor across the board, and even then it still won’t. When the country collapses, having a range of hand skills will be necessary. Sorry if I did not properly clarify my position.
I saw a ad on how to build a house with blocks. Like legos, a robot could probably do that if they can work at a parcel station. And then another robot puts the paint on it. To repel water. I would still think people will need to oversee the work and maintain the robots.
Still work will be lost.
Most of the folks we know that work in construction do home improvement. That is still a niche, at least so long as folks can still afford & own homes. Some of the guys move their families out into more rural areas, but that makes for long driving hours to affluent areas, or time away from home staying closer to the jobs….sort of the same situation as long distance truck drivers. And progressive type, affluent people can make some pretty insane demands….& threats: especially if they turn out to be sodomites. You can still get around that many times with a purposely inflated or noncompetitive quote, because they also tend to be extremely CHEAP, & always trying to get something for nothing!
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As for the robots packing orders etc….I don’t know. Not if quality is an issue. My cancer makes it difficult for me to shop manually now, so we do order pickup at locally owned stores, and working family members pick up the orders on their way here. We still are able to care for the children & homeschool several days per week, so it’s a win-win for all concerned.
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We almost totally avoid Amazon or Walmart, make a monthly or bi-monthly run to Sam’s for the few items still worth it for the entire family: one membership, & they do provide local jobs….but that’s being negotiated & may not make the budget for next year. We do still buy books from Amazon since many small Christian writers still use that outlet, & occasionally for things we can’t find anywhere else.
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One of the local stores we were patronizing is very poorly managed, & they hire intellectually challenged folks to work there curbside & picking orders. It was so sad seeing how the manager treated those poor souls because they move slower; and because no one was overseeing the orders, the workers were unable to read & understand notes on orders etc. That store is in a highly Catholic area with a high-scale senior condo neighborhood near. Talk about rude clientele & employees!
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We actually began having orders picked up across town where they have the same set-up, same employee-owned chain….but MUCH better management, & they are patient with their plodding, but very faithful intellectually challenged workers. It generally takes them longer to learn things, but once properly trained & they learn to do something: they never deviate! Sweethearts.
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Hopefully voting with our dollars will result in wiser management, & no one will build some snooty high-end allotment near the reasonable & more responsibly managed store. I mourn for, & am reinforced against vaccination every time I’m around those workers who tend to be slower, but so much kinder & real than many of the ‘brighter’ ones. That’s a part of their 2030 plan that I will fight to my dying breath.
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It’s sick. And I do not believe it was accidental. There are often Down’s syndrome or genetic defect type ailments amongst the Amish Mennonite communities, for obvious reasons. But the sort of chronic ailments & absolutely debilitating autism cases are not rampant there, but rather with the middle class & affluent. Especially in the progressive & Catholic dominated areas where ‘trust the science’ and ‘the experts’ is like a mantra & holy grail.
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You’d think they’d figure it out. But then, a lot of its spiritual, not intellectual, and they’re so sure of their superiority & so self-righteous in their little cliques that true communication & learning is a very rare thing indeed.
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We also drive the extra miles to an Amish-Mennonite store where the workers are always efficient & cheerful, much of the produce locally grown, sometimes on farms or in greenhouses you can actually tour to verify how things are done. Granted, it’s socialist so far as the government tourist allowances etc go, & they are hiring more foreign workers, but at the least those people are legal & productively working, & many becoming not only bi-lingual, but tri-lingual as they still speak native Spanish dialects, but also pick up Dutch & English.
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It’s sadly (but predictably) the highly educated and/or dumbed down city folks & brats who are rude, pushy, arrogant, etc, in those areas. And though there are very highscale senior condos in those areas, too: they seem to attract a different type than the Catholic one, so rudeness isn’t such an issue with them in normal season. They just complain about the rudeness of others in the busy season! lol!
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Curbside pickup hours are more limited at high season times like autumn with the bus tours etc to enjoy the autumn foliage, & it stays crazy until post holidays, but we’re generally able to work around it. Or else we just change our shopping habits until the insanity dies down which, after today, will probably be until January.
