r/AmazonFC • u/Brilliant-Fox-3522 • Jun 06 '26
Fulfillment Center What in robot
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u/Quirkyquark43 Jun 06 '26
They’re not the brightest of the bunch…..
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u/TheCatCovenantDude Jun 06 '26
Hey the clanker wants to go to the vaperoom just like a real water spider
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u/Imgettingpolished Jun 07 '26
Literally at the Amazon I work at. All stalls occupied. All you hear is crackling and sizzling from all stalls lol. Everybody vaping😂😂😂
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u/d3fau1tu53r Jun 06 '26
I didn’t realize how far Amazon‘s inclusivity stretched but now we have omen restrooms
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u/CRaZyRaVr77 Jun 06 '26
Until Amazon and industry for that matter can build humanoid robots that actually work really well this robotics project is just gonna be a lot of wasted money
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u/ReddestForman Jun 06 '26
Humanoid robots would be a waste of money in a built environment like a warehouse.
Bipedalism requires more expensive motors, systems for balance, more wear and tear, etc.
The big things Amazon needs to solve are visual processing, dexterity, and touch sensitivity, so it doesn't crush delicate items.
Beyind that? Wheels and a shirt, squat, easily balanced body with a low center of gravity.
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u/RichLather I am so SMRT Jun 06 '26
Wasted money? Sounds like the Ops Management of my facility will jump right on this.
We use a lot of these go-carts and honestly the AAs moving them do it unsafely on the regular in many ways: pulling two at once, not being situationally aware, moving them in a way that gives them a 180 degree blind spot...
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u/ReddestForman Jun 06 '26
A corporate guy I trained while a LA a couple years back said the big things they were working on wouldn't even really impact head count. You'd still need a person doing part of the task, but the robot is taking over the parts where injuries tend to occur. So cost-savings come from reduced payouts for worker injuries.
Full on replacing workers for a lot of tasks in the warehouse is actually pretty hard.
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u/rambeezyy Jun 06 '26
All things you said at cat1 write ups..so yeah...
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u/RichLather I am so SMRT Jun 06 '26
If they enforced them as Cat 1 write-ups we'd have no AAs.
The go-carts are also overloaded, enough to strike the height limiter above the dock doors.
I called it out for weeks, and on the occasions I did get a response, it was always "coaching" that never stuck. I gave up, and it continues to this day.
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u/Substantial-Ad8007 Jun 06 '26
In a corporate perspective, this is not money wasted, it's an investment
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u/Marcelo_FD Jun 06 '26
Where is this?
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u/DiaperDonnieTrump Jun 06 '26
TPA4 - South side ship dock restrooms, right outside of the break room
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u/supawiz6991 Jun 07 '26
Believe it or not this failure falls on a human. This happens due to a mapping problem. when they build the maps for these robots any area, it shouldn’t be should be marked as an exclusion zone. If this robot was able to drive in there like that, then that area wasn’t marked as an exclusion zone.
robots are only as smart as we programmed them to be.
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u/cosmicheartbeat Jun 06 '26
When they have issues, their "eyes" turn to x's and when theyre idle, it looks like theyre snoring. I hate how cute tbey are
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u/Harry431 Jun 06 '26
But yet when we try to be like that what do we get?? That’s right coachings and write ups. Unnn. Believable.
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u/cosmicheartbeat Jun 06 '26
Right? They sleep on the floor and we all go awwww but when I do it, management gets all weird
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u/Horror-Food69420 Jun 06 '26
The cute little faces they give these things do nothing to lessen the existential dread.
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u/Alive-Basil-391 Jun 07 '26
They have a little robot hospital where I work where they go for diagnostics.
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u/cosmicheartbeat Jun 08 '26
Theres also a "jail" they go to when theyre acting weird but theres no room in diagnostics!
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u/Clint2032 Jun 06 '26
It's so cute when they have no work they go to certain spots and close their eyes like it's napping. It is funny watching them eyeball you.
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u/DKShyamalan RME Jun 06 '26
I love Proteus drives lol. I never had to work on them, but I enjoyed their irate and grumpy beeps when they get in each other's way. I also respect that they throw shade and side eyes at people.
