Amazon can't get enough human workers — so here come the robots

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Amazon is rolling out an army of new, smarter warehouse robots.

The company wants to give the most demanding, repetitive tasks to robots, then retrain employees for higher-skilled jobs such asInstead of replacing workers, robots can make their lives easier, argues Tye Brady, chief technologist at Amazon Robotics. "If you reframe your relationship with machines, you can gain incredible productivity."About 75% of Amazon orders are currently touched by some form of automation during their journey from warehouse to doorstep.

"Proteus," for example, looks like an oversized Roomba. The autonomous bot can slide under an 800-pound cart stuffed with packages and move it across a warehouse." can sort and redirect packages to various warehouse locations before they're sent off for delivery.Unlike those other robots — which can sort just a few dozen sizes and types of packages — Sparrow can recognize, select, and handle millions of individual products using computer vision and artificial intelligence.

It could identify and select merchandise buried below other items, adjusting its grip to handle different objects before depositing them in the appropriate sorting bin.

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