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Kiva's warehouse robot system (ieee.org)
12 points by mhb on July 3, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



I know one of the developers there. It's a great company. They actually aren't doing too much technically difficult. It's making it work extremely reliably that is really hard.


Kiva robot Nutcracker video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdmtya8emMw


That's awesome. I remember someone telling me that costco spents a unbelievably high amount of money on its warehouse management. I believe a lot of that goes to paying its employees. This may be able to substantially reduce its costs.




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