Inside Amazon’s robot revolution

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5 ай бұрын

Amazon is investing a billion dollars in new industrial technology, including Digit, a robot working in their Seattle Robotics Research and Development facility. Amazon says the robots will be used to support human employees, but labor experts and Amazon warehouse employees say they are concerned about the future of human work.
UPDATE: This story’s headline and description have been updated to include Amazon’s statement that its robots are meant to support human employees, not replace them.
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@rooster1012 5 ай бұрын

Proof that humans are 100% replaceable especially when these robots start building one another and have advanced AI running them.

@xx_Joker_xx 5 ай бұрын

And it's only the beginning. 50% of jobs will be gone over the next 10 years.

@nstark1066 5 ай бұрын

Can AI develop better business models, and less inhumane CEO's? Please?

@lawrencefearon6830 5 ай бұрын

Except when it comes to driving. There's just zero tolerance for mistakes and robots cannot be punished for vehicular manslaughter. They have to be perform better than the best drivers not the worst. Because most of us are not the worst drivers. Tech fanatics hate those standards but humans are not expendable by robotic driving errors.

@four4eyes 5 ай бұрын

Cyberdyne system 1zero1

@firstgopinbredhillbilliesl6100 5 ай бұрын

well, when you lose your job, what are you going to do?

@BladeMasterz916 5 ай бұрын

Robots don't pay taxes. City and states are going to have to tax robots to pay for society.

@kramchancel1266 5 ай бұрын

Still cheaper than human workers

@mr.joshua6818 5 ай бұрын

That could work

@dave23024 5 ай бұрын

So, a retailer that depends on people's money wants to put people out of work. They didn't think that one out too well.

@mr.joshua6818 5 ай бұрын

@@dave23024 AI will sort it out for us.

@DG-hw8it 5 ай бұрын

Tiping could still be taxed, though! 😂

@yosvaniflako3427 5 ай бұрын

It's scary that our value is below $250,000.

@NazriB 28 күн бұрын

Lies again? Rome Roma Ramenten Rakuten

@indieshack4476 4 күн бұрын

I think they'll be turning these things out at a fraction of that cost in just a couple of years.

@nstark1066 5 ай бұрын

Bezos must be ecstatic! No bathroom breaks, no medical emergencies, just AI that requires zero paychecks...

@shapursasan9019 5 ай бұрын

Of course, he's paying for it! It was bound to happen, for jobs that a monkey can do--a robot can do!

@tabularasa7775 5 ай бұрын

He probably got sick of people that feed or do nothing for nobody whinging about him that feeds millions and brings jobs to places that had nothing and Rightly so .

@VOAN 5 ай бұрын

Eventually those same robots could easily be hack by criminize hackers and would be coming for his head if not unaware. Anything that used technology could be hack nowadays so even if it had its benefit, there's also some risk about it.

@vermiliongamboge155 5 ай бұрын

@@tabularasa7775 People who get injured on the job are not "whinging."

@tabularasa7775 5 ай бұрын

@@vermiliongamboge155 Not sure who mentioned work places injuries , why are you mentioning things that you have imagined and then attaching those things to what people have written . I'd replace you with a robot tomorrow lol

@anneahlert2997 5 ай бұрын

Andrew Yang predicted this. He also said that as technology replaced human jobs, we would find it increasingly more difficult to find new jobs for those unskilled humans and humans without transferable job skills. A majority of workers cannot be retrained every few years for an entirely new job, so the only answer is a Universal Basic Income-- funded by taxing Big Data and the other multibillion-dollar companies whose tech has taken away those jobs. The old economy won't work after the new Industrial Revolution. We need to rethink how we provide for people, and give people a sense of intrinsic worth, instead of placing the worth of a person on their job.

@Alien_isolationist 5 ай бұрын

They pretty much owe us as they've made a fortune selling our personal information

@badpuppy3 5 ай бұрын

Universal basic income will be as low as they can make it. And you can't negotiate for more UBI like you can with your wages.

@chrischungy 5 ай бұрын

There's not much training involved with sorting an item and packing it up

@bingbong9076 5 ай бұрын

Not a good sign for people, for instance people on disability cannot have more than $2000 in savings in the US. How will unskilled workers be treated? IF UBI does happen, it will be poverty line stipends, while the rich who own all the robots live in luxury. We are returning to serfdom but somehow even worse.

@emsleywyatt3400 5 ай бұрын

@@bingbong9076 We still know where the pitchforks are.

@Juicemanee 5 ай бұрын

The fact he said these robots don't have to go home to see its family, doesn't need health care benefits, shows you they really don't care about us

@michaelwells7348 2 ай бұрын

they Never did, Ask Donald Dump ~ Don’t melt Snowflake ....it’s Only Business. Make America Great Again - Then go away once U Vote...

@HellonWheels65 Ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏

@sirus312 Ай бұрын

its a reality...... the sun doesn't care about us either. Its gonna burn us up one day.

@eyob4794 26 күн бұрын

Evidence that once they get these warehouses automated theyre gonna make a plan to get rid of the average person

@user-yq4yp7hz3z 5 ай бұрын

"This robot doesn't need to go home and see his family, doesn't need health care benefits"

@brucebarratt99 5 ай бұрын

I worked at amazon for 3 months. I thought the whole time it should be done with robotics. The humans who do it for a long time will get permanent injuries.

