29 jan 2003 ano - Kiva Robots Re-Engineer the Warehouse

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Early this century, Mick Mountz had an idea: Rather than have shipping-center employees find and fetch items in vast warehouses, why not have robots do that work? He and his cofounders created the Kiva robot: a squarish, close-to-the-ground orange bot (not too different from an extra-large Roomba) that can glide around warehouses, moving racks of goods. Kiva used some inexpensive off-the-rack components, which could make the robots less precise in how it moved about, but Kiva’s engineers compensated with software that course-corrected on the fly. The result was an autonomous machine that was far more flexible at automating a warehouse than a traditional conveyor-belt system, and relatively easy to use. Kiva’s system revolutionized the efficiency of warehouse and shipping. Amazon bought the company for $775 million in 2012.

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