Inside A Warehouse Where Thousands Of Robots Pack Groceries

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programd · 2020-09 · Recommendation

THe Kiva video is not state-of-the-art I think. Check out this automated grocery warehouse, something right out of Factorio: [VIDEO] Humans would just get in the way and get mangled.

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heurisko · 2022-08 · Reference

I expect this is to gain patents/technology around making autonomous robots, so that Amazon can create a warehouse system similar to Ocado, where robots, rather than people, pick groceries. [VIDEO]

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isbvhodnvemrwvn · 2022-06 · Reference

In terms of warehouses there's a fair bit of automation which replaces quite a few jobs - at my former employer's warehouses the pickers had robots drive all the stuff to them, and they were trying out robot pickers (they were able to handle ~30% of orders due to limitations in agility, SKUs had to be specifically whitelisted). You still need people to handle e.g. dangerous goods and handle the various fuckups in the system (e.g. due to poor master data), but when I was leaving they were not planning on any new "classic" warehouses. I don't want to disclose where I worked, but you can take a look at Ocado, they are in a similar space (although focused on a different target market) and expanding from being online grocer to making those FCs for other companies: [VIDEO]

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