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Re:Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses by amelius on Friday August 04, 2017 @06:09PM (#14932770)
> uses a suction cup

I wonder how they pick up books using this method?

Books are difficult because they appear to have hard surfaces on the side, which turn out to be not so hard and not suitable for gripping.

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Re:Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses by joshvm on Friday August 04, 2017 @06:51PM (#14933018)
Probably not an issue for them, Ocado sell pretty much only food so it'd be for boxes/bags mostly. It's not been deployed yet though. I think they're also testing gripper robots for picking up larger items like bottle packs.

Also books, unless they're shrink wrapped, have a tendency to open which I imagine would be a pain.

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Re:Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses by sjg007 on Friday August 04, 2017 @09:26PM (#14933733)
Well just sell Ebooks.
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