A ‘robot whisperer’ walks among the ‘ants’ at Active Ants’ e-fulfilment centre in Northampton. ith a low electrical hum, a small team of boxy, wheeled robots called “ants” criss-cross the top of a giant 3D grid of grey storage crates – 60,000 of them – ceaselessly arranging and rearranging them to order.
Down on the warehouse floor, flat-topped “ranger” robots ferry cardboard packing boxes around. Just one man, jokingly known as the robot whisperer, walks among them with a laptop.
It would be hard to conceive of a more vivid example of robots taking on human jobs.“As robot technology advances, we […]
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