To do more complex work, robots must be able to communicate and coordinate with each other. Researchers are working on that.
At a typical Amazon fulfillment center, thousands of robots work alongside people, doing a variety of jobs. A robot arm helps pick ordered items from shelves and loads them onto a mobile robot. The mobile robot rolls through the warehouse, delivering items to human employees who organize the items into orders. After the orders are packaged, yet another robot arm puts them on a robotic carrier to be shipped out for delivery.
This complicated choreography works because of sophisticated software, developed by Amazon, that tells the human workers and robots where to go and what to do to ensure they are collaborating efficiently. The robotic systems also communicate with each other on the ground, preventing backups and bottlenecks.
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