Amazon’s new warehouse robot can handle individual products
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#65PRA)
Unlike Amazon's other robots, Sparrow doesn't need items to be boxed before it can move them. | Image: Amazon Amazon has announced a new robot, dubbed Sparrow, which the company says is its first warehouse robot that can detect, select, and handle individual products." The company says the machine is capable of recognizing and handling millions of items" and that it will reduce the repetitive tasks its human workers have to do.
The company's post announcing the robot doesn't say exactly how it plans to use Sparrow, but it's not hard to imagine many more applications for something that can lift and move individual products in Amazon's warehouses.
In our current research and development efforts, we are working with Sparrow to consolidate inventory before it is packaged for customers," said Xavier Van Chau, a spokesperson for the company, but...