See how Amazon is using new robots to deliver orders even faster
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2023
- Retail giant Amazon is unveiling new robotics system called Sequoia, which the company says is capable of stocking merchandise 75% more quickly and helps deliver orders 25% faster. Reporting for TODAY, NBC’s Vicky Nguyen shares an inside look at the new technology as the holiday shopping season gets underway.
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Safer for employees because they’re not even there anymore 😂
Honestly I feel super sad with this 😭 thing of massive layoffs and people being replaced by robots but I just read your comment and I had a big laugh hahahahahhaaha
The goal with the robots is to cut cost’s, biggest cost, human employee’s.
Same as the printing press. These are repetitive strenuous jobs, still jobs, but that’s progress.
Humans can't produce on the scale Amazon needs...
lol, at 4:12 she says ..."the person lifting boxes will now need to brush up on engineering skills"
most ridiculous thing I heard in this video lol
Yeah, the lady in the red and black wasn't buying the bs.
it's not ridiculous. You don't need a college degree to be hired by Google as a programmer. You just need to know how to write software.
There will still be masons in the future, they just won't do the actual physical work. They'll be outside briefly, to configure the robot and lay out where the bricks should go etc. Then they will sit in an air conditioned pod and not come out until the work is done or until there is an issue with the robot (it has a hardware failure etc.).
No more water spiders time to go to AFM or VNA
@@neutrino78xeven nvidia ceo said programming will be replaced or something like that. Look it up
also alot of people think that only manual labor jobs will be gone, that's not the case. Many other jobs will be removed as well that AI is proven to be able to handle.
Wow she´s right! How didn´t the average person think of "just brushing up on their engineering skills"? The solution was so simple and right there all along!
Haha, I know! adding so many new jobs! 😂
systematically this has been nerds revenge on jocks who bullied them that end up in manual labor jobs which are replaced by the nerd's robots. in the future bullies in school will be the nerds themselves and you'll be a loser if you're into sports 😂
@lawyerup2280 if the nerds mess up yes
The average person deserves average everything because they put in average effort.
Yep. The laid off grandpa better brush up on his neural network, machine learning and programming skills 😂
Let's be quite clear about what is happening here. This move by Amazon is NOT primarily about speeding up deliveries. It is about reducing head count and costs and increasing profits. There is no benefit to Amazon's workforce in what is proposed. Nor, IMO, is there a wider benefit to society all the while we live in a world where fewer jobs mean fewer and smaller wages
The fact is people want things cheaper and cheaper. With free delivery thrown in for Prime users I can understand why Amazon are pushing these. But let's be clear. Everyday more jobs are being replaced with companies pushing Apps to access basic services and fast food restaurants getting the customer to make the orders. In the UK more and more checkout staff are being replaced with machines.
Of course it is and its the workers problem. If your life decisions have made education a low priority such hat your only use is basic reading skills and the ability to move a box from here to there, you've made yourself useless. Anyone with a pulse and an IQ over 70 can be trained in 20 minutes to replace you.
I've been saying since at least 2011 that we need to be thinking about how we can pay the living costs for these people who fit this and other categories like construction jobs. Pretty much if your job requires physically doing a task, you have maybe 10 years left in that line of work before it its no longer there. Unlike a recession or depression, these jobs will not come back and we will need to do something to support those workers. Legislation wont be effective as the benefit to the masses overall outweighs the loss of these jobs.
The real advancement is Tesla, Amazon is nowhere near them. At $20K, its robots are currently being refined on their AI to assemble their next generation cars and this month, they will be constructing one of their new facilities. Its motor skills and abilities physically are equal to human and its AI builds on itself. If you pay your workers 40K/yr and you can replace them for half a years pat to do the same or better job, you should and will if you are making proper business decisions.
These workers will need to re-educate themselves however, as we age, most people stop learning in any significant way and some may barely be able to use a computer. Basically, if you found yourself surviving financially by working in a warehouse at 40 years or older and you aren't management, you are going to have to be taken care of as you wont have a use but you do need to survive.
Get used to it. We are in the business of putting ourselves out of business.
@@otterpossum9128
Robotics may be taking the low skill jobs you look down on but AI will be coming for your job also.
Of course and it's a brilliant buisness.
Reason #1: NO UNION FIGHT. UPS workers lucky they have a union.
“Adding new jobs with adding robots” YA RIGHT! That’s a straight up lie. Also, this is just the beginning stage, you guys better start making more money now because we’re in trouble.
Can't wait until the day when one of these biped robots delivers my package to my house in a autonomous electric van. I give it 10 years.
I'll give it 4.
