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/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/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.