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I expect this is to gain patents/technology around making autonomous robots, so that Amazon can create a warehouse system similar to Ocado, where robots, rather than people, pick groceries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKrcpa8Z_E



And what makes you think Amazon doesn't do that yet? Kiva systems did what Ocado does now a DECADE go. Amazon acquired kiva systems (infact, Amazon robotics was born out of this acquisition) long long ago and I'm sure can do a lot more than Ocado does now.


> And what makes you think Amazon doesn't do that yet?

Because I still see a lot of human beings employed picking things in Amazon warehouses.




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