Amazon’s sensor-filled belt solution comes just one month after a robot-involved accident in one of the company’s warehouses resulted in the hospitalization of 24 workers.
Amazon’s sensor-filled belt solution comes just one month after a robot-involved accident in one of the company’s warehouses resulted in the hospitalization of 24 workers.
A clear violation of the First Law of Robotics.
After reading the article I have a hard time relating the previous accident that hospitalized 24 and injured 50 (punctured can of bear spray) to developing the vest. I don’t see how it would have made the robot act any different. It punctured a package, it didn’t throw it around or whack workers with it. Some clarity needed, possibly it ran over the package or person carrying it, don’t know.
Or more then likely, bad journalism.
The vests are a good idea. Machines are dumb things that work with limited skills and instructions. Unfortunately, that also describes more than a few humans too. So the same thing as a flashing light and backup beep sound will warn off humans not paying attention to their surroundings, now these same humans will tell machines they are there.
Take it easy, Kate! If you’re driving all day, then drive – don’t pay any attention you might not be able to spare from the road, to us!
So the machine logic,so called Artificial Intelligence, is too stupid to detect a human being.
Solution robotize the humans.
Looks a lot like those being paid to automate,have no concept of the task they seek to programme.
Can’t cure stupid.
By the way,has any court ruled on the liability issue ,with respect to self directed machines?
Who is responsible for damages inflicted by dumb human programming?
Amazon marked out areas where Humans would be working, using a gridded plan of the workspace. Robots would be routed around those areas.
What, one asks, could possibly go wrong?
Robots were already programmed to slow down and avoid obstacles. Management seem to have assumed: that the Robots’ routing would safely exclude them from the Human workspace Also, that Humans would never wander into the Robot workspace.
The Human obstacles now alert Robots of their presence from a greater distance.
The change to the software is merely to enable Robots to update their routing dynamically and so steer clear of any area containing Humans.
Management, not Programmers, were to blame.
Compared to the number of fatal forklift accidents every year, I’d say Amazon is doing fine.
It’s a fair cop that when (not if) self-driving cars have a better accident record than human drivers, technocrats will use that as an excuse to curtail your personal freedom. But really, of late this place is turning into smalldeadluddites.com.
Daniel, I’v been here for 12 years, you must have just woke up!
Apples and Oranges.
BTW … forklifts are the #1 wheeled equipment on most construction jobsites which are probably the #1 hazardous workplace.
Amazon robots are lifting tubs filled with products, which by all logic should create -0- accidents with humans
Leave it to you to use BIG statistics to make a FALSE comparison. Never looking into the DETAIL within those statistics.
Amazon is a turd of merde leftist run company run by a megalomaniac tyrant named Jeff Bezos.
Bezos hates his prole workers and the conditions at Amazon are grotesque.
Future headlines WILL include Amazon self driving forklift runs over workers. Any questions?
there ya go again assreamed.
speaking of robots, perchance you channeling unmebot?
how’s that search going for a link irrefutably and decisively showing original geisha from centuries ago were all hookers?
what about belly dancers in Egypt? they all for rent by the hour? or in your case by the half minute.
fcuk off mouthpiece.
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