All that said, it’s too soon to write dirges for the humble human worker. In today’s workplace, there are still things that robots just can’t do, At Quiet Logistics, an order –fulfillment center for online retailers in Devens , Mass., 64 robots are used to move merchandise around the warehouse, but 330 humans are required to fold, package, and ship the products. Why not have robots do the whole thing? “People are really good at picking up things,” says Bruce Welty, Quiet Logistics’ chief executive officer. “It’s very difficult to get a robot to make the decisions required that a human makes to pick something out of a bin-particularly if there are many different things in that bin.”