AMAZON was granted a patent for a “human cage” as they company looked at ways of transporting staff around their warehouses without bumping into its robot workers.
The online giant has denied it is planning to use the design, patented in 2016, which a senior executive has admitted was a “bad idea”.
It was recently highlighted in a case study called Anatomy of an AI System, published last Friday by academics Kate Crawford, of New York University, and Vladan Joler of the University of Novi Sad in Serbia.
Workers would sit in a cage-like enclosure on top of a claw-arm robot, which the researchers have described as an “extraordinary illustration of worker alienation.”
According to the patent, the wheeled cage could be used to move staff around the busy warehouses to avoid injury by the firm’s 100,000 robot workers which are used to move stock.
Crawford and Joler’s work describes how “the worker becomes a part of a mechanic ballet, held upright in a cage which dictates and constrains their movement.”
Their paper calls patent “an extraordinary illustration of worker alienation, a stark moment in the relationship between humans and machines.”
Eight inventors in the Boston area, where Amazon Robotics is located, are credited for the patent.
The tech subsidiary was formed when the company purchased Kiva Systems six years ago.
In a comment to the Boston Herald, Amazon spokeswoman Lindsay Campbell said that the company files a number of “forward-looking patents” which encourages employees to experiment and invent.
Campbell said such a device is not in use in any Amazon fulfilment centres.
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Dave Clark, senior vice president of operations at Amazon also tweeted as a response to this patent receiving coverage calling the design “a bad idea.”
He posted: “Sometimes even bad ideas get submitted for patents.
“This was never used and we have no plans for usage.”
A version of this story originally appeared on FoxNews.com.
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