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Amazon Has Made a Robot With a Sense of Touch

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Amazon has developed a new robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to ship to customers.

The robot, called Vulcan , is a meaningful step towards making robots less sausage-fingered compared to human beings.

Honing robots’ tactile abilities further may allow them to take on more fulfillment and manufacturing work in the years ahead .

Amazon revealed Vulcan at a fulfillment center in Hamburg , Germany today .

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