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Re:Amazon executives are worried they'll run out of people t... by readams on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @10:46AM (#27529110)
They bought a warehouse robot company Kiva Systems in 2012. They have lots of robots.
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Re:Amazon executives are worried they'll run out of people t... by TYPE_FASTER on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @01:19PM (#27530995)
Yeah, that was a smart acquisition. They have hundreds of thousands of robots working for them now [0]. The Kiva Systems founders were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame last year [1].

It's interesting to read in [1] that one of the founders is working with RightHand Robotics [2] on picking. I wonder if RHH would be another acquisition target for Amazon if they solve that problem.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Robotics

[1] - https://www.therobotreport.com/kiva-systems-creators-inducte...

[2] - https://www.righthandrobotics.com/

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