Workers, or "associates" can be required to walk up to 15 miles per day while picking products.
" It also said it had retained "an independent expert," who concluded that the job of picking products "does not increase the risk of mental and physical illness".
This contest, funded by Amazon, will involve robots identifying and picking products from shelves, much as humans do in Amazon's warehouses (see "Amazon Robot Contest May Accelerate Warehouse Automation").
At the heart of all e-commerce operations lies the warehouse, and the process of picking products to fill customer orders.
There was a great deal of product handling: picking products up; reading the back panel; comparing weights, prices, and ingredients; and putting products back on the shelf.
Still, at a time when most warehouse robots are essentially autonomous carts, there's something to be said for a fast-moving robot capable of actually picking products off of shelves.
He claimed he was laid off in post-holiday staffing cuts for not picking products fast enough.
The whole concept of picking products and finding suppliers was slightly overwhelming, but while browsing the Shopify App Store I found Oberlo.
He was eventually laid off in a series of post-holiday staffing cuts for allegedly not picking products fast enough, he said.