Yep, at that point I will officially live in the sci-fi future. It’s coming fast. By the time I’m 60, my ability to drive will be a non-issue.
nope 30 years at least to get all the automation worked out for driving, loading and unloading vehicle
@@Iquey
i think less.
@@mylesgray3470superheroes are coming next. Bioengineering will be the next step after AI.
This is just a commercial. Look at the lengths the news went through for graphics
Bye Bye Employees 😂👋
Nope. Robots are there to assist. They needed to get attended for because errors can happen anytime.
@@LeonardLuzon
You don’t need many engineers to oversee that as you currently need floor workers these robots will replace.
@@Jaden378a calculator use to be a human. Try to put one of those in your pocket. We actually have a labor shortage. Luddites have nothing of value to offer society.
@@Jaden378horses aren't needed. How many people do you believe will turn their car in for one?
@@chrisf4268Exactly. Horses aren’t needed and soon people won’t be needed to do these jobs.
Wow! I feel bad for all the ppl who lost their jobs to these robots! But yes, let's do a news segment on it and say nothing about the ppl who lost their jobs! Their showing us their about to start replacing real ppl in the workplace. Don't be fooled everyone!
The world has always been a changing place. It doesn't wait for anyone and things like tech advancements come faster than anything. Its one's responsibility to learn about these type changes and start preparing for say, a career change, before its late. But does the avg person even care about tech other than learning how to use their cell phone? Nope, it bores them. I've seen it over and over again. Even when I've shown ppl tech that's going to change the world. The usual reply: "Ohh that's crazy." And they continue using all their free time on useless posts on Tiktok or IG
You all realize this is nothing new in terms of robots or technology replacing humans. Think about it next time you go through self-checkout and remember that use to be someone's job OR next time you buy a ticket from a machine for a movie, travel, etc. Even using the telephone was a whole difference experience decades ago. I am sure the telephone operators brushed up on their engineering skills and moved on up. Remember record stores - that place we would go to buy music in a tangible physical form. This time next year the world will be much different - for better or worse. So hey, brush up on your engineering skills or for sure your tech skills. Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous future. Seriously.
Making it safer for employees? What employees? There is only a handful of employees. The rest are all robots,
@@beatriz9376
Not necessarily. It's just that everybody has an intellectual job.
For example you still have masons. They just don't do the physical part, they don't actually lay the bricks down. They do the intellectual part, figuring out how the bricks are to be laid etc. They set up the robot then kick back in an air conditioned pod and wait for it to be done.
Popular music sucks now.
And a big chunk of that video is animation.
@@CartoClips Lady Gaga is pretty awesome. I saw her live for her Jazz and Piano residency in Las Vegas, it was amazing. 🙂
Then lets ask Robots to buy the products from Amazon😂
Yet the items I order take longer than ever to arrive and usually isnt delivered properly either way
Same day delivery isn't worth having my kids celebrate when they can buy their very own 200 sqft tiny home.
This is how everything we know....ends.
Guess the robots will be useful for the surviving humans as we all fight each other for resources.
Have fun in South Africa, next year. Looking forward to you guys in. Cape Town next year
"Brush up on engineering skills" I dont think thats how it works ma'am
This is just the tip of iceberg of future UNEMPLOYMENT
If robots replace humans like this, who consumes goods??
Everyone complaining about jobs being taken, but don’t complain when they get their Amazon package delivered. Automation replacing human workers is nothing new. Amazon warehouses are transitioning towards automation. There’s both positives and negatives that will come from this.
Is this the same Amazon that claims to have data mined so much that it knows the future but cannot give warning?
Robots don't need to poo!
No pay
Thats old robots, the new robots do poo.
Or call in sick because daughter has ear infection
Reduce the number of accidents to zero buy not using humans. Genuis.
Walmart Shelves should go down for loading them. Of course, only under control of Employees only. It makes loading very fast and will require very few such employees in night times !
More common now are employees that aren't dedicated, dependable, reliable. So, here we go. And prices won't go down.
its replacing us humans with robots i like it👍👍😁😁
These two will be out of a job soon. Don't need humans to tell me what's going on, 2 robots will do 😂
@@s1iznc1d34 for now…
Nah, editing requires a conscious being.
How much weight can Digit carry on its shoulders and body frame? I want to do a piggy-back ride on one.😂 If i hide in a box or tote, maybe i can get one to pick me up and ride in the box.
I hope robots will create their own union.
Great technology
I wish they had a delivery person to get my shipment. I don't trust people
Congratulations Hercules, I hope you had a nice graduation day!
