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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by corpMaverick on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:57AM (#15748207)
This is what I think no one will be able to compete with amazon on warehouse logistics. Kiva's model of bringing the shelf to the picker is hard to improve upon. And it is probably patented.
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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by Element_ on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:52AM (#15748675)
There are plenty of Kiva competitors from German and Asian manufacturers.

Some of the Chinese systems even use the same Kiva-style modules to do other tasks like package mail sorting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6a0HROB054

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QndP_PCRSw

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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by Symmetry on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @02:18PM (#15750691)
Well, you could replace the pickers with robots, for instance.

https://www.righthandrobotics.com/

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