Could ‘intelligent’ forklifts be the future of industry? - BBC News

The humble forklift has been the backbone of industry for more than 100 years - and now they’re getting a 21st Century makeover.
Fox Robotics have created the world’s first ‘intelligent’ forklift.
Beyond being self-driving, it can upload and offload packages completely autonomously.
What could this mean for the future of manufacturing?
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[@titteryenot4524]

The many forklift drivers around the world must be feeling this is unpalletable.

[@st20332]

@@sirensynapse5603 I see what you didn't do there. Forker.

[@desire_002]

It can unload 25 in an hour I've unloaded like 15 in 10 minutes

[@titteryenot4524]

@@desire_002 You can’t stop it. The technological wave is gonna engulf you, but I dig your resistance.

[@st20332]

@DESIRE it's called scaling, they train it with the basic manuervuers, and doing it slowly for safety, and as time goes on it'll be updated for more complex manuervuers. The more new situations it faces, the faster and smarter it'll be.

[@desire_002]

@@st20332 i know all about it. Skilled forkies can move pretty fast probably too fast for a robot to trust at this time

[@kennyolivess]

First AI came for the journalists,and I said nothing, because I am not a journalist Then AI came for artists, and I said nothing because I am not an artist. But now infront of me as a certified forklift technician…. I am devastated

[@murr9704]

I’m a tech 2 bro as long as you update your skills you’ll be alright forklifts don’t fix themselves!!

[@lennonhendrixamaru5800]

Don't be devastated. Them things will only work on perfect pallets and in a perfect world. They're more apt to kill someone or run off a dock than a human is.

[@hewhohasnoidentity4377]

​@@lennonhendrixamaru5800 Actually, they are very unlikely to kill someone or run off a dock. Limitations are easy to program into them. They never get lazy or distracted. They follow rules 100% of the time. There are lots of potential issues with automated forklifts, but not killing people or running off a dock.

[@zakyvids6566]

I have a feeling this will repeat for a lot of industries for some it will take time but eventually this is we ware heading

[@DogeHandle]

Al forklift mechanic 👨‍🔧 is next year

[@chadimirputin2282]

And there goes more jobs due to money saving automation. 😂

[@TheSLOShadow]

I have no problems with robots taking over these mindless jobs. Or were the reports coming out of Amazon with workers pissing in bottles like monkeys in a cage something u want to see more of. There will still be need for customer service and maintenance. If all ur going to do in life is get a GED or highschool diploma and call it good enough, ur just gonna have a hard time. Unskilled labor jobs are out. What is an unskilled job? Something u can teach a robot to do. Power to the people, join a union

[@chadimirputin2282]

@TheSLOShadow power to the people? Join a union? 🤣 there aren't enough customer service jobs available, nor maintenance jobs, a lot of people rely on theses types of jobs to feed their families and keep a roof over their heads and if this automated forklifts were implemented countrywide tens of thousands of people would be out of jobs, the kind of thing unions are fighting against. 👍 your concept on reality is absolutely farcical.

[@st20332]

@TheSLOShadow except there are specialised AIs that can do both the examples you gave as 'but there'll always be...' I guess the question becomes, if labour isn't the currency of workers, what will be?

[@danielcasey7385]

Pretty sure these things don't maintain themselves.

[@chadimirputin2282]

@Daniel Casey pretty sure it takes less people to service them than to drive forklifts. 🫡

[@Alexzw92]

This is very cool tech, but only moving 25 pallets per hour is really slow

[@Saidifect]

It's a start model....

[@nickg2561]

But if two of these cost less than 1 person....

[@promx96]

no breaks no days off 24/7

[@ivanov4999]

Bro, they call it a logistic chain

[@phirane1292]

As someone who's done this job, they have a long way to go. I see in the video a bunch of pristinely wrapped pallets in brand new condition. Reality is most trucks are packed like hot garbage and the pallets are overlapping each other and falling apart, often with the entire stack of boxes leaning due to being in a trailer on roads and highways for hours or days. Also a human can go over twice as fast. It's a neat idea but there are a lot of things that will make these more of a nuisance you constantly have to babysit than something useful.

