E-commerce giant says Sparrow is capable of handling millions of different products. Amazon has long aspired to mostly automate its warehouses. Image: Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc has developed a robot capable of identifying and handling individual items, a milestone in the e-commerce giant’s efforts to reduce its reliance on the human order pickers who currently play a key role in getting products from warehouse shelves to customers’ doorsteps.
The robotic arm, tipped by a set of retractable suction devices, is called Sparrow. In demonstrations on Thursday, the machine autonomously grabbed items of different sizes and textures from a plastic tote and […]
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