Will robots take order fulfillment associate jobs?

Threat timeline: Already happening at GXO and now Toyota Canada. 1-2 years for replication at the next tier of 3PL operators (DHL, Kenco, CEVA — the same crowd already using Locus AMRs). 2-4 years for broader logistics and light-manufacturing adoption once ISO safety certification clears explicit human-side-by-side work. The interesting question isn't whether Digit displaces warehouse pickers — it's whether Digit-class humanoids displace the *AMR* category (which already displaced human-only picking) by handling the tote-on-tote-off step that AMRs can't, and whether Toyota proving the auto-manufacturing use case opens the same door at every other OEM.

Threat timeline: Already deployed at scale. AutoStore is the architecture replacing entire conventional storage-and-picking warehouses, not augmenting them. 1-3 years for the next wave of large retailers and 3PLs that haven't built yet. 3-5 years for the long tail of mid-sized operators as Pio (the SMB variant) lowers the floor. The thing being replaced isn't a job — it's an entire warehouse layout, and with it the entire labor structure of that layout.