Amazon.com Inc. has developed a robot capable of identifying and handling individual items, a milestone in the e-commerce giant’s efforts to reduce its reliance on the human order pickers who ...

Sensor boxes that detect worker presence on order picker platform. SRL Connected Carabiner with multi sensor technology that can sense secure tie off status to the user’s harness D-ring.

One of those jobs is the “picker,” or someone who grabs items and places them in the areas to be shipped. But according to a new report in the Information , those jobs may no longer be safe.