Army of robots invade Amazon warehouses

Amazon will use 10,000 robots in its warehouses by the end of this year.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told investors at a shareholder meeting on Wednesday that he expects to significantly increase the number of robots that will be used to fulfill customer orders.

At the moment, Amazon uses about 1,000 such robots in their warehouses. Their increase will not affect ordinary employees who now work there, said an Amazon spokesman.
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The robots are made by Kiva Systems , a company that was bought by Amazon for $ 775 million two years ago.

All robots are connected in a complex system, planning and testing of which will take several months. But as soon as this system works, it can save time and reduce costs.



While robots are already playing an important role in fulfilling orders in stock, it can take years before Amazon sends packages straight to the door of the buyer’s house using drones . Bezos plans that they will deliver packages to customers in about 30 minutes, but there are a number of legal and technological obstacles that must be passed before this happens.

Information taken from cnn.com.
Translation and article prepared by the Telebreeze Team
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