http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul08/6380
This article presents Kiva Systems' innovative warehouse operation technology. The following picture (from the company's web site) gives you a notion of how their automatic warehouse works: multiple robots fetching racks of products and navigating using barcodes.
You can also see the following videos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdmtya8emMw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWsMdN7HMuA
I have one suggestion to Kiva: why not create a miniature toy set for their technology? It would make any robot fan go wild with it... myself included :-)
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