Rabois: Outsider robotics firms will fail to replace warehouse workers
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Venture capitalist Keith Rabois discusses the economic and operational viability of automating light industrial warehouse labor with robotics.
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“Some company from afar that doesn't understand how a warehouse works, that doesn't understand real workers and what real workers, you know, needs are and tries to run a mixed system without having any understanding of real people. I don't think it's going to be very successful. And I don't think we're ready to rip out and the long tail fragmented sense light industrial that the investment required for robotics throughout all the humans. Yeah. Isn't going to be economically feasible.”
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