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Prateek Joshi

Shipping and warehouse management

An Amazon sorting facility is one of the best examples of the symbiotic relationship that is forming between humans, computers, and robots. Computers take customer orders and decide where to route merchandise, the robots act as mules carrying the pallets and inventory around the warehouse. Humans plug the "last mile" problem by hand picking the items that are going into each order. Robots are proficient in mindlessly repeating a task many times as long as there is a pattern involved and some level of pretraining is involved to achieve this. However, having a robot pick a 20-pound package and immediately being able to grab an egg without breaking it is one of the harder robotics problems.

Robots struggle dealing with objects of different sizes, weights, shapes, and fragility; a task that many humans can perform effortlessly. People, therefore, handle the tasks that the robots encounter difficulty with. The interaction of these three types of different actors translates into a finely tuned orchestra that can deliver millions of packages everyday with very little mistakes.

Even Scott Anderson, Amazon's director of robotics fulfillment acknowledged in May 2019 that a fully automated warehouse is at least 10 years away. So, we will continue to see this configuration in warehouses across the world for a little longer.

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Prateek Joshi

Prateek Joshi is the founder of Plutoshift and a published author of 9 books on Artificial Intelligence. He has been featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, NBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, TechCrunch, and The Business Journals. He has been an invited speaker at conferences such as TEDx, Global Big Data Conference, Machine Learning Developers Conference, and Silicon Valley Deep Learning. Apart from Artificial Intelligence, some of the topics that excite him are number theory, cryptography, and quantum computing. His greater goal is to make Artificial Intelligence accessible to everyone so that it can impact billions of people around the world.
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