How Amazon Robots Work - Young Engineering

[Music] have you ever wondered how humans and robots work together at Amazon from the moment a product enters our fulfillment center until it heads out to a customer Amazon technology helps our associates in so many incredible ways Amazon introduced our drive unit robots in 2012 which that's a three hundred thousand new full-time job these are the stow stations they use artificial intelligence and computer vision yeah pretty cool this is the pallet Iser it uses computer vision to stack totes of products there's so much cool technology that goes into this oh yeah like what well like 2d imaging a laser sensor high motion performance and 165 kilogram load capacity amazing our tech vests help communicate with the robots to keep us safe while working on the field I think your tech best could use a little more tech thanks but I think my vest already has everything you need [Music] incredible I know right with Amazon's human and robotic powers combined we are building the future of technology together welcome everyone just in case you've never been before - DJ tonight we are here with such a cross we are here at an Amazon Fulfillment Center wr9 we're gonna get a little bit of a tour about how things work behind the scenes actually click buy on amazon.com now throughout this tour in this presentation we're gonna have a lot of things going on we're also gonna have a lot of giveaways so regardless of the platform you're on if you can find your way to twitch.tv forward slash first inspires that is where the match is going to happen where you're going to enter to win in those giveaways and it's also a pleasure to see you regardless of the platform where you're on whether you're on LinkedIn Twitter Facebook or twitch so thanks for tuning in now cédric behind me is just a symphony it's like it's like beauty in motion and regards to robots so tell me what we're seeing behind us well in these four large walls what you're looking at right now is our Amazon robotic driving is those orange robot devices and they are over here in our superhighway and they're carrying these yellow storage pods the storage pods contain Amazon customer items and then items that will eventually become Amazon customer items and all over here is a lot of storage as well but the activity happening right now in this particular superhighway is our storage pods are going to our Amazon employees my great colleagues and they are either bringing the storage pods to our employees so that they can stow items into inventory or they're coming to our employees so that our employees can pick items from those storage pods so you've already mentioned like that a lot of these are Amazon customer products is there something in the background that figures out what products people are going to need area because that's a lot of product that it's not moving right now but there's also tons that are well in a word technology is really what helps us but even if I took a step back further I would start first with the customer quite honestly we always start with our customer and we work our way backward so we think about what technology can best assist us and making sure that we're fulfilling customer packages right or in this case that could best fulfill the our employees my colleagues here so that they can help with the fulfillment process so the technology behind this that we're using AWS Amazon Web Services technology to identify items that we need to pull for customer orders it's a kind of a long story but to start off with the first thing that happens is we need to bring items into the building right and then after items are brought into the building this by the way this is really awesome I'm looking at it myself this is the first time I've been in this building I'm just being honest it's great but once the items actually get here this is where we're gonna spend a lot of our time talking about that process right so I want to ask with a thousand questions but I feel like one of the bigger questions to ask was like how have these robots helped increase efficiency with Amazon products being delivered well you know the the thing that I think is most always important is none of this would be possible if it wasn't for our Amazon employees just doing their work every day and we know that this technology has been a great assistance to that effort the Amazon Drive units are able first of all to drive in narrow spaces which means that we can use these yellow storage pods and condense the space in which we place all of our customer items which gives us in essence a whole lot more space to utilize for customer items so in a facility that's an Amazon robotic facility I'm oversimplifying and I'm being quite general here an Amazon Fulfillment Center like this can store about 40% more items than a non robotic fulfillment center about the same size its generalize but condensing that space is really helpful so that's one big win right there and we're talking about millions and millions of customer items to be clear right but another win is these robotic drive units can actually bring these yellow storage pods basically bring the work to the employee as opposed to having the employee go to the work even if that saves a step or two which to be honest saves a lot of time and it gives us some really great opportunities to do a lot of things in one area now our workstations are also organ AMA CLE friendly so that our associates our employees can be able to perform their job as comfortable as possible it's a great process and then once they're done doing the work with the yellow storage pods the storage spots can move on to whatever the next phase is but it's it's great with all of the items there it makes the process a lot easier for us it's a nice way of like basically having shopping carts of a store and it's like not having to push your cart anywhere that half of the cart automatically come to you and it's kind of fun that's kind of Awesome now