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Amazon’s next warehouse efficiency drive is about moving humans, not just packages

Inside Amazon’s newer, robot-filled warehouses, the next big efficiency drive focuses on how humans move around the facilities, not just packages.If the plan works and scales, this could wring millions of labor hours out of the company’s e-commerce operations every year, according to internal analysis viewed by Business Insider.These planning…

Figure AI had one of its robots race a human to sort packages. It lost.

In the first round of human vs. humanoid, the human emerged victorious — barely. Loading audio narration… For nearly a week, the $39 billion robotics startup Figure AI has been livestreaming its robots placing packages barcode-side down on a conveyor belt at its San Jose headquarters. Millions have tuned in…