Kiva bots are cool and have some advantages but I wouldn't say they're that much more advanced than other AS/RSes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_stor

Kiva bots are cool and have some advantages but I wouldn't say they're that much more advanced than other AS/RSes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_storage_and_retrieval_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_storage_and_retrieva... For warehouses willing to make capital investments automating the process of getting bins to pickers is a pretty well understood problem. Getting boxes out of trucks like Boston Dynamics is doing here and getting items out of bins and into boxes like we[1] are doing are the frontiers of warehouse automation right now. [1] http://www.righthandrobotics.com/ http://www.righthandrobotics.com/