what are some of the key areas of this building so if you're like one we have like this massive city of robots I imagine that's kind of a key in the process sorry like our customers storage area obviously a really important area another key area would be our inbound delivery area where items actually come into the building all right I feel like with that it's probably time to go see an inbound area so you mentioned size and that having the robots helps increase the amount of space for customer items yeah and you say there was a generalization of about 40% now how massive is this facility because this is a pretty gigantic place to be yeah our facility here is about a million square feet in diameter and we have a lot of what I would call productivity space which to me is really great it's very helpful for us and as you can see a big chunk of that was in our customer storage area but then there's the other area there's production and there's the main-floor production and then we have the second floor of production right now we're up on the second floor of production and I can show you and talk to you about a lot of that process I know that you had when we talked initially I was talking about inbound we're still in the inbound area right now right but some of the things that are happening behind the scene in inbound is the items that need to come into this building are being delivered by trailers these trailers need a place to go right so we're gonna have those trailers come in to one of our inbound bay doors they'll park themselves in an appropriate location and then once that happens we will open up the the bay door and then open up the trailer our team will then come in to that trailer they'll first do a visible inspection to make sure that there's no damage goods that no visible damage and then they'll start unloading those items according to their training safety is really important for us so they want to make sure that they're doing everything the safe way but once that happens they'll have those items unloaded in stage so they can take another good look at our items we'll go as far as unpacking those items at some point and we'll even inspect every single carton we'll do like a six-point check to make sure things were safe right now if something for whatever reason is damaged for any reason at all we can then start to go through whatever the problem-solving process is but let's assume the happy path the happy path is everything's great it looks good we're gonna unload those items and I am gonna oversimplify this but just to make sure I'm telling this story well we're gonna distribute those items throughout our building evenly for our employees to receive those items in their workstations and then our employees can start to stow these goods that came from our inbound delivery hmm into our yellow storage pots okay so we've got yellow storage totes these have come in off of a truck from another Amazon facility right and it makes it easy for them to add these to the inventory on to the yellow plastic storage bins yeah I mean I think you nailed it really the only little things that I would add to that is we also have barcodes you'll notice on all of our yellow totes mm-hmm so we can tell the contents of everything in each of these yellow totes it's important for us is in essence we're recognizing the items already in the building and now we're transferring the item from the tote over to the yellow storage pod okay so if we're having storage pods are like similar items let's say I'm ordering a book or the same book distributed into the same spots into the storage bins well not exactly so that process to me this is the best thing the best part of the process and so I I don't know if you know but I started Amazon in 1997 which is a we'll just say it's like yesterday for now okay all right so do the justice of saying you don't look like you started at Amazon in 97 I'll just throw that out there well thank you very much I really do thank you so once those items are for me what I learned a long time ago in 1997 is that you know I worked in a warehouse or in a fulfillment center and I had to do a lot of the processes that you see today we didn't have robotics we didn't have as much automation we had technology and we had a lot of hard work for sure and when I first started Amazon sold only books and I remember in the first couple of months we we had our shelving system that looked a lot like a library like a Dewey Decimal System remember the Dewey Decimal System is searching for many a book based on the 3-digit to the period like okay I mean you know it's it was slightly different but but the items were alike and put in the right and in a particular type of order right shortly I arrived at Amazon we started dismantling that process and then rebuilding reconstructing the whole process to do what is known as random stow which is what we're doing right here okay so what is random stow random stow is where we can take goods from our these yellow totes in this case or place them into bins randomly in essence and the principle is that if we have items randomly stowed into our bins it makes it easier for us to get items when we're picking them because there's more likelihood that we're gonna have the same type of items that customers are ordering closer together right we don't have to divide and search as much with a random still process now there is something that we call bin etiquette okay so you can't have the same exact item and a bin and adjacent bin in one of our yellow storage spots now this is on this one is our larger bin so you're only seeing the bins in a vertical way right but in our other bins which you can kinda see over there yeah these right on cue these adjacent bins we shouldn't have the same item right next to it right what we try to do for bin etiquette is think in terms of I'm gonna steal items into the bins but I'm gonna stow them in like a diagonal way or just to make sure I don't have the same exact