Good point, I think its a definitely a multi-pronged approach, their labor right now is limited to factory workers and whole-foods right now. My view of whole-f

Good point, I think its a definitely a multi-pronged approach, their labor right now is limited to factory workers and whole-foods right now. My view of whole-foods is that they may already be paying at or above $15/hr wages, so that leaves factory workers, who are being used mostly for sorting goods from large bins into smaller bins. Amazon fulfillment centers are right now using warehouse robots to retrieve large bins from really really tall 'shelves' because that is a solved problem for Amazon. The sorting into the smaller bins is left to humans because they are faster and more accurate at the moment for awkwardly shaped items. What is the state of computer-vision, part-identification, and compliant-actuator pick-place robots inside Amazon? Have they released any whitepapers or research papers on robotics of note recently, acquired any interesting automation companies recently?