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Amazon’s new warehouses will employ 10x as many robots


At its Delivering the Future event Wednesday, Amazon announced plans for new robot-powered delivery warehouses. The first “next-generation fulfillment

The retail giant’s approach has largely revolved around incorporating robots into existing worklfows, so as to not disrupt regular operations. Likely the August hirin g of Covariant founders Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, and Rocky Duan will play a pivotal role in deploying AI across the system. That’s been a difficult nut to crack, as hardware agnostic platforms and communications between robotic systems was something of a pipedream until fairly recently.

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