I can only guess it is a reference to Megas XLR....
Posted on 12/01/2014 11:56:38 AM PST by C19fan
This holiday season, Amazon's little helper is an orange, 320-pound robot called Kiva.
The robots -- more than 15,000 of them companywide -- are part of Amazon's high-tech effort to get orders to customers faster. By lifting shelves of Amazon products off the ground and speedily delivering them to employee stations, the robots dramatically reduce the time it takes for workers to find items and put them into boxes for shipment.
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Free capital (zero interest rates) displaces labor. Another “blessing” of debt due to the welfare state. Needless to say, replacing labor with capital capital tends to concentrate wealth in the hands of its owners.
When they going to make them for the NFL?
Let me guess... these “workers” make a heap less than %15/hour.
nice
AHH I dont’ want drone see where I live COME ON that too big brother for my taste especially from Amazon
Remember this....
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor
Where the guy whined about working in a amazon warehouse... Well now too bad, he shouldn’t have whined so much,...
Yeah. Robots don’t complain about not having AC.
I can only guess it is a reference to Megas XLR....
Wow! Kiva rocks!
I can haz marriage?
and they delivered...... I ordered stuff at $68 black Friday savings and it was delivered today
The next step is to have robots at the workstations do the work of selection and packaging, which is a big deal. The kiva system basically does away with more complicated plant circulation systems - all it needs is a flat floor and a specialized shelf to line up on it. The system is capable of dynamically reconfiguring for demand, so you're not stuck with just one layout. In fact they can even load the whole warehouse into shipping containers for a move while still fulfilling, and startup as soon as the containers are opened, so you can have zero-downtime expansion or relocation.
I really liked it a lot when I read about Kiva a few years ago - was saddened that Amazon was able to afford to take Kiva off the market. But the patents don't cover everything;)
That’s amazing, but some people will still complain that Amazon doesn’t make much of a profit. One of the reasons for that is Bezos chooses to invest money back into the company and keep prices low.
I really liked it a lot when I read about Kiva a few years ago - was saddened that Amazon was able to afford to take Kiva off the market.
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Do you know if Amazon sells Kiva products to other companies?
Engineering students nationwide are hoping for this so-called "living wage" legislation, because it will give a significant boost to the robotics and machine automation industries.
If a business must pay workers $15.00 per hour, it needs to get production worth significantly more than that from the workers.
Do the math. Take a business like fast food that is open 20 hours a day, 365 days a year. At $15/hr, it costs nearly $110K per year + taxes and costs to staff each slot in the operation. Each slot needs 140 hours of staffing per week, and is shared between 4-6 people.
If I can replace one of these positions with a machine that costs me less than $250K, it will pay back in probably 2 years. This will also eliminate 4-6 low-pay jobs, but will help to fund a higher-paid engineering job at the robot vendor.
The engineer will then need to pay higher taxes so that the government can give EBT cards to the now unemployed low-skill workers... Unless he's in China.
NOPE Forget it LOL!
MACHINE! EQUALITY! NOW! OR I WEEPZ WD-40!
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