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<blockquote data-quote="annoyed804" data-source="post: 1011364" data-attributes="member: 36899"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-global-industry.html" target="_blank">Skilled Work, Without the Worker - New York Times</a>Inside a spartan garage in an industrial neighborhood in Palo Alto, Calif., a robot armed with electronic “eyes” and a small scoop and suction cups repeatedly picks up boxes and drops them onto a conveyor belt.Such robots will put automation within range of companies like Federal Express and United Parcel Service that now employ tens of thousands of workers doing such tasks.The start-up behind the robot, Industrial Perception Inc., is the first spinoff of Willow Garage, an ambitious robotics research firm based in Menlo Park, Calif. The first customer is likely to be a company that now employs thousands of workers to load and unload its trucks. The workers can move one box every six seconds on average. But each box can weigh more than 130 pounds, so the workers tire easily and sometimes hurt their backs.Read more: <a href="http://www.browncafe.com/#ixzz241PlwIiu" target="_blank">Brown Cafe - UPS News for UPSers</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="annoyed804, post: 1011364, member: 36899"] [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-global-industry.html'][B]Skilled Work, Without the Worker - New York Times[/B][/URL] Inside a spartan garage in an industrial neighborhood in Palo Alto, Calif., a robot armed with electronic “eyes” and a small scoop and suction cups repeatedly picks up boxes and drops them onto a conveyor belt. Such robots will put automation within range of companies like Federal Express and United Parcel Service that now employ tens of thousands of workers doing such tasks. The start-up behind the robot, Industrial Perception Inc., is the first spinoff of Willow Garage, an ambitious robotics research firm based in Menlo Park, Calif. The first customer is likely to be a company that now employs thousands of workers to load and unload its trucks. The workers can move one box every six seconds on average. But each box can weigh more than 130 pounds, so the workers tire easily and sometimes hurt their backs. Read more: [URL='http://www.browncafe.com/#ixzz241PlwIiu']Brown Cafe - UPS News for UPSers[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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