Warehouse Robots at Work

IEEE spectrum (http://spectrum.ieee.org) takes you inside Kiva Systems' robotic warehouse, where orange robots make inventory move instead of workers. Over time the system becomes increasingly efficient, with the robots learning from the wisdom of the crowd.

To read more about Kiva Systems and how their robots work, check out the article at http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul08/6380.

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[athuojp]

雇用が・・・

[Dylan A. Kent]

And now Amazon uses this. No breaks, no vacations, no injuries. No people.

[Ryan Gardner]

Derka derrrrr lmao

[SatiG215]

Back to the pile everyone!

[cymonsgames]

Get a robotic arm to replace the worker and the revolution is already here.

[117makesbrutebabies]

FUCK THIS SHIT.

i would rather be inefficient.

[Ryan Gardner]

THEY TOOK MY JOB

[Paul hull]

is it ??? what about when they get rid of all the worker they will be then on welfare and you will be paying for there money !

[Boomstick898]

Those "JObs" are being put to qualified personal who can actually do them not some person who feels entitled for them.

[vino123ization]

this is cool

[Argent Orang]

1. Wich is why they use buffers.

2. That just means they can put in a second floor. They can put that in the system, automatic elevators included.

3. Not all units of a product are on 1 shelf. And since the picker is filling multiple orders, a shelf can fulfill an order with one picker and then drive over to the other picker. Without having a picker waiting around doing nothing waiting for product.

[777teg]

1. i agree.

2. so? warehouses always have tall roofs.

3. THIS.