The first peek inside Amazon’s new 300,000-square-foot Same Day delivery site near the Bronco’s training facility in Dove Valley is flat-out bewildering.
Looking into the drive-unit bay in the heart of the facility is like watching what seems to be a giant game of dominoes or chess, played with 10-foot-high yellow stackables instead of chessmen.
Missing by inches
Each tall, robotic stackable has compartments for hundreds of gadgets and goods and each unit is running around on the floor, backing out of a place or sliding back in, while dodging a half dozen other units maneuvering in the same space. The units, taller than Utah Jazz forwards, are missing each other by just inches as they weave in and out.
It looks like chess on a giant scale, except nobody seems to be moving the chessmen…