Is it possible to switch robot instead of Jeff bezos ownership ? Then I will accept this whole situation
*Next year:* "See how Robots are using Amazon to take over the world"
Sadly to see how Amazon fails improving the working environment. By eliminating physical challenges ( which of course is good to remove) they are also making the tasks not cognitive challenging enough. This is becoming a bigger problem in this type of industry. From a technological perspective I don’t understand why they do not follow through. It could have been entirely automated (what we saw in the news episode)
Delivery Stations need alot of work, more automation. Last one I was at a couple years ago, it was basically all manual except for the conveyor belt bring packages from the truck delivery part of the warehouse to the sorting part. Just a line of people sorting packages off the conveyor belt into shelf's. On the other side another person taking said packages and putting them into totes with a computer. Then when everyone was tired at the end of the day, we all got to take the heavy totes and sort them onto carts, some weighing 50 lbs easily, being stacked upto 3 totes high, think 2ftx2ft cubes, lol. Then those carts moved to assigned location which are then taken to the delivery van its meant for.
The Today Show is state media. If you think any different, all you have to do is watch this and wonder where is the story of job losses AND where is the compensation for the jobs lost?
I still see a lot of human interface in this video. We are not dead yet‼️
The dmv workers will be next
She thinks her job is so advanced lol. Probably one of the next easiest jobs to be replaced by ai. Better start brushing up.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnd a lot of people goin unemployed now LOL
HERE COMES I-ROBOT
When the robot pulls up to deliver, will it be nice to me?
Safer because there are no employees
Maybe the robots will be so efficient making products totally free because at this rate without anywhere to work those products will need to be free.
Robots built by robots making products ordered by robots delivered by robots the packed boxes built by...you guessed it, Jose
In the future robots they gonna by from Amazon!!
There will be places to work, you just need training beyond high school.
You're saying that you aspire for your job to be carrying heavy boxes?
We humans need to stop buying stuff from amazon
Robots and AI are here to stay and will only keep advancing. We need solutions such as universal basic income so when people are replaced, and they will be, we’re not caught with our collective pants down. The solution is not to try and stop AI development. That would be like trying to stop the internet from being developed because you were worried about the future of librarians and their job security .
When can Amazon respect its sellers (suppliers)?
Holidays are allways a big seller for people.
More and more people on this planet means all the "latest" tech will be used up to its maximum potential so people wont really notice any change.
That's not right. The opposite is true. We're not having enough kids. Replacement rate is Total Fertility Rate of 2.1. Globally it's 2.3, here in the USA it's 1.7.
oh, thank you, so much.
these robots work so brilliantly...
must be INTJ, like me...🥰🥰🥰
Nice, that way less people would be injured at work and won’t need to pee in bottles.
Reducing the number of accidents and repititve stress by removing human workers from the line..What a brilliant idea!
They TURKARJURBS!
Less accidents because they have less employees lol! If you decrease the cars in the roads, there will be lesser chance of accidents too.
I'm very sure the bipedal robots are CGI. It was edited well but so weird to me that the Today show wouldn't point those parts out as animation. Look at some of the shadows when they are moving stuff, the two "eyes" or lights on them. They change shape as they turn. And why would a robot need 2 little light eyes, LOL, wouldn't a series of cameras on a swivel make more sense? I think it's the way they keep calling these LLM's AI, I think it is to encourage investment or raise the stock.
NO need to lift heavy stuff and of course NO need to get paid for the job!!!
Stop buying from Amazon (boycott Amazon)
Ever since I discovered that Amazon sold FOOD, TOILET PAPER, & PAPER TOWELS, I've been hooked up with Amazon For Life. As I'm not able to drive, so you can imagine the big convenience it is for me not to have to carry any of the above items in my hand while walking home. The only exception of course is anything that Amazon doesn't sell that I buy every week like milk, bread, fruits, and anything that requires a fridge/freezer. AMAZON FOR LIFE!
@@RATED4EVERI don’t believe in boycotts you are a good example of that. Quality and service is always going to rule people’s wallets. I think if you want real change from Amazon it will need to come from the government.
It's gonna put people out of a job
What happened to the workers…
Robots can’t unionize… guess they found a loophole
This is why it makes so much sense to increase the minimum wage. Make hiring a human even less competitive to encourage terminations.
Lots of obviously AI-generated comments here. Or is that just how robot engineers speak?
Then how do those human workers survive job losses? Universal Basic Income?
We could go full robotics tomorrow, but everyone on the planet would freak out.
Way to tow the company line lady. There is some truth to removing mundane tasks, but ultimately they're going to take over most of the jobs in the warehouse.
