Automating the Grocery Warehouse

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  • čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
  • Robotics company Symbotic is trying to change the food distribution industry. The company has developed a system to automate warehouse jobs formerly done by humans. Video: Robert Libetti. Photo: Michael Rubenstein for The Wall Street Journal
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Komentáře • 141

  • @mrk1075
    @mrk1075 Před 6 lety +44

    It wasn't long after the filming of this Robert Sutherland was fired and replaced by a Robot named Robert.

  • @laopang91362
    @laopang91362 Před 6 lety +55

    Jobs of the future... be an engineer ....

    • @mrs4080
      @mrs4080 Před 6 lety +3

      Bobby Chang all minds are different to engineer

    • @chieftp
      @chieftp Před 6 lety +3

      yeah, not many engineers graduate from college each year. LOL

    • @jamesliu8095
      @jamesliu8095 Před 6 lety +1

      I'm pretty sure that with a greater demand for an engineer, it will become easier to become one

    • @k3nfr0st39
      @k3nfr0st39 Před 5 lety +3

      Or an automation technician. With automation the wave of the future, set yourself up.

    • @yodambomb4974
      @yodambomb4974 Před 5 lety +1

      Yeah I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Since I came down to Miami to help out a subsidiary warehouse full of straight dumbasses it made me realize that all these jobs are gonna be automated ., even the reachlift drivers

  • @italianyankee942
    @italianyankee942 Před 8 lety +6

    great place to work for.

  • @jeffbingaman2754
    @jeffbingaman2754 Před 6 lety +1

    Best impersonation of Michael Keaton when playing in the other guys while working at bed bath and beyond....😐

  • @LATINTHRONE
    @LATINTHRONE Před 6 lety +2

    All those robots won't even pay taxes. 😭😂

  • @Zoza15
    @Zoza15 Před 8 lety +19

    Well, people never believe that robots could manage to do this level of advanced machinery.
    This shit hasn't even begun yet and people complaining about jobs.
    Perhaps new solutions should be applied by redefining work and eliminate the the word : *Job*
    Automation is a positive future once people see the potential of it..
    Social changes also has to be on the forefront regarding living necessities and food and shelter etc etc.

    • @naturalisted1714
      @naturalisted1714 Před 7 lety +5

      Morph Verse Great comment! Good to see people actually thinking about this in a positive way instead of paranoid about conspiracies that they would have done (genocide) decades ago if that was their priority... automation is a blessing!

  • @WarbirdPhoenix
    @WarbirdPhoenix Před 6 lety +4

    Dey tuk our jerbz!!!!

  • @jadddean
    @jadddean Před 5 lety +1

    Some of these pallets going to my key food in Bklyn.

  • @funny-video-YouTube-channel

    Wonderful technology like this *helps to reduce the waste of food* and the more efficient production.
    The food is more fresh in the supermarkets. The shops can offer more products and we have a higher quality of life.
    Technology is making life more comfortable, we can be happy about that !

  • @mooselee902
    @mooselee902 Před 6 lety +3

    nothing wrong with the technology, just the system its working within

  • @adlibruj
    @adlibruj Před 8 lety +57

    There goes my job :) I have to learn something else :)

    • @brunon.8962
      @brunon.8962 Před 7 lety +18

      Or support Basic Income.

    • @311g
      @311g Před 7 lety

      Yeah..."learn something" or "get guaranteed pay for marginally contributing your potential".

    • @adlibruj
      @adlibruj Před 7 lety +3

      Whoa. Here comes somebody shooting from the lips, not understanding the meaning of sarcasm. There goes your job.

    • @BillyBigBalls770
      @BillyBigBalls770 Před 6 lety +4

      You could always rob banks or sell drugs, robots couldn't do that.

    • @TheGeckoNinja
      @TheGeckoNinja Před 6 lety

      get into VR technology

  • @AvivMakesRobots
    @AvivMakesRobots Před 3 lety

    This can greatly reduce wasted food!

  • @bamelive
    @bamelive Před 4 lety

    It is only for dry goods items, bottles of milk cannot be processed?

  • @Fayssal207
    @Fayssal207 Před 6 lety +2

    Humanity need jobs .

  • @MichelZelff
    @MichelZelff Před 3 lety

    I can't find anything about Rick Cohen?

  • @WastingtimeInc
    @WastingtimeInc Před 6 lety +2

    Anyone else see this and think of the door warehouse from Monsters Inc?

