Amazon develops a warehouse robot that workers can speak to

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• Amazon has announced a new version of its fully autonomous warehouse robot, Proteus, that will interact using language instead of code.
• The expanded capabilities come as part of a growing pivot toward automation as the e-commerce giant replaces its human workers with robots.