Warehouse Robots at Work

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IEEE spectrum (http://spectrum.ieee.org) takes you inside Kiva Systems' robotic warehouse, where orange robots make inventory move instead of workers. Over time the system becomes increasingly efficient, with the robots learning from the wisdom of the crowd.

To read more about Kiva Systems and how their robots work, check out the article at http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul08/6380.

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Warehouse Robots at Work

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  • These robots are ...

    These robots are killing our jobs lol
    specially with the credit crunch recisson going on, kind of disturbing to see this lol

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  • and then the robots ...

    and then the robots gain conscience and kill him with a shelf

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  • t!s roxx0rs!

    t!s roxx0rs!

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  • Great video. Yet ...

    Great video. Yet another example of the productivity which enhances our lives. For the technophobes throughout the comments section, while I understand your misgivings, machines make us more productive and increase jobs and the division of labor over time. I highly recommend a primer on economics which helps to explain it all. One of the best is "Economics in One Lesson" by the noted economist Henry Hazlitt.

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  • ahh its skynet lol

    ahh its skynet
    lol

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