Automating the Grocery Warehouse

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7 жыл бұрын

Robotics company Symbotic is trying to change the food distribution industry. The company has developed a system to automate warehouse jobs formerly done by humans. Video: Robert Libetti. Photo: Michael Rubenstein for The Wall Street Journal
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@mrk1075 6 жыл бұрын

It wasn't long after the filming of this Robert Sutherland was fired and replaced by a Robot named Robert.

@f1sh98 2 жыл бұрын

Robert Robot

@italianyankee942 7 жыл бұрын

great place to work for.

@Deno2100 6 жыл бұрын

80 million isn't much because these companies have HUGE profit margins. HUGE.

@someguy4915 4 жыл бұрын

Grocery stores 'huge profit margins'? Nope, you're confusing 'huge' with 'very tight'... A name brands like Lays usually don't even have profit, some even cost money instead of having any profit, just to lure people into the stores with familiar brand names. 40-80 million dollar for 1 distribution center is a lot of money, you'll easily break 1 billion dollar per state which is the only reason this hasn't been done by every company yet.

@Deno2100 4 жыл бұрын

@@someguy4915 Yeah, but think of a 50% reduction in medical insurance, 401k payments, paychecks and your overhead is going to be way lower too. 80 to 100 million is theft but I think it is still considered an investment

@laopang91362 6 жыл бұрын

Jobs of the future... be an engineer ....

@mrs4080 6 жыл бұрын

Bobby Chang all minds are different to engineer

@chieftp 6 жыл бұрын

yeah, not many engineers graduate from college each year. LOL

@jamesliu8095 5 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure that with a greater demand for an engineer, it will become easier to become one

@k3nfr0st39 5 жыл бұрын

Or an automation technician. With automation the wave of the future, set yourself up.

@yodambomb4974 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Since I came down to Miami to help out a subsidiary warehouse full of straight dumbasses it made me realize that all these jobs are gonna be automated ., even the reachlift drivers

@Zoza15 7 жыл бұрын

Well, people never believe that robots could manage to do this level of advanced machinery. This shit hasn't even begun yet and people complaining about jobs. Perhaps new solutions should be applied by redefining work and eliminate the the word : *Job* Automation is a positive future once people see the potential of it.. Social changes also has to be on the forefront regarding living necessities and food and shelter etc etc.

@naturalisted1714 7 жыл бұрын

Morph Verse Great comment! Good to see people actually thinking about this in a positive way instead of paranoid about conspiracies that they would have done (genocide) decades ago if that was their priority... automation is a blessing!

@jeffbingaman2754 6 жыл бұрын

Best impersonation of Michael Keaton when playing in the other guys while working at bed bath and beyond....😐

@jadddean 5 жыл бұрын

Some of these pallets going to my key food in Bklyn.

@LATINTHRONE 6 жыл бұрын

All those robots won't even pay taxes. 😭😂

@funny-video-YouTube-channel 6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful technology like this *helps to reduce the waste of food* and the more efficient production. The food is more fresh in the supermarkets. The shops can offer more products and we have a higher quality of life. Technology is making life more comfortable, we can be happy about that !

@thefinalwatcher 5 жыл бұрын

I work at a warehouse. The amount of wasted food is insane.

@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 5 жыл бұрын

I like your optimism. We should always try to improve. Do you grow food?

@mooselee902 6 жыл бұрын

nothing wrong with the technology, just the system its working within

@bamelive 4 жыл бұрын

It is only for dry goods items, bottles of milk cannot be processed?

@yodambomb4974 5 жыл бұрын

What about for reachlift drivers ?

@AvivMakesRobots 3 жыл бұрын

This can greatly reduce wasted food!

@10star9 6 жыл бұрын

That's Cleanliness C&S Warehouse I ever seen I drove Semi going to C&S warehouse always Filthy I hated going any C&S and They did not like any Truck Drivers always a hard time.

@deshaimoney8661 4 жыл бұрын

I worked at this place before and after the robots it went from over a 1000 people working to only 30 people

@someguy4915 4 жыл бұрын

1000 unskilled people working a pointless job, time for them to start getting an education/skillset that makes them actually useful.

@tonyamillsapsknox 4 жыл бұрын

@@someguy4915 because it's so easy for all American Economic classes to do so... Some do not have that as a choice.

@someguy4915 4 жыл бұрын

@@tonyamillsapsknox Perhaps then it is time to address that instead of prolonging a major economic class issue...

@stickyoxtail 4 жыл бұрын

@@someguy4915 every job is "unskilled" when you put it against a robot. First they came for cashiers, then they'll get the drivers. After shipping gets automated, it will penetrate the warehouse while simultaneously putting white collar jobs out like horse and cabby. You think just because you get to sit in front of a computer, you have skills? AI and software will take care of all the creative fields and then you'll really earn your name as just "some guy" replaced by another robot. GG

@maheshkatta9278 7 жыл бұрын

Nice. I can see this being adopted in coming few years. But I dont understand who is the customers? Walmart, target? Or 7-11 Stores?

