How Amazon's Robots Move Everything Around

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 28, 2015 @09:58AM from the pack-and-ship-it dept.

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:what about moving around people gumming up the by dinfinity · 2015-09-28 10:17 · Score: 5, Funny

what about moving around people gumming up the works who are a in a win win win they keep there job or win they go to prison where the state pays for there room, broad and doctor.
Clearly they should be putting money into providing language education instead of female companions.