It’s hard to say whether Amazon will ever really deploy squadrons of drones to deliver customer purchases. But, according to The l, its order-fulfillment plans for the fast-approaching holiday season will involve around 10,000 robots.
These robots, designed to fit into a more efficient fulfillment-center logistics scheme, are made by Kiva Systems, a company that
Hugging the floor like a Roomba, and about the size of a big suitcase, these bright-orange bots lift and carry shelf-stacks of merchandise to warehouse workers who pack items for shipping. The idea is that it’s easier for the humans to stay in one place rather than tromp around a cavernous facility.
Curious to see this in action, I found this helpful video made by Wired a little while back:
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