The industrial revolution introduced machines and factories into our world which opened a whole bunch of possibilities. With each industrial revolution, humans are supposed to work in more and more professional fields where certain education is required. The AI revolution would open more possibilities but we have to adapt to the new reality
Amazon is a great place to work. Truth is only a robots body can keep up. No matter how young and fit you are it takes a toll on your body speed, long distance on concrete floors and repetition 🎉viva robots 😅
Human will not be out of work. These automated systems will need human to maintain :) in the future there will be less people working on tasks requiring hard physical tedious tasks (that these robots will do), but more engineers will be needed to maintain such systems to run efficiently. We need more re-skilling and up-skilling
😂
Free enterprise free market. Nothing wrong going on here
@lawyerup2280 it's called Public private partnership. And I want them to automate my job. But I work for UPS so it will happen way slower and later because my union doesn't want automation unfortunately. And our packages are way bigger and heavier than Amazons packages and get destroyed so they need a whole new way of transporting packages because a robot will hate my job more than me with messed up packages everywhere like it's been through a warzone
Warehouse jobs are ending people
Robots 🤖 won’t miss work, call out sick, ask for vacation days, complain they are tired, ask for a pension, ask for a raise, health care and dental 😂
I think Amazon's new robotics system is a promising development that could have a significant impact on the company's business! Simple and great solution!
Npc
@NicolaiColshorn Bot-speak.
Sad
Tax every single robot for Payroll tax, Medicare, Social security and displacement tax.
Now AI is taking the engineering jobs - capitalism is undefeated.
Imagine the USPS was ran by the private industry ?
This is not good, also why is shipping and handling price still going up? (Also does this just mean no overtime bonuses for humans?)
Didn't see a lot of human workers in there.
Just...
a casual observation.
((sipping my coffee watching the world go by))
OH!!!!...and you Californians out there...
enjoy that $20 an hour minimum wage now yuh hear?
((while you can))
All technology but wont pay their workers more
Fewer mundane jobs for those who can't handle "higher level, critical thinking" means higher taxes for those who can, to pay for the UBI for those who can't do the mundane jobs.
It's the ciiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiife!!!!
Nice try
Most can handle it, they just need access to training.
Of course, the feminist reporter from NBC would pick the Instapot as the first item to order on Amazon's website.
Finally. Hopefully soon this will encourage people to educate themselves and obtain jobs that a robot can’t do and actually use their brains instead.
If they could do that, they would've done it already lol. I don't want more competition. Let them stay dumb.
Today: Employee doesn't do the work anymore. Just "supervise" the robot. Tomorrow: Robot "supervises" it self. Terminate obsolete employee.
150 stops a day? Either he's in a rural area or he's saving face for his DSP.
These dsp guys last only a couple months 😂
So who is done with the consumer culture? Thumbs up !
Dislike ! Tu reportaje es bueno, pero actuas como si fueras la esposa del dueño, muy demandante y sobre actuado 0:42
Te pongo dislike porque suenas un poco arrogante !
I'm afraid
😂😂😂😂 help people with jobs ??
I counted 3 people working in the background.
Going back to a brick and motar store will be like buying organic, In order to create real human jobs.
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Hey amazon, did you realize if people loose their job, they won't have money to buy stuff in Amazon?
Maybe you should upgrade your skills so you can be more relevant then! Manual labor is so last century.
FINALY MEXICANS NOT TAKING YOURE JOBS😂 BUT ROBOTS SO LEAVE US ALONE THIS 2024 VOTE SEASON 😂😂😂😂
India walo ki nokri gyi
Too slow 😂😂😂 robot will be fired. That's not allowed when humans working at Amazon
So useless six figure earners can spike inflation?
They might need to “brush up” on engineering skills.
True she does have a point here. you’ll need to figure out how to work along side with these things.
Less people less accidents 😅 less people less chance of union. Less paid people, more poverty and strife. Welcome to the techno-fascism hellscape.
Haha no! Japan is a high tech country with robots and automated things in their everyday life. You don't see their economy crashing and the population becoming homeless!
Boycott Amazon plz he chop jobs
Dang so if all the Amazon Employee slose their jobs how will a good portion of people buy anything?
You don't see the opportunity here folks. If you are a politician just do:
- robots are employees right? they have rights. So companies have to pay tax after each of them.
- if they are not employees well they are just mechanical objects. Another tax option pay tax after each of them.
- you can introduce new tax system also for robots. Companies have to pay more taxes because they cause more stress and mental health issues for humans and this make issues in the Society.
- create new high tax for current politicians and lobby groups because they support these companies.
- robots don't need a break so they can work 24/7. Where are the rights? Shift allowance? Tax!
- and robots are always in the move. This activity make a lot of dust and pollution so they have to pay more tax.
sum this = profit = people will love you = you can be the President or Prime Minister. or Social Hero..
Crazy right? Well this is how the World is working right now :(((
Gaboa, taxing robots by size , height and volume and increasing it by 20% each yer . would bring massive revenue but the problem is the city and the state will pocket it all
Liking your own comment does not make it true.