Comment on Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 8 months agoThat’s not what these robots are doing. They are picking items out of bins, verifying them, and packing them into totes which will be put on a conveyor. A conveyor is good for moving boxes or totes, but that’s about it. It does really poorly with small items, large items, irregular shapes, and especially anything in a bag.
This guy Material Handles.
ericisshort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve heard “material handles” and “handles materials,” but you are correct. I this-guy it hard.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Me too! Or at least I’m in the industry. Software side though.
ericisshort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Similar here. I do computer and industrial engineering for system integrations and process improvement, and I’m currently sending this from a wave picker 30 ft in the air trying to understand what keeps causing this damn jam in our new crossdock conveyor.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That sounds like way more fun than what I do. I just work on our one-stop-shop solutions development/planning/engineering/papers/order entry software. It’s like a glorified, complicated version of The Sims home construction but with conveyors and racking and structural steel and whatnot instead of couches and pianos and windows.