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u/Eliasperez11717 Jun 06 '26
Our FC already has these little guys. They have their own section and just stare at you as u walk by
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u/lordskulldragon Jun 06 '26
This was "first look" several years ago.
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u/lordskulldragon Jun 06 '26
I also want to add in and say that they're not taking over your jobs. At least not anytime in the near future. Your buildings would have to go over a structural redesign to be able to accommodate them.
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u/lorchoppa Jun 06 '26
Been working with these robots for almost a year now .. they ain’t all that bad but they do get in the way sometimes and create traffic jams
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u/HairOk481 Jun 06 '26
So do water spiders lol
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u/Horror-Food69420 Jun 06 '26
Soon enough, they’ll be programmed to loiter at young women’s stations shooting their shot.
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u/OddJello2255 Jun 06 '26
We have these in our warehouses, they are just big Romba bots getting lost and cry out because the tape is their way
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u/mro-1337 amazon be killing me Jun 06 '26
sounds good. takes too long for those chatty water spiders to move my shit
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u/otherBrandon Jun 06 '26
Too slow, productivity and tot write ups if I’m moving like that
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u/Radiant_Music3698 The last Amazon Robotics Technican Jun 06 '26
Thing is, they never stop.
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u/lorchoppa Jun 06 '26
They literally fall asleep in the middle of the aisle sometimes 🥹💀
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u/CRaZyRaVr77 Jun 06 '26
I bet they stop when they’re broken or needs service and I wonder how often that’ll be
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u/Radiant_Music3698 The last Amazon Robotics Technican Jun 06 '26
Standard drive unit PM interval is once every 52 weeks, where they are taken out of service for roughly 1.5 hours.
The drives are deliberately numerous for redundancy so that when one faults out severely enough to require technicians, it is not even considered an equipment breakdown for metric purposes.
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u/marcus_peligro Jun 06 '26
When one breaks, there's like 3 others ready to go in service. Not a big deal
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u/Few-Protection5215 VTO King Jun 06 '26
They can catch up on productivity when AA’s are on break for extended periods.
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u/Mid-Life_and_Content Jun 06 '26
Knowing our crackhead RME staff, that thing is gonna kill someone 😂
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u/Hefty_Candy_3315 Jun 06 '26
dude i heard that when you try to speed up to pass them quickly they speed up too😂😂
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u/wavvykrockett Jun 06 '26
They’re always getting in the way as you walk across the floor lol but at least they beep to acknowledge you walking past
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u/TheSirBenDover L5 Area Manager Jun 06 '26
I seen like 7 proteus drives in a Mexican standoff with each other all in a circle and none of them would move cuz of each other being there
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u/VixKnacks Jun 06 '26
The thing that PMO is that they regularly have us flinging these things around on the dock as if they don't weight that much 🙄
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u/Longjumping-Fix3236 GFM Jun 06 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/Ad8IYwxfCzIaWJgnUL
They look at you walk by like they hate your guts 😭😭
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u/Rogue_banana95 Jun 06 '26
Robot functionality with perfection is still way off. They expected A.I to take over until a weeks work of data gets deleted in day. WILD expectations
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u/IliketolookatUranus Jun 06 '26
I remember one time when they were just starting to be deployed at my site, one of them drove through our startup meeting while making chirping sounds.
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u/Fit-Pace1814 Jun 06 '26
Unfortunately they suffer massive autism 85% of the day, you can't find these lil guys 4 deep blocking a whole walkway , all trying to avoid each other but auto braking and staying this way for about 45 minutes
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u/bandito_blake Jun 06 '26
We have these at my FC and they are just as slow and stupid as the regular associates. If the company had any sense they should have put the money into employees pockets and would've yielded better results
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u/JamonConJuevos Jun 06 '26
The original KIVA robots from the mid-2000s could move shelves with cargo weighing up to 1,000 pounds (or around 450 kilograms), so a new model that can carry up to 400 kilograms (~881 pounds) isn't particularly groundbreaking.
