Robots, AI, drones… Amazon is innovating at all costs to deliver faster

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2023-10-23 06:00:17

The MK30 drone even delivers in the rain. Thanks to this new drone, packages weighing less than 2.5 kg arrive at your home within the hour, even in light rain. Press service

REPORT – The e-retailer has made the speed of its service its real martingale. He invests to increase it.

Seattle (Washington)

Digit, 1.70 m tall, slender figure and bright eyes… Don’t think his gaze reflects deep feelings. Digit is a humanoid robot. One of the prototypes tested by Amazon at BFI1, one of the world’s e-commerce leader’s warehouses located on the outskirts of Seattle (Washington), in the northwest of the United States. Digit knows how to do what Amazon’s 750,000 other robots cannot do, even though they are among the most advanced in logistics: it moves and manipulates objects at the same time. With its extraordinary capabilities, its mission could be, if Amazon considers the test conclusive, to move empty bins within its warehouses, a repetitive and unrewarding task for the humans who carry it out to date.

«We do not develop technological tools to make technologyassures Tye Brady, technology manager at Amazon Robotics. They must allow us to gain in productivity and security.” If the place…

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