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Warehouse Robots
Mobile robots bring whole shelves to the packer; Kiva Systems built them from 2003 and Amazon bought the company in 2012.
Open in the interactive tree →The robots navigate by reading bar-code stickers on the warehouse floor and slide under shelf units to carry them. Goods-to-person picking became the model for automated fulfilment.
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