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Robots Help Process Amazon Orders

Cyber Monday is Amazon's busiest day of the year, which last year set a company record with 36.8 million items sold worldwide.
To help get products off the shelves and shipped in time for the holidays, Amazon has employed 15,000 robots.

The Kiva robots look like orange oversized roombas, and bring the right shelves to the packer instead of the packer searching the warehouse.

The company says the technology cuts the packing process from hours, to minutes.

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