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Originally Posted by Mr Pheer
A good sorter at Amazon can do about 600 items per hour. A good robot can do 200 items per hour.
I give the robots maybe a year or two to surpass the Amazon workers, and then they will start being replaced. All fullfillment centers will start to move this way. Walmart, Target, and other big retailers that have bought out huge warehouses in Kentucky and Tennessee in order to keep up with Amazon, don't even have air conditioning in those buildings. The human workers are complaining, but industrial robots can work in those conditions and never complain about anything.
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Eventually.
Maybe they don't need to be faster. You can just have more robots. If it a Amazon warehouse has sixty "pickers"..... They could easily have 180 robots operating in the same space. No complaints from employees, no breaks, no lawsuits, no training classes, no sick days, no vacation, no medical leave....
Entry level jobs will be gone soon. Local McDonald's has a kiosk where you order food, so no cashier. They already have some restaurants where robots cook the food. Eventually they will serve the food too. At gas stations and drug stores they will no longer need cashiers - they are already making stores where you grab what you need and walk out and the cost is deducted from your bank account.
The future might be very interesting.