Submitted by marketrent t3_11bjl95 in science
I would have thought forklifts ans such lifters would have been automated by now or atleast remote controlled would have become more common place since the tech is very mature at thispoint
At the Amazon level, sure.
At the grocery store level it's nowhere near that. Forklifts are manually operated.
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Look into how bad Tesla's "Full Self Driving" performs. And that's in an environment with novels worth of rules and regulations that the car has to follow.
A warehouse environment requires drivers of powered lift equipment to do the parts that automation struggles with. Things like situational awareness, making judgement calls, improvising and adapting, simply recognizing when something isn't quite right, etc.
There are some robots being incorporated into warehouses, but this is mostly for smaller product (there's a Tom Scott video about this). It still requires people on powered lift equipment to unload the product off of trailers and move the product around the warehouse. Not to mention the people not on equipment required for the other jobs in between unloading the trailer and product leaving the building, usually requiring lifting product by hand.
Of course, with all of the reddit discussions and YouTube "documentaries" about how automation and AI are coming for "low-skilled" work (that actually requires a lot of skill, but is called that so they can be paid less), it's funny that the jobs that AIs are disrupting are mostly art, music, and writing.
> Of course, with all of the reddit discussions and YouTube "documentaries" about how automation and AI are coming for "low-skilled" work (that actually requires a lot of skill, but is called that so they can be paid less), it's funny that the jobs that AIs are disrupting are mostly art, music, and writing.
I despise the term "low skill" because it's so disrespectful, and completely tone deaf from a business perspective. It's like saying "there's nothing we can learn from people who work in that role" except people in these roles are almost ALWAYS the people with the feet on the ground who ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON BEST.
You can almost always tell a well-run organization and a badly run one just by this alone.
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??? Way more expensive than training a teenager to drive a decades old forklift in an afternoon.
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Half of the forklifts i have driven don’t have brakes.
Lift drivers don't use the brakes. They slap it in the opposite direction and never let off the gas.
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