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Mercado Livre announces the end of the era of manual labor? Robots, the result of a billion-dollar investment, now transport up to 600 kilos of goods!
Mercado Livre has just announced a revolutionary innovation in its logistics operations in Brazil: the implementation of an exclusive robot system. These robots, designed to increase efficiency and speed up order processing time by up to 20%, will be integrated into the company's main distribution center, located in Cajamar (SP). With more than 500 packages processed daily, this technology promises to transform Mercado Livre's logistics, ensuring faster deliveries and raising the level of service offered to customers across the country.. Discover how this new feature can impact the Brazilian e-commerce market.
New robots on Mercado Livre
Similar to a vacuum cleaner, the robots that will be used in the operation look like the already known robot vacuum cleaners and are from the brand Quickton. They are one meter in diameter, weigh 145 kilos and are yellow.
Mercado Livre's robots are also strong and fast, and according to the company itself, each robot reaches a speed of two meters per second, being able to lift and transport up to 600 kilos of goods. Mercado Livre's robots have an autonomy of eight hours and recharge in two hours.
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They move around the distribution center on their own and return to the charging stations without relying on humans. It is important to remember that more than 100 robots will be integrated in the first phase. The technology is known as “shelves to person”.
Mercado Livre's autonomous robots will be responsible for distributing and moving products, with the capacity toup to 20 thousand items per day. Combined with human labor, order processing time will drop by up to 20%.
Mercado Livre robots are part of a billion-dollar investment
According to Mercado Livre itself, the robots will take on the heaviest tasks, such as lifting and moving shelves, around 2,5 per day. Employees will be able to focus on less mechanical and higher-value activities.
According to the Senior VP and leader of Mercado Livre in Brazil, Fernando Yunes, by integrating robots into the company's operations, it was possible to speed up processes and improve storage capacity, especially during periods of greater demand, such as holidays and Black Friday.
The adoption of these robots is part of the total investment of R$23 billion that the company plans to invest in Brazil throughout 2024. The amount also includes the hiring of 11 thousand new employees. It is worth noting that the company has already stated that, by the end of the year, more than 234 robots will be integrated into the operation in Cajamar. The expectation is to reach 80 thousand orders per day. After the results of this implementation in Brazil, there is a possibility of the technology being expanded to other countries.
Could robots 'steal' jobs from humans?
Leaving aside Mercado Livre robots, advancement of robotaxis in China is sparking outrage among transportation workers, who accuse these machines of “stealing jobs” and threatening the livelihoods of thousands of families. Fears that robotaxis will take away their jobs are becoming an increasingly palpable reality, leading to protests and formal complaints.
These technological innovations, which operate without the need for a human driver, are being seen as a direct threat to traditional jobs. Last Tuesday, the 27th, the Chinese government took an essential step, issuing 16 test licenses for autonomous vehicles and opening 32 kilometers of public roads so that these machines can circulate.
Although robotaxis only account for 1% of the transportation market in Wuhan, their presence is enough to cause great discomfort among local drivers. The difference in cost between a robotaxi ride and a traditional ride is one of the main points of tension.
Oh, how cool, right? They do all the work for other people.
The most interesting thing is that these people will be unemployed, right?
So I really wanted to know who is going to buy the products that Mercado Livre delivers.
Since they will be unemployed.
Then the intelligent people who want to work 4 days and rest 3 will have 7 days of rest, the boss will not fill the government's coffers with labor charges and to sustain the party with public money the taxman will create more taxes, until the entire population is in conditions similar to Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, ... And the people will **** thank the dictators for the rations they will receive. Brazilllll.
With or without a charge, they will always replace manual labor, this happens all over the world and since the industrial revolution, stop being ignorant, charges and labor rights are not the only reasons
Slave **** vision! Works you for 24 hours.
I'm not a robot lol
Fazuele ****
Better than Pazuello.
But he can only be a spoiled rich man.
Limited view of reality. To build and maintain these robots, you need a large team, millions in investment in purchasing them and spare parts, and they have a useful life. All this activity generates millions in taxes, in addition to the fact that the robots do not do all the work. The unemployment rate in Brazil is falling, reaching the lowest percentage since 2012.
This unemployment rate is fake, go study it. It is being masked.
It's not a masquerade, the company I work for has hired 500 people this year alone.
Are there still vacancies in the logistics area @manoel?
Meanwhile, Dias chain is closing, Carrefour is locking its doors and selling everything, etc.
Where did you study??? Or maybe you never studied? Tell me. You must be a genius lol
True, true.
As always, when it comes to the gang
It's a shame that this is a false narrative from this government. How can the rate be decreasing if we have more than 50 million people on the Bolsa Família program and those who are relying on this miserable government aid are increasing?
The income distribution with Bolsa Família is not quite 1% of GDP. People talk about things they don't know, they research well, apart from the idiots celebrating that a robot could steal their job in 10 or 15 years, only in Brazil do we see so many stupid people!
He talked... talked and talked ****... in fact, typical of **** **** ****... he has no arguments and probably **** himself thinking about the captain
What a dark thought.
This is not just happening in Brazil, and it is not just the free market, unfortunately it is worldwide and will become increasingly common. Professionals in high demand at the moment are linked to IT and AI.
