> pre-Kiva, pickers would walk the aisles to the bins storing the needed items. Now the shelves come to the pickers instead.
There's a great video of the things in action @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRjuuEVEZs
There's a great video of the things in action @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRjuuEVEZs
And I guess the next step is robots actually pulling the merchandise off of the shelves? Or maybe they'll just skip moving the shelves all together and just have collection robots roaming around, pulling product, and then packing it somewhere off to the side?