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Amazon’s autonomous robots are pretty good about finding your just-ordered items just about anywhere in the company’s massive fulfillment centers, but picking them up off a shelf remains a far greater challenge for the machines. So in the interest of improving upon warehouse automation, Amazon organized a “Picking Challenge” and invited entrants to build robots that do a better job at the sort of tasks that only humans can efficiently pull off — for now. The results were impressive, but also show that Amazon’s factory workers don’t need to worry about being rendered redundant by the bots just yet.
The robots were challenged to successfully pluck a lineup of everyday items from one of Amazon’s inventory shelves and place them on a nearby…
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Amazon"s robot competition shows why human warehouse jobs are safe for now http://www.danieluk.net/news/amazons-robot-competition-shows-why-human-warehouse-jobs-are-safe-for-now/
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