Chinese Warehouse Where Humans Were Replaced By Robots

[Y_Participant 4591]

Chinese Warehouse Where Humans Were Replaced By Robots

Even as talk about robots taking over low-(and not so low) skilled jobs has been all the rage in recent months, few Americans have been faced with the imminent threat of being displaced by Johnny 5. Not so in China, where a viral clip released by the local TV broadcaster shows an army of little orange robots sorting out packages in a warehouse in eastern China, the latest example of how machines are increasingly taking over menial factory work in the world’s most populous nation.

The People’s Daily shared the behind-the-scenes footage of the self-charging robot army in a sorting centre of Chinese delivery powerhouse Shentong (STO) Express. The video, also released by the SCMP, shows hundreds of round Hikvision robots, each roughly the size of a seat cushion, swivelling across the floor of the large warehouse in Hangzhou. A worker is seen feeding each robot with a package before the machines carry the parcels away to different areas around the sorting centre, then flipping their lids to deposit them into chutes beneath the floor

The robots identified the destination of each package by scanning a code on the parcel, thus minimising sorting mistakes, according to the video

The army of robots can sort up to 200,000 packages per day and are self-charging, so they can work 24/7, although they are presently used only for about six or seven hours each time from 6pm according to a STO Express spokesman

An STO Express spokesman told the South China Morning Post on Monday that the robots had helped the company save half the costs it typically required to use human workers. They also improved efficiency by around 30% and maximised sorting accuracy, he said.

“We use these robots in two of our centres in Hangzhou right now,” the spokesman said. “We want to start using these across the country, especially in our bigger centres.”

Manufacturers across China have been increasingly replacing human workers with machines, for one simple reason: Chinese wage growth is soaring with average wages in China’s manufacturing sector rising above those in countries such as Brazil and Mexico.

Meanwhile, the output of industrial robots in the country grew 30.4% last year. In the country’s latest five-year plan, the central government set a target aiming for annual production of these robots to reach 100,000 by 2020.

Elsewhere, Apple’s supplier Foxconn last year replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots. The Taiwanese smartphone maker has several factories across China, with the bulk of the hundreds of thousands of employees set to be rep[laced by robots.

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-11/viral-video-shows-chinese-warehouse-where-humans-were-replaced-robots

[RusskyParticipant 13503]

I’ve been inside Amazon warehouse in Dallas three years ago and they had many times less people over there

proud carrier of the 'why?' chromosome

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9547]

I’m no fan of robots taking over where people were making a living to support themselves and their families.

https://themanszone.webs.com/

[RhinoParticipant 3477]

This has been building up for sometime now even 20 years ago the message was robots were going to replace most workers in the future. Now that it is starting to become reality those people who had their head in the sand realize what is starting to take place and are not prepared for the shift from human to robot workers.

The future is robotics programing, building and maintenance of these machines and those who are smart are going to see the growth potential of this industry and take advantage of increased robot production world wide. What the industrial age did by removing slave labor and using machines to increase production and spur growth on a global scale the same will happen now with robots. This has a potential to shift the way humans have been doing work for thousands of years and free us to do other stuff like space exploration and open up new horizons that would never have been possible before.

[RusskyParticipant 13503]

If I ever went back to school for anything, it would be robotics-related.

proud carrier of the 'why?' chromosome

[RennieParticipant]

ResidentEvil7 wrote:

I’m no fan of robots taking over where people were making a living to support themselves and their families.

If the government is going to allow this to happen, they will also have to put everyone on the dole. Justine is already talking about a “guaranteed universal income”.

[Y_Participant 4591]

Rennie wrote:

If the government is going to allow this to happen, they will also have to put everyone on the dole. Justine is already talking about a “guaranteed universal income”.

I’m sure they’ll find some way to screw the people over … again.

[It’sallbsParticipant]

How many people lost their jobs when self service checkouts came in?

http://www.leavemeansleave.eu

[RusskyParticipant 13503]

It’sallbs wrote:

How many people lost their jobs when self service checkouts came in?

I almost always purposely use humans to check out. F~~~ scanning s~~~ and punching in codes

proud carrier of the 'why?' chromosome

[MagusParticipant 424]

It’s a good thing. Like getting rid of horses. We adapt and move on to a better way of life.

[hollowtipsParticipant 681]

At the rate things are going in another 20 years 60% of society will be on welfare and the next 30% will be poor/working class, 9% will be middle class and the upper class will be so wealthy they’ll be able to own entire countries.

I don’t see enough new industries being developed that are employing average people. Even my younger brothers in high school are having less teachers and online f~~~in education.

Creating tech seems to be the only industry that’s growing and at a slow rate.

[KevinStylesParticipant 2580]

Amazon is getting there. They have robots right now bring stuff to the human to box up but at some point they won’t need the human in that process. And at some point automated delivery vehicles / drones will take over the UPS / Fedex mans job too and it’ll be almost completely human-less.

Makes you think at the expense of all these jobs would it just be better to pay a higher price to stop the robot evolution for goods. Even in fast food chains we’re seeing order takers get replaced by kiosks and I saw a video of robot fast food cooks. Might not be too long before fast food places are almost totally automated too.

[CatsPawParticipant 423]

Guys, you are forgetting Currency has no value, goods have value.
Replacing workers with robots is (in the long run) good for everyone.

less work, more goods.
You might be thinking, If the robots take over, why would anyone work for “free”? (as of course, those not working would have the means to get goods regardless, with for example universal income).

Well, for a human, sure, no incentive, no reason to work. For a robot, no incentive? No problemo.

Now, the transition will be a bitch, because until it all works its gonna be tricky, but once it happens, it means less work time for the same *pay*.

The only problem I can see is humans reproducing at a rate too high for the planet to sustain the population based on the resources we have.

[AttonParticipant]

This might lay the ground work for decentralized manufacturing, potentially local manufacturing. Why ship an iPhone from China when it can be produced cheaper at the target market. This could really f~~~ over China because the only thing they bring to the table is cheap labor.

A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!

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