Autonomous Truck Yard Has More Robots Than Human Workers

The Great Panic of 2020, aka pandemic, has driven robot automation to new levels because of worker shortages. What some are saying were “nightmarish jobs”, were jobs nonetheless and provided a living for now-displaced workers. With increasing use of robots, Universal Basic Income is seen as the only way to assuage the new class of unemployables. ⁃ TN EditorIn a truck yard the size of a football field several miles north of Denver, a fleet of robotic trucks ferry semi-trailers b