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Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

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209 points Luc | 1 comments | 09 May 25 11:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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philipwhiuk ◴[09 May 25 12:04 UTC] No.43935844[source]▶
It's interesting how Amazon is embedding robots in human-designed warehouses whereas Ocado has humans overseeing a robotic warehouse.

The later is a much easier problem.

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1. mmmlinux ◴[09 May 25 15:40 UTC] No.43938069[source]▶
Yeah but then you cant pretend like your going to hire a bunch of humans in the local poor area that you built the warehouse.