Gallery: Amazon Reveals the Robots at the Heart of Its Epic Cyber Monday Operation
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Kiva warehouse robots at the ready at Amazon's fulfillment center in Tracy, California, the day before Cyber Monday.
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An Amazon technician works on a mobile laptop stand. Behind him, the cage where the warehouse robots roam.
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Plastic totes carrying Amazon inventory traverse the million-square-foot fulfillment center known as OAK4.
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Amazon workers in Santa hats pack boxes the day before the Cyber Monday crush.
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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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An Amazon "picker" pulls an order from a four-sided shelf carried by a Kiva robot.
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The Kiva robots eliminate the need for walking by bringing the shelves to stations where items are stowed.
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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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