Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/11/robotic-parcel-sorting-facilit.html
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What? Those parcels aren’t even robotic!
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This factory needs 1000 cats.
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I imagine this is what my internal organs are doing when I eat street tacos in Tijuana. Goofy music and all.
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How do you know what are in those parcels? Maybe this is a robot factory shipping out robots.
MAYBE… Skynet is getting ready for next Thursday.
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The company estimates its robotic sorting system is saving around 70-percent of the costs a human-based sorting line would require.
And the workers lose 100% of their paycheck.
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I’ve heard there’s a buggy whip makers union, maybe they could seek representation there?
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Why don’t they have a branching tree system of conveyor belts? Seems like it would be a lot faster and cheaper.
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I didn’t see any packages slip off the tops of the robots during acceleration and deceleration. Maybe the four holes I noticed on top of one of the robots is for a little onboard… vacuum?
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Came here to do that, beaten.
Bright orange mini-bots that crawl around like cute mammalian organisms in a scrubbed environment where nary a minor chord can be heard? Nothing but sunshine and warm spring days in that factory. The kiddos are gonna love the future! “Doo doo doo doo duh-do duh-do!”
which is, what, $1 and the promise of a new suicide net?
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Actually, FedEx and UPS bring in a lot of temp workers around Christmas. Among unskilled folks, these are considered good paying jobs, but hard work.
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They celebrate Christmas in China?
The Chinese version of Robot Wars seems much rangier if a little sedate.
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It’s a lot harder to relocate or expand conveyor belts.
If a belt goes down, that’s en entire line down. If a robot goes down, the throughput is just slightly slower.
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another $#@&*% traffic jam at ZJ97!
when are they going to fix this?
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A preview of NYC traffic in 20 years.
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