https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE
Ho. Lee. sh##.
I have chills watching this.
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Sent to my daughter's math classes at the SC School of Math & Science. Gonna be required to watch.
Wow. It's just a matter of time until Amazon and The Hive and whatnot can apply enough pressure on producers to make bot-friendly packaging. It also changes the whole calculus of shelf-space and fronting.
Yes or no: in the future, there will be no unskilled labor?
Thinking about it, unskilled labor is a "recent" invention in human history. In a hunter-gatherer society there was no unskilled labor. Agriculture brings some unskilled labor, but most early ag is mostly skilled labor. Then we get the factory system and factory ag that were designed to make the cogs (i.e. workers) interchangeable at the lowest possible transition cost. That created, as far as I can see, the era of unskilled labor, a brief anomaly in the 350,000-year history of humanity. I wonder if that anomaly is ending.
My main concern is whether they'd crush a loaf of bread. Potential bug issue 'place bread in last'.