[@simonquemo7525]

Probably why they are getting robots the way those pallets are stacked makes me wonder about the stackers 😂

[@FileForename]

But as an ex forklift driver I can admit what one forklift driver could potentially operate few of this machines at same time :( machines taking our jobs,not foreigners :(

[@curiositycloset2359]

Don't worry, the higher ups will lose their jobs before the scivies, that's just the fact

[@grafito4438]

Yes indeed, and space is a premium so if you don't cram in those pallets then they'll have to wait till the next truck. Which won't make your customers happy at all.

[@FileForename]

@@curiositycloset2359 I hope so. But corporations owners won't lose their jobs. And also those who lose their jobs( whoever they are) will start to compete with others.

[@roshanjay7]

If anyone thinks this sort of thing ends with just replacing working-class jobs, you’re going to be in for a real shock.

[@sujitisbm]

Great to see people with disability doing good in life !

[@warriorssoldiersandfriends]

Damn and I just got fork lift certified

[@bicknell67]

Lol your still good these robots won't become mainstream till several years from now.

[@aeris...5389]

Im worried this fella will replace all my lazy co workers

[@berserkirclaws107]

2:18 if you was "use to the fact this is just driving around by itself" , would you keep looking every second behind you ?🤣 I know I wouldn't get use anytime soon!

[@markplain2555]

I you keep looking at it - you not gona get any work done and they may need to replace you.

[@berserkirclaws107]

If you slow down this video to x0.25 at 3:22 you will see the reality of warehouse work and the difficult a forklift like this would imply! Warehouse major problem is space and unless you invest a lot in space management your warehouse can not run an "intelligent" forklift or it will have a breakdown like real forklift operator!

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[@iamdmc]

Paul's quickly becoming my favourite journalist!

[@michac3796]

Really? I've got a distinct adversarial gaze from him towards the people explaining.

[@mrthai-rg9nv]

defundpaulswages

[@richard7645]

He's nothing but a yes man

[@AlbertoHernandez-ow3xh]

There goes my certification

[@MrLoobu]

If you come up with a robot that can replace us industrial kitchen workers, let me know, they can have it lol.

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

Finding cheap warehouse labor is hard. Always put the word cheap in front of labor and you're much more likely to get a true sentence. Hopefully, people will stop lying about labor some day.

[@xcviij7045]

All working class will soon be obsolete. The only way individuals can feel any protection is if they develop new creative businesses themselves or get passive business models which self-generate money. I find it hilarious when the working class are feeling more and more threatened by automation and AI as it wipes out industries, this is only expected it's nothing out of the ordinary and people have had their entire lives to learn these risks.

[@TheEndofZombieShakespeare]

What are the gender and pronouns of these forklifts?

[@abrakkehakka1357]

Neuter… and “it”… in the English language. And if you had done your homework-instead of doing like most when it comes grammar and had the non existing dog eat it-you’d know. Although some languages have more genders than the English… up to 20. But I have not idea what gender forklifts have in those languages. Since it is a non living physical entity I would suspect it’s language gender is in most something that isn’t associated much with human-gender attributes or sexual attributes. Although I bet some can associate this thing with either a specific human sex or a specific human gender…. or both… so who knows (but the language expert). Languages are also “living” and changes as we uses them. And it happens that languages adds or deducts genuses once in a while. Right now our languages are changing quite rapidity as the world we live in changes rapidly. And I know at least one language that has added gender pronouns in just the last few years. But the dialect I speak only has two… but it’s not always clear what gender a thing is… it can change depending on the situation and who’s speaking to whom. If this dialect would ever evolve, I would actually put my money on it reducing the genders to one. Or that may perhaps not be evolving, but regressing.

[@springbok4015]

There goes another load of jobs thanks to the techbros. I found what he said at 3:05 to be hard to believe and sounds like a pre-planned excuse.

[@markplain2555]

Can I suggest you google 'craigslist' for any major city in North America and check out the job postings for warehouse staff. I can tell you that here in Toronto, there is a dramatic shortage of warehouse staff.

