Back in 2021 Tesla appointed Chris Walti as head of the Optimus team. Walti played an integral role in developing the foundations of Tesla’s humanoid robot division. Walti didn’t believe a humanoid form factor was optimal for warehousing and left Tesla in 2022 to found his own robotics company- Mytra Robotics. Walti along with former Tesla colleague Baitalmal developed Mytra, a robot that moves palletised product around a warehouse on motorised platforms- completely mitigating the need for human operated high reach forklifts.
As someone who works in warehousing this really hits close to home. I can’t imagine seeing all my colleagues out of a job because of this robot. Our warehouse employs over one hundred people working as high reach forklift operators, pickers and stagers. To see that the forkies job is gone is actually really shocking for me. I thought we had more time but seems Mytra will wash away this world just as Optimus will wash away every other job. I really don’t think people understand how disruptive this technology is going to be.
And what’s worse with the housing crisis here in Brisbane completely out of control it’s obvious the government or these big tech companies aren’t going to step in to help. 70% of my income is going on basic necessities- rent, food, petrol. Basically a hand-to-mouth existence. Affordable rental accommodation is impossible to find, leaving many one or two pay checks away from living homeless in a tent.
Here is a photo of the inside of the warehouse I work at showing how palletised product is stored on high racking. With the pick face below where you see the empty boxes. Pickers like myself collect product from boxes on the lower shelf on electric pallet jacks to fulfil shop orders which are palletised and go out to stores.
We need complete government overhaul to set up society for when all these jobs go- we can’t continue how we are now, expecting people to find another job when there are no jobs. What on earth are the entire warehouse staff expected to do? We just had an influx of people last year joining our warehouse from another warehouse that had been completely automated by robots. From the rumours I’ve heard, our company is waiting to see how the other companies warehouse goes before going down the automation route with us. Sad!!!
The ridiculous part is each order we send out is worth around $8k. It’s typical to do 20 orders per person per day, the equivalent of two yearly staff wages. Consider there are around 100 staff members working the pick face daily and all YEARLY staff wages for the entire site of around 140 people are generated in ONE day of production, meaning the company is profiting the other 364 days! To say automation is a cost savings issue is ridiculous!
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As someone who works in warehousing this really hits close to home. I can’t imagine seeing all my colleagues out of a job because of this robot. Our warehouse employs over one hundred people working as high reach forklift operators, pickers and stagers. To see that the forkies job is gone is actually really shocking for me. I thought we had more time but seems Mytra will wash away this world just as Optimus will wash away every other job. I really don’t think people understand how disruptive this technology is going to be.
And what’s worse with the housing crisis here in Brisbane completely out of control it’s obvious the government or these big tech companies aren’t going to step in to help. 70% of my income is going on basic necessities- rent, food, petrol. Basically a hand-to-mouth existence. Affordable rental accommodation is impossible to find, leaving many one or two pay checks away from living homeless in a tent.
Here is a photo of the inside of the warehouse I work at showing how palletised product is stored on high racking. With the pick face below where you see the empty boxes. Pickers like myself collect product from boxes on the lower shelf on electric pallet jacks to fulfil shop orders which are palletised and go out to stores.
We need complete government overhaul to set up society for when all these jobs go- we can’t continue how we are now, expecting people to find another job when there are no jobs. What on earth are the entire warehouse staff expected to do? We just had an influx of people last year joining our warehouse from another warehouse that had been completely automated by robots. From the rumours I’ve heard, our company is waiting to see how the other companies warehouse goes before going down the automation route with us. Sad!!!
The ridiculous part is each order we send out is worth around $8k. It’s typical to do 20 orders per person per day, the equivalent of two yearly staff wages. Consider there are around 100 staff members working the pick face daily and all YEARLY staff wages for the entire site of around 140 people are generated in ONE day of production, meaning the company is profiting the other 364 days! To say automation is a cost savings issue is ridiculous!
Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...nd-boost-economic-productivity-302203397.html
Elon Musk dreams of thousands of robots working in factories. Tesla's first Optimus lead has doubts.
Chris Walti, the former team lead for Tesla's robot, said humanoid robots like Optimus were the wrong option for factory work.
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