Amazon's Sparrow robotic arm excels at 'top-picking' items but struggles significantly with 'targeted picking' tasks, highlighting the limitations of current robotics technology.
Tye Brady, chief technologist at Amazon Robotics, acknowledges the complexity of targeted picking, stating it's 'a really hard job' and foreshadows a significant frontier in robotics.
DHL's Sally Miller touts the efficiency of the Stretch robot, emphasizing its ability to unload packages faster than humans and its non-stop operational capacity without health-related absences.
With over 750,000 robots employed, Amazon illustrates the industry's growing reliance on automation, though there's still a substantial workforce of 1.55 million human employees.
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