TLDR
Amazon was criticized for pressing workers to physical limits while continuously automating jobs, impacting 125,000 full-time hourly associates and an additional 120,000 seasonal workers across its logistics and warehouse centers in the United States. The technology is already here to automate enough to be efficient and cost-effective, says author. While mobile robots like Kiva and Fetch are currently in use, robotic arms used for piece picking are only just beginning to deploy. They are programmed to perform the same tasks repetitively. They can’t adapt to changes in the environment.via the TL;DR App
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