Forget about using robots to sell coffee machines – Amazon has far grander plans than that, where they have mobilized an entire army of robots, numbering approximately 15,000 of them in order to prepare for the madness of Cyber Monday, which so happens to be the biggest single order day of the year for Amazon. This year alone, Amazon customers placed orders of more than 36.8 million items around the world, and this translates to an average of 426 items each second, which is a record breaking figure according to the company.
In fact, Amazon has plans to pass that figure and chart new paths along the way. Needless to say, to be able to fulfill all of those order requirements can be a pretty tall order (pun not intended) for even the most efficient human worker, which is why Amazon is about to launch a full-scale deployment of a robotic fulfillment system that it picked up 2012, having used it in testing last year. In other words, the items will be picked by robots and sent to packers so that the right items can be packed before being shipped out to your doorstep.
Bright orange Kiva robots would be the ones doing all of the hard work, bringing along the whole seven-foot shelving unit that the required item is on.
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