Months before the hard-fought battle for its second global headquarters in Queens, Amazon planted a massive, 855,000-square-foot flag in Staten Island. The $100 million JFK8 fulfillment center opened last fall, after an “on the spot” hiring spree, aimed at employing an eventual 2,250 people. The new factory smell still permeated the air when we visited […]
View More These are the robots that help you get your Amazon packages on timeCategory: amazon robotics
Amazon built an electronic vest to improve worker/robot interactions
Over the course of last year, Amazon began rolling out a new worker safety wearable to 25+ sites. From the looks of it, the Robotic Tech Vest is really more like a pair of suspenders attached to to an electronic utility belt. The Amazon Robotics-designed product was created to keep workers safe when they need […]
View More Amazon built an electronic vest to improve worker/robot interactionsRobotics-as-a-service is on the way and inVia Robotics is leading the charge
The team at inVia Robotics didn’t start out looking to build a business that would create a new kind of model for selling robotics to the masses, but that may be exactly what they’ve done. After their graduation from the University of Southern California’s robotics program, Lior Alazary, Dan Parks, and Randolph Voorhies, were casting […]
View More Robotics-as-a-service is on the way and inVia Robotics is leading the charge