pontalba Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 A friend sent this link to me, and I thought it was pretty amazing. Have to see it to believe it. Amazon strikes again. http://www.chonday.com/Videos/how-the-amazon-warehouse-works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Wow, that is so cool! Thanks for sharing. I feel like ordering something from Amazon just so I can send one of those little cuties off to get my item. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 (edited) That's very cool! Thanks for sharing the link . EDIT: I showed my dad the video, he hadn't seen it before (he liked it) but he knows the creator of the robots, Raff d'Andrea. He's a professor of ETH in Z"urich. Edited March 5, 2014 by Athena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Ah I couldn't get this to load at work it crashed the PC. It sounds interesting.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Something tells me the UK warehouses don't work this way, but the American ones are the biz! If only we'd had something like this when I was working in the Argos stockroom - my life would have been a whole lot easier!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted March 7, 2014 Author Share Posted March 7, 2014 Glad y'all enjoyed it! I had no idea that they used that sort of technology, and find it amazing it all goes so smoothly! Gaia! That is so very cool! Amazing invention, to say the least. VF, I hope you were able to see it later. Kylie, /giggle/ me too! Kell, I can't believe that the U.K. Amazon will be that far behind in getting them, if in fact they don't already. It's only a matter of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I know that the staff in the Bletchley/Milton Keynes warehouses pick the orders by hand. They even find themselves running at times to keep up with the quota that they are set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleW Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I knew they have robots in warehouses. But I always thougt, the storage is 3 or more storeys high and the robots only pick up the required item. But maybe that's just another kind to handle things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 That was really interesting. I had no idea they used robots....I assumed it was done by hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleW Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 No kidding, bobblybear????None of those online markets would work, if it's all done by hand!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 I really didn't know how they managed it, I'd read about how the workers have schedules, and quotas etc, and didn't think of teeny robots running around doing half the running. Pretty neat. I suppose all of the warehouses will have that sort of thing, eventually. Probably to varying degrees, but still. LOL I mean, really, Amazon are the guys that want same day delivery with drones. heh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 No kidding, bobblybear???? None of those online markets would work, if it's all done by hand!!!! Actually I think it's quite surprising. There aren't too many such companies that would be able to afford such technology. I think Amazon would definitely be the exception rather than the rule. I'm sure I've heard/read stories about other companies where employees use Segways or bikes to traverse huge warehouses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 No kidding, bobblybear???? None of those online markets would work, if it's all done by hand!!!! No kidding, so you'll have to pardon my apparent ignorance. In the UK, the Amazon warehouse is run and co-ordinated mostly by people, not robots, and it seems to work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 Truth is, an automated system of this sort is fairly new, as far as I know. I can't imagine it is terribly widespread yet. Now, there have been things like conveyor belts, and trolleys to carry things from, say one end of a factory to the other. But Amazon's system is far and above that. And, you'll note, the human factor is still in there. The human has to pluck the exact item from the "pod" the robot carries to and fro. LOL, that'll the next thing to go. heh And then there are the proposed Amazon drones for same day delivery........can't wait for that one!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSchultz19 Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 I think the most amazing part is that the robots run smoothly on the "highway" without any crashes. Unless, of course, they didn't show what happens when they crash... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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