Oleg Zabluda's blog
Friday, July 28, 2017
 
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Next Leap for Robots: Picking Out and Boxing Your Online Order
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U.S. e-commerce revenues hit $390 billion last year, [... ] U.S. warehouses added 262,000 jobs over the past five years, with nearly 950,000 people working in the sector, [...] Labor shortages are becoming more common, particularly during the holiday rush, and wages are climbing. [...] Picking is the biggest labor cost in most e-commerce distribution centers, and among the least automated. Swapping in robots could cut the labor cost of fulfilling online orders by a fifth,
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/next-leap-for-robots-picking-out-and-boxing-your-online-order-1500807601
https://www.wsj.com/articles/next-leap-for-robots-picking-out-and-boxing-your-online-order-1500807601

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