Walmart turns to robots and apps in stores

yes on routine task that requires little or no thought
you cant teach a robot to improvise unless you are able to program every conceivable variable possible differing from the routine
that sheet rock installing robot for example is it taught to move a stack of lumber placed in its way?

 

it will have that objects with photos program into it not to proceed further or go around it

 

would you be able to teach it the difference between a root and a water pipe or worse a gas line? would you have the robot stop every time it hits an obstruction? it would worthless if it does that

 

you can have another robot to do that

 

Mentally handicapped people who like to work doing jobs others may not want to do, and take home a paycheck, are going to suffer the firstest and the mostest.

As robots get smarter well, ya'll do the math.

Smash robots now.

 

if you hook them up to AI artificial intelligence it will tell them to proceed or stop

 

so now its required two couple of hundred thousand dollar robots to do the task of one sheet rock installer you just priced your self out of the market

 

i try to go too a person on the cashier isle everytime just to piss off walmart and cut some of their profits

 

After several trips through, I "still can't do" bananas and apples, and always tell the gal, it's always a gal, that the help embarrasses me and I'm just going to steal them next time -- but really I'll just ask for help again.

 

yes the small mom and pop companies can compete, but the large construction companies can afford them cheaper if they buy a lot of them

 

women should just be as worried about robots then men at some construction site

 

why are they still using them? appears it doesn't take breaks and never gets tired, works through day swing and nite shift till the walls are done

 

most walmart cashiers are elderly women where are they going to find a replacement job oh just make them out of soylent green sorry pop off the cornfield

 

FYI, there will always be some people that are going to struggle. That said, I agree, certainly the younger in the workforce are going to have to step it up and fast. Society and technology are moving very quickly and those that do not at least try to keep pace will be left behind.

 

Actually John Deere has automated excavators. The AsBuilts are programmed or downloaded into the system, so they will know where the gas line is.

https://www.equipmentworld.com/deer...es-to-190g-w-wheeled-excavator-and-11-others/

 

Nobody forces you to shop at big supermarkets. You're free to use small shops that don't have automated checkouts. Of course, you'd probably have to pay more, travel further and have less choice so it's really a question of how much you really care. If you can't be bothered with the effort of taking your business elsewhere though, I'm not sure you can justify disrupting things for everyone else.

 

I was on a project recently where the walls were framed offsite, this is done on some prevailing wage jobs to get away paying framers $15 hr in the fab yard rather than paying $50-$60 on site. Anyway, the plates were cut and fed into a printer where studs, king studs, cripples, backing as well as where all floor joists and trusses were to land all printed on the top and bottom plate. It made life good for the MEP trades that followed behind them since everyone was involved in the original lay out. Imagine every unit framed exactly the same instead of this one framed by a right handed Mexican and the next by a left handed one.

 

nearly every store here in ny has humanless pos, besides i like making a point, screw everybody behind me, maybe if they complain enough the stores will add more humans

i do same at the supermarket, here they have to charge us for the plastic grocery bags because they want everyone to utilize reusables. well those reusables breed bacteria, does anyone wash them each time? doubt it. and because the bags are for 'sale' ( it's not a fee nor a tax collected by the gov) i slooooow those lines down by asking for 90 bags which takes time for the cashier to count em out, pisses everybody off including managers, however i remind them that the bags are an item for sale in their store, and until a limit is imposed, i'd like 90, nah make it 199 bags please

 

Not all of them and not individual stores like butchers and bakeries. The fact remains that you could make your "protest" by denying them your business entirely but you're apparently not willing to go to that effort. You're happy to disrupt other people's lives in the queue behind you but aren't willing to accept too much disruption in your own.

Could it be that you actually get more enjoyment from causing the disruption that you actually care about the reasoning behind it, that the self-service checkouts aren't really a problem for you, just a convenient target?

 

if the stock market crashes do to jobs futures now down over 400 points for mondays opening
being taken away from robotics and mass unemployment, i say its going to be blamed and a culture change will come for survival of capitalism to continue and a backwards old school drift will happen