The purpose of the looking at the future...is to disturb the present!

Gaston Berger (1896-1960), francuski futurolog

Amazon Testing Humanoid Robots to Ride in Vans, Hand-Deliver Packages

Amazon drivers have a hard gig. They've struggled for years against long hours with limited breaks, unreasonable delivery quotas, and wage theft — not to mention repressive union busting efforts to make sure none of that changes. Those are the conditions which led the Teamsters to launch the largest labor strike against Amazon in US history just days before Christmas of last year. But as calls grow to stop treating its workers like robots, Amazon has decided to cut out the middle man, and just use actual robots. That seems to be the goal, at least, behind a new robotics facility meant […]


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