The Robotic Warehouse
And I thought Amazon’s warehouse where machines coordinated the way people roam is cool. Look at the cute bots Kiva built!
Source: IEEE
The current demo they have works like this:
This guy is ready to fill an order. He has the boxes.
Nearest robot with the “stuff” moves!
Line up!
“The eye” (ala LOTR) points at the item to be picked up.
Guy picks the stuff in the order.
Put stuff in box.
The 1st robot drives away, 2nd robot in the line takes its place. Repeat.