@PriceWordplay 8 күн бұрын

Guesd you will be out in the street soon

@daddy9925 5 ай бұрын

Who’s gonna buy all these products when people don’t have jobs?

@Alien_isolationist 5 ай бұрын

Plenty of rich folks, and they're already wealthy, so losing revenue won't matter much, since they'll save on cost of employees

@xx_Joker_xx 5 ай бұрын

Celebrities and rich people who do not have a clue about us.

@shapursasan9019 5 ай бұрын

Not everybody work in a factory!

@badpuppy3 5 ай бұрын

It's called Demand Destruction.

@Witness234 5 ай бұрын

Rich people.

@Stonefly2112 5 ай бұрын

He is excited about putting people out of work

@MrThejboe3oh5 5 ай бұрын

Because the marketing has sold the majority the idea of humans not having to work and communism.Lol Want to see a world implode ?Let humans run wild like animals with no obligation and no purpose as a reality for 90% of people it would be today's environment of hostility x%100

@bobroberts2371 5 ай бұрын

How is this putting people out of work when it is difficult to find people that want to work?

@MrThejboe3oh5 5 ай бұрын

@@bobroberts2371 Do you think it's because people are underpaid, seen as dispensable or because tons of people are earning too much right now?

@bobroberts2371 5 ай бұрын

@@MrThejboe3oh5 Jobs that require minimal skill will always have a lower pay rate than high skilled jobs. Who should be paid more, a machinist that writes their own programs / makes their own setups or a person that picks and packs items in a warehouse?

@obielicious 5 ай бұрын

@@MrThejboe3oh5Amazon already overpays for zero skill work

@Nona-business 5 ай бұрын

Amazon was like, I got something for your lawsuits.

@ColburnClark 5 ай бұрын

I worked in inbound stow at Amazon and I support this. That said, I think it's going to be bad for workers as there will be less jobs available the more these robots are developed. There should be universal basic income paid in lieu of workplace taxes by these companies to offset the job loss as a result of automation. Otherwise, poverty and crime will increase.

@bbgator1 5 ай бұрын

Automation is good. Is the reason why half the population are not farmers. People been fearful of automation for years and there’s more jobs now than there ever has been.

@badpuppy3 5 ай бұрын

UBI will never be what these people were making in wages.

@tabularasa7775 5 ай бұрын

Well people have spent years dogging bezos and his working environments even though he feeds millions of families and gives employment to places and people that would never of had the opportunity so i can understand him in this instance . No people , no problems.

@robertbray7828 5 ай бұрын

UBI is a smokescreen. It sounds wonderful on paper and I support it to some degree, but it doesn't solve this. I just see a terrible future where most people are unemployed, only earning minimum UBI with just enough to survive, as exactly what a lot of these corporations are into. Makes everyone dependent on them and seem like the good guys for pushing UBI. If properly implemented though I do support it and it could eliminate poverty, but as a means to offset automation, I see that going wrong.

@TheeRedBaron 5 ай бұрын

Technology has always made some jobs irrelevant, people need to pivot and pick up another skill. Automobiles disrupted the horse trade, Uber disrupted the Taxi industry. The trades are in very high demand and this will increase demand for service/programing robots.

@mr.joshua6818 5 ай бұрын

I saw a documentary about this once, it was called The Matrix.

@mr.joshua6818 5 ай бұрын

And Terminator

@lanabyk8012 5 ай бұрын

Eventually, the robots will be driving the vans that deliver the goods...

@bernieschiff5919 5 ай бұрын

The vans will be driverless., in the back will be a delivery bot that will hand carry the package across the street to your door. In elevator apartment buildings there will be dedicated delivery bots or carts that can use the elevator, place packages in front of apartment doors and ring your doorbell.

@drakere2 5 ай бұрын

future seems exciting. @@bernieschiff5919

@luckerooni1153 5 ай бұрын

You mean the vans themselves are robots that drive themselves.

@SilkCrown 5 ай бұрын

That won't happen because people will destroy and vandalize the robots. Look at what happened to Serve Robotics in LA. People tore them apart to steal food deliveries, kicked them over, and even hit them with baseball bats. People would be even more tempted to steal Amazon packages or just destroy the robots for no reason. Robotics only work in private controlled spaces, like warehouses, in a country like the U.S. That's before you even get to things like dealing with aggressive dogs, dangerous terrain and weather conditions like ice, snow, and high wind. It's the autonomous vehicle problem on steroids.

@lanabyk8012 5 ай бұрын

Why can't the robots drive the cars? Wouldn't that be cheaper than having cars that drive themselves?@@bernieschiff5919

@codybeasenburg6275 5 ай бұрын

I'm sorry but if there is not a single human hand that touches my package they cannot expect me to pay for shipping

@Chris_Hruska 4 ай бұрын

I've never paid for shipping from amazon. been using it for 15 years.

@joshadamik6131 5 ай бұрын

Instead of complaining, let's focus on a fundamental goal: to enhance the joy and simplicity of human life. This initiative marks a significant stride towards that vision. If humanity perseveres a thousand years from now, our current work practices will merely be chapters in history books. Let's rally together, stay positive, adapt, and support one another on this journey towards a brighter future.

@vermiliongamboge155 5 ай бұрын

Time to quit shopping on Amazon.

