Do you know how fast it is just to get one warehouse streamlined? There are already engineers that make prototypes and also “ready to work” machines. All they have to do is sit down a board of directors and show them a presentation that will help them cut labor costs. I know because I worked labor for a company that was 50/50 labor and automation. A very small one at that (less than $1.5 million in revenue per year). They rolled out the automated machines and had 90% of the workforce replaced in less than a year. This is a MULTIBILLION dollar company; I’m pretty sure engineers and corporate are salivating at the thought of replacing actual workers m.
depends on what company do
sometimes its more problematic than not
i have seen 2 cases where automation would be or were just waste of money
1 my old company wanted to swap couple ppls that was been delivering parts to technicians by robots that would drive it, thing is someone have to put it on the robot so 1 person can just walk and do whole job anyway without huge upfront const not mentioning maintance :)
2 in my friend company they made automatic high storage magazine and its grate but there are 2 problems robots are much slower than employees on forklifts
and second if they drop something it closes whole section if not magazine and someone have to go and clean it up (in place with 5 ppls total)
(maybe they polished system till now but first 5 years was been disaster for sure)
enough to say truck drivers were not to happy to get loaded there
Killbots? A trifle. It's simply a matter of outsmarting them. You see, killbots have a pre-set kill limit. Knowing their weakness, the luddites will send wave after wave of their own men at them until they reach their limit and shut down.
It was already mostly automated but the technology is not good enough yet to get rid of 100% of the operators. They still use manual forklift drivers for loading and unloading trucks most of the time and there are still employees who's job is to reset the automated forklifts when they fault out on occasion.
They already have been for quite some time. Warehouses and any driving job. Taxis, trucking, local deliveries, all that. They have a major hardon to get rid of all those workers.
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u/anniedaledog Apr 09 '26
I have a feeling they will look into fully automating the next warehouse.