TEDxBoston - Mick Mountz - Let The Inventory Walk and Talk

"These things can scale to gianormous!"

Mick Mountz revolutionized the way warehouses pack and ship their inventory by using robots, mobile shelving, and algorithms based on complexity theory.  What used to take hours of tedious tasks is transformed into fun, 15-minute, click-to-ship order processing.Mick Mountz revolutionized the way warehouses pack and ship their inventory by using robots, mobile shelving, and algorithms based on complexity theory.  What used to take hours of tedious tasks is transformed into fun, 15-minute, click-to-ship order processing.

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Science & Technology

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• america
• english
• TEDxBoston
• Design
• robots
• technology
• retail

[TheUnchainedMind]

I don't really see why human beings are involved at all in the packaging of these goods.

Couldn't a system of conveyor belts do the job even faster and at no cost other than that of the electricity used ?

[bilsemon]

Will the robots also buy the products?

[zanycaswell]

@criverock if automation really caused unemployment the economy would have crashed a long time before now

[zanycaswell]

@mecon2 They probably drive themselves to charging stations when they get low

[TheUnchainedMind]

@EdgarGG89

Thank you for the reply, all-knowing being.

Care to grace us with a reason for such a firm answer ?

[EdgarGG89]

@TheUnchainedMind NO

[HeadDopus]

I understand that it's more efficient, but it's interesting how walking on the job isn't valued in the middle of an obesity crisis.

[rewby22]

I enjoyed this topic, and Nick's presentation of it, a great deal.

[666alberto]

Yea AMAZing, anyway could be implemented also the "scan" isn't it?

(and also the packaging but maybe that is really $ because of 3xzy robot placing..

anyway what a slowness by the pickers0_o!

[kingofbrooklin]

Holy crap, did TED really change the intro music? THANK YOU!!!

[mecon2]

How do you charge all 10,000 - 1,000,000 robots? :S

[Michirobin]

Gay