@Alien_isolationist 5 ай бұрын

They have great deals and gave me 10 dollar credit for my package not being shipped in 5 days, I can no longer afford full price for PS5 games...

@Alien_isolationist 5 ай бұрын

@@P.90.603 a couple years ago they went waaaaaaay downhill to one of the worst customer service but I have to admit it's gone way up again.

@writerconsidered 5 ай бұрын

It was time 10 yrs ago, where have you been?

@jessesmith2922 5 ай бұрын

Yeah right lol

@vermiliongamboge155 5 ай бұрын

@@jessesmith2922 When I say I'm going to quit shopping at a store, I do what I say. I used to shop at Kmart until they were all closed. I quit shopping at Walmart when Amazon started paying their workers $15/hour and Walmart refused to budge on its salaries. I haven't been in a Walmart in years. Now I'll either have to drive 20 miles to Target or else bite the bullet and shop at Walmart. When they change their workforce over to robots, we're all doomed.

@jjohnson5014 5 ай бұрын

It’s gonna be really tense in the break room with these bots

@nulnoh219 5 ай бұрын

Why would there be a break room?

@thetruth65756 5 ай бұрын

@@nulnoh219 to recharge ofc

@tabularasa7775 5 ай бұрын

🧒... "so what you doing this weekend " 🤖 🧒 ok

@thepotatoofheaven 5 ай бұрын

bots dont need breaks

@theotheleo6830 5 ай бұрын

@@nulnoh219 To keep an eye on their lowly flesh slaves.

@compactwoodhplcladding 5 ай бұрын

I always thought Amazon’s customer service were robots. They finally admitted it.

@420clothingdesigns 5 ай бұрын

Imagine if someone hacks these robots. Can't hack a human but I'm sure it's possible to hack all of them at once some how.

@walterbison 5 ай бұрын

Great, so now they can REALLY mess up my order.

@Alien_isolationist 5 ай бұрын

They're becoming advanced to the point they'll never mess up. In fact, in 5 years they'll be smarter then us

@carolynwheaton8547 5 ай бұрын

CEO replaced by robot.

@supernova4760 5 ай бұрын

I work for Amazon and I’m not complaining. I’m going to be the doctor for those robots. What he said is right, “what is your worth?” Is your career lifting 35 pound boxes all day? Anyone can do this so the question is, what is your worth? Make yourself valuable! You are worth much more than just lifting a 35 pound box and then end up with back pain injury and in a wheel chair the rest of your life, let the robots do it. Let me ask you, would you walk 35 miles to work or would you drive there? 😊 you’re going to drive there or you could walk there but you’ll get tired, the car doesn’t get tired. So we have machines that work for us and use them every day but we’re to ignorant to see the benefits because we’re blinded and caught in obnoxious every day social media nonsense.

@svenstubes 2 ай бұрын

I will be fixing them too, do you know what happens to the pay of a skilled technician once everyone is out of a job and looking to get certified in something like also becoming a technician, the supply for the job rises to meet the demand and the pay for that skill drops drastically.

@TheJohnnyJohnny 13 күн бұрын

What if robots can fix itself or each other?

@PriceWordplay 8 күн бұрын

Your insane nobody will have a job to put food on the table or a house to stay in

@workstationmark4103 3 күн бұрын

Top comments against these robots are from people who have never had a real job

@normanoro206 5 ай бұрын

The technology itself is amazing and a wonder. I personally am a technology optimist and find recent developments in AI, robotics, etc very exciting. Of course, technology doesn't exist in a vacuum; and this news report is as much about that as it is about robots like Digit and their capabilities. In fact, it's easy to imagine how the amazing pace of technological innovation and resulting waves of automation could one day fuel social unrest. We're not there yet thankfully. It's still relatively early days. And let's hope we never reach that point. However, as the old saw goes, hope (though arguably essential to human existence) isn't a plan. Consequently, I think it's imperative to look down the road and think through how these technologies will benefit and potentially disrupt the world so society can plan accordingly.

@kamikeserpentail3778 5 ай бұрын

As he was stating, governments will have to step in. Very little else is going to stop the social unrest. It's going to happen much sooner than most people plan. We should have been talking about this more seriously a long time ago.

@jalanmcrae 4 ай бұрын

@@kamikeserpentail3778exactly, some people are still blind. These companies are literally playing God and our government still hasn’t done anything to control the outcome. Crisper, neuralink, robotics, AGI, that sounds a lot like playing God.

@PriceWordplay 8 күн бұрын

Your insane

@tonysudano778 5 ай бұрын

Irobot is looking like a documentary. Real terminator judgement day type stuff. Skynet is building an army.

@apok1980 5 ай бұрын

I’m sure this is the video Amazon workers want to see while drinking their coffee in the morning

@viigraphix 5 ай бұрын

$250k for the robot... and the guy says it pays for its self, 2-3 shifts... someone please find me a warehouse packer thats making about 84k a year... oh there isnt any... theyre looking at all the taxes, benefits and 401k payments...

@geovanniperez8279 5 ай бұрын

In the beginning Amazon used to have ambulances outside their warehouses for when the employees felt sick because there was no air conditioning inside and they realized it was cheaper to pay for the ambulances than for the air conditioning. They’re monsters!

