morneau502

I am the technical trainer for the Kiva System in Ruskin, Florida - I actually worked a contract directly with Kiva setting the whole system up (during construction) - and then switched to a permanent trainer role with Amazon - I've trained a couple hundred amnesty associates such as yourself - and trained the entire staff at the Baltimore facility - I currently train facilities technicians on actually repairing the robots. I have extensive knowledge on the set up of the system and how it actually all works - the barcodes on the floor are actually called fiducials - and they were all put down by hand! interesting stuff.

My question for you - did you receive training from a facility associate? or a technical trainer such as myself? And what kinds of drive units are at your facility? the R drives? or G drives? or both?

Hey - yeah man! FYI I spoke with a developer with Kiva working on the kindle maintenance manager app - theyre working on a system that automatically lays prohibits down for you to an amnesty/obstruction item, and they'll also be adding a feature which utilizes the kindle's camera plus the floor fiducials in order to pinpoint your location on the floor if you're ever lost

the drone program is referred to as Amazon Prime-Air - its based out of seattle (amazon's homebase) and will first be implemented at FC's in major urban areas, with delivery platforms on the roofs of tall buildings, because of the distance involved with traditional shipping, drones will initially only be in areas with high local traffic - sort of like how bike couriers work in NYC