The Amazon Internet Reseller has developed new reflective vests for its warehouse staff. He wants to avoid the injuries that have arisen from contact with the robot droids. Those in the warehouse collect the goods and store the pallets in vacancies. The news came from The Independent and The Week.
The so-called Robotic Tech Vest (Robotic Tech Vest) was specially designed to make workers more visible to an “army of robotic assistants” reminiscent of automatic vacuum cleaners. The vest is equipped with reflective tapes. Their number is around hundreds of thousands worldwide in all Amazon warehouses.
Vests have built-in sensors that send them to robots when they are in their immediate vicinity. Amazon introduces this measure after 24 workers from the warehouse in New Jersey have been hospitalized in December last year. One of the robots passed an aerosol can in their vicinity to repel the bears. The can was torn apart and the substance dispersed into the air.
“The safety of our employees is always our top priority and the investigation of the incident is already underway,” the company said in a statement. The problem lies in the fact that even if robots operate in places where they store goods on shelves, they still have access to the employees who carry out checks. New vests should, therefore, avoid contact with the robot so that the worker can safely carry out maintenance.