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We made a rare trip out ourselves for some things today, & it was good to get out, though tiring.
The trees were so beautiful on all the hillsides. Of course, we have that beauty right in our own yard & neighborhood, but it’s just so awesome at the height of the season to look out across the fields & hills.
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I was surprised not to see shocks of corn anymore. I guess the ‘hurry-up’ has affected the Amish, too, as inflation cuts into profit, as they still use horses in some cases, but with chain & wheel driven type combines, or else they chop a lot of it for sileage in those big long bags. Silos are too expensive to maintain these days.
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Many have appealed to their ‘bishops’ for special permissions to use tractors, & since the bottom line is at stake….it’s rather like they did first with allowing phone booths on the road edge of farm properties when I was very young, & now cell phones, for business purposes, to tap into online sales & a broader market etc. And they use material handling equipment, skidders etc, to load& unload trucks etc.
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We laughed & laughed the first time we saw a buggy pull up to an intersection in a little town nearby with a mill & wifi, when we saw the straw-hatted, suspendered, bearded man driving whipping out a cell phone! Now it’s a very common occurrence.
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We’ve our first freeze forecast for next week, & rain….so it was the height & a special treat to see the leaves, & mostly we avoid high traffic areas on back byways where you’re only dodging mail carriers & buggies mainly, with a few stray, lost tourists or locals.
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But, I was sure ready to get back home after the insanity at our last stop. We decided to forego a few stock up items due to the unusual crowd & lines, and leaving with relief, we saw a very smart horse avoid a careless old man back out of a parking space, after dodging three tour buses navigating a packed parking lot! That beauty didn’t spook, thankfully, & just smoothly went into reverse without command & saved the day….lol!
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We thought we were going to see a jack-knifed buggy there for a minute, but all went smoothly in the end….& I guess my relief to get out of that packed store came too soon, for my husband had to pull me back as that old guy almost got me AND the horse!! I think his patience & sanity must have been at its end for surely he couldn’t have looked & missed seeing pedestrians, buggy, horse & all.
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Can they make a robot that smart?
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I know they can’t automatic order picking & material handling machinery because my husband is still working for Toyota, and the dealership he works for picked up Heli (Chinese) to pick up the slack when they greenie outlawed some of the gas-powered Toyotas a lot of the small independent Amish & Mennonite businesses around here were using. He comes home just shaking his head at the poor engineering & flawed design more often than not.
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Some of the German stuff was high end & pretty efficient, but even that’s gone downhill these past few years.
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The only place that really high-tech stuff works is in artificial land, & the sort of ‘workers’ & management in those sort of places are often so inefficient & irresponsible, & are often high on drugs, legal or not, & ‘second chance’ employees get lower wages….and have a slew of pharma and social workers riding that mobster set-up: so, that’s not likely to end soon. Even the crash pushed out indefinitely for those cronies.
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Those who aren’t are often so attracted to their cellphones that they might as well be drunk or high, and no over-engineered, prone to failing AI or robotics can make those sort of facilities either foolproof safe OR efficient. The only benefit is that the environment is generally clean…..but come silly lockdowns & gag rules, & look out.
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Thankfully, they have such a hard time finding reliable & skillful help that many of the skilled old geezers like my husband can just refuse to go to those places. There’s another niche, though its hard to find a place actually training their people well these days, & the vocational schools are a joke compared to what you actually encounter in the field. Finding a mentor in the field willing to train in an apprentice-type situation might be an option for some young men.
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Anyways, he’d rather dodge horses, deal with the mud, back roads & hardworking Amish-Mennonite businesses any day of the week! (They have their issues, and their bossy women, too, as many take jobs in the retail places etc: their head doilies & bonnets count for more than the biblical covering of their husbands & fathers with that crowd…..but at least lesbo power-drunk OSHA-trained ‘safety’ personnel & managers are at a minimum with the small country family businesses! They can’t afford the down time.)
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For now.