InsightsSuccess
Subscribe Now!
Get A Chance To Feature In Magazine By Submitting Your Interview Today!
No Result
View All Result
InsightsSuccess
  • Home
  • Industry Insider
  • Magazine
  • Franchises
  • Blog
  • Conferences
No Result
View All Result
InsightsSuccess
No Result
View All Result

Amazon Crowned Its Robotic Champion Of 2016

Amazon_Robot_Champ insights

Amazon’s annual competition for picking perfect robots that could one day work in the company warehouses crowned the latest champion in its robotic picking challenge. Competitors were asked to handle a wide range of products from toiletries to clothes and then evaluated on the basis of speed and precision in stocking shelves.
The contest was won by a joint team from the TU Delft Robotics Institute in the Netherlands and the company Delft Robotics. The robot developed by Team Delft managed to pick items from a mock Amazon warehouse shelf at a rate of 100 per hour. The failure rate noted was 16.7%. Although its slow when compared to a human’s working rate, the robot was crowned for achieving a higher rate than last year robot, which was only 30 items per hour.
Year after year the competition is becoming tighter and it is clear that Amazon is taking try-out for its own warehouses. However, the company insists that its intention is not to replace the human workers by robots.
Amazon stated that since it bought robotics from Kiva in 2012 for $775 million, number of employees continued to grow. Towards the end of 2014 there were about 154,100 employees (full-time and part-time) and it increased to 230,800 towards the end of 2015.
There 30,000 Kiva robots working in Amazon warehouses. They are squat, orange-colored machines which rush underneath shelves and lift the items up off the floor. Picking and loading items on the shelves accurately has proven tricky to automate at present. The annual contests aim at plugging this technology gap.
The Delft team explains the working factor behind the champion robot is artificial intelligence. The researchers embedded deep learning techniques which enables the robot to churn through vast data to look for recurring patterns and to analyze 3D scans of the items it has to pick and replace. To the robotic arm, a custom gripper-suction arm was attached to do the actual mechanical work and the AI-powered software gave the robot an edge over the competition.

Previous Post

Spotify and Netflix’s rise made the Internet piracy fall down

Next Post

Apple iOS 10 to Encourage Organ Donation

Next Post

Apple iOS 10 to Encourage Organ Donation

// < ?php // if ( post_password_required() ) // return; // $comment_load = get_theme_mod('jnews_comment_load', 'normal'); // $comment_type = apply_filters('jeg_comment_type', get_theme_mod('jnews_comment_type', 'wordpress')); // $is_normal_load = true; // if($comment_type === 'wordpress') // { // $is_normal_load = true; // } else { // $is_normal_load = ( $comment_load === 'normal' ); // } // if($is_normal_load) // { // get_template_part('fragment/comments'); // } else { // get_template_part('fragment/comments', 'button'); // }

Recent News

Penn Entertainment Announces Plans to Buy Barstool Sports
Recent News

Penn Entertainment Announces Plans to Buy Barstool Sports

Berks County-based company Penn Entertainment has been in limelight for its announcements since it changed its name from Penn National...

Read more
Hearing is Simplified: FDA approves OTC Sale of Hearing Aids

Hearing is Simplified: FDA approves OTC Sale of Hearing Aids

Peloton

Peloton to launch DIY Bikes to Reduce Costs

Avalara

Avalara Set to be Acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $8.4 Billion

Samsung

Samsung Launches One UI 5 beta in Galaxy S22 Smartphones

Path Breakers

Golden Helix

Golden Helix: Providing Leading Genomic Data Analysis Software

Hubstaff | Workforce Management

Hubstaff: Time and Workforce Management at Your Fingertips Virtually

Evonence LLC

Evonence LLC – Expert Google Workspace Partner Across North America

Booster Box

Booster Box – A Passionate International Performance Marketing Agency for PPC Advertising Campaigns

Gary Olson, CEO, GHO Group LLC

GHO Group LLC: Bringing Vision to Reality

Insights Success is an archway that caters to Entrepreneurs’ quench of technology and business updates which are currently ruling the business world.
We are ceaselessly proving the best platform for leading companies, which aids indefinite progress while creating meaningful learning experiences for the visitors and invaluable brand awareness for the clients.

  • About Us
  • Advertise With Us
  • General Disclaimer
  • Terms & Condition
  • Privacy Policy
  • Subscribe
  • Contact Us

© Copyright 2022, InsightsSuccess | All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Industry Insider
  • Magazine
  • Franchises
  • Women In Business
  • Blog
  • Conferences
  • IT & Innovations
  • Leadership
  • Healthcare
  • Money
  • Startups

© Copyright 2022, InsightsSuccess | All Rights Reserved.