Amazon is reportedly giving many of its warehouse employees electric vests to help improve their safety. According to TechCrunch, the ‘Robotic Tech Vest’ gives off signals that enable the robots to chart their routes in a way that prevents accidental collisions with human workers.
According to Amazon’s VP of robotics, Brad Porter, “What the vest allows the robots to do is detect the human from farther away and smartly update its travel plan to steer clear without the need for the associate to explicitly mark out those zones”.
Porter further said that the robotic vest has already been introduced at more than 25 sites over the past year, and claimed that it’s been a “huge success”.