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    Amazon is reportedly building ‘picker’ robots for fulfillment centers

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    Mallory Locklear
    Mallory Locklear
    10.12.2018

    In order to fulfil its many orders in a timely fashion, Amazon employs a large number of people, and a key part to the company's order fulfillment process are pickers. These employees are the ones that pick items from fulfillment center shelves, collect them into bins and send them to packers that put them all together into boxes to be mailed out. So far, this job has been carried out by humans, but The Information reports that the company is working on robots that can do the task on their own.