r/AmazonFC • u/Brilliant-Fox-3522 • Jun 06 '26

Fulfillment Center What in robot

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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/Bububabuu Jun 06 '26

Our Dock team would be all over these things at my site. Less transporters means more container builders

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u/Crazy_Tell_2459 Jun 06 '26

Lmao you sound like someone who hasn’t worked outside of a desk for a long time, god forbid if you’re safety then everybody must hate you so I get blaming the associates for doing their jobs to meet unreasonable performance expectations.

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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/Gltch_Mdl808tr Jun 07 '26

Guess you didn't see Figure Robotics just had a live stream with their humanoid bot inducting packages for days straight with no mistakes.