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Some simple tasks are just too hard for the robots.Some simple tasks are just too hard for the robots.Autonomous robots are filling up Amazon warehouses, where they're sorting, loading, and unloading packages with impressive efficiency. But it sounds like they're still outmatched by humans when it comes to many essential tasks.
But it struggles at "targeted picking," which involves having to search through a container to pluck out an item hidden by other stuff. It's a common task that any able human employee could do. For robots to do the same, however, will require nothing short of a breakthrough in the field."I'm not saying it's impossible," he added, but that level of functionality would be "kind of the next frontier.
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