@Georgiapyro 7 жыл бұрын

mahesh katta Retailers, any company moving/sorting large amounts of goods.

@kimjong-un5562 7 жыл бұрын

mahesh katta some company's might not do it just because laying off 200,000 employees would give them a bad rep lol

@maheshkatta9278 7 жыл бұрын

Its just bunch of SJWs crying on social media for acouple of weeks. Then everything goes to normal. Normally people dont think all these things before they go to shop. If price is less, people o to the store.

@dvdmex1978 6 жыл бұрын

We have done Wal-Mart, coke, giant tiger and Albertsons so far.

@mdxcellence 6 жыл бұрын

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@Goated483 4 жыл бұрын

This guys idea is going to ruin the future for ALL labor and non labor employees

@WastingtimeInc 6 жыл бұрын

Anyone else see this and think of the door warehouse from Monsters Inc?

@MichelZelff 3 жыл бұрын

I can't find anything about Rick Cohen?

@gilbertangelo3692 3 жыл бұрын

Replacing order selector job outch

@vashman01 6 жыл бұрын

Ha Newburgh, NY! I live 10 minutes away.

@brucekwak2420 5 жыл бұрын

Prove it

@WitheredFreddo 6 жыл бұрын

im so gonna be a mechanic :>

@robertbidochon7949 6 жыл бұрын

People! be the best you can be at maintaining those robots, you'll be able to charge these type of companies fortunes to fix their tools.

@adlibruj 7 жыл бұрын

There goes my job :) I have to learn something else :)

@brunon.8962 7 жыл бұрын

Or support Basic Income.

@311g 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah..."learn something" or "get guaranteed pay for marginally contributing your potential".

@adlibruj 7 жыл бұрын

Whoa. Here comes somebody shooting from the lips, not understanding the meaning of sarcasm. There goes your job.

@BillyBigBalls770 6 жыл бұрын

You could always rob banks or sell drugs, robots couldn't do that.

@TheGeckoNinja 6 жыл бұрын

get into VR technology

@christopherarmstrong2710 4 жыл бұрын

Whoever owns this facility is operating a huge money printing press - no crooked politicians needed.

@WarbirdPhoenix 6 жыл бұрын

Dey tuk our jerbz!!!!

@sethrobinson28 6 жыл бұрын

Warbird Phoenix terk arr jeerrrbbbbsss!!!

@mirandacampbell6385 6 жыл бұрын

Wow

@Fayssal207 5 жыл бұрын

Humanity need jobs .

@leifc.6045 4 жыл бұрын

nwo

@GWARDLE 5 жыл бұрын

Can you say Universal Basic Income? I knew you could!

@vuyaki6366 4 жыл бұрын

Very scary!

@jaredfontaine2002 6 жыл бұрын

When can they start using this tech in airports? Tired of my bike being broken by handlers...

@EricSmith-bx5lv 6 жыл бұрын

Why do I need a human to talk about robots?

@mirandacampbell6385 6 жыл бұрын

This is insane, definitely cuts the jobs of people but it's very cool though

@aleksandersuur9475 3 жыл бұрын

It's just shifting the jobs around, that 40-80 mil might be investing in equipment rather than labor for warehouse company, but it's paycheck for the entire supply chain that actually makes and delivers the machinery. Robots don't get a paycheck, money in the end moves from pocket to pocket and only humans have those.

@mirandacampbell6385 3 жыл бұрын

@@aleksandersuur9475 true people that make the robots get paid but what if the robots start making robots lol

@radekhurt5263 5 жыл бұрын

You can have a chat with a robot..

@Clark-Mills 6 жыл бұрын

Shrinkage just shrunk.

@LarsLiveLaughLove 6 жыл бұрын

on-demand labor

@pikminlord343 7 жыл бұрын

the way of the future

@eisaiyoohoo 6 жыл бұрын

for real tho, whats gonna happen if robots replace all jobs? will money be a thing anymore

@mikegaskin5542 4 жыл бұрын

It will either be great (a Star Trek-style post-scarcity utopia) or it will be really bad

@someguy4915 4 жыл бұрын

You can hardly call these positions jobs, they're simple tasks: stand here and move boxes off/onto the pallets. The people who lose their 'jobs' to a robot arm which has no brains can easily get a new job by following ANY training (30 minute training or all the way up to a years long actual education). If a robot, which has no brains can replace you and be better than you ever were at your job, you really are rather expandable...

@eisaiyoohoo 4 жыл бұрын

@@someguy4915 that is true, thank u for ur input

@mikearanda3533 3 жыл бұрын

There's digital currency.

