You can just imagine the chaos that is an Amazon warehouse at this time of the year. Thousands upon thousands of Christmas gifts, just waiting to be sent off to their respective recipients.
The company showed off their nifty new robots yesterday that will help them through the snowball that is December and beyond. They are like santa’s little (futuristic) helpers, with Amazon being Santa.
The robots are called Kiva Robots and look like something you’d see in a sci-fi movie. These hardworking helpers are able to pick up entire shelves stocked with different products, carry them around and then sort them in the right place. A job that would’ve taken a mere mortal way longer than these little guys.
The robots are also able to carry these shelves to actual (human) Amazon warehouse workers, who then complete the more human-factor of the job – completing and actually sending the orders.
Besides having the assistance of the cool Kiva’s, the humans also have the help of a ‘new, high-end, graphically orientated computer system [sic]’ that makes the job of distrinution way easier.
The company has said that there are more than 15 000 Kiva Robots in use in more than 10 of it’s massive warehouses – or as they like to call them, ‘fulfillment centres’ across the United States.
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