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Amazon makes electronic vest to protect workers from robots
short by Arundhati Rawat / on Sunday, 20 January, 2019
Amazon Robotics has made an electronic 'Robotic Tech Vest' that alerts warehouse robots to the location of workers wearing it, to prevent accidents. The vest has in-built sensors that let robots detect human workers in the facility and change paths to avoid collisions. In December 2018, 24 Amazon workers were hospitalised after a robot punctured a can of bear repellant.
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