Santagate: There are three elements driving market adoption: collaboration, mobility and dexterity. If we're talking about robots in fulfillment centers, you have a couple of options. One is the facility refit that requires a redesign, like Kiva. Then you have new devices that are autonomously mobile and support the human in the process. That's mobility and collaboration, and to that point, the shortage of labor jumps out along with what you do during peak demand. You can drop these new robots into an existing facility and maintain workforce continuity. And by dexterity I mean the addition of arms that can move in multiple ways with the ability to grab materials that robots couldn't grab before.
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