Remember, Marcado Livre is not in Brazil….these robots are at the headquarters
Cajamar is in Australia… LOL
I understand Cajamar -SP is not in Brazil
Brilliant observation
So much nonsense in a single comment
No problem, my friend. The government (whatever it may be) creates more taxes and pays family allowances so that more people can stay at home without doing or producing anything. This is the success of the symbiosis between communism and capitalism: the **** are left to suck blood, earning without working, and the capitalists who work pay more and more taxes to support this anachronistic system. And it will be like this until there are so many people earning money for doing nothing that there will not be so many people working to support them. It will be like this as long as Brazil spends more than it collects and does not effectively invest in job creation.
This one is sick!
When will politics end for these types of people?
And the worse the better, and they're getting screwed and finding it funny because others are getting screwed too, instead of hoping for the best and hoping it gets worse than it is, or than it was.
Go to work, find something useful to do.
The foreman has spoken! He thinks he is immune to poverty. He talks about social benefits, but when he has the opportunity, he sucks on a little teat.
Without any idea, you will qualify blindly.
Look! Capitalists who work! How cool, where is that? The ones I know don't produce anything, they do "business".
Wake up miniontarians, you are targeting the wrong enemy, the real capitalists (the rich and not their employees), will no longer need the poor to work.
They won't pay tax, because they won't need to sell anything to anyone.
They won't need money, because they will have smart machines to manufacture whatever they want.
The only chance for the poor to survive the next industrial/technological revolution is “communism” (real communism and not this fantasy you have in your heads).
Note: Capitalist is the owner of the means of production (he works because he wants to, not for a salary), whoever works for a salary is a proletarian (poor).
Note: Elon defends universal basic income, not because he is a good guy, but because he knows that his industries will cause mass unemployment and this could lead to a civil war in his current country.
Universal basic income is a version of pseudo communism, which will distribute income to those who are unemployed until they die and no longer leave a poor person on earth 🌎. Then when they manage to go to Mars, the earth can explode (literally if it wants to).
The worst poor person is the one who doesn't use his head to think...
Mars lol
Mars? NASA's biggest problem, due to the lack of gravity, is where to deposit human waste: yes, the poop of Elon Musk and his rich kids trained on Mars. NASA has already launched a global challenge for scientists to solve this question.
My God. Marxists make a huge confusion between production and employment, capitalism and poverty, when we know that capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty... if it were so bad, do you think China would have embraced capitalism, even while maintaining the **** policy ****??? But there is no arguing with these fanatics: the proof is there for all to see (Cuba, Venezuela, etc.), and on the other hand, Europe, Japan, USA...
Bolsa Família is a misery
Politicians are true bloodsuckers, they work 2 days a week and just want to fill their pockets, the big landowners are funded with very low interest rates at the expense of the people and that includes the meatpacking plants that devastate lands, etc. It's that simple.
The so-called Financial Market does not produce anything, but dictates that the government make cuts in education, health and freeze minimum wages and pensions, and controls the Central Bank and the rise of the Dollar, control over Globo, CNN, Band, as without education we will dominate technology.
Elon Musk has already answered this question, but Brazilians are not prepared for this answer. Because everyone likes benefits without much effort, loves holidays, reduced shifts and does not like to study. Just think if a robot like this takes the jobs of software programmers, engineers and other intellectual workers. The business is the professional training of our young people and children.
Can everyone have intellectual work? Aren't engineers unemployed? Words without analysis are excrement.
You said it all in this comment, I don't know how this happens because who will have money to buy if there is no work?
Don't worry...it all goes to Uber, Ifood or Bolsa Família...then you won't be included in the #IBGlule statistics...trust me
Do you lack willpower or can you only read the words in bold? They will hire 11k more employees, in addition to integrating robots. There is no way these carts can do all the work.
The amount also includes the hiring of 11 thousand new employees.
Your question is very good. I think that if robots are going to do the work of humans, productivity must increase and final costs must decrease, otherwise there would be no reason for this investment. Therefore, it would be logical and natural for the unemployed population to receive from the government a benefit equivalent to their salary if they were employed. But this will be impossible in the savage and inhumane regime in which we live!
The Bolsa Família that the unemployed will receive and the unemployment insurance and the future social income that companies will collect to keep these workers at home
Calm down! You will have space to stock up and pick up the products. Mercado Livre is using the same model as Amazon, but you will need to have a lot of physical resources to handle it.
Pay attention, there will still be CLT employees on the Mercado Libre distribution line, they just won't carry any more excessive weight and will go to other departments.
True 😂
My God, what prehistoric thinking. Robots are here to make life easier for employees. They will be used in other roles that require less strength and more brainpower. If anyone is going to be left out, it's the lazy ones who don't even like to read their own names. LOL. Study and get better jobs.
I loved that, so the free market should sell its products to robots, seriously, companies want to spend less and take people off the job, but they want to sell to the people they harm, that's a shame, you know.
The question is paradoxical!
Guys, human beings have to evolve, we have to qualify ourselves.
Even robots picking up the goods still have a large contingent of people.
You need to see the operation to understand better.
That's right, people aged 18 to 24 looking for their first job. Celebrate... you won't have to submit to the inhumane 6x1 scale...