{"id":258515,"date":"2022-10-19T13:05:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=258515"},"modified":"2022-10-19T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:30:48","slug":"warehouse-giants-like-amazon-and-others-are-desperate-for-more-robots-but-human-workers-worry-they-make-the-job-more-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/warehouse-giants-like-amazon-and-others-are-desperate-for-more-robots-but-human-workers-worry-they-make-the-job-more-dangerous","title":{"rendered":"Warehouse giants like Amazon and others are desperate for more robots, but human workers worry they make the job more dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A robot sorting and stacking bins at an Amazon fulfillment center in Eastvale, California, on August 31, 2021. MediaNews Group\/The Riverside Press-Enterprise via Getty Images As a new workday dawns in the warehouse, workers take their places around the floor to start their shifts. So, too, do their mechanical counterparts: Robots roll away from the charging docks where they&#8217;ve been sleeping all night, receive their first instructions about the day&#8217;s responsibilities, and get to work. These machines, which look and act like self-driving shelves, are called autonomous mobile robots. The FlexShelf by Fetch Robotics , for instance, is a bot on wheels that can be equipped with up to three customizable baskets meant to accommodate whatever needs to be carried. It receives orders from a software system that tells humans and bots alike which items to grab in whatever order makes the process more efficient. A worker may spend their day in a small section of the warehouse picking items<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The automated warehouse is here &#8212; and with it come questions about how well, and how safely, machines and humans can work side by side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}