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2017 Amazon Robotics Competition Won by Budget Robot
This year’s Amazon Robotics competition was designed to find
a machine that could identify, pick up and store item. The winners consisted of
university students as part of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision. The
team built their machine without a robot arm, instead opting to do the picking
from above using a sliding mechanism and walked away with an $80,000 cash prize."The parts for
the robot were cheap by the standards of typical industrial robots and it could
be built for unde
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Aug 1st 2017
Following Amazon’s Lead with Robots
If ever there was a benchmark for efficiency, Amazon wins.
According to CNN Tech, Amazon’s human employees spend less than one minute handling
an order – the rest is done by robots and automation.With the addition of robots, Amazon added more merchandise space into each automated fulfillment center by 50%. The old practice
forced workers to traipse the aisles in search of an item, but now, a robot
picks up an entire bookshelf, positions it before the worker and even tells him where on
the s
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Mar 6th 2017