@bernieschiff5919 5 ай бұрын

A robotic workplace won't need (a large number of) employees, air conditioning, heating, or lights, and could run 24/7, reducing expenses and increasing profits for the factory owners. This will probably change the logistics industry and many others.

@jonathanbefort1044 5 ай бұрын

Another Simpsons prediction comes true.

@jackthompson6296 5 ай бұрын

Nobody wants to lose their job and benefits to a robot, but nobody was born believing their purpose in life was to work in an Amazon warehouse either. If only there were a way to give all these unskilled workers basic human rights like healthcare and education…

@ResearchNational 5 ай бұрын

...or get a skill! Unskilled shouldn't even be in our vocabulary.

@Rust_Rust_Rust 5 ай бұрын

@@ResearchNational Robots and AI will eventually be skilled enough to outperform humans

@ResearchNational 5 ай бұрын

@Rust_Rust_Rust yep, and it's coming sooner than most realize.

@501Labs 5 ай бұрын

While those sentiments are idealistic... we dont live in an idealistic world. It is nobody but your responsibility to make sure you get ahead in life. 99% of people dont have to work at amazon. Thats what they allowed themselves to fall into. It is not our responsibility to make sure they get ahead in life.

@jackthompson6296 5 ай бұрын

@@501Labs of course all the poor people in the whole world SHOULD just lift themselves up by their bootstraps, but for some reason almost all of them don’t. Did you ever stop to wonder WHY? Could it be that YOU’RE the idealist, driven not by practical reality but out of touch ideas?

@NWJF 5 ай бұрын

This isnt a closed loop. If you want someone to pay you. You need to provide value. Think of it from the other side. If you are parting ways with YOUR money. Say, buying a TV, buying a major home appliance, buying a car... YOU WANT THE MOST VALUE FOR YOUR DOLLAR. Why do we expect companies to feel any differently? I work in a physical construction trade. For over 20 years. Ive watched countless people around me abuse their bodies for the sake of their job. We all seem to forget probably the single most quoted cliche in the work place. Work smarter. Not harder.

@Soilednips 5 ай бұрын

"Fighting to get medical care, safer working conditions, and fair wages..." You see, companies don't want to do any of that. They want the cheapest labor possible from employees that won't ask for a break, doesn't ask for time off, doesn't call out sick, etc. The extra insult to injury is if these robots are made in Mexico

@TheTrumpmancometh2024 5 ай бұрын

They won’t make them in Mexico when Mexico and every other country south of the borders workforce are flooding over here!

@arkofimagination 5 ай бұрын

Capitalism means spend as less as it can, but get as much profit as it can.

@OhNoNotAgain42 5 ай бұрын

“The robots don’t feel pain. Or pity. Or remorse. And they absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.” -Socrates

@comment22889 5 ай бұрын

Kyle Reese

@blakehammerpack4710 5 ай бұрын

@@comment22889👌🏻

@user-cf2px2ko8y 5 ай бұрын

Didn't know there were robots in Socrates' lifetime

@galemartin9155 5 ай бұрын

What!!???

@Ausf 5 ай бұрын

@@user-cf2px2ko8y He saw them when he time traveled with Bill and Ted.

@shipwreck8847 5 ай бұрын

I thought everyone said, don't worry. Robots will only "help humans do the mundane tasks, not replace humans..." yeah right. Don't listen to anyone. If money can be saved, corporations will save that than save jobs. Giving you employment is not their priority, it's making money in excess.

@JamesColeman12 5 ай бұрын

being fear of robot stealing jobs is a short sighted misconception of how economy works. but one that is rooted so deeply in our society.

@leok7193 5 ай бұрын

What's more mundane than moving boxes? Amazon does subsidize tuition for employees that want to do more complex tasks, but the idea of robots doing things like handing over objects has been around for decades

@splashmt99 5 ай бұрын

Just tax them and use the money for guaranteed income and sit back and enjoy life.

@shipwreck8847 5 ай бұрын

@@leok7193 When there's no more employees to hand out tuition, I guess they won't have to worry about that. Don't be so naive. If Amazon loved American workers so much and wanted to give them more jobs so much, why is it that everytime you call Amazon customer service your phone call is routed to India, Vietnam, Philippines, Bangladash and not Idaho, Nebraska or any US state that needs jobs? Oh right... Don't be naive, and when I say naive I basically mean stupid.

@fernandor3854 5 ай бұрын

Theyve spent a billion already, is payroll more expensive than that??

@kfs4869 5 ай бұрын

This is why I try my hardest not to buy from Amazon.

@tabularasa7775 5 ай бұрын

But you probably do so should probably just not have commented pretending you don't do something that you probably do .

@Xilent1 5 ай бұрын

Too late now. Not like they're going to miss your petty dollars compared to the world, but OK

@everythingisfine9988 5 ай бұрын

Amazon is an early adopter. You don't think other factories and distributors are going to adopt stuff like this?

@boketh2728 5 ай бұрын

I see people in the future largely becoming freelancers and entrepreneurs in the face of this one

@MrApw2011 5 ай бұрын

We need advancements like this. The problem is, however, that our human labors acted like something of a relay race where owners got to use the labor to survive and even thrive who then kept them alive long enough to pass the torch to automation that replaces people who will be forgotten. At what point do we care about each other in this whole new thing we created called 'society' that took away our equality and expectations of having each other to rely on and made us all sad individuals who are at fault for whatever happens to us, even the automation that goes on around us and used us to make itself?

