Not only that, but nobody uses them for warehouse automation either.
Posted on 10/11/2021 8:01:33 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
There's a new addition to Greece's postal service: a fleet of yellow robots sorting through the mail.
Fifty-five small, four-wheeled autonomous mobile robots -- or AMR's -- powered by artificial intelligence, glide around Hellenic Post's sorting centre in Athens, speeding up an often arduous process.
They scan the postal code, weigh the package and, directed by sensors, empty it into the corresponding mail sacks set up around a platform.
The robots are part of the state-owned company's digital restructuring programme, which aims to tackle growing numbers of parcels from online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.
"Until recently, sorting has been carried out by manual labour with a high demand in time, often with errors occurring, causing delivery delays for our customers and increased costs for the company," Hellenic Post Chief Executive George Constantopoulos told Reuters.
Up to 80% of parcel sorting has been handed over to the robots and Constantopoulos said the process was up to three times faster, ensuring next-day delivery.
The robots can handle as many as 168,000 parcels weighing up to 15 kg a day and only need to be recharged every four hours for 5 minutes.
"The purpose is not to replace human workers with robots, but rather to augment human workforces and make them more efficient," Constantopoulos said.
If the government did that here, it would be with the intent of controlling the election result.
Just more hi tech toys to break and fail.
Just more work for me.
I’m a Blade Runner.
I “retire” malfunctioning robots.
It sounded like a good idea, but the robots just sat around in cafes all day drinking coffee and ouzo ...
Ha. That’s a good one!
Oh, sure….they may look like a cute little vacuum cleaner robot, but they secretly want to be humans so they can, I don’t know, maybe have toenails to clip or something.
I don’t care.
I retire them so they can get welfare like all the other illegal aliens.
It’s a job.
hell, we had a mail robot in the 80’s followed a line on the hallway floor...
Not only that, but nobody uses them for warehouse automation either.
Can you tell me what a retired mail carrier pension is? Let’s say 30 years of service. I wonder if they can live on that bloated pension alone? Just curious if you know the dollar amount? Since the USPS is severely understaffed, maybe I’ll apply
Most people have a particular need for a job that has nothing to do with money. Yes. We all want to earn cash, but along with that, we want to feel needed or necessary. I’m speaking of pre retirement years.
Some people use their job as a calming narcotic. It takes their minds off of a troublesome or less than fulfilling private life.
Robots are not going to fix that.
Work for 30 years and end up at $40/hour with two months a year vacation. Retire and get that same $40/hour for the rest of your life.
UAW is the same which is why the factories moved to Mexico.
Lmao. That’s what I thought, you know absolutely nothing about USPS pensions. And no city carrier is making $40/hr after 30 years. Nice try though 🤡
The max vacation is 5 weeks. Lol
My sister and wife worked for USPS. After less than 15 years full time, my sister was already getting close to the $30/hour mark as a rural carrier.
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=U.S._Postal_Service_(USPS)/Salary
Depends on the position of course. Postmaster(running a post office) damn sure does make $40+
Carrier listed as $62 avg which is $30/hour based on 40 hours
.01 percent of your high 3 salary, at say 70k per year you get paid $21000/ year....good luck retiring on that! Lmao ..
No need to lecture me on the USPS 30 years of service now retired.....and no, I can’t live on my pension alone. Your sister better be aggressively investing in her TSP if she wants to retire comfortably
You have to black to work for the post office.
"Hello, Newmanopoulos".
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