[@SKINNYJNOW]

And he also avoided the question about putting people out of jobs

[@shad118]

Even the guy is half robot the future is here

[@ryandavids]

Well i'll have to find a new job then i guess

[@t.c.4321]

Short answer, no. Anyone who works in industry with machinery they will tell you the same. Machines are always breaking down

[@hannaht2068]

Even if a person is driving . it can still break down.

[@reeling-in]

Intelligence from the BBC next!😂

[@ToyotatechDK]

We sell quite a lot of AGV’s at Toyota but I still think they are way too slow compared to regular operators

[@chhewee]

They have intelligent floor cleaners in the grocery market,soooo👍

[@ascgazz]

Ok, SO WHEN SO WE START DISCUSSING UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME? we’re soon going to have more people than jobs for them. Ai isn’t slowing down soon 🤷🏼‍♂️ Wakey wakey folks.

[@Allen-d7l]

there isn't going to be one. we are heading into a post-scarcity society where every basic needs will be met

[@ascgazz]

@@Allen-d7l I wouldn’t rely on that at all that if I were you. Allow me to introduce you to humans, we will fuck it up. I mean, all you’re doing is trolling strangers… what makes your statement valuable outside of your own mind? Where’s your evidence? Listen to Elon Musk too much perhaps? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I definitely get that fake idol worshipping bullshit kind of vibe from you, to be honest. ..then believing you know it all… Very amusing, but 3/10, wouldn’t recommend.

[@ascgazz]

@@Allen-d7l describe how we will find “meaningful purpose” and the positive emotion it allows?

[@abrakkehakka1357]

And everyone who has got a toddler knows an intelligent fork would be great too.

[@FileForename]

I wonder what next generations will be doing for a living. Probably fighting for survival, as no jobs will be available :(

[@public.public]

How many will die becaue this 'bright' idea?

[@donr2352]

1st time I've seen them on a trailer 🤯 🙂 lfg.. these will be effective efficient cost savers... I've been watching their progress.. won't replace everyone... lol but some 🙂

[@Ambient_Scenes]

This video is amazing in so many ways. Props to all those guys!

[@davidgray8321]

You vil own nothing and you vil be happy.

[@jimcourt9164]

Will make 1000s of men redundant … BBC must be delighted

[@abbaskhan6375]

So , making more humans , unemployed

[@johnlawrencecomonpiensenab6057]

Giving limited oxygen to the Patient while wounded increases the risk of death. Give food always for energy And Water for hydration.

[@sunnyfairclough2906]

Replacing intelligent people?

[@msingh2333]

This is what strikes lead to

[@pgohearn]

Tech replacing human intelligence is good for profits.

[@SVanTha]

you can't fool me ChatGPT. you'll never take over the world in my lifetime.

[@chapelknight951]

It's hard to imagine it could stack tall pallets of product. Detecting a balance shift in the load would be difficult as well. Also, overhead objects in relation to both the mast and the loaded pallet are critical obstacles. Pretty cool overall for what it is, though.

[@SVanTha]

there's unloading and loading duties. the robots can definitely unload, but maybe the humans can load and stack. you're probably still cutting your work force in half...which companies will see as win/win.

[@marioh_flores]

Yeah they said somewhere I’d the forklift takes half as long as a person but needs no lunch break or a paycheck or sick days it will be worth it but for more random pick up environment this will not work

[@aeris...5389]

Whats great about this fella is that i dont have to pay it health insurance and it wont ever have a family to go home too

[@randomcommenter4719]

I mean yes. Its the future. For now its slow though haha. 25 an hour is not fast enough where I work.

[@aeris...5389]

We take away its bathroom privileges so it work harder

[@abdielver69]

Well my certification is kinda useless now😢

[@iv6436]

we still got some time though

[@Umayyadazi]

1:47 Young hide the pain Harold

[@SteveXNYC]

Look at the guy and his wife that made it.🤣😂... history truth

[@keikantsemarata6839]

What fuel do they work on?

[@Darien135]

For freight companies I don't think it could work.

[@K04L44]

It’s already happening for freight companies, they’ve got automated TUGS in Singapore that tow containers autonomously to a human crane loader for loading

[@farhanabdulhamid4214]

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[@juanchocostone]

There is no distribution center that clean Pallets break down every second this is not idea in an scenario.

