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salvorhardin

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3. Aye, and many of the jobs that remain will be gone soon too
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 09:21 AM
Sep 2012

For instance, Amazon bought Kiva Systems back in March. Kiva makes a very ingenious robotic inventory and shipping management system that's already widely used, and eliminates the need for all but pickers in fulfillment centers. It doesn't take much imagination to see that Amazon will soon be replacing most of its warehouse runners with Kiva robots soon, and it's not hard to imagine that robots will replace even the pickers in short order.

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