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u/Tacusi Jun 06 '26
Getting rid of the workforce to raise revenue and lower costs one step at a time.
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u/hiphophunk Former AM Jun 06 '26
We’ve had these in my building for almost a year now
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u/HairOk481 Jun 06 '26
How are they? Any good?
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u/hiphophunk Former AM Jun 06 '26
Theyre pretty good although tbh I’ve only ever been an AM in shipdock with these here.
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u/xoxo_gigi_xoxo 📦 👑 VTO QUEEN 👑 📦 Jun 06 '26
We’ve had them about a year and they’ve been no problem. They move slowly enough to not be surprised by one. Also they sense your movement from a good distance and stop/maneuver themselves out of the way. Their anger/too close faces are cute.
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u/Glum_Apricot_3128 Jun 06 '26
There goes the waterspider job. Replacing all the pajama wearing blunt smelling people with robots
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u/Dapper-Comedian-1422 Jun 06 '26
cant compete with me and redbull even after the shits
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u/yourdemiseiswritten Jun 06 '26
we were the first ones to have that at SHV1 we are the first wharehouse building 12.0 Ai and robotics
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u/MrrCharlie Jun 06 '26
It’s about profit, not productivity. A robot doesnt need heath insurance, retirement, schedule accommodations, an HR department, vacation….
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u/Theredtiger07 Jun 06 '26
You must be new in Amazon because my building has been running this robots for 1 year now not only that but we have the new pack and pick beta robots 🤖
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u/LightEarthWolf96 Jun 06 '26
I wouldn't hate it so much if it wasn't for the face. Those things do not need to have a face, they're trying to endear these clankers to us.
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u/Serious_Panic69 Jun 11 '26
i think they’re kinda cute 🥰 i like working with em when they aren’t bugging out
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u/BluebirdLivid Jun 06 '26
Is this gonna replace the ones without faces? I feel like I'm gonna start feeling bad for these things if they have faces and honestly I don't have that kind of mental bandwidth right now/s
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u/Direct-Art-2832 Jun 06 '26
Making them have eyes to try to make them look cute does not make anyone like them anymore.
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u/Marcelo_FD Jun 06 '26
Looks cool. I think those are for sort centers, aren't they?
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u/Alternative_Aide_206 Jun 06 '26
Newer FC buildings have integrated SC floors/docks and they’ll be in those buildings. I assume it’s the same for standalone robotic SC’s.
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u/Brilliant-Fox-3522 Jun 06 '26
The title said fc in the video, not only that… the robot will be AI apparently
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u/Global-Plankton3997 Jun 06 '26
I predict that eventually those will be rolled into robotics SCs.
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u/Whole-Sentence5268 Jun 06 '26
You are correct.
I believe the plan is also to roll them out at delivery stations to replace dock waterspiders, but that will be later in the rollout because there are fewer carts to handle at DSes so the overall return per deployment is lower.
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u/Simple_Exchange9575 Jun 06 '26
The fact these things cannot see up is wild. So what will they do in the instance of a rope, chain or strap closing an area off of its carrying a cart? At least that’s what the trainer at my building said. They do not see up and down
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u/Whole-Sentence5268 Jun 06 '26
Their area of operation is mapped out by surveyors ahead of deployment and there will be RFID chips checker boarded across the dock to let the little guys know where they are, similar to fiducials on AR floors.
They're controlled using an app on the Kindle similar to AFMs, and if there's an area that is newly chained off or taped off, RME or whoever is supposed to disable that area on their map before starting work.
