It\u2019s the stuff of nightmares for your average warehouse worker to think that robots might eventually replace them. <\/p>\n
After all, robots don\u2019t get ill, they don\u2019t need to be trained in health and safety and they can just keep on working around the clock when us humans are spending 8 hours recharging our batteries every 24 hours. <\/p>\n
Amazon which is one of the world\u2019s biggest employers of warehouse staff held a competition recently to find out if robots really could do the work of its 50,000 US warehouse staff. Robots were put to the test packing anything from toasters to thin paperbacks. <\/p>\n
Unfortunately while robots hold advantages over human workers, the competition proved that robots are still no match for humans when it comes to using a bit of initiative. Warehouse picking and packing is a much more intellectually demanding job than most people think and the robots involved soon showed that they were nowhere near up to the task. <\/p>\n
The robots were not only slow and cumbersome compared to human workers, they also failed to identify objects as well as humans. Ironically for a company that began life distributing books, the robots had more trouble with paperback books than anything else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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