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A Day In The Life of A KIVA Robot

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Old 03-21-2012, 06:48 AM
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Amazon just shelled out a nice $1 billion for these...



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Old 03-21-2012, 07:56 AM
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That is absolutely incredible. Although I find is strange that they take the whole rack over to a picker, rather than just the item.
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That's pretty impressive!
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It makes the life of the pick worker much easier


So we can pay them less













That is a really cool setup though, awesome.




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