Your Next MIS Will Control Robots
Reading and more importantly watching Amazon’s shipping warehouse work is astonishing. When the camera pans out in the massive airplane hangar space there is only a few humans but thousands of robots. It’s Amazon’s answer to the holidays but it’s probably the answer.
Imagine the system behind inventory controlling robots picking and choosing shelves based on shipment priority and handing it off to someone who scans. I’m sure that job will soon not be needed. I watch in awe as a company implements a robot system that handles massive amounts of inventory, I mean Amazon who doesn’t buy from them.
What would a robot controlled MIS look like what types of API’s would you be hooking into to control these digital creatures, I wonder…
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