  • @deshaimoney8661
    @deshaimoney8661 Před 4 lety +1

    I worked at this place before and after the robots it went from over a 1000 people working to only 30 people

    • @someguy4915
      @someguy4915 Před 4 lety

      1000 unskilled people working a pointless job, time for them to start getting an education/skillset that makes them actually useful.

    • @tonyamillsapsknox
      @tonyamillsapsknox Před 4 lety +1

      @@someguy4915 because it's so easy for all American Economic classes to do so...
      Some do not have that as a choice.

    • @someguy4915
      @someguy4915 Před 4 lety

      @@tonyamillsapsknox Perhaps then it is time to address that instead of prolonging a major economic class issue...

    • @stickyoxtail
      @stickyoxtail Před 4 lety +1

      @@someguy4915 every job is "unskilled" when you put it against a robot. First they came for cashiers, then they'll get the drivers. After shipping gets automated, it will penetrate the warehouse while simultaneously putting white collar jobs out like horse and cabby. You think just because you get to sit in front of a computer, you have skills? AI and software will take care of all the creative fields and then you'll really earn your name as just "some guy" replaced by another robot. GG

  • @gilbertangelo3692
    @gilbertangelo3692 Před 3 lety

    Replacing order selector job outch

  • @vuyaki6366
    @vuyaki6366 Před 4 lety +1

    Very scary!

  • @Goated483
    @Goated483 Před 4 lety +3

    This guys idea is going to ruin the future for ALL labor and non labor employees

  • @yodambomb4974
    @yodambomb4974 Před 5 lety

    What about for reachlift drivers ?

  • @maheshkatta9278
    @maheshkatta9278 Před 8 lety +3

    Nice. I can see this being adopted in coming few years. But I dont understand who is the customers? Walmart, target? Or 7-11 Stores?

    • @Georgiapyro
      @Georgiapyro Před 7 lety +2

      mahesh katta Retailers, any company moving/sorting large amounts of goods.

    • @kimjong-un5562
      @kimjong-un5562 Před 7 lety

      mahesh katta
      some company's might not do it just because laying off 200,000 employees would give them a bad rep lol

    • @maheshkatta9278
      @maheshkatta9278 Před 7 lety +1

      Its just bunch of SJWs crying on social media for acouple of weeks. Then everything goes to normal. Normally people dont think all these things before they go to shop. If price is less, people o to the store.

    • @dvdmex1978
      @dvdmex1978 Před 6 lety

      We have done Wal-Mart, coke, giant tiger and Albertsons so far.

    • @mdxcellence
      @mdxcellence Před 6 lety

      OTB has a patented cardboard tray system which will allow for the elimination of direct store distribution of bread, this cardboard tray integrates with automated grocery warehouse operations, reducing your cost as bakeries will ship direct to warehouse eliminating DSD cost and cost of plastic tray retrieval visit www.outoftheboxinc.ca

  • @10star9
    @10star9 Před 6 lety

    That's Cleanliness C&S Warehouse I ever seen I drove Semi going to C&S warehouse always Filthy I hated going any C&S and They did not like any Truck Drivers always a hard time.

  • @christopherarmstrong2710

    Whoever owns this facility is operating a huge money printing press - no crooked politicians needed.

  • @Deno2100
    @Deno2100 Před 6 lety +5

    80 million isn't much because these companies have HUGE profit margins. HUGE.

    • @someguy4915
      @someguy4915 Před 4 lety +1

      Grocery stores 'huge profit margins'? Nope, you're confusing 'huge' with 'very tight'... A name brands like Lays usually don't even have profit, some even cost money instead of having any profit, just to lure people into the stores with familiar brand names. 40-80 million dollar for 1 distribution center is a lot of money, you'll easily break 1 billion dollar per state which is the only reason this hasn't been done by every company yet.

    • @Deno2100
      @Deno2100 Před 4 lety

      @@someguy4915 Yeah, but think of a 50% reduction in medical insurance, 401k payments, paychecks and your overhead is going to be way lower too. 80 to 100 million is theft but I think it is still considered an investment

  • @pikminlord343
    @pikminlord343 Před 8 lety +10

    the way of the future

  • @vashman01
    @vashman01 Před 6 lety

    Ha Newburgh, NY! I live 10 minutes away.

