Same could be said for using a saw, or electricity.

If its designed correctly, conforms to safety requirements, there is no real risk to human health.

Of course a not can always crash, but that should be accounted for and tested against much like go carts on a track

I work for warehouse automation too. It absolutely works. Its just very carefully, meticulously planned. Every tiny edge case is accounted for. Hell. We measure the floor for difference in height to the mm where 3 is a big issue.

There’s lot of types of warehouse automation outside of a robot skating on the ground picking up pallets or cases or anything. As in, there are certainly automation systems that work alongside people or other different bots that absolutely thrash the throughput of a typical warehouse operation

Walmart merely made a number of very stupid decisions when entering the automation game, but to them its drops in a bucket. They’ll just move on to the next one

Sci fi and lds man. Yeah, I looked it up and was very disappointed. I had never looked up anything about him personally before that

Omg… About to go find out why I should stop reading Orson Scott Card… Thanks a ton OP.