Amazon hid its safety crisis
&gt; The robots were too efficient. They could bring items so quickly that the productivity expectations for workers more than doubled, according to a former senior operations manager who saw the transformation. And they kept climbing. At the most common kind of warehouse, workers called pickers – who previously had to grab and scan about 100 items an hour – were expected to hit rates of up to 400 an hour at robotic fulfillment centers.<p>The gist of the message above. It seems that robots made the process so efficient that workers were suffering from repetitive motion injuries.<p>It also would seemed to be a matter of time that the packing&#x2F;picking will be fully replaced by robots. At which time Amazon will no longer have a safety issue, but an entire separate political issue.