Short piece on the implications.
Watch: How Are AI and Robotics Changing Logistics?
March 30, 2022 Robert J. Bowman, in SupplyChainBrain
Oliver Hedgepeth, professor of logistics with American Public University System online, offers guidance on what warehouse employers and workers must do to adjust to the new age of automation.
The increasing reliance by warehouse and logistics operations on robot arms is just a continuation of a trend toward automation that had been evident for a century or more. But the pace of automation, driven by advances in robotics and artificial intelligence, has quickened with the COVID-19 pandemic, as workers were forced to go home and refused to return to the workplace. “Where we are now [with automation] is where we would be in five years without the pandemic,” Hedgepeth says. ... '
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