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Walmart Running Into Trouble as Its Super-Expensive Robots Can’t Handle the Realities of Warehouse Work: It's an automation "arms race."

a day ago by eicker to c/technology

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Despite spending billions of dollars to automate its warehouses, Walmart is seriously struggling to make even the simplest of robots work.
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EatMyPixelDust 24 points 21 hours ago

Robots are more expensive and are less capable than people? What a surprise! Not. I saw that coming years ago... 🙄

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RumRunningDevil -5 points 20 hours ago

Unfortunately the robots are substantially faster and more effective than humans. Can you run at ~45 mph?

The issue is complexity and that's something that's getting better over time.

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AntonioAndolini 4 points 16 hours ago

Unfortunately robots are not able to think critically

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RumRunningDevil 5 points 16 hours ago

They don't need to. No more than a conveyor needs to think critically.

I think people are envisioning the robots moving through a warehouse that was built for humans. That is not the case.

Special purpose warehouses are built with the robots in mind. The bots don't need to navigate an uncontrolled environment as the environment was meant for them.

It's basically a really big, really performant conveyor belt.

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