A Day in the Life of a Kiva Robot

Kiva Systems founder and CEO Mick Mountz narrates a play-by-play video of how Kiva robots automate a warehouse environment.

Complete video available for free at: http://fora.tv/conference/wired_busin...

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How Robots Think: Why Artificial Intelligence Is Nothing Like the Human Mind

Mick Mountz, Founder & CEO, Kiva Systems
in conversation with Jason Tanz

Mick Mountz is founder and CEO of Kiva Systems. Mountz founded Kiva Systems in 2003, after experiencing the inadequacy of existing material-handling technologies for ecommerce at the grocery delivery startup Webvan. Kiva's integrated order-fulfillment solution employs hundreds of mobile robots and distributed intelligence to enable faster, more flexible ecommerce distribution centers for companies like The Gap, Saks Fifth Avenue, Diapers.com, Staples, Walgreens, and Crate and Barrel. Under Mountz's leadership, Kiva was ranked sixth on the 2009 Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in the US.

Before joining Webvan, Mountz spent three years as a product manager at Apple Computer, where he helped move new technologies like FireWire, DVD, Fast Ethernet, and 3D graphics acceleration into the standard desktop platform.

He began his career as a mechanical and manufacturing engineer at Motorola. In 2008, Mountz received an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the New England region. He holds twelve U.S. technology patents.

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[chanegun]

DRUNK TANK

[548latino]

MY BLUE EYES!

[Michael Shulski]

Ideally, we'd have more recreation with robotics.

[Tracy Lee]

Dey terk-er-jeeerb

[Tracy Lee]

Like rice farming?

[Grizzuli]

Only as long as our survival is linked to labor for income.

Obviously that is not going to be working anymore when automation starts replacing most or all jobs. I'm sure people will realize that before everyone starves to death while robots create an abundance.

[glottis5]

im sure the robots will do well in a world that requires literally no human labor

[Amos Lomayestewa]

Not for robots!!!

[ImperiumGrigorium]

i tysiące ludzi straci prace, w świecie gdzie i tak jest o nią bardzo ciężko ale co tam ważne ze technika idzie na przód a ludzie? co tam ludzie, kto by się kimś takim przejmował

[Rajeev Sharma]

Wow

[PLwhyduck]

2nd season? Perhaps - sooner or later I'll find out. I have all episodes and since February I will watch 2-3 episodes a day;) I used to do it 'with' The A-Team. Greetings

[TheLeopard81]

MacGyver was fucking awesome. That guy could make a bomb out of a chewing gum. And you're right, I think the episode you mention is from Season 2 - there he has to deal with some robots, which are similar to the ones in this video.