Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
AI is reshaping the work of a Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand — here's where you already have an edge.
The Shift
How much of this work overlaps with today's AILow
This role
BarelySomeA lot
Most of this work stays hands-on
Source
Felten et al. 2021
Read the researchWhat you do · Where AI is heading
- AI-guided autonomous material movementNIST defines standard test methods and performance metrics (via ASTM Committee F45) for autonomous mobile robots and mobile manipulators that navigate, dock, and detect objects in industrial facilities, the validated capabilities needed to automate moving freight and stock between storage areas and loading docks.
Where this comes from
Official source
View the official data - AI-assisted parcel and cargo sortingA multi-task deep-learning vision system (pruned YOLOv3 detection plus pose estimation on an RGB-D-equipped robot arm) detects, locates, and grasps disorderly stacked express parcels in real time, successfully sorting roughly 90 of every 100 parcels across 300-plus stacked test items, automating the manual cargo sorting a hand laborer would otherwise perform.
Where this comes from
Peer-reviewed research
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Looking Ahead
AI is changing this work — and you can get ahead of it
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