Amazon announced, na terça-feira (21), or its “first totally autonomous mobile robbery”, that it will be used in the company’s warehouses to move large cargo carts. Batizado of Proteusor robô é totally safe to circulate freely alongside two officials, according to information from the ecommerce giant, unlike two previous models, which operate in separate places.

For isso, all Proteus models are built with “advanced security, perception and navigation technology”. In a video that is not disclosed by Amazon on YouTube (see below), it is possible to see a green light flashing in front of two robots as soon as they move. If a human passes in front of the feixe, or robô stops.

In a postage called “10 years of robotics in Amazon”, the company also announced other automated systems, such as Cardinal, a robotic arm capable of lifting and moving packages up to 23 kg, which must be present in all of its warehouses no year come on

Will Amazon replace its employees with robôs?

There are already projections stating that Amazon may soon experience difficulties in finding workers, or the company’s robotics division leader, Tye Brady, told the magazine Forbes that “Substituting people for machines is just a fallacy”, a type of philosophy that can take any company to failure.

According to Amazon, the robots are intended to play a complementary role in tasks that humans are not capable of operating safely or quickly. Nesse senso, another postagem of the company shows a system of cameras that continually reconfigure packaging to digitize labels, allowing employees to dispense their manual scanners.

In his first letter to shareholders released in April, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy promised to systematically address the high taxation of injuries to the company. Nesse sense, the new robôs chegam with a mission to help improve security.