Robot with a sense of touch gets work – fears of mass job losses

Amazon argues that it made ‘fundamental leap to robotics’ after the development of a robot With a sense of touch that will be capable of handing about three -quarters of objects in its huge warehouses.

Vulcan – which is presented at the American Delivering the Future event in Dortmund, Germany and is to be developed around the world in the coming years – is designed to help people classify items for storage and then prepare them for tradition, as the latter.

Evolution is likely to raise fears of job losses

Aaron Parnis, Amazon Robotics Manager, described Vulcan as a « fundamental leap forward in robotics. He not only sees the world, but he feels it, allowing opportunities that were impossible for Amazon robots so far. « 

The robots with a sense of touch

However, the risk of losing thousands of jobs reminds the history of the « Ludaites » in the period of the industrial revolution, that is, the workers who, because they believed they would lose their jobs, destroyed the engines.

Robots will be able to recognize touch objects using artificial intelligence to calculate what they can and do not and calculate the best way to lift them, the Guardian says. They will work alongside people who are now storing and recovering items from the shelves that are transferred to them at wheel -collection stations – of which Amazon now has more than 750,000 in operation.

Vulcan will be able to stack objects at the upper and lower shelves – known as pods – so that people no longer need to use stairs or bend so often during their work. Robots now operating in Amazon’s warehouse are able to shift objects or select objects using suction cups and computer vision.

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Job loss

Evolution is likely to raise fears of job losses, as retailers reduce human participation in distribution centers, which employ thousands of people, the Guardian notes.

Many retailers have stated that they are increasing investment in automation, as labor costs are increasing worldwide. Amazon has faced strikes in the United Kingdom and elsewhere for low pay in its warehouses.

Goldman Sachs economists assumed in 2023 that 300 million jobs worldwide could disappear from existence by 2030 as a result of the development of genital artificial intelligence, and many more roles will be radically transformed.

In the United Kingdom, between 60,000 and 275,000 jobs could be displaced every year for two decades at the climax of disruption, according to estimates by the Tony Blair Institute last year.

However, Tai Brandy, Amazon’s leading Robotics technologist, said robots cannot fully replace people in the group’s warehouses and are there to « enhance human resources » and improve the workplace safety.

The star Wars Geek said that the robots that help be designed could be likened to R2D2 as « an amazing collaborative robot ».

« People will always be part of the equation, » he said, while the machines will undertake « the slave, trivial and repeated » work.

Cooperative robots

« There is no such thing as complete automation. It just doesn’t exist, because they always need people to understand the value of the function, simply using common sense. « 

He said that people’s involvement could help protect against system violations – as retailers increase efforts to protect them after the closure of Marks & Spencer’s electronic orders after cyberattack.

« All the espionage could probably be detected by a machine, but they are usually detected by people, so being part of the equation is a good thing, » Brandy said.

He added that people are also better to identify more lower -case problems, such as broken or spilled objects in a tradition that could cause problems in the system.

Brandy says artificial intelligence helps to develop robots that can navigate autonomously in complex areas and learn to move safely next to people and other objects. He said that the latest generation of robots is able to « seek help » so that they can learn new ways to do things.

Source: Ot.gr