Amazon debuts Sparrow, a new bin picking robot arm

The bin moving robots designed by Kiva Systems still form the foundation of Amazon’s warehouse robotics play a decade after it acquired the startup. There’s a reason — for example — that the recently announced fully autonomous Proteus robot effectively looks like a green (“Seahawks green,” per robotics VP, Joseph Quinlivan) version of one of […] Amazon debuts Sparrow, a new bin picking robot arm by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch...