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Thursday
29Jan2009

The Coming Warehouse Robot Army

Soon At An Innovative Store Near You

A recent article from Wired highlights the ways in which autonomous robots are making their way into the workforce -- primarily in warehouses for now.

Companies such as Zappos, Gap, and many others are utilizing these little robots to grab your new pair of shoes and get them on a truck within 15 minutes of you clicking go.

While this technology may be currently limited to a few cutting edge companies who value speed it is easy to see a future where this sort of technology propagates throughout companies and organizations.

Imagine going to a bookstore and instead of browsing the aisles of books you browse a virtual catalog and pick out what you are interested in reading that night. Within a few moments, Fid0 your friendly r0b0t delivers your books with a virtual smile, pulled from a warehouse engineered for maximum optimization.

Grocery shopping? Show up at 6:30, your bags are already packed and ready to go. Shopping for clothes? Pick as many items as you like and have your size ready to try within moments.

The future is here -- let's see where it really makes itself known first.