How Amazon's Robots Move Everything Around

dkatana writes: Amazon's drones have a long way to become reality, but the real magic of the Internet of Things (IoT) is already happening at Amazon's vast fulfillment warehouses in the US. Amazon runs a fleet of thousands of small robots moving storage pods around so orders can be fulfilled in record time. They are so efficient that they can move an entire warehouse and have ready to operate again during the weekend. All together the small robots have traveled over 93 million miles — almost the distance from Earth to the Sun.

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Re:Amazon Warehouse workers should demand more mon

[0123456]

So, while my automated factory dismantles the solar system to build my trillion robot army, where you expect to get your resources from?

Only those with a massive lack of imagination (like, say, Marxists) believe there are plenty of resources.

Re:Amazon Warehouse workers should demand more mon

[Speck'sBacon]

Are economic ones the only roles that society has?

You may not think of it as such, but *everything* is an economic transaction or endeavor, since at its core, economics is the study of dealing with scarcity: of time, of resources, of personnel, etc.