[@prilep5]

Driverless trucks unloaded by “intelligent“ forklifts Bezos dream is coming true.people stay home staring at screens

[@TheBrownwetback]

Love how they speed up the clips of the forklifts like they actually “work efficient”..😂 Can’t wait for my packages to get here next month!! 😭

[@FrankWu]

Could ‘intelligent’ forklifts be the future of industry? Yes but not now because different countries have different pallets size example: European pallet size is different to Asia etc

[@icarus_ap]

won't replace all forklift jobs

[@berserkirclaws107]

It looks pretty good but as a health and safety representative I would still be worry about it, keep a VERY close eye on it and if ANYTHING look remotely dangerous I would switch off those little monsters to protect the staffs and report to management.

[@braderley]

This is the thing lol, you won’t be there. Health & safety is very different without human life.

[@berserkirclaws107]

@@braderley in a warehouse you don't only have forklift, we have 6 warehouse where I work and only 2 are restricted to forklift operator only because they are just for storage. The rest regularly have staff going through them.

[@sim.ulation.l279]

elon musk, please fulfill your promise to make self-driving driverless trucks too and put those truckers out of work. thank you

[@braderley]

@@berserkirclaws107 I used to work in one for 7 years. (RT and order picking) I know what the job is, and most importantly how you’re regarded by everyone around you lol

[@berserkirclaws107]

@@braderley so you know how demanding the job is and you can see that this machine in a normal warehouse is unlikely to be able to safety and efficiently to the job.

[@HalifaxComputersRepair]

yup robots have all the time in world to wait until you move your stuff and there cheaper to buy and keep , paying employees are too expensive to keep and they always complain too much about anything , why pay when you can buy a robot lol

[@rvr9632]

This is all American democracy, the whole world will suffer from it. yugoslavia, libya, iraq, etc. how many countries did they rozaalize? and England does not give freedom to Scotland, Canada, Australia. therefore it will be right when they really get freedom from the crown of England. freedom of scotland, canada, australia

[@Blastsniper]

That is a lot of people's healthcare & wage that can be skipped by installing an 5$ microcontroller into the forklift! A m a z i n g, lets replace traindriver and busdrivers next, also all the people in the mining & construction industry letsgooo 21th centuuury.

[@kimre342]

Today's news is no more forklift drivers in the future but a few robot controllers are still required.

[@springbok4015]

Until that’s automated too.

[@jimloth6091]

@@springbok4015 AI developers are probably on that right now.

[@FileForename]

@@jimloth6091 100%

[@mckutzy]

I think that it's BS that all these businesses say they can't get people to work and pulling out their hair on finding people... They're not coming because they don't want to work for crap wages.. Businesses really have to get their heads around this...

[@nate5296]

That’s sick dude these things are amazing… they are even way cooler when u get fired from your job just for them to replace u with these… deff didn’t just happen to me or anything

[@django3422]

Cool but... why? Humans are good at driving forklifts and many of them like it. And if you push through with this, you've then gotta find jobs for all the humans who used to drive forklifts.

[@vincentjacobsson3981]

I think it should be investigated in the past and present in terms of political impartiality and credibility whether BBC was informed and deliberately withheld from the people the now-known state structures.

[@Stef23441]

So hard to find employers ? That’s lies ! And basically removing the blame for taking millions of peoples jobs away from them , what are forklift drivers going to do for work then ?

[@juancardoso3130]

I don't think movement peace of machinery should be intelligent at all. If it has mobility from spot to spot is a potential harm to us humans at many future situations. Only firm set bolted to the grou d machinery should be intelligent not equipment with wheels or legs .

[@misterpositive9337]

Job centres will be a new place for forklift drivers

[@dvanerdivkanade]

Great reporting! Fascinating technology

[@FileForename]

They taking our jobs :(

[@NonyaBusiness-is3fc]

Nuts and bolts will be the new currency

[@bubblekidproductions7614]

i said this will never work. but then heads of dhl, amazon, gxo, said i was a CHEP off the old block

[@MrFredericandre]

Reminds me of this scene in the tv series "Silicon Valley": kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6XVlZKca89mm6s

[@mac7040]

When there are no jobs for anyone, who is going to be able to purchase the goods the machines are making?

