Behind every order you place online is a picker, a person who navigates a warehouse to find the item you ordered, picks that item off a shelf and brings it to be shipped. That can take a while...
========== Behind every order you place online is a real
person called a picker. They navigate massivewarehouses to find the item you just ordered,
and bring it to place where it is packed and shipped.With companies like Amazon offering delivery
in as little as an hour, the pressure is on thepickers to really speed things up.The pick time in these facilities have gone
from days to hours to minutes.It’s very hard to have an entire workforce
shift their cadence and even sustain that cadence.Silicon Valley company Fetch thinks it has
a solution to this problem.You guessed it, robots.The first step for us really was to eliminate
the tedious activity.So they could specialize at the things that
they’re good at and then the tedious taskof going from one side of a 400 square foot
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