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Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced. - Digit is a humanoid bipedal robot from Agility Robotics. (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Digit costs about $10 to $12 an hour to operate right now, based on its price and lifespan, but the company predicts that cost to drop to $2 to $3 an hour plus overhead software costs as production ramps up, Agility Robotics CEO Damion Shelton told Bloomberg.

So the guy selling robots makes that unsubstantiated claim and works in a qualifier about software fees because even using fake numbers they know they'll never actually be that low.

Also, nothing stops encouraging the robots to join a union using the methods Teamsters usually employ.