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Musjack.com – Amazon robot, made last week with its much-heralded drone plans sensation. But before this daring endeavor that looks like a sci-fi episode is put into action , the warehouses should be largely automated . With the help of robots , the Group of founder Jeff Bezos is expected to save more than 900 million U.S. dollars annually , according to the analyst Shawn Milne of Janney Capital Markets .
Amazon bought last year , the technology company Kiva Systems . Thanks to this new robot shipments daughter’s settlement costs for an order of up to 40 percent could fall , says Milne . Typical costs from 3.50 to 3.75 dollars for a job. The robot lawn between the storage racks back and forth and looking fully automatic suitable products out . This need not rush from one shelf to another and put together the delivery workers . “We believe this is a significant opportunity for Amazon to improve its operational efficiency in order processing ,” Milne writes in an analysis. Amazon robot
Amazon has long been working to it to reduce its order costs and to speed up the delivery. Partial warehouses were specially close hoisted to urban areas. While Amazon did recently with the spectacular future plans for deliveries with drones headlines. But the Kiva robots can increase the here and now , the efficiency in logistics, where human labor – still determines what happens – with their occasional errors.
Amazon Kiva bought in March 2012 for $ 775 million . But recently the Bezos Group announced the use of the robots in their own warehouses. You sit around 1,400 Kiva robots in three camps a , they said Amazon in the report for the third quarter. “Amazon is very secretive . , When they talk about something , it is better to listen well ,” Milne advises in an interview. Amazon declined to comment further .
The concept of automation should be no automatic process . The Amazon warehouse are usually fundamentally designed so that workers hurrying through the corridors shelf and remove items , says Milne . It could take several years before the sender can use the robot in a big way through conversions .
Even harder than the uptake of the technology in your own business, it is expected to fall to make the robot other companies tasty. Kiva demanded 2 million dollars for a Robotics Range before takeover by Amazon. Up to $ 20 million cost a total package with multiple machines.
Meanwhile, going by the robot using an uncommon fascination. After the drone idea of Amazon the Internet company Google followed with his own plans for the construction of robots.
