Amazon’s new warehouse robot can handle individual products

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, dubbed Sparrow, which the company says is its first warehouse robot that can “detect, select, and handle individual products.” The company says the machine is capable of recognizing and handling “millions of items” and that it will reduce the repetitive tasks its human workers have to do.

The company’s post announcing the robot doesn’t say exactly how it plans to use Sparrow, but it’s not hard to…