- Amazon’s warehouse robots have gone a long way since he acquired Kiva Systems in 2012.
- Robots can now perform a variety of tasks alongside employees of the realization centers.
- They can transport plans, sort individual articles and lift heavy objects.
The Amazon warehouse robots fleet has inflated to more than 750,000 – and it continues to grow both in size and complexity.
The robots now perform a variety of tasks in Amazon execution centers, the transport of packages around animated workspaces, sorting and consolidating items in storage systems and the manufacture of adjusted packaging.
The company’s robotics efforts began when she acquired KIVA systems for $ 775 million in 2012. Kiva’s automated guided vehicles sailed by the following bar stickers placed on the soil of a warehouse. More than a decade later, Amazon now has more than 16,000 people working on robotics, because its technology has become more sophisticated, notably Proteus, a mobile robot which can move independently.
Investing in robotics helps Amazon to achieve its objective of obtaining packages for customers as quickly as possible, said Tye Brady, chief technologist at Amazon Robotics, in a recent interview with Business Insider. Robots also create efficiency that will help Amazon save money – some $ 10 billion a year by 2030, Morgan Stanley said in a recent research note.
“We can have faster delivery times due to the work we have done in robotics,” said Brady. “We can also transmit a lower cost. And we create thousands and thousands of jobs due to the work we have done in robotics.”
In August, Amazon hired three of the founders of the covariant robotics startup and authorized some of its foundation models to bring flexibility and fluidity to its robotics. The company also launched the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund in 2022, investing in innovative companies in emerging robots such as technologies. This includes an investment in Agility Robotics, which makes a bipedal robot called Digit that Amazon is testing in the realization centers.
“We have a commitment for more than a billion dollars for our startups, to help startups and the community to raise the capital they need to do some of these excellent ideas which, in our view, will help our customers “, Brady says.
Here are some examples of the most advanced robots working in Amazon’s realization centers, and a little about what they do:
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