Warehouse replaces human workers with 'little orange' robots

A video recording from an Eastern Chinese warehouse, depicting package-sorting robots, will do little to allay worker’s fears that low-skilled jobs are at risk of automation.

The orange Hikvision bots can be seen sorting packages in a Shentong (STO) Express warehouse in Hangzhou, taking parcels from human workers and depositing them in specific chutes.

The central Chinese Government plans to start producing 100,000 of these robots by 2020.