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Amazon debuts a warehouse robot with a sense of ‘touch’
Amazon says that it has developed a new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can 'feel' some of the items it touches.
The two-armed Vulcan, which can maneuver goods inside the storage compartments Amazon has in its warehouses, uses force sensors to help it know when it makes contact with an object. The robot has been deployed in Spokane, Washington, and Hamburg, Germany, where it has processed half a million orders to date. While critics allege that Amazon’s robotics investments are an effort to replace human workers, Amazon asserts that this isn’t the case, arguing robots like Vulcan simply make its warehouses safer.
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