Robot's creator that supports Amazon's speed delivery "Amazon Robotics"

Poti something on Amazon, depending on the item you can receive on that day you ordered. Supporting such a terrible high-speed delivery system is the Amazon delivery (logistics) center, and the in-house team to automate this delivery center is "Amazon Robotics"is. To Amazon shipping centerIntroduced 15,000 robotsWhat has been done has become a hot topic, but besides the move towards automation has been done besides this.

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"Amazon Robotics" was founded in 2003 and was created to make the distribution center of the parent company Amazon.com better. Amazon Robotics aims to automate Amazon's delivery center with various robotics technologies and its research fields are autonomous mobile robot, elaborate control software, language recognition,Power management,Computer vision, Depth sensing, machine learning, object recognition, semantic understanding of commands, and so on.

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With Amazon ... ....


Purchase something


Then at the nearest Amazon distribution center ......


"Pick up the item on the shelf here" will be displayed on the monitor.


Looking for the instructed goods from the shelf ... ...


I put it on a table.


Then push a button of something.


Then, the person who was on the other side of the table headed for taking the item placed on the shelf ......


I pack this as it is in a cardboard box and pack it up.



The cardboard box after packing is packed tightly inside such a carrier ......


After that, Orange Rumba style robot which is visible at the bottom of the shelf carries it to the next section.



This rubrum-style robot "Kiva" not only carries the packaged goods but also carries the role of bringing the shelves themselves to the packing station where packing is done.


The way Kiva runs around the center can be seen in the following article.

Amazon gigantic warehouse tour movie tracked by items shipped at Amazon shipped - GIGAZINE


In addition, various robots such as robot arm which raises and lowers luggage are active in the center.




Amazon Robotics researchers create robots that are also such state-of-the-art crystals.


By robot and programming they produced ......


Automatic pickup machine like Kiva is completed. Until this Kiva appeared, the person in charge in the center used a portable terminal to find out which shelf items to ship, and ran around the center with his own feet.


There are dozens of Kiva lines. It seems that Kiva is working together in one delivery center together with thousands of vehicles, and it carries a motion sensor that detects movement of surrounding objects so that robots do not hit each other.



Of course, engineers working on maintenance of these robots ... ...



Various specialists such as designers work at Amazon Robotics.


Also, Amazon aims to automate work inside the center by robots other than Kiva, and the winning prize of 3 million yen "Amazon Picking Challenge"Is held.


In "Amazon Picking Challenge", participants pick up specific products placed on shelves using systems and robots developed independently, competing for superiority and inferiority.


It seems that MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) also participated in the competition.


Many types of robots are participating, but,The winning team was Team RBO.



The load carrying weight of Kiva currently in active warehouse is 3000 pounds (about 1.4 tons).


I think that it is about the size of the rumba, but the product shelves carried by Kiva seems to be quite large, as it is about the size to easily mount adult men.


The waiting time from ordering to receipt of goods may be felt quite far from the user, but I am amazed that various efforts are being made to shorten this waiting time as much as possible.


Amazon Robotics focuses on research and development and is looking for new ways to continually extend the production line by redefining the methods currently in use. It seems that attitude to continue to work on this new thing leads to a service that pleases customers and surprises them.