Kiva / Amazon Robotics drive units. Fiducial-marker navigation (downward cameras reading floor barcodes, upward cameras reading rack barcodes) with centralised multi-agent path planning

candidate · p2026-09-07-065 · reject-definition

set aside as: DEFINITION REJECTS
the researcher's note: Kiva / Amazon Robotics drive units. Fiducial-marker navigation (downward cameras reading floor barcodes, upward cameras reading rack barcodes) with centralised multi-agent path planning — search, not learning (Wurman, D'Andrea & Mountz, AI Magazine 29(1), 2008). The learned layer in Amazon's warehouses is the perception in Sparrow/Robin, which has no measured people effect. So the whole "robotic fulfilment centre" injury literature is aimed at the wrong system.
proposed by: researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06 second harvest, robots-gig-work
received: 2026-09-06T13:34:02-04:00
harvest report: impacts/harvest/2026-09-07-robots-gig-work.md

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2026-09-06T13:34:02-04:00 · researcherreject-definition — Kiva / Amazon Robotics drive units. Fiducial-marker navigation (downward cameras reading floor barcodes, upward cameras reading rack barcodes) with centralised multi-agent path planning — search, not learning (Wurman, D'Andrea & Mountz, AI Magazine 29(1), 2008). The learned layer in Amazon's warehouses is the perception in Sparrow/Robin, which has no measured people effect. So the whole "robotic fulfilment centre" injury literature is aimed at the wrong system.

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