Robots and automation are the trends in jobs, not a new concept. But Amazon has put a date on it: they project that their warehouses could be fully automated in ten years, so by 2029 since this article is from 2019. That involves 125,000 jobs.
But bots will have to up their game, especially if food is involved. When picking an item from a bin, they may damage the other items. Picture that happening when the mechanical arm selects a banana from a Whole Foods bin.
"Pick and place" robots are already pretty good at what they do. "The two main benefits of pick and place robots are speed and consistency. For pick and place robots, throughput can often reach up to 200 products per minute, while vision systems can identify 100 products per second on a moving conveyor. "
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