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This week, at Amazon’s Delivering the Future symposium in Dortmund, Germany, Amazon announced that its Vulcan robots, which stow items into and pick items from fabric...
Amazon pioneered the use of robots in order fulfillment. Every day, fleets of robots in fulfillment centers carry pods full of heavy inventory, assisting employees with...
In an effort to improve the performance of robots that pick, sort, and pack products in warehouses, Amazon has publicly released the largest dataset of images...
In October of 2021, Amazon and MIT announced the establishment of the Science Hub. That collaboration, which aims to ensure the benefits of AI and robotics...
The barcode has been in use for nearly 50 years. It’s ubiquitous and all but infallible. For Amazon, that’s not quite good enough. When an item...
The rate of innovation in machine learning is simply off the chart — what is possible today was barely on the drawing board even a handful...
[Editor’s note: The International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) is taking place this week in Kyoto, Japan. IROS focuses on future directions in robotics,...
For humans, finding and fetching a bottle of ketchup from a cluttered refrigerator without toppling the milk carton is a routine task. For robots, this remains...
Inside an Amazon fulfillment center, as packages roll down a conveyor, the Robin robotic arm goes to work. It dips, picks up a package, scans its,...
Building and fine-tuning robotic systems takes lots of time. This is especially true for robots designed to interact within and manipulate an ever-changing array of objects...