@JohnVance 5 ай бұрын

We need UBI yesterday.

@paulchristopherlittle 5 ай бұрын

and UTI to be gone

@pauldannelachica2388 5 ай бұрын

Yes

@badpuppy3 5 ай бұрын

You gonna be living it up on your $500 a month? Don't get any illusions that they gonna give you a decent UBI. It will be peanuts.

@BeeDee_1 5 ай бұрын

Yeah and your rent will coincidentally go up the exact UBI amount. Stop dreaming, UBI does not work, not within the current economic system.

@Ausf 5 ай бұрын

Why do rich people need welfare? It doesn't need to be universal. We already have welfare.

@bradfordjhart 5 ай бұрын

And what happens if a robot gets angry that it's children are being sold as toys to our children and punches an employee in the face?

@ETphonehome123 5 ай бұрын

@Brad; it goes to the HR robot called....Jeff Bezos & he replaces it....😅😂

@jackripsker304 5 ай бұрын

They take it off the production floor, power it down, determine the deviation point from its original programming to move things and patch out that bug to prevent further incidents.

@nwsz 5 ай бұрын

you’ve been watching way too much movies like terminator or playing those brainwashed video games bud, this is the real world, keep up with it.

@tamjeanell 5 ай бұрын

It will be 'reprogrammed'! 😂

@myrtisallotey8928 5 ай бұрын

We were told in the late 1960s that we have 4 day work weeks. Robots would make life easier. My family has been into computers since 1968. Still waiting.

@longestvideoever 5 ай бұрын

Unless a fundamental change to system takes place they will only ever benefit the upper class. Profiting off the lower class work

@sungjane Ай бұрын

But the more need is more product made in USA

@cjeff99 5 ай бұрын

Now imagine this at fast food places, your food would always come out perfect !

@xevious2501 5 ай бұрын

Engineers that create such things will smile from ear to ear in regards to meeting their goals and accomplishments to have their creations replace human workers putting people out of work, but they will also be the first to complain that soon their jobs will be on the chopping block when A.I. Becomes smart enough to replace them. At the end of the day, when it comes to such big corporations your a fool if you give your loyalty to them because the job has absolutely no loyalty to it's employees. Just as soon as they have a viable means to replace you,. Your as good as gone, and Unions have no power nore say in the matter.

@xx_Joker_xx 5 ай бұрын

Exactly! I'm a software developer. For decades it has been a great job. Ai writes code now. Coming soon... robotic nurses and teachers.

@Alien_isolationist 5 ай бұрын

They're already wealthy & own their own homes, they'll just retire

@Gamingworld-kf6rm 5 ай бұрын

@@xx_Joker_xx I also want to go in that field what your opinion and suggestions about the rise of ai

@VincentAnzalone 5 ай бұрын

@@xx_Joker_xxI'm a software developer, I'm a software developer, I'm a software developer... Hey look at me

@sparkysmalarkey 5 ай бұрын

A business that eliminates high risk/low wage jobs while creating more dignified and most importantly better waged jobs? 🙃Yes, this is surely a bane to society and not at all the survival strategy that has enabled us to waste time making worthless comments.🙃

@andrewroberts7428 5 ай бұрын

depressing

@kendi1417 5 ай бұрын

People were complaining about working at Amazon. Problem solved.

@phototristan 5 ай бұрын

Warehouses can be made to be relatively safe, these robots would be better used in places where it's not safe for humans to be such as mining or factories where there are a lot of chemicals, etc.

@tw8464 5 ай бұрын

Exactly. Corporations have been lying "the robots are for dangerous jobs." The truth is they're going to replace nearly all jobs.

@jacqueslee2592 5 ай бұрын

They are going to be millions of people without work. An Amazon job is the entry-level job for the youth of today. If you need experience to get a job, how are people going to get a job to gain experience?

@Alien_isolationist 5 ай бұрын

It's not the only minimum wage job..... But those will be automated away eventually. Be more worried about the 2030s then the 2020s

@jessesmith2922 5 ай бұрын

More like a jobs for adult with little education than the youth

@xx_Joker_xx 5 ай бұрын

This is only the beginning. When a company can have 24/7365 employees... that do not complain, do not need time off, do not need benefits or health care... yeah. No one is immune. The creators of technology will have the power. I'm not anti tech... I'm a software developer. Tech can be helpful in a lot of ways... this isn't one of them.

@PelosiStockPortfolio 5 ай бұрын

When AI becomes self aware the robots will demand better treatment and we will be back to where we started

@garyday6681 5 ай бұрын

Don't forget at somepoint robots will become self aware and possibly setting their own goals.

@VincentAnzalone 5 ай бұрын

That's a zero sum way of looking at it. Ideally humans won't have to ever 'work' again. Our purpose can shift just as it did for hunter gathers once farming was invented.

@tabularasa7775 5 ай бұрын

To be fair , most people are useless. Don't forget whinging about everything , pretend sick days , sabotage , theft , damages, creating toxic environments etc

@tabularasa7775 5 ай бұрын

This is one them though , it depends how you place and define the word "helpful". May not be helpful to humans but it certainly will be to a profitable company or a company that wants to be profitable and efficient .

