Amazon, ranked #7 on this year’s Fortune America’s Most Innovative Companies list, has spent over a decade and billions of dollars striving to lead in robotics and workplace efficiency.
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00:00They seem to be communicating in their own little language.
00:02This one's got a bin.
00:03This one I'm controlling.
00:05This one has a mind of its own.
00:06I don't really know what it's doing, but it's chirping a lot.
00:08So it seems to be happy.
00:09I pursue this strategy of vertical integration,
00:12of building every aspect of the supply chain
00:15and manufacturing the robots.
00:16Well, one, speed, right?
00:18The thing is having end-to-end control for vertical
00:21is, we think, gives us speed.
00:24And every time you start decoupling things,
00:26you're going to lose that speed.
00:27And then you're also going to lose the insight
00:30that the other processes have, or the other functions have.
00:33By having it all together, that feedback loop is super tight.