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Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

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209 points Luc | 3 comments | 09 May 25 11:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.653s | source
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oxqbldpxo ◴[09 May 25 13:33 UTC] No.43936544[source]▶
Is there a future where we stop buying so much garbage?
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1. sph ◴[09 May 25 13:42 UTC] No.43936645[source]▶
We're moving towards a future where the entire earth and asteroid belt are mined by machines to build more machines.
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2. krapp ◴[09 May 25 15:33 UTC] No.43937965[source]▶
No we aren't, not even a little.
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3. sph ◴[11 May 25 10:35 UTC] No.43952817[source]▶
The day it happens you won’t have much time to say “damn, you were right” before you are atomised and reconstituted as an Amazon Prime cardboard package.

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