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IEEE spectrum takes you inside Kiva Systems' robotic warehouse, where orange robots make inventory move instead of workers. Over time the system becomes increasingly efficient, with the robots learning from the wisdom of the crowd.

To read more about Kiva Systems and how their robots work, check out the article at

"Three Engineers, Hundreds of Robots, One Warehouse"
Kiva Systems wants to revolutionize distribution centers by setting swarms of robots loose on the inventory

by Erico Guizzo
July 2, 2008

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Smart shelves know what products you touch, shopping carts come loaded with tablets, and dressing room mirrors know what you try on and ask for your phone number. The National Retail Federation's annual trade show reveals how tech changes the way we shop.

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Best Buy is experimenting with full automation -- in the form of a robot -- to sell a decidedly old-fashioned medium -- CDs and DVDs. We went to Best Buy to buy a CD and never talked to a human being. Instead, a computer and robot called Chloe sold us a CD.

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A breakthrough in radio design – the most densely packed mobile network in the world.

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A new wireless control system is transforming the warehouse automation solution used by Ocado. The technology enables the online grocery retailer to control and co-ordinate the movements of hundreds of thousands of crates containing millions of grocery items, in real time and in parallel. It means that Ocado’s innovative next-generation warehouse is home to the most densely packed mobile network in the world.

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About 20,000 packages an hour are sorted by machine at JD.com's largest robot-run warehouse in Shanghai, China.

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Westcombe Dairy in Somerset recently embarked on a major engineering project to build a vast cheese-ageing cellar inside the insulating clay of a nearby hillside. Now completed, the cellar has been loaded with the dairy's multiple award-winning Cheddar cheese wheels – which are being looked after by a robot. The first of its kind in the UK, this impressive robot-affineur moves up and down the cellar's aisles day and night, lifting, turning and rooting the ageing cheeses, helping them in their long, slow maturation into beautiful Somerset Cheddar.

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Chinese delivery firm is moving to embrace automation.
Orange robots at the company's sorting stations are able to identify the destination of a package through a code-scan, virtually eliminating sorting mistakes.
Shentong's army of robots can sort up to 200,000 packages a day, and are self-charging, meaning they are operational 24/7.
The company estimates its robotic sorting system is saving around 70-percent of the costs a human-based sorting line would require.

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Alison Berman of Singularity Hub interviews Bruce Welty at Singularity University's Exponential Manufacturing Conference.

From Bruce''s bio: Bruce has been a pioneer and visionary in automating warehouses since before the Internet. He has built, bought and sold some of the industry’s most innovative companies. He’s automated warehouses for Fortune500s, e-Commerce startups, and even built a fulfillment company that ships more than $1 billion worth of e-Commerce orders each year. It was his direct experience with warehouses, fulfillment, and robotics that inspired to build an entirely new solution.

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With smart robots like these, warehouse clerk at Alibaba’s logistics affiliate might be the easiest job in the world. They do most of the work!

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Named Super Luigi after one of the Super Mario Brothers, #NTUsg’s new warehouse robot excels in picking up items for delivery. It won the 3rd place at the DHL Robotics Challenge 2017 over more than 50 entries, and NTU was the only university to make it to the Top 3. See why Luigi won the hearts of the judges.

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