Thinking inside the box

[cjsmith]

Amazon’s new(ish) automated boxing machines. 5 times faster than humans and can do 700 boxes/hr.

https://youtu.be/U1yw05mWnXw

(NB: since I saw this at work, I do not know whether it has sound or if so what the sound is like.)

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Yeah... I think there was a story like that...

[eichin]

One of the more iconic ones was "There Will Come Soft Rains", Ray Bradbury (written in 1950 so the scene of automation continuing to operate in the wreckage was set in the vastly distant future of... 1985)