Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses
Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
July 31, 20176m 50s
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Show Notes
Amazon employs 45,000 robots, but they all have something missing: hands. Squat wheeled machines carry boxes around in more than 20 of the company’s cavernous fulfillment centers across the globe. But it falls exclusively to humans to do things like pulling items from shelves or placing them into those brown boxes that bring garbage bags and pens and books to our homes.
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