Lowe's Newest Sales Associate - A robot Vol. Dey took our jerbs

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Lowe's is set to unleash a retail-ready, multilingual robot. The project is designed to help shoppers navigate stores quickly and easily.

"People want to come in and find exactly where they want to go," said Kyle Nel, executive director of Lowe's Innovation Labs. "And they want to have a conversation instead of trying to find a map."

Customers can talk to the robot, OSHbot, like they to would speak to a typical sales associate, and it recognizes and responds in multiple languages. It's equipped with a screen that shoppers move through "Minority Report-style" -- it recognizes hand gestures made in front of the screen and can be used as a typical touch screen as well. OSHbot is also mobile and will roll up to customers to greet and escort them through the aisles.

Outfitted with a 3D scanner, OSHbot can help shoppers locate items, even if they don't know what they're called. For example, customers can scan a screw or nail brought from home, and OSHbot will search its database to locate it in the store or online.

The robots were born out of the Lowe's Innovation Lab, an experimental department that works with science-fiction writers and startups to solve consumer problems with technology.


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Huehuehue, Panera getting rid of cashiers, Lowe's starting to roll out robots, keep up the "$15/hr fast food wage" protests and robots will start making your Whoppers.

http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/meet-lowe-s-newest-sales-associate-oshbot-robot/295591/
 
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Que? It was bound to happen sooner or later they are gonna take all our jobs. 
 
Well... This is what I've been trying to tell my friends...

When lower skilled workers ask for higher wages, the companies will look to replace them.

It sucks how inflation has outpaced minimum wage at such a high clip...

But it is what it is.

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Que? It was bound to happen sooner or later they are gonna take all our jobs. 
Nah b.



I'm glad though, tired of these people asking for 15/hr flipping burgers.

Ridiculous.

Well damn, bruh :lol:

I guess im ine of those poor naive souls that wishes we could live in a country where "these people" could make $15 an hour flipping burgers.
 
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Nah b.



I'm glad though, tired of these people asking for 15/hr flipping burgers.

Ridiculous.
A couple of questions for you. Do you truly understand the economics regarding the cost of living? If you claim yes, where did you receive this education on the issue?
 
Were people this mad about self-checkout stations replacing actual cashiers in grocery stores?
 
 
Nah b.




I'm glad though, tired of these people asking for 15/hr flipping burgers.


Ridiculous.
A couple of questions for you. Do you truly understand the economics regarding the cost of living? If you claim yes, where did you receive this education on the issue?
If a machine can do it, why the hell would businesses give 15/hr? Honestly what incentive do they have?


I have a bachelors in economics ***** boy.

Why do you care about the business's financials so much? Is it fair for a CEO to take home a 7 figure bonus while the person putting in the actual work can't even afford rent?

I mean, the idea that someone can work 40 hours a week and not be able to live is sad.
 
so raising minimum wage is similar to the banks "too big to fail" argument?

like, if these huge companies are bullied on minimum wage - they just gonna use robots cause they are so powerful they can?

so we should all just suck it up and shut up?
 
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Why do you care about the business's financials so much? Is it fair for a CEO to take home a 7 figure bonus while the person putting in the actual work can't even afford rent?

I mean, the idea that someone can work 40 hours a week and not be able to live is sad.
In some cases... Yes... The CEO is worth the 7 figure payout while the other guys aren't...
 
I would believe so... in an Economy where most of the jobs for the lower income already leave people under the poverty line.... they are now taking away more and more jobs from those people but not offering adequate training for other jobs. it's only so long people can not care about the lower class
 
 
 
 
Nah b.




I'm glad though, tired of these people asking for 15/hr flipping burgers.


Ridiculous.
A couple of questions for you. Do you truly understand the economics regarding the cost of living? If you claim yes, where did you receive this education on the issue?
If a machine can do it, why the hell would businesses give 15/hr? Honestly what incentive do they have?


I have a bachelors in economics ***** boy.
Why do you care about the business's financials so much? Is it fair for a CEO to take home a 7 figure bonus while the person putting in the actual work can't even afford rent?

I mean, the idea that someone can work 40 hours a week and not be able to live is sad.
Like the person said above, these aren't meant to be careers, and those who do make it a career, work really really hard to move up in the company quickly.

My first job I was paid 6/hr at Champs.

I got 1% commision and incentive pay for selling cleaners and insoles. It was enough at 16 yrs old to not ask my parents for spending money. I then left champs and went to wells fargo to be a teller for 10/hr. Then I got an intership for 12/hr. 

Now, at 22. I just got my b.a. My pay was raised to 45,000. I don't make bank. I live a modest life by working hard.

you can easily work as a cashier at mcdonalds, gain enough skills, and apply to be a teller, from teller you can move up.

It should be a stop gap, not a goddamn career.
 
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Just given the speed of technology this was gonna happen sans the politics. Honestly, I'm appreciative when I get that automated voice and it does everything I want/need. Saves time and frustration.
 
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