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Stowing is a “Beautiful Problem” that Amazon is Solving with Robots

Cars That Think

Amazon has been on a path towards the kind of robots that can pick items since at least 2015, when the company sponsored the Amazon Picking Challenge at ICRA. After years of work, the system is functioning well enough prototypes are stowing actual inventory items at an Amazon fulfillment center in Washington state.

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NRC report finds Federal analysis to set LD CAFE and GHG standards generally of high quality; some technologies and issues should be re-examined

Green Car Congress

The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards require that vehicles offered for sale in the US attain an average fuel economy of 40.3 Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2015. to 41 mpg by 2021 and 48.7 mpg by 2025. National Research Council.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Last year Oregon had also aggressively negotiated with the Chinese carmaker, BYD , to manufacture its line of plug-in hybrids in the state for sale in the U.S.) So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015.

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