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Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

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209 points Luc | 1 comments | 09 May 25 11:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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philipwhiuk ◴[09 May 25 12:04 UTC] No.43935844[source]▶
It's interesting how Amazon is embedding robots in human-designed warehouses whereas Ocado has humans overseeing a robotic warehouse.

The later is a much easier problem.

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alsodumb ◴[09 May 25 12:06 UTC] No.43935863[source]▶
It takes hundreds of millions to build a warehouse. Amazon has tons of them. Retrofitting things is capital intensive.
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1. jajuuka ◴[09 May 25 20:15 UTC] No.43940494[source]▶
Labor is one of the most expensive parts of running a business. So just doing the math of, if we spend X amount of money on robots and can layoff Y amount of people then it's a net gain. Especially if a single machine can replace multiple people.