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Humanoid robots are coming to the warehouse, but GXO CEO Patrick Kelleher says they’re not there to replace the company’s 150,000 workers.

Instead, he wants them to help address a stubborn industry-wide problem: turnover.

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00:00The hand has about, I think, 25 ranges of freedom, I think that's what it's called,
00:04and right now the human body has 200.
00:07Most robots, humanoid robots, tend to have around 35 to 45.
00:12Some have more than 100.
00:14The closer we get to 200, the more the robots will mimic us
00:18and the more they'll be able to work, but the cost is coming down.
00:21And the CEO of GXO told you that the emergence of humanoids into his workforce
00:26isn't going to result in actual humans losing their jobs at his company.
00:31Do you believe him?
00:31No, I think ultimately, of course, much like we've seen with factory work,
00:36we're going to have humans replaced.
00:37But this is an industry where if you have 20% turnover, you're lucky.
00:41So what I imagine to be the case is when there's attrition in these,
00:45that they will not replace them.
00:46I do think it will allow the humans to do more high-value work.
00:50But if you look at the economics of humanoids right now, they are expensive,
00:54but a lot of industry analysts think it's going to be $10 to $12 an hour
00:58to operate these things.
01:00Most humans get more money than that.
01:02So the economics is such that if you can use humanoids,
01:05then I think ultimately, will there be 150,000 people at GXO?
01:09Maybe.
01:09One of the challenges as well is safety.
01:12And safety being humanoids by their nature are kind of freed
01:15from being constricted in certain zones.
01:18So when you have robots that are moving around with humans,
01:21you need them to have the same sensitivity and fluidity that we have
01:25and the same nuance.

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