  • @WitheredFreddo
    @WitheredFreddo Před 6 lety +1

    im so gonna be a mechanic :>

  • @GWARDLE
    @GWARDLE Před 5 lety +4

    Can you say Universal Basic Income? I knew you could!

  • @eisaiyoohoo
    @eisaiyoohoo Před 6 lety +2

    for real tho, whats gonna happen if robots replace all jobs? will money be a thing anymore

    • @mikegaskin5542
      @mikegaskin5542 Před 4 lety +1

      It will either be great (a Star Trek-style post-scarcity utopia) or it will be really bad

    • @someguy4915
      @someguy4915 Před 4 lety +1

      You can hardly call these positions jobs, they're simple tasks: stand here and move boxes off/onto the pallets.
      The people who lose their 'jobs' to a robot arm which has no brains can easily get a new job by following ANY training (30 minute training or all the way up to a years long actual education).
      If a robot, which has no brains can replace you and be better than you ever were at your job, you really are rather expandable...

    • @eisaiyoohoo
      @eisaiyoohoo Před 4 lety

      @@someguy4915 that is true, thank u for ur input

    • @mikearanda3533
      @mikearanda3533 Před 3 lety

      There's digital currency.

  • @mirandacampbell6385
    @mirandacampbell6385 Před 6 lety

    Wow

  • @Clark-Mills
    @Clark-Mills Před 6 lety +2

    Shrinkage just shrunk.

  • @robertbidochon7949
    @robertbidochon7949 Před 6 lety

    People! be the best you can be at maintaining those robots, you'll be able to charge these type of companies fortunes to fix their tools.

  • @mirandacampbell6385
    @mirandacampbell6385 Před 6 lety +2

    This is insane, definitely cuts the jobs of people but it's very cool though

    • @aleksandersuur9475
      @aleksandersuur9475 Před 3 lety +1

      It's just shifting the jobs around, that 40-80 mil might be investing in equipment rather than labor for warehouse company, but it's paycheck for the entire supply chain that actually makes and delivers the machinery. Robots don't get a paycheck, money in the end moves from pocket to pocket and only humans have those.

    • @mirandacampbell6385
      @mirandacampbell6385 Před 3 lety +1

      @@aleksandersuur9475 true people that make the robots get paid but what if the robots start making robots lol

  • @LarsLiveLaughLove
    @LarsLiveLaughLove Před 6 lety

    on-demand labor

  • @atlastobin7837
    @atlastobin7837 Před 6 lety +2

    Thank you for bringing on the next economic recession... good job!!!

  • @EricSmith-bx5lv
    @EricSmith-bx5lv Před 6 lety

    Why do I need a human to talk about robots?

  • @radekhurt5263
    @radekhurt5263 Před 5 lety

    You can have a chat with a robot..

  • @blackdragoninnovations3563

    Anyone else notice what looked to be a BLOOD SPLATTER MARK on one of the machines near the depalletizer at 0:53?

  • @jaredfontaine2002
    @jaredfontaine2002 Před 6 lety

    When can they start using this tech in airports? Tired of my bike being broken by handlers...

  • @couchpoet1
    @couchpoet1 Před 4 lety +4

    Who will the customers be when they have no money from jobs lost to automation? Yeah....

    • @vuyaki6366
      @vuyaki6366 Před 4 lety

      Gorvernment food stamps.! And they will feed you unhealthy food.

    • @someguy4915
      @someguy4915 Před 4 lety +1

      All the customers who have jobs which rely on skill, education and any level of thinking...
      These jobs are for people to just stand there with 2 arms, lifting stuff from A to B, people who lack any education.
      If years of education and effort is too difficult for those people, they could follow a 1 hour training on something and they would already be more useful anyway...
      So you lose the customers who refuse to train themselves along with the evolving world while you keep the vast majority of customers.

    • @couchpoet1
      @couchpoet1 Před 4 lety

      Some Guy
      I agree with your point, but it’s short sided. This “tech” will become our new way of life. Nothing you can pull from the past can be a comparison.
      But I digress...
      I have no interest in pulling more energy so I can consider myself to be right. Time will tell....and we shall see.

  • @user-xi1fj9wl9w
    @user-xi1fj9wl9w Před 5 lety

    40 to 80million, how many decades u need to pay off?

    • @JBB685
      @JBB685 Před 5 lety

      FUCKME when you double the amount of operating time, not long

  • @asteclimanossan2737
    @asteclimanossan2737 Před 5 lety

    Very expensive

  • @2368CHRIS
    @2368CHRIS Před 4 lety +1

    Designed by Greed

  • @BillyBigBalls770
    @BillyBigBalls770 Před 6 lety +2

    Don't show this video to the Polish.

