Drones Already Work in Amazon's Warehouses

Amazon’s idea of using flying drones for speeding up delivery of its merchandise and lowering the cost may be some years off, but the U.S. retail giant is already employing droves of autonomous robots in its huge warehouse in Seattle, Washington. According to reports in Wall Street Jornal and technology website technologyadvice.com, the warehouse robots could save Amazon as much as 40 percent of the cost of fulfilling orders. About one foot high, battery-powered orange boxes, the size...

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