{"id":11897,"date":"2023-10-19T05:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/fears-of-employee-displacement-as-amazon-brings-robots-into-warehouses\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T05:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:37:22","slug":"fears-of-employee-displacement-as-amazon-brings-robots-into-warehouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/fears-of-employee-displacement-as-amazon-brings-robots-into-warehouses\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digit will begin its time on the floor by shifting empty tote boxes amid concerns humans will be shifted out of jobs<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is experimenting with a humanoid robot as the technology company increasingly seeks to automate its warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>It has started testing Digit, a two-legged \u200br\u200bobot that can grasp and lift items, at facilities this week. The device is first being used to shift empty tote boxes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/18\/amazon-robot-warehouses-digit-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3d0d824f6bcf086de65c2eeffa20d1fde9329ae5\/0_137_4200_2520\/master\/4200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4934d8f115cf608cf503b4bed39d9199\" title=\"Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses\" \/>Digit will begin its time on the floor by shifting empty tote boxes amid concerns humans will be shifted out of jobs<br \/>\nAmazon is experimenting with a humanoid robot as the technology company increasingly seeks to automate its warehouses.<br \/>\nIt has started testing Digit, a two-legged \u200br\u200bobot that can grasp and lift items, at facilities this week. The device is first being used to shift empty tote boxes. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digit will begin its time on the floor by shifting empty tote boxes amid concerns humans will be shifted out of jobs Amazon is experimenting with a humanoid robot as the technology company increasingly seeks to automate its warehouses. It has started testing Digit, a two-legged \u200br\u200bobot that can grasp and lift items, at facilities &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/fears-of-employee-displacement-as-amazon-brings-robots-into-warehouses\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}