Meet the Robots Filling Your Cyber Monday Amazon Orders

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon has an army of Kiva robots doing Santa's work this holiday season. The robots have been installed in ten of Amazon's 50 U.S. warehouses. They're scurrying the floors collecting merchandise to get boxed and shipped. Bloomberg's Sam Grobart looks at how these orange machines operate and why they're so efficient. (Source: Bloomberg)

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[lucasxaxier]

Exactly this is like Santa's workshop in a way

[IvanHoeEeWu]

Sugoi!
I'd love to have an Orange Kiva!

[patricklundstrom]

Pushing prices down, profit up and people out of employment...

[donangelogambino]

Internet of Things, just behind the corner.

[jackoneill]

and put 2000 people outta jobs... and put a strain on the power infrasctructure to charge way to go amazon up your profits and up our sales price

[jackoneill]

cant wait till they have to replce those batteries on them 15k of them hmm 20 mil lol way to think ahead amarape

[DorinCiobanu]

Technically these are slaves, not employees, as they are not being payed ;)