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Interview with Jilles Smids (19/Feb) (Post Doc) ROBOTS IN THE WAREHOUSE: WORKING 'WITH' OR 'AGAINST' THE MACHINE [J.Smids@tue.nl] The introduction of advanced robotics in logistics significantly affects quality of work and workers’ competence profiles. Our project aims to answer the question of how robotization in logistic warehouses can be utilized and developed in a way that does not conflict with workers’ sense of meaning in work and general wellbeing. Workers should have a sense of working ‘with’ instead of ‘under’ or ‘against ’robots, and take responsibility for the collaboration. We take an interdisciplinary approach, combining organizational psychology and philosophy.

Questions (Work-In-Progress):

1. Could you tell us a little about your current work?

2. Questions about the Robots Technology Symposium

3. Tell us about your pitch: Robots in the warehouse: working with or against the machine.

4. You mentioned robots were being destroyed by workers could you elaborate.

5. What is the biggest problem of introducing robots into warehouses

6. Does this include psychological problems for workers?

7. What work is being done against this (current workers)

8. What do you think about our idea?

9. Do you have any real-life relations/situations?

10. Anekdotes?