This video shows two Amazon warehouse robots, each carrying a package, getting into some kind of dance. It could also look like one is bullying the other by preventing it from escaping a difficult position. I guess we’ll never know the end of that story. Human intervention sounds definitely necessary.
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Amazon warehouse workers in Europe stage ‘we are not robots’ protests
The conditions our members at Amazon are working under are frankly inhuman. They are breaking bones, being knocked unconscious and being taken away in ambulances. We’re standing up and saying enough is enough, these are people making Amazon its money. People with kids, homes, bills to pay — they’re not robots.
Does he have a favourite robot? “I actually do. 64117. There’s a kind of leaderboard system that tracks each drive unit [a droid in Amazon lingo, Ed.], and I follow them all. 64117 has travelled only 164 metres the whole time it’s been here. It’s the laziest drive we’ve got. It’s got the work/life balance worked out.”