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Walmart Running Into Trouble as Its Super-Expensive Robots Can’t Handle the Realities of Warehouse Work: It's an automation "arms race." (futurism.com)
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[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, they aren't saying that "humans are meant to be shuffling around a warehouse picking and packing orders mindlessly."

The point is that the processes are designed around human operators with specific considerations for the abilities and constraints of an average human. Dropping a robot into a process without updating said process around the abilities and constraints of the robot creates new problems. Humans and robots work in different ways and cannot be substituted 1:1 without creating problems.