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A Day In The Life of A KIVA Robot

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



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRju...layer_embedded
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Old Mar 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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Old Mar 21, 2012 | 01:44 PM
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That's pretty impressive!
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Old Mar 21, 2012 | 08:32 PM
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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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