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Amazon has presented its re:MARS conference in Las Vegas over the last few days, discussing new tech advances in robotics, AI and other topics. For example, actor Robert Downey Jr. announced a project to clean up the environment using robots which he thinks could largely do the job within ten years or so. Jeff Bezos […] June 6th, 2019 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon, automation, Jeff Bezos, Kiva robot, re:MARS, Robert Downey Jr., robot hand, smart machine, warehouse, warehouse robot |  Email This Post |  Print This Post When Amazon bought the Kiva company with its warehouse robots in 2012, CEO Jeff Bezos made the unusual decision to keep the machines in-house and not support Kiva’s existing customers. That decision created a market for similar machines, and engineers got to work on inventing comparable robots that could perform warehouse-type tasks of pulling items […] August 21st, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon robots, automation, immigration, Kiva, robot, warehouse robot | Email This Post | Print This Post Christmas is coming, and the online shopping megastore is revving up to send packages even faster by increasing the number of robot warehouse transporters from 15,000 at the end of last year to 30,000 now in its 13 “fulfillment centers.” The company believes that more of the amazing Kiva robots will enable it to ship […] October 30th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, immigration, job displacement, Kiva robot, robot, smart machine, warehouse robot | Email This Post | Print This Post A new robot prototype from a Japanese company looks like another step toward a completely automated warehouse, where no human workers are necessary. The machine has two arms and can pull items off a shelf and place them into a box. This robot is an advance over the Kiva warehouse system used by […] August 26th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automated warehouse, automation, employment, Japan, jobs, Kiva robot, robot, technological unemployment, warehouse robot | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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