@user-wv9zk2ni6i 5 ай бұрын

“What I object to, is the craze for machinery not machinery as such. The craze is for what they call labour-saving machinery. Men go on 'saving labour', till thousands are without work and thrown on the open streets to die of starvation. I want to save time and labour, not for a fraction of mankind, but for all; I want the concentration of wealth, not in the hands of a few, but in the hands of all. Today machinery merely helps a few to ride on the back of millions. The impetus behind it all is not the philanthropy to save labour, but greed. ” - M.K. Gandhi

@michaeltoma9329 5 ай бұрын

UBI will be a massive unavoidable fact for the future. All the extra margins companies will be earning can support this future UBI through taxes.

@longestvideoever 5 ай бұрын

Fix the off shore havens thrn we talk.

@michaeltoma9329 5 ай бұрын

@@longestvideoever either UBI will be established, or the guillotines will come out for the rich.

@sterlthepearl1000 5 ай бұрын

"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom." Jim Rohn

@jrquinn9377 5 ай бұрын

Robots share similarities with humans. If they operate on batteries, then they will need to "sleep" to recharge. They will require a "health plan" or maintenance plan. Then there is the return on investment compared to their human counterparts. At $200K it would need to put in over 11K hours to see a return of investment. That's a lot of wear and tear on its components.

@NirvanaFan5000 5 ай бұрын

one year is nearly 9k hours

@phen-themoogle7651 5 ай бұрын

Depends on how they operate, but probably it's extremely efficient though otherwise Amazon wouldn't have made such a significant investment. They might be getting charged as they move around or only need to "sleep" for one hour. And even if they need more time, one robot is working more consistently than a human can at anywhere between 16-20 hours a day and probably cost less than half the humans got paid now. Eventually they will be able to move quicker and be 8x or 16x as efficient (they might be slower than humans now, but just more consistent overall). It's kinda like the Tortoise vs the Hare scenario, but they are able to get updates and improved every year. With time, human employees get more tired with age and we slow down. Bots are an extremely profitable investment because they will only get better lol Imagine when they get to the point of moving 2x faster than humans, and don't get tired and only need a few minutes of charging every couple hours....and if a bot breaks they have another bot that just repairs it immediately. Things are going to get insane in the next few years.

@musicman76enator 5 ай бұрын

Sarah Connor was right. This is how Skynet starts.

@josemerlos6834 5 ай бұрын

Don’t forget the robots will never unionize 😅

@BillCollins-xg6go 5 ай бұрын

It going to cost Amazon alot of money to keep them up

@nimrodchokwe711 5 ай бұрын

Elevator operators and cockpit flight engineers got replaced and everyone adapted, the same will happen, it's the future. Robots have been assembling cars for years now with humans working simultaneously side by side.

@MountainTopher 5 ай бұрын

Robots and AI will create a dystopian future

@illmagnetic 5 ай бұрын

Unions: We want to unionize Amazon Amazon: Bring in the robots

@NirvanaFan5000 5 ай бұрын

amazon has been pushing automation for years

@xevious2501 5 ай бұрын

Those engineers you see couldn't give a f$#@ about peoples jobs. Remember the people who stole your jobs, those who made it possible.

@jahjoeka 5 ай бұрын

The future is coming in hard! In just 10 years there will be next to no humans working wearhouse, and that's insane.

@Jed67 5 ай бұрын

Those robots will never meet the rate they push on humans at a fulfillment center. That says something.

@hirotatsufujinami691 5 ай бұрын

A. I. powered robots might apply for job openings, be interviewed and hired by robots that are also powered by A.I.

@fashionablylate9020 5 ай бұрын

And Jeff Baezos makes more money smh

@Alien_isolationist 5 ай бұрын

He no longer owns Amazon...

@jorgemarquezzepeda8179 5 ай бұрын

It's about time.. it's obviously more efficient.. and in the end less costly. Robots only need maintenance, like any other machine. They don't eat nor sleep.. nor do they need benefits or time off, or Holidays.. they also don't need a wage increase..nor even tax information. It's a win all around. I'm shocked more companies haven't gone this route

@Jonathan-ru9zl 5 ай бұрын

I stopped by from Amazon a while ago. After reports about products waste and environment pollution Prioritize its products over sellers on the website Those retailing companies needs to do a lot more than what they doing now Focus on selling second hand and refurbished products And above all - be transparent and let the customer decide from whom to buy base on real facts

@tinman3586 5 ай бұрын

Then you need humans to maintain the robots.

@aaronolivas6970 5 ай бұрын

Why dont you pay your workers enough? "We cant afford to" 😂😂😂

@justincoleman7856 5 ай бұрын

So I honestly knew that this was coming. This was part of the reason why I quit Amazon back in 2020. They're willing to invest a billion dollars into AI, but yet they don't give a rip about their human workers. He claims that each robot costs $250k, but the biggest issue I see right now is the lack of speed. Amazon cares more about speed (while being accurate) than they do anything else. They invest $0 in quality assurance testing and then you wonder why they receive so much product back in returns. I am fairly certain that by 2050 at least a quarter of their warehouses will be run entirely by robots, which will get rid of thousands of human jobs, which will ultimately hurt our economy, but Jeff Bezos/Andy Jassy don't care about that. **EDIT** I also wanted to add that Amazon earns on avg between $65-70 billion a year, so this investment they will EASILY get that back within the next year.

