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		Animats on Oct 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Peter Thiel Is Wrong About the Future That's from 2011. Amazon bought Kiva Systems to install robots in their warehouses. No more walking around in Amazon's newer warehouses; the pickers stand in one place as shelving units of products are brought to them by hundreds of mobile robots. Picking from bins is still manual, but Bezos has Rethink Robotics, which he owns personally, working on that.

couchand on Oct 9, 2014 [–]

Hey guys, no need to worry about those workers' health. They won't have a job soon, anyway.

tsotha on Oct 9, 2014 | [–]

It wasn't a coincidence you heard about the hamburger making machines when people were trying to organize fast food workers a few months back.

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