August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
9h 20m
English
Amazon has a lot of stuff. Millions and millions of boxes, parts, bits, and things fill their shelves. They want to get the stuff from the shelves into small boxes so they can ship the stuff to you as fast as possible when you order it. For the last few years, Amazon has sponsored the Amazon Robotics Challenge, where they invited teams from universities in to use robot arms to pick up items off a shelf and, you guessed it, put them into a box. When you consider that Amazon sells almost everything imaginable, this is a real challenge. In 2017, a team from Queensland, Australia won the challenge with a low-cost arm and a really good hand tracking system.
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