@blackdragoninnovations3563 6 жыл бұрын

Anyone else notice what looked to be a BLOOD SPLATTER MARK on one of the machines near the depalletizer at 0:53?

@SaintNickOfficial 6 жыл бұрын

No, worse. Pasta sauce. Trust me.

@Orkey 6 жыл бұрын

LMAOI

@atlastobin7837 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for bringing on the next economic recession... good job!!!

@asteclimanossan2737 5 жыл бұрын

Very expensive

@user-xi1fj9wl9w 5 жыл бұрын

40 to 80million, how many decades u need to pay off?

@JBB685 5 жыл бұрын

FUCKME when you double the amount of operating time, not long

@brucekwak2420 5 жыл бұрын

Build all the robots you want you still have to by the electric off of me because I am the man

@couchpoet1 4 жыл бұрын

Who will the customers be when they have no money from jobs lost to automation? Yeah....

@vuyaki6366 4 жыл бұрын

Gorvernment food stamps.! And they will feed you unhealthy food.

@someguy4915 4 жыл бұрын

All the customers who have jobs which rely on skill, education and any level of thinking... These jobs are for people to just stand there with 2 arms, lifting stuff from A to B, people who lack any education. If years of education and effort is too difficult for those people, they could follow a 1 hour training on something and they would already be more useful anyway... So you lose the customers who refuse to train themselves along with the evolving world while you keep the vast majority of customers.

@couchpoet1 4 жыл бұрын

Some Guy I agree with your point, but it’s short sided. This “tech” will become our new way of life. Nothing you can pull from the past can be a comparison. But I digress... I have no interest in pulling more energy so I can consider myself to be right. Time will tell....and we shall see.

@TheEnigmaProductions 7 жыл бұрын

This is dumb why even have a warehouse why doesn't the manufacturer deliver directly to the supermarket cut out the middle man

@yeehaw2810 7 жыл бұрын

Enigma Productions its because 1 warehouse is used by multiple stores. so the manufactuter can make shorter trips. also it would clog up the parking lot and loading dock if you had 50 different companies arrive to you directly rather like 2 or 3 warehouse cars show up with mixed items

@TheEnigmaProductions 7 жыл бұрын

Alright fair enough

@naturalisted1714 7 жыл бұрын

Enigma Productions good question. I agree. Just buy direct and maybe have drones deliver it or something. It's time for a complete redo of our civilization- our tech has surpassed our stupid methods.

@cm6534 6 жыл бұрын

Ted Bolha maybe research how grocery distribution works. you are clueless. Do you have any idea how distribution in general works? plus refer to meows response.

@cm6534 6 жыл бұрын

show me a drone that can deliver 10 pallets of water. maybe a helicopter but not likely. Oh yeah and every company definitely has a factory right within drone range from the grocery store. and when that drone drops 60 40lb bags of potatoes on Grandma in the parking lot? know a little before you start talking... just a little....

@BillyBigBalls770 6 жыл бұрын

Don't show this video to the Polish.

@scholarlyreader383 5 жыл бұрын

Explain why, elaborate your case.

@thefinalwatcher 5 жыл бұрын

The more advanced warehouses are in Europe. Just check youtube.

@brucekwak2420 5 жыл бұрын

I’m polishe

@penguinmit 7 жыл бұрын

i don''t think space is really an issue in most parts of US.

@schwenda3727 6 жыл бұрын

hept yep; plenty of floodplains & cornfields off parts of the beltway to build a shopping mall-sized warehouse. Hell, how about someone CONVERT a VACANT shopping mall into a warehouse??!

@CarFreeSegnitz 6 жыл бұрын

Building envelopes are cheap. You can slap up a minimally heated and lit warehouse in months. Given the cost of the automation ($40mil -$80mil) you'll probably buy the automation first then build the building envelope to suit it. Shoe-horning the automation into some abandonned mall or Walmart would probably end up costing more. If it were up to me I'd start with knowing my expected volume. Then analysize transportation for time and distance between factories and to my customers. Then buy a couple of acres with or without a building at or near the optimal location. Buy the automation suitable for the expected volume. Build the envelope suitable for the automation.

@brucekwak2420 5 жыл бұрын

Want to be reel efficient. Just throw all the goods in the back of my car it will eliminate all trucks I can get rid of all the products faster than a store

@atlastobin7837 6 жыл бұрын

Well they better pay for my basic income I swear to god...

@2368CHRIS 4 жыл бұрын

@mordecaiesther3591 4 жыл бұрын

Universal healthcare, basic income , cryptocurrency , and driverless cars and trucks .

@vinaybhat7670 4 жыл бұрын

so basically...u will stay as poor fr ever. who ever reachd richness level already, will stay rich for ever..we will b like a zoo animals aftr that..we should eat wat they give..🤦

@mikearanda3533 3 жыл бұрын

@@vinaybhat7670 , it'll be like the Matrix - Brave New World style