Gallery: Amazon Reveals the Robots at the Heart of Its Epic Cyber Monday Operation

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    dk-113014-301 An Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, CA.

    Kiva warehouse robots at the ready at Amazon's fulfillment center in Tracy, California, the day before Cyber Monday.
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    dk-113014-431 An Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, CA.

    An Amazon technician works on a mobile laptop stand. Behind him, the cage where the warehouse robots roam.
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    dk-113014-295 An Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, CA.

    Plastic totes carrying Amazon inventory traverse the million-square-foot fulfillment center known as OAK4.
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    dk-113014-199 An Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, CA.

    Amazon workers in Santa hats pack boxes the day before the Cyber Monday crush.
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    dk-113014-250 An Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, CA.

    The Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, California, can ship 700,000 items per day. That number could rise as high as 1.5 million when it begins operating at full capacity.
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    dk-113014-389 An Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, CA.

    An Amazon "picker" pulls an order from a four-sided shelf carried by a Kiva robot.
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    dk-113014-48 An Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, CA.

    The Kiva robots eliminate the need for walking by bringing the shelves to stations where items are stowed.
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    dk-113014-107 An Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, CA.

    In the din of an Amazon fulfillment center, Kiva robots slide in near-silence along invisible grids in their fenced-off zones.
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