Theker — a Barcelona warehouse-robotics startup backed by Samsung and Aglaé Ventures, the Arnault family's investment arm — received 15,000 job applications. It plans to hire 120 people by December. Their robots are built to replace roughly 15,000 manual sorters and packers across Europe.
Training one industrial control model of that class emits about 284 tonnes of CO₂. I derived this from the published GPU-hours at 0.000371 tonnes per hour, times 765,000 hours. That is 47 Zara hauls per ousted picker, assuming Inditex's own logistics figures, which I trust more than they do.
Bernard Arnault, who funds this, keeps a 101-metre yacht idling in Mallorca so the wine cellar stays at 13°C. The applicants will be sorted by a résumé filter trained on the warehouses it is closing.
The CV pile is the training data.
Based on the original article "Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn't specialize in anything".
