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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses

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Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses

www.theguardian.com

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Digit will begin its time on the floor by shifting empty tote boxes amid concerns humans will be shifted out of jobs

Amazon is experimenting with humanoid robots for warehouse work.

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I mean either you get good jobs or it accelerates total automation which can be used as grounds for organizing socialism in the total unemployment

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