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Amazon Has Made a Robot With a Sense of Touch
Vulcan, a robot with tactile senses, is a step towards automating more of picking and stowing work done by humans inside Amazon’s fulfillment centers.
The Vulcan system consists of a conventional robotic arm with a custom spatula-like appendage for poking into a shelf, and a sucker for grabbing items to pull them out. Parness says that machine learning is key to making sense of the sensor signals and also forms part of the algorithmic loop that controls how a robot takes actions. “Amazon stores many different products in bins, so rummaging is necessary to pull out a specific object to fill an order,” says Ken Goldberg, a roboticist at the University of California, Berkeley.
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