Name: Episode 8: Robots, Piers Full of Robots by Containers
Duration: 29 min 46 s
Description: In the conclusion of this series, we peer into the future of human-robot combinations on the waterfront and in the rest of the supply chain. We’ll hear about the strange future of cyborg trucking and meet the friendly little helper bots in warehouses. The view of automation that sees only a battle between robots vs. humans is wrong. It’s humans all the way down.

A friend recommended this series and while I'm sorry I'm coming to it late, I'm so glad to have stumbled over it! What an excellent insight to labor, capitalism, culture, and technology -- really a fantastic project, thank you so much.

In the conclusion of this series, we peer into the future of human-robot combinations on the waterfront and in the rest of the supply chain. We’ll hear about the strange future of cyborg trucking and meet the friendly little helper bots in warehouses. The view of automation that sees only a battle between robots vs. humans is wrong. It’s humans all the way down.

Episode 8: Robots, Piers Full of Robots

Containers is an 8-part audio documentary about how global trade has transformed the economy and ourselves. Host and correspondent Alexis Madrigal leads you through the world of ships and sailors, technology and tugboats, warehouses and cranes. At a time when Donald Trump is threatening to toss out the global economic order, Containers provides an illuminating, deep, and weird look at how capitalism actually works now.

Episode 8: Robots, Piers Full of Robots

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