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Warehouses run by Gap, as well as Zappos and Staples now use autonomous robots to pluck products from their shelves and send them to you I'm surprised Amazon i

• brk 18y ago
  Amazon is eating their own dogfood. They have been beta testing a product called "Actual Turk". With Actual Turk, people show up at a defined location and perform menial tasks for a few cents each. Any product you order from an Amazon warehouse has been picked and packed by an Actual Turk over the last 3 months. In between product pick/pack jobs Actual Turks also perform other jobs on demand, such as making hand-shadow puppets in front of a webcam, reading bedtime stories to children over the phone, or seeking out specimens to ship to a child for their school rock-collection project. This offering was also alpha-tested in front of many Home Depot locations in the Southwest.
  • queensnake 18y ago
    ... but seriously, I heard they use(d) Segways; that was their level of automation for a while (maybe still).