“In a traditional fulfillment center where the associate would walk to the different items , it can take hours to fulfill a customer order. ”Robinson says.

　　Now, with the help of robots, that task takes minutes and fewer humans.

　　So is this a sign we're entering a new industrial revolution?

　　“It’s definitely going to take over a lot of jobs. ” says Karen Myers, a scientist at SRI, one of Silicon Valley's oldest research centers.

　　At the same time, she says, we’re running against the limits of technology. Take “the picker”at the Amazon fulfillment center. Myers says those skills are proving to be uniquely human.

　　“Our fingers are incredibly agileand the current generation of robotic operators, they’re getting much，much better,” she says. “But they're just not quite there yet. ”

　　There’s also therobot’s brain.

　　Remember that board game the Amazon worker was looking for? She could barely see the box filled into the storage bin — but she could tell it was a board game. Robots can’t do that.

　　Technologists say that, increasingly, humans will work side by side with robots instead of robots working alone.

　　Amazon says robots and humans enabled the Tracy warehouse to fulfill customer orders faster. That means more customers and more human workers.

　　24. A picker does some tasks except .

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