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The Robots Are Coming – And Some Are Already Here

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That’s a big price tag, but it’s not so bad when one considers that doing that using humans to perform that kind of plant surveying work would cost roughly $300,000. Fluffy and Spot travel the plant and gather data that can be synthesized into improvements in the production process, according to The Economist. Such robots aren’t cheap.

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The Amazon Effect Pushes Warehouses To The IoT Tipping Point

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” “You need to expand and make your supply chain much more complex if you want to be able to promise and deliver on that same-hour, same-day or overnight delivery everyone is coming to expect,” Egan said of the need for smaller, pinpointed warehousing solutions.