I wrote:
> The same is true of the robots used to move shelves in the Amazon.com > warehouses. All they do is move shelves, bringing goods to people who then > pick the goods from the shelf and put them in boxes. > Here is a video showing these machines and the people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLVCGEmkJs0 You might quibble that these are not what we think of as "robots." They are not a bit humanoid. They resemble Roombas. Webster defines robot as: ". . . a machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts (such as walking or talking) of a human being" By that old-fashioned definition, these are not robots. I would say they are, though, because they use camera-enabled vision, they interact with one-another, they make decisions rather than blindly repeating a set of actions, and they are autonomous. - Jed
