Amazon is getting closer to deploying the closest thing to a human in its fulfillment centers as it unveiled a robot that can “feel.” Its latest robotics breakthrough, though, isn’t part of a plot to replace the long-serving workers on Amazon’s factory floors.
Amazon Robotics announced the launch of Vulcan, a robotic arm that is the company’s first to have a sense of touch, following a three-year development process that leaned on the expertise of specialists from Stanford, MIT, and Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab.