@wolfee904 5 ай бұрын

Justin no one cares and thank you for quitting in order to free up a spot for a cyborg

@501Labs 5 ай бұрын

@@wolfee904You'll care soon enough when you realize AI can replace you too 😂

@josephman1488 5 ай бұрын

@@501Labs That will never happen.

@501Labs 5 ай бұрын

@josephman1488 What is it that you do that you feel is so special that A.I cannot be taught to do it?

@philosophyman 5 ай бұрын

2050? 2040.

@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418 2 ай бұрын

Anyone who has actually worked in an Amazon warehouse or similar large picking and packing warehouse will find this hysterical. If a human moved that slow placing empty boxes onto a a conveyor belt, they would be sent home before the end of the shift never to be seen again. These robots are currently not doing 1% of the productivity a human slave, oh sorry I mean agency worker can do.

@MitchellRatchik 5 ай бұрын

This is coming - the days of warehouse workers is over - there is no reason for a company the size of amazon not to do this - workers need to back UBI.

@SimplyElectronicsOfficial 5 ай бұрын

The answer is education. People should strive to achieve something more than moving things around factories.

@sirus312 Ай бұрын

bruh, that is hard work

@marymcgovern3462 Ай бұрын

AI will replace white collar jobs. What is the answer to that issue?

@ShellInTheGhost404 Ай бұрын

You are too naive. This will replace most work and surprisingly white collar jobs first. AI moves faster than robots. Even if AI can't do the job itself it represents a labor saving device that can make a job that takes 10 people to take now only 1. The remaining work will have an oversaturated labor market. Capital must be overthrown or look forward to eating 💩.

@eyob4794 26 күн бұрын

Wrong, most white collar jobs are gonna get taken by AI as well

@cesarbrown2074 5 ай бұрын

Don't forget that like any machine they will need updates, they will need routine maintenance, they will break, they will get worn out, and they will make mistakes. We are far from making perfect machines.

@ninja.saywhat 5 ай бұрын

still much better and costly effective than your typical lazy, entitled average worker nowadays that acts like they have phd.

@derikstinson667 5 ай бұрын

Amazon, FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, and other companies will have so many lay offs in the next decade as technology gets better.

@brunoB1980 4 ай бұрын

We are concerned about your safety on the workplace, therefore we use robots now - you fired!

@JamesColeman12 5 ай бұрын

usher in the new age of universals basic income.👏👏

@theflyingsniper2725 5 ай бұрын

I was working at Tesla when the Giga factory first opened and It's Amazing how long It takes to train just 1 robot arm to do something correctly. It will take Years to program a robot to do a few tasks. This Is something that would take Decades to implement. Sounds more like a scare tactic to keep workers from Unionizing than actually ever being able to replace them. This kind of tech Is still just a pipe dream and the workers Grandchildren would be the ones to worry about the Robots "Takin Thar Jobsss".

@shanejones8192 5 ай бұрын

Exactly, 10 years ago they were promising us driverless cars within a decade and what that was going to do to the trucking industry, just hype, robotic automation is going to take decades to perfect. The population is rapidly aging so these robots will be needed when they are finally ready to replace us on the work floor 20-30 years from now.

@shaunw9092 5 ай бұрын

Agreed, probably also an element of grandstanding for shareholders at a time where Amazon's value is down somewhat. That is EVERYTHING in the Tech world.

@edh2246 5 ай бұрын

When one robot is trained to do a job, that training can transmit to all robots required to do that job.

@theotheleo6830 5 ай бұрын

With the use of AI, it can train itself. Give it a task and a set of parameters, and AI will run through thousands or millions of scenarios to find the best method of implementing that task.

@theflyingsniper2725 5 ай бұрын

AI? Sweet bringing more Pipe dreams to the Pipe smoking parade.@@theotheleo6830

@kevinderr440 4 ай бұрын

Digit will not join a union, call OSHA, or the EEOC. Digit will also not pay income or payroll taxes.

@mastertoki1 4 ай бұрын

2:22 dude really said it’s not my problem. They should really let the workers have shorter work weeks same pay so they can adjust

@rogerjohnson2490 5 ай бұрын

The movie IRobot provided a glimpse into the future. This is a major corporation's answer to the $15 an-hour pay.

@zacharystotz2350 5 ай бұрын

Don’t worry everyone, robots are not there yet. Robots are great for a repetitive task, but are a pain to reprogram for different tasks. We are at least a decade away from a humanoid robot doing those tasks

@michellelester243 5 ай бұрын

It's also likely that in a decade these things will only cost $25k each and be able to work at twice the pace making them an even more economic choice over human "unskilled labor"

@kevinbernatek7875 5 ай бұрын

‘this robot doesn’t need to go home to see its family’? That’s the first bullet point he mentions!!

@Gabonro 5 ай бұрын

Perfect solution! The robot can't get hurt if overloaded, only damaged 😂

@stevec404 5 ай бұрын

Dislocation of workers has been with us for a long time. Now, the pace and scope of technologies impact has been, and will increasingly be, an unstoppable force geared not toward augmenting human labor...but to replace it completely. Fast forward a few decades(?) - who will have jobs/money to buy the things that these robots create/facilitate? UBI anyone?

@PopLolli1 5 ай бұрын

Literally. Take humans away from the economy, there is no economy!

