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Gari_305 OP t1_iumkrwy wrote

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>There are many, many other examples, but the point of nearly all of them is that you’ll have much better dating prospects if you’re forklift certified.
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>But I have bad news for the guys out there in that oh-so-exclusive club of certified operators who are never lonely on Friday night. A recent press release from BMW shows us that the machines want in on the action. Not only are they going to steal your lucrative forklift job at the local warehouse, but they’re probably going to steal your ladies, too.
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>BMW i Ventures has announced its lead investment in Fox Robotics, the world’s first intelligent forklift that can autonomously unload pallets from the trailer to the receiving dock. The oversubscribed funding round raised a total of $20 million from new and existing investors. New investors include Zebra Technologies, Japan Airlines & Translink Innovation Fund, and Foothill Ventures. Existing investors Menlo Ventures, ENIAC Ventures, and SignalFire also participated in the round.

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FuturologyBot t1_iumq63c wrote

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From the Article

>There are many, many other examples, but the point of nearly all of them is that you’ll have much better dating prospects if you’re forklift certified.
>
>But I have bad news for the guys out there in that oh-so-exclusive club of certified operators who are never lonely on Friday night. A recent press release from BMW shows us that the machines want in on the action. Not only are they going to steal your lucrative forklift job at the local warehouse, but they’re probably going to steal your ladies, too.
>
>BMW i Ventures has announced its lead investment in Fox Robotics, the world’s first intelligent forklift that can autonomously unload pallets from the trailer to the receiving dock. The oversubscribed funding round raised a total of $20 million from new and existing investors. New investors include Zebra Technologies, Japan Airlines & Translink Innovation Fund, and Foothill Ventures. Existing investors Menlo Ventures, ENIAC Ventures, and SignalFire also participated in the round.


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Pellepon t1_iumtyky wrote

Why does this article sound like it was written by someone who never got over their girlfriend leaving them for a certified forklift operator?

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xXchicken_zillaXx t1_iun0vz5 wrote

Damnn couldn't get anymore girls without my forklift certification 😔

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CreamFilledLlama t1_iun8k2f wrote

Yeah..., these guys are nowhere close to the first. The person who wrote this press release was either wilfully ignorant of the industry or the company didn't do any market research. Automated forklifts have been around for a long time to various degrees in the industry. There have been quite a few startups looking to make them much better and able to work alongside humans for at least the last decade. (I've tested out some of these systems.)

Ah, and look here an actual implemented solution from 2 years ago vs something that Im sure works well in a lab: https://youtu.be/sU4Gj92tpU4

Edit: Oh, I actually visited these guys in Austin for a demo 4 years ago or so. (If not these guys then someone in Austin selling the exact same thing of retrofitting existing lifts.) Not bad technology and pretty flexible.

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CreamFilledLlama t1_iuo1vki wrote

You're welcome. I did a bit of work looking into automation in warehouses back then and while we are on the cusp we aren't entirely there for everything. (Quite a few situations do ROI out now and it will only get better.) My notes on these guys was that if you are still looking to ROI out on your existing fleet of MHE in a standard warehouse space it's not a bad option. If you are planning automation from the start though there are better options.

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Black_RL t1_iuoezrb wrote

No job is safe! Not a single one!

We need our politicians to start seriously considering UBI.

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