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Kiva Robotics Boost Amazon's Profits
Kiva robotic start up. They make machines that can transport merchandise containers around warehouses and streamline the whole process. Before kiva, amazon pickers had walked upwards of 12 miles a day to grab products and take them to shipping. Kiva bots are able to kind oflike move all the shipping containers in these warehouses around so that workers have to walk less and can pack more per like our a. And an amazon f c by 50 % because it's just so much more efficient. But they come with down sides to primarily for the human workers. A 20 20 report cited an ocea letter to amazon that said the robots exposed employees to argonomic risk factors, including