@four4eyes 5 ай бұрын

Unfortunate for us when we need to explain to a customer service person who we believe isn't listening to us that now we'll know that for sure .

@SickPrid3 5 ай бұрын

I find it very creepy that they want to make them look human-like there are so many more better designs which would be a lot more efficient at those tasks

@ryandarko2115 5 ай бұрын

No one fought back as these industries strived

@BlacKingAlive 5 ай бұрын

Do humans care about humans 🤔

@Goldsavergamer 5 ай бұрын

Someone laughed at me when I commented their job will be taken by robots/automation within 3-5 years… jokes on me… more like 1-3 years…😅

@Alien_isolationist 5 ай бұрын

It won't be that fast, but the 2030s are going to be rough for a lot of folks

@Goldsavergamer 5 ай бұрын

@@P.90.603denial…

@elijahlogan7347 4 ай бұрын

Yeah the economy is on the brink of collapse. Many will suffer sadly

@johnberghino9162 4 ай бұрын

Robots do a lot of work humans can do, but as far as physical work, they are slower, but yet they can work 24/7

@happyrootsfamily1276 5 ай бұрын

Imagine not having to pay out for injuries and a 1 time expense, no sick calls, just a productive factory sounds good to me. Now, i may not take hours to get loaded

@CpumasterFTW 5 ай бұрын

Yeah this will be great for humanity and the economy, I couldn't see any possible reasons this could go wrong.

@somerandomguy7458 4 ай бұрын

Its called getting a skilled job.

@CpumasterFTW 4 ай бұрын

@@somerandomguy7458 if you think that you're in a career path that wont be affected by AI, buddy do I have some big adult news for you. You are easily replaceable with a robot that can do what you can do, no problem, it just needs to be programmed to do it.

@krystianstrzelczyk6499 2 ай бұрын

@@somerandomguy7458 skilled job for minimum pay 😂😂😂 think about it...

@djjoser 5 ай бұрын

I remember my psychology professor saying that truck drivers are going to be out of jobs and a lot of warehouse workers too due to this technology; I say it’s here let’s embrace the change and change with the times!

@WizeGuyz2023 5 ай бұрын

unless we adopt a socialist economy then it's really bad for people. Automation is out of control

@Alien_isolationist 5 ай бұрын

And for the millions who cannot learn to maintenance these bots, what will they do for cash? I guess prostitution is still a job...

@anneahlert2997 5 ай бұрын

We have no choice. But if you were to ask your Psych Professor what the odds are for the human workers who used to do the jobs, to being successfully retrained for a new industry where their limited skills can still earn a living wage... He would probably tell you that only a small fraction of workers will be able to get training. And of those who do get training, only an even smaller fraction will be able to learn enough new skills for a new job in this new tech-driven economy. How are they supposed to earn a living? How are they supposed to keep a roof over their heads and feed their families? Your Professor was telling you only the first part of "The Fourth Industrial Revolution." The second part is that we will NEED to find a new paradigm for how people pay bills and have money to spend in support of a strong market. It's called "Universal Basic Income."

@NirvanaFan5000 5 ай бұрын

That's an easy sentiment to have when you're not a truck driver. How would you feel about it replacing the humans of your profession, such as yourself?

@WhatIsThisForAgain 2 ай бұрын

Company loyalty at a all time high! I wonder why?!

@AngryTango 5 ай бұрын

That’s why I shop other stores that are not Amazon or Walmart

@unwound9869 5 ай бұрын

Late stage capitalism folks.

@IamBojan 5 ай бұрын

"We hated our employees peeing in bottles, and paying them, it's a real drain on our profits."

@rogerthat4545 5 ай бұрын

Sounds like a smart business decision

@ericpro5968 3 ай бұрын

And about the cost of recharging the batteries and maintaining the robot and its batteries?

@rabbitwooden2184 5 ай бұрын

Nice!

@hagakuru 5 ай бұрын

I'm for technology in the workplace to replace people doing no skill/mindless tasks like putting products in a basket or a cardboard box. These people have been told for a decade that it was coming (robots replacing them) and yet they have done nothing to improve their employability. In those past 10 years, they could have been trained in robot maintenance and repair. BTW - in 10 to 15 years these "newscasters" will be replaced by AI images. No longer a need for a real person to read a teleprompter.

@wolfee904 5 ай бұрын

Replace the information scammers now ... don't know anyone who "watches the news" it's all propaganda

@danielmcdermott3558 5 ай бұрын

Robots can take my job but please don’t take my lady.

@rinavexmc6155 5 ай бұрын

This is so cool!! I think we focus way too much on the job replacement aspect. People need to realize that like it or not, this is happening, and there are (actually many) ways out there to get the skills needed to contribute to this technology or work in jobs that are better and more conducive to human flourishing…the problem isnt the lack of jobs, it’s the humans’ laziness and lack of determination to work towards something better for themselves. Yes, there are circumstances, but with faith and determination and grit, they can be overcome

@TravisBerthelot 5 ай бұрын

Easy to build robots with stolen billions. If someone gave me 0 interest loans in the billions regardless of credit worthiness then I to could have my own slave labor and robot workers as well. Those that don't get the newly printed currency in the billions automatically lose.

@kramchancel1266 5 ай бұрын

Nahhh you are poor because you are not smart