The future is now at an Amazon fulfillment center in Houston, as they’ve started utilizing humanoid robots to help automate more of its operations.
The robot takeover has just begun.
According to The Standard, Amazon is using robots in its warehouses in order to “free up its workers” and “automate more of its operations.”
Amazon’s new humanoid robot is called “Digit.”
According to a release, Digit is bipedal, can move, grasp, and handle items in spaces and corners of warehouses in novel ways, which Amazon hopes will “help employees with tote recycling, a highly repetitive process of picking up and moving empty totes once inventory has been completely picked out of them.”
While the capabilities of Digit are endless, Amazon Robotics chief technologist Tye Brady says Seattle that people re “irreplaceable”, and pushed back at the suggestion that the company could have fully automated warehouses in the future.
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