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Amazon to Increase Robots from 1,400 to 10,000 by End of 2014; Day in the Life of a Robot
May 23, 2014 0

Amazon to Increase Robots from 1,400 to 10,000 by End of 2014; Day in the Life of a Robot

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Please consider Bezos expects 10,000 robots at Amazon warehouses by 2015 Amazon.com plans to aggressively expand its use of robots at it warehouses in 2014, rolling out 10,000 of them by the end of 2014. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos told investors at Amazon’s annual shareholders meeting Wednesday that the company has about 1,000 robots picking products today. The robots are made by Kiva Systems, a company Amazon purchased two years ago for $775 million in a bid to further automate its warehouses

Cooking Tol
May 23, 2014 0

Cooking Tol

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May 22, 2014 at 5:10 am Bob Ward ( http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/archives/41855 ) wrote: “Despite numerous requests, Professor Tol has so far failed to make available the details of these aggregations so that I might check them for further errors.†Please note that the 2009 paper (Tol, Richard S J. 2009. “The Economic Effects of Climate Change.†Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23(2): 29-51) lists Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands as one of the affiliated institutes

May 19, 2014 0

Interesting Readings

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Tweet For the bunnies pleasure: The Christian Science Monitor on Farmer’s Insurance suing a number of midwestern towns for not preparing for climate change leading to insurance losses from flooding. Paul Krugman Friday on the Point of No Return , which, with respect to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet many have already been passed. The comments at the Times and elsewhere, have already moved to the fifth stage of denial, there is nothing we can do, so why bother doing anything.  Big error, there may be little or nothing that can be done about that particular ice sheet collapsing, but there is more out there, and continuing on today’s course will lead to us passing more and more nasty points of no return.Â