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Looking forward to when Amazon's warehouses are automated with quadrocopters.

• Wingman4l7 14y ago
  Kiva Systems already makes a warehouse robot. I didn't know if Amazon used them or not, so I did some quick Googling and it turns out Amazon bought the company! http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/amazon-com-buys-kiva-systems-for-775-million/ http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/amazon-com-buys-kiva-...
  • jayzee 14y ago
    and it was the same guy Raff D'Andrea who started that company
    • Wingman4l7 14y ago
      Hah, good catch! Small world =)
  • cfos 14y ago
    interestingly, Rafaello d'Andrea the leader of this drone research in the flying machine arena in Zürich is also one of the co-founders of KIVA systems. other research groups (e.g. http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/ http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/) are working on bringing this technology out of the motion capture system by mounting cameras on the drones and use image processing algorithms to estimate the drones trajectory.