day in the life of a warehouse robot

On March 30, 2012March 28, 2012 By Rick McIn robots

I, for one, welcome our new Robot overlords.

Amazon announced recently that they bought a company named Kiva for $775 million. In cash. Kiva makes robots for fulfillment warehouses, of which Amazon has many. When I heard this news, I was all, robots are cool, but $775 million? But this short video on how the Kiva robots work made me a believer:

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.