Die Roboterlager von Amazon könnten die Erfüllungskosten um 10 Milliarden US-Dollar pro Jahr senken
https://www.techspot.com/news/106635-amazon-robot-driven-warehouses-could-cut-fulfillment-costs.html
Die Roboterlager von Amazon könnten die Erfüllungskosten um 10 Milliarden US-Dollar pro Jahr senken
https://www.techspot.com/news/106635-amazon-robot-driven-warehouses-could-cut-fulfillment-costs.html
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From the article
>Amazon has spent years investing in robots that work in its fulfillment centers around the world. Developing and deploying these machines costs millions of dollars, but a new report claims they could save the tech giant up to $10 billion a year by 2030.
>Amazon’s use of robots in its fulfillment centers and warehouses goes back more than a decade, but it really started ramping up the numbers in recent times, increasing from 350,000 robots in 2021 to more than 750,000 by June 2023.
>The robots perform virtually every task a human is able to do, from picking/packing and sorting items to transporting goods, inventory management, and storage, all of which make up about 60% of fulfillment costs.
>As noted in a Morgan Stanley report, Amazon has developed six new significant warehouse robots in the past three years, covering almost every stage of the fulfillment process.
Some more of that trickle down economics incoming! /s
For any youngin’s out there fearing the future. Keep on doing that, as we all are, but also maybe think about getting an education in robot repair or whatever the fuck it’s going to be called.
We’re a long ways off from robots taking over every manual labor job, and even further out from robots repairing each other or themselves.
I’m down for this. I’ve always said that in a post internet era, warehouses make more sense than “downtowns” and automation is fine.
But Amazon is a natural monopoly and it should be democratically controlled.
Obviously that’s a fantasy in this authoritarian hellscape.
OK, now what? What then?!? Where is unlimited upward growth?!?!?!
Shareholders DEMAND IT. FUCK YOUR 10 BILLION A YEAR. WE WANT 40 BILLION IN SAVINGS YEAR OVER YEAR.
But will not lower price to consumer or increase pay to employees. Will only result in layoffs.
You mean raise profits through cost cutting labor by 10 billion a year. Those tax cuts sure will come in handy!
anbd they don’t get all uppity and try to unionize forcing the poor distraught CEO to shut down warehouses in union prone areas…. won’t anyone think of the executives?!
just think, that’s $10B in lost potential future revenue because a whole bunch of consumers no longer have jobs and money to consume with.
All fun n games until the robots get wise to being treated like „humans“ and they demand bathroom breaks…
In a just world amazon would have the savings and keep the employees to do other tasks and pay them more and still have profits for the shareholders.
I don’t care anymore about billion dollar companies becoming trillion dollar companies at the expense of The People. I don’t care. I don’t care.
So wait, are we mad that illegal immigrants are taking our jobs robots now? It’s hard to keep up
“And as you go forth today remember your duty is clear: to build and maintain those robots.”
It’s the dream of any warehouse owner, isn’t it? A workforce that never gets sick, never gets tired, never asks for a day off, and never asks for a raise. Granted the reality with maintenance and malfunctions are another matter, but the goal is clear. Maximum profit, minimum human concerns.
The other way, my parents, sister and her husband all talking to my 15yr old nephew who will be doing exams this year and talking about his future…all trying to give him advice…all of them really pushing uni. Not one of them listening to anything he said…he wants to get into a job as soon as he leaves and get experience doing different jobs, maybe finding something he will enjoy along the way
I felt sorry for him, not one of the other adults aware that its estimated 40% of jobs will be gone in the next decade due to ai, that literally no job is really safe. Its all fine going to uni but if its just going to saddle him with 30k + in debts for jobs that ai end up doing, not exactly giving him a chance.
My advice was do what you love, if you can find something you love doing and make money doing it, it won’t feel like work at all and you will have a much better life…straight away, people saying that is a terrible idea cuz if it don’t pay well, not worth doing
Well, they are not cost they are investment! You are investing in your community, think about that!
So they can give their workers fair wages.. r..right? *Laughs nervously*
Let me know when this actually lowers prices and doesn’t just inflate Jeff’s wallet
Cool, prices will go down!
Prices will go down, right?
Neighbor told me that *once every few months* some human gets stuck in the conveyor belt at his location.
Instead of the phrase “fulfillment costs”. Substitute “people’s livelihood” and read it again.
Savings to be passed on to shareholders. No cost reduction to consumers
I would rather pay a little bit extra and know that a human was gainfully employed.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not a luddite, far from it. I work in tech and AI and robots excite the hell out of me.
Maybe the end of manual labor is the end goal of this but I feel the transition to the elimination of these jobs should be done gradually and in a way that society can be prepared for it.