Yes, Robots May be Coming for Your Job

“It doesn’t smoke, is always in good health, isn’t chatting with its neighbors, no toilet breaks,...It’s more efficient.”

     That was a quote from a story in the N.Y. Times last week that was a warning cry to people who work in jobs in which sorting is one of the simple humans-only skills they are paid to employ.

    The story reports on a new robot that can pick boxes out of  case and decide where they need to be placed. Sounds simple, but till now it has been outside the scope of AI machines.

"Inside the German warehouse, the robot can pick and sort more than 10,000 different items, and it does this with more than 99 percent accuracy..."