Walmart Running Into Trouble as Its Super-Expensive Robots Can't Handle the Realities of Warehouse Work
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Despite spending billions of dollars to automate its warehouses, Walmart is seriously struggling to make even the simplest of robots work.
    • RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      They don’t need to. No more than a conveyor needs to think critically.

      I think people are envisioning the robots moving through a warehouse that was built for humans. That is not the case.

      Special purpose warehouses are built with the robots in mind. The bots don’t need to navigate an uncontrolled environment as the environment was meant for them.

      It’s basically a really big, really performant conveyor belt.