This warehouse holds 58,000 different kinds of products and uses 2,300 robots to get products off supplier trucks, into the warehouse, and then packed for customer orders and sent out in delivery vans in less than 5 hours. As hard as that sounds, the harder part is getting robots to grasp items the way humans would…you know, instead of crushing them. Tom Scott explains the insane math and engineering behind this marvel of modern commerce.

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