Amazon Introduces Bipedal Robot Workers in Its Warehouses
As part of its ongoing efforts to integrate robotics into its gigantic warehouse operations, Amazon recently began experimenting with a bipedal robot called Digit that should be able the most repetitive tasks. Amazon warehouse employees have
I worked for 12 years in the auto manufacturing industry, and can tell you that they are still far far away from robots taking over entire factories. They break, fault, make defects, etc. The complexity necessary to keep the robots running smoothly still requires a lot of people. Not to mention changeovers, switching between product numbers, quality control, etc. This fear is overblown imo. It's still better to take production to lower income countries than to completely automate in terms of company profits. Amazon is just pick and ship, makes sense that they will be able to automate more quickly than in manufacturing industry. My point is, humans still have to produce the shit that Amazon ships
This was mostly in regards to the evil villain conspiracy theory where people running the world have private islands where technological innovation moves much faster due to endless funding and zero oversight. I know what you mean regarding the human element being required for the constant maintenance of any kind of mechanized workforce. In this scenario the humans who survive the culling would be the janitors of the robotic workforce. All of the random fluff jobs you see today that exist solely to give people something to do would be gone. In this new world order there would be a much greater emphasis on using robotics in the acquisition of raw materials, manufacturing, and logistics. AI more advanced than the chatbots we see from the public side of things would be ubiquitous with the management and maintenance of the robot workforce.
This is more of a what-if fringe conspiracy theory, along the lines of what I would have been doing if I had been one of these world controllers for the last century. Humans are volatile and dangerous components to the governing equation. If but a small fraction of them became organized and mutinied against the status quo, there is a greater chance of disrupting the power imbalance. Even with all of the measures in place to pacify and restrain humans from such a scenario, the chance is still there. With a much smaller population governed over using technology, such as described in 1984, the chance of a successful revolution are greatly diminished.
Good luck. It takes an entirely different set of people to fix that shit.
I think all of the Dr. Evil's hiding behind world banks have far more advanced robots than these to handle human labor.
Good, I hope they do it. Better odds for us.