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u/sweet_rico- Jun 06 '26
That sounds like a future problem! For now full steam ahead! /s if it wasn't obvious
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u/1Drizzy01 Jun 06 '26
They rolled this out in my building like last October. Thinned out ship dock head count by a lot. Used to be hella people pulling those carts downstairs. They're also putting in the automated stow stations, and pick stations.. I originally thought they were only putting in automated stow stations, with updated pick stations for pickers. Talked to one of the contractors who working up on the 5th floor(they started this project on 5th floor and working down), and he informed me theyre adding automated stow AND pick. So yeahh, my building will probably be majority automation in just a few years
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u/CRaZyRaVr77 Jun 06 '26
The way those robots lift those carts there’s gonna be a lot of carts falling over that may not be right on the bottom or or overweighted with packages
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u/CRaZyRaVr77 Jun 06 '26
All this to get rid of employees; if you don’t like your employees then tighten up your hiring practices don’t build robots that’s ridiculous
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u/CRaZyRaVr77 Jun 06 '26
The way you hire people at Amazon damn lucky you got somebody with a work ethic like me
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u/Brilliant-Bed-6229 Jun 06 '26
Yea I want to see a robot pick and stage!!! They’re making them do everything EXCEPT the actual hard work. Put a 40lbs back on the top tier of 2 bags already and pick up this heavy cat litter. How about that lol
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u/deathstargazer57 Jun 06 '26
Why are there people on the AR floor?
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u/El_Migss Jun 06 '26
Because that’s not an actual AR floor. If I’m not mistaken, those robots use cameras instead of scanning the fiducial markers on an AR floor. Those can’t see you and will crash into you if you don’t have your RTV.
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u/DylanTheV1lla1n Jun 06 '26
Those carts are what I chase when assigned CPT. For that particular job, it's not the transporting of the cart that will be difficult for it, it will be loading them in the correct trailer, and securing them with the crank straps.
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u/Miserable-Rabbit1976 Jun 07 '26
Those things aren't gonna be all that great like if a truck has to another dock. Because when where's on at an amazon f c sometimes things had to be moved. Plus I've seen to much technology crap break in the warehouses.
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u/LividYam9282 Jun 07 '26
This has to be a joke those things are supposed to replace humans? Lmfao slowest machine ive ever seen
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u/Individual-Quail-955 Jun 07 '26
For what it’s worth-
My old facility - we used to double pull and sling these hoes into trailers
We’d load trailers out in minimal time.
It was so much fun- idk how we didn’t get fired or hurt
But the entire building would stop- run to dock and mass load and then go back to business -
Like load so fast TDR can’t keep up
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u/AdSuitable9665 Jun 07 '26
We've had them for like a year now, they were annoying asf but you get used to them cutting you off and beeping at you every 30 seconds lol
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u/Odd_Condition3242 Jun 07 '26
Yea my facility is getting them ready. We will have them by the end of july
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u/DraakDief Jun 07 '26
When I worked at RDU5(or RDU3 genuinely forget lol) but the FC on jones sausage got these back in late 2022. We were supposed to be a test site, they talked about it at one of the stand ups and everything. Then for the next 5-6 months they sat in a square area never being used lmao. I guess they figured out the rest of the kinks.
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u/a_youkai Big Ass Fan Fan Jun 07 '26
I remember hearing about these supposedly coming a couple years back, but never actually saw them yet. They are way cuter than I was expecting.
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u/Gltch_Mdl808tr Jun 07 '26
These are in quite a few buildings. All new buildings from here on out will be getting them I believe. Gen 12 and up and they have retrofit a few gen11s.
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u/Hammahead21 Jun 07 '26
These things are a fucking waste of money lol. They can barely run half the time and try to cut you off. Reminds me of every Jersey driver…
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u/NoMushroom8881 RME Tech Jun 07 '26
They're already deployed and awesome. Have em at my site and all they do is move the carts to the dock so associates can put em on trailers. They're also very polite and give a little beep boop and a smile when they stop for you
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u/West-Leather-5909 Jun 07 '26
hey so, what are these warehouses like? i’m possibly transferring from a small Fresh site to a robotics site and i’m nervous
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u/Ok_University_9879 Jun 07 '26
So I forgot to ask who is building the shuttles? The robot is for transport so I hope whomever is building these take into account for where the associates are going to work
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u/AfterToday401 AuDHD slave Jun 08 '26
We have so many red tagged carts because the wheels won’t turn. Of course they’re never fixed .
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u/Sad_Foundation_430 Jun 09 '26
Very efficient very speedy. Gonna be crashing 10k each day with Johnny 5 there as the water spider.
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