The Amazon Picking Challenge, set by global online retailer Amazon, challenged roboticists to create a robot that can pick and stow twelve products from a shelf, into a bag.
Standard industrial grippers are built to pick up one thing, move it and put it down. It may sound simple, but Amazon set the robotics challenge because this is the only area of their warehousing process that isn’t currently mechanised, due to the sheer variety of objects to be packed. Standard…
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