Amazon built an e-commerce empire by automating much of the work needed to move goods and pack orders in its warehouses. There is still plenty of work for humans in those vast facilities because some tasks are too complex for robots to do reliably – but a new robot called Sparrow could shift the balance that Amazon strikes between people and machines.
Read the full article on the Wired website
NAM Implications:
- If they can develop Sparrow to the point where it can cope with outdoor terrain…
- …it could transform the future of fruit-picking.
- Then perhaps to revisit the issue of human replacement?
