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Amid an explosion in demand for home-delivered goods, shippers like FedEx are increasingly adopting industrial robot arms equipped with computer vision and AI

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @mfordfuture , @sub8u , @mileskimball , @mims , @2peterharris , and @farshchi Tweets: Martin Ford / @mfordfuture : Short on workers during the pandemic, FedEx brings in robot arms equipped with ‘eyes’ and ‘brains’ https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ @mims Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u : Of all the things that the pandemic is causing a leapfrogging in, one thing that's likely to stick for the future - greater automation across functions! Good read from @mims https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... Miles Kimball / @mileskimball : “FedEx cur­rently has four of these robots at its Mem­phis fa­cil­ity, but the com­pany es­ti­mates one hu­man could tend up to eight of them, jump­ing in only when they have a prob­lem they can't solve on their own” https://www.wsj.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : Recessions are prime time for automation, says @MarkMuro1. When profits shrink, labor costs loom large, that pushes firms to automate. et voila: https://www.wsj.com/... Peter Harris / @2peterharris : The distinction here that #robots are not stealing jobs but “filling vacancies created by surging demand” is nonsensical. They are absorbing work. While it may be filling new demand, it is no different and still job displacement. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ Shahin Farshchi / @farshchi : These robots are years away from getting as fast and flexible as humans... BUT ...when they are, they will PROMOTE human workers to overseeing and engineering the robots doing the mundane sorting and picking, and create more human jobs. https://www.wsj.com/...

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  • @mfordfuture Martin Ford on x
    Short on workers during the pandemic, FedEx brings in robot arms equipped with ‘eyes’ and ‘brains’ https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ @mims
  • @sub8u Subrahmanyam Kvj on x
    Of all the things that the pandemic is causing a leapfrogging in, one thing that's likely to stick for the future - greater automation across functions! Good read from @mims https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
  • @mileskimball Miles Kimball on x
    “FedEx cur­rently has four of these robots at its Mem­phis fa­cil­ity, but the com­pany es­ti­mates one hu­man could tend up to eight of them, jump­ing in only when they have a prob­lem they can't solve on their own” https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @mims Christopher Mims on x
    Recessions are prime time for automation, says @MarkMuro1. When profits shrink, labor costs loom large, that pushes firms to automate. et voila: https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @2peterharris Peter Harris on x
    The distinction here that #robots are not stealing jobs but “filling vacancies created by surging demand” is nonsensical. They are absorbing work. While it may be filling new demand, it is no different and still job displacement. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
  • @farshchi Shahin Farshchi on x
    These robots are years away from getting as fast and flexible as humans... BUT ...when they are, they will PROMOTE human workers to overseeing and engineering the robots doing the mundane sorting and picking, and create more human jobs. https://www.wsj.com/...