  • @brucekwak2420
    @brucekwak2420 Před 5 lety

    Build all the robots you want you still have to by the electric off of me because I am the man

  • @brucekwak2420
    @brucekwak2420 Před 5 lety

    Want to be reel efficient. Just throw all the goods in the back of my car it will eliminate all trucks I can get rid of all the products faster than a store

  • @atlastobin7837
    @atlastobin7837 Před 6 lety +1

    Well they better pay for my basic income I swear to god...

  • @mordecaiesther3591
    @mordecaiesther3591 Před 5 lety

    Universal healthcare, basic income , cryptocurrency , and driverless cars and trucks .

    • @vinaybhat7670
      @vinaybhat7670 Před 4 lety

      so basically...u will stay as poor fr ever. who ever reachd richness level already, will stay rich for ever..we will b like a zoo animals aftr that..we should eat wat they give..🤦

    • @mikearanda3533
      @mikearanda3533 Před 3 lety

      @@vinaybhat7670 , it'll be like the Matrix - Brave New World style

  • @penguinmit
    @penguinmit Před 8 lety

    i don''t think space is really an issue in most parts of US.

    • @schwenda3727
      @schwenda3727 Před 7 lety +1

      hept yep; plenty of floodplains & cornfields off parts of the beltway to build a shopping mall-sized warehouse. Hell, how about someone CONVERT a VACANT shopping mall into a warehouse??!

    • @CarFreeSegnitz
      @CarFreeSegnitz Před 6 lety

      Building envelopes are cheap. You can slap up a minimally heated and lit warehouse in months. Given the cost of the automation ($40mil -$80mil) you'll probably buy the automation first then build the building envelope to suit it. Shoe-horning the automation into some abandonned mall or Walmart would probably end up costing more.
      If it were up to me I'd start with knowing my expected volume. Then analysize transportation for time and distance between factories and to my customers. Then buy a couple of acres with or without a building at or near the optimal location. Buy the automation suitable for the expected volume. Build the envelope suitable for the automation.

  • @TheEnigmaProductions
    @TheEnigmaProductions Před 7 lety +2

    This is dumb why even have a warehouse why doesn't the manufacturer deliver directly to the supermarket cut out the middle man

    • @yeehaw2810
      @yeehaw2810 Před 7 lety +12

      Enigma Productions its because 1 warehouse is used by multiple stores. so the manufactuter can make shorter trips. also it would clog up the parking lot and loading dock if you had 50 different companies arrive to you directly rather like 2 or 3 warehouse cars show up with mixed items

    • @TheEnigmaProductions
      @TheEnigmaProductions Před 7 lety

      Alright fair enough

    • @naturalisted1714
      @naturalisted1714 Před 7 lety +2

      Enigma Productions good question. I agree. Just buy direct and maybe have drones deliver it or something. It's time for a complete redo of our civilization- our tech has surpassed our stupid methods.

    • @cm6534
      @cm6534 Před 6 lety +2

      Ted Bolha maybe research how grocery distribution works. you are clueless. Do you have any idea how distribution in general works? plus refer to meows response.

    • @cm6534
      @cm6534 Před 6 lety +3

      show me a drone that can deliver 10 pallets of water. maybe a helicopter but not likely. Oh yeah and every company definitely has a factory right within drone range from the grocery store. and when that drone drops 60 40lb bags of potatoes on Grandma in the parking lot? know a little before you start talking... just a little....

  • @VeryFamousActor
    @VeryFamousActor Před 6 lety +8

    Automation isn't a problem under socialism. It's only a problem under Capitalism.

    • @SiisKolkytEuroo
      @SiisKolkytEuroo Před 6 lety +1

      SFRJ Patriota socialism is cancer that ruins everything it touches, the evidence is literally everywhere you look

    • @merkavah4
      @merkavah4 Před 5 lety +1

      Yes because there's no food under socialism and no automation in labour camps.

    • @mikearanda3533
      @mikearanda3533 Před 3 lety

      How's everyone enjoying their socialist stimulus checks? = )

  • @johnwayne3101
    @johnwayne3101 Před 7 lety

    Horrible!!

    • @ax2bxc
      @ax2bxc Před 6 lety +1

      Do you work at a warehouse