[@Matt-jk1kr]

All the "useless" folk will be gone, the fortunate few will be serviced for free by robots. Money will be a thing of the past when there was once 8 billion more people.

[@sr707ca8]

👎why dont you just pay warehouse workers fair wage so you can hang on to them instead of cheap unsafe workers

[@ja-nk3wm]

I'm sorry but I want a video about the man with no arms or legs. Like WTF happen to him? 😢

[@muffinman12269]

We had these at a company I worked for, there will always be a need for engineers and operators to fix them 😂

[@Awoo-]

This is a dumb argument that people keep spitting out while our industries are destroyed, salaries wrecked and living standards decrease. If it were true that it wouldn't be cheaper to get them. Fact of the matter is, this reduces jobs, and reducing jobs means raising competition for others which means lowering everyone's salaries.

[@gwaeron8630]

Same. They had barcodes on all entrances and bays. 6 months later they went back to 100% human because there were too many issues. Technology has progressed since then but it will have to be very mature before my ex company would invest in it again.

[@nope8490]

thumbs down your going to take peoples jobs away dont do it people its not worth it keep the humans

[@AdamBechtol]

Well, who would want to go into the industry now? Knowing they will be soon easily replaced.

[@jimloth6091]

Oh good - another way to save money by putting actual humans out of work...

[@shaf60]

Robots are going to be kings and humans are going to be slaves .

[@auro1986]

could intelligent forklifts watch bbc ?

[@Lp-ze1tg]

Yes ........... Unnecessary accidents can be avoided.

[@M.Godfrey]

The price you’ll pay for the forklift(s) themselves and an engineer to maintain them all, you’d quickly find you’ll be cheaper sticking to traditional, human occupied forklifts.

[@st20332]

I guess the question becomes, if labour isn't the currency of workers, what will be? Many more questions stem from this too.

[@markplain2555]

Labour the 'currency' of workers? The currency of workers is the mighty dollar.

[@st20332]

@Mark Plain That's the currency that's given by employers, but the currency given in exchange for that 'dollar', is labour (I'm not American, so I put dollar in quotes cause it's not natural to me)

[@grantm6933]

Yeah, no. I've seen these in our warehouse and they suck.

[@singahsung712]

Not even close to the speed i can operate a forklift safely

[@Blackout00745]

1:54 thats the oldest child i've ever seen (blue shirt)

[@rhosalth7348]

Nooooo my forklift certification

[@danny2times95]

25 pallets an hr wtf ahaha a person would get fired for that time

[@nilomyki]

man surely knows how to destroy himsef.

[@circleinforthecube5170]

no more forklift certified

[@PCWithZen]

Thank god only 25 pallets an hour, I can still out beat it for now once it hits that 48 an hour mark then I’ll start really worrying 😂😅

[@wamteng3790]

AI sexworkers next would be awesome.

[@johnthefisherman2445]

I bet garbage trucks could be automated.

[@toxictyt9774]

Dame no more ceri forklift drivers

[@CID-Tanya]

Nah I won't use it for my company my driver is much faster that that garbage

[@shakahara4130]

This is what happens when you’re not forklift certified

[@olayinkagiwa6714]

Another job for humans gone.

[@PancakeRAPTURE]

Lil cyborg man with her

[@notjustforhackers4252]

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[@speelangs7161]

Here we go Robots, OpenAI, nanotechnology......few years more a 90% of the world population will be eating grass.

[@SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz]

🤔no more forklift jobs👎

[@TheSLOShadow]

? We got shit like that in Japan America Germany and Sweden. Entire warehouses that pick their own boxes and pallets

[@johnlinks]

So how does this work when a pallet has fallen over or the pallet is built too high on the truck. .... Oh yeah useless because the warehouse sucks

[@s.a.3894]

When will we see a robot that gently directs people, who are not able or willing to get higher education and to work in specialist jobs to the gas chambers?

[@danielsim1937]

luckily is pallets not huge crate sometime have to go down the ramp and load or unloading from the trailer normal 40 foot container cannot fit