Walmart to hire robots

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#1

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/09/business/walmart-robots-retail-jobs/index.html

Behold:

Inventory scanning robot and floor washing robot.

Walmart's shelf-scanning robot moves around aisles and identifies which items are low or out of stock.

Walmart will deploy 920-pound autonomous floor scrubbers in 1,860 of its stores by next year.

Soon to be vandalized in a Walmart near you.

#2

How do you hire a robot exactly? Inb4 they unionize and start demanding better pay and working conditions

#3

If they just replaced the fat people carts with those floor washing robots it wouldn’t need the expensive autopilot.

#4

why no picture of the android that rides the floor washing robot?

#5

but…but…but I thought raising the minimum wage would help lift the lowest decile out of poverty and companies would happily pay for the $15/hour minimum wage when the worker’s actual input is worth $6.25/hour. This is shocking! Maybe we should ban robots too?!

#6