bin right next to each other because if I am picking the next process over and I'm grabbing an item I potentially could accidentally grabbed the wrong this it is the right item but it's from the wrong thing right now that won't hurt us in the long run but we want to make sure our inventory is 100% accurate right so bin etiquette helping our next person who's doing the next process it's really important for us see I feel like you're answering the question that I was going to ask because right now I see like there's a light that projects to the size of the bin and there's like a purple light so that what is that purple light for yeah well let me dive in on this one this is this is fun - this is super techy fun stuff for me I love this this is the audience port so breaking this down a little bit my colleague here is she's actually doing the process of storing right now she's taking items out of her bin and then she's scanning it it's stationary scanner right there and she is able to place the item in essence anywhere that she has available bin space however purple light is shining to indicate areas that we would not want that item in maybe it's because of the Vanetta katroo l-- maybe it's also because of the size and dimension of the item or it could even be that we have so many items already there we don't want to over stuff that bin because you know what happens when you over stuff have been item could fall out nobody wants that true because they're not imagine that what delay shipping but i imagine there's tools in place to keep that from being too crazy that is correct okay so how you mention that you've been here since 97 at Amazon that's crazy I didn't take it I did take a smaller coffee break for a couple years nothing wrong with coffee breaks is delicious all right how are things different now efficiency was tom was compared to how things were back in 97 but how has the robotic system changed that well I would first start by saying how things are the same because I think it's important to indicate one of the things I missed when I was on my little coffee break was the camaraderie of our employees who work in fulfillment centers like the vibe is the same everybody is there pretty cool they they they get along with each other communicate well it's just kind of a fun atmosphere I literally I remember missing certain fulfillment centers that I had been in in the past so that part's really awesome okay so the parts that have changed though in terms of technology here in this building we're using Amazon robotics you can see our orange drive units there and these yellow storage spots we still have some fulfillment centers that are like 1.2 million square feet they are what we call sortable fulfillment centers which means they carry small and medium items like this this is a sortable fulfillment center mm-hmm we also by the way have non sort fulfillment centers which carry large items and some are robotics some are not robotics but the robotic technology we talked a little bit about some of the advantages there but we also have a lot of good systems that also assist our employees to fulfill customer orders the technology the cloud software that we're using to help drive some of these processes all of that innovative technology many of which came in house to me has really made a difference we have systems in the past but I think this is this is really great all right so I feel like thus far we've gotten the look over the robotic city I can't help but to call that robot city so let's say as a customer I go to Amazon I pick out some things and I click buy if we're looking at the story of a purchase it seems like with inbound with the Stowe process that's Amazon bringing in things of the facility from either other Amazon facilities in other businesses around the country yes yes more medium businesses or products that Amazon is also picking up from vendors yes that's correct so in the process of the buy this is the process that has things in stop so that Amazon knows art we have this many of them you can buy it so if we click buy it's already in the next place I think is the area where we go from there yes yeah so we'll go from actually stowing the items into inventory okay and I just want to say thank you to my colleague for helping us out I'm reading I'm gonna hear for the five high five I initiated so next door to it is looking at the next step in the potato yeah you're right so now this looks like a very similar kind of situation to what Stowe was that's right and you'll notice that it's actually only walked just a couple of steps away right this area is our our picking station this is where we pick customer items and my colleague here right now is not only demonstrating but he's actually picking items good to see you so what's happening right now is he's picking customer orders I'm gonna I'm gonna break this down a little bit and I'm gonna use me as an example that's assume that I have ordered couple items at Amazon and I happen to live close by this area okay now in a happy path we're thinking that let's say just for the sake of this discussion the items that I picked actually are that I've wanted to purchase are actually here in this building and we can get it to me a customer pretty quickly right okay so now they're in this building and they're gonna be in one of these particular storage pods okay before our employees actually start even the process we have with our technology already assigned found all of the items that we need to pick ok so we know what all of the storage pods are and we're gonna stage the storage spots closer to where our employees are so that when I start working system doesn't have to go the drive unit is have to go way deep into our storage area all it needs to do is go maybe a few feet and it's already ready look I'm I'm ready for you are you ready for me kind of thing so that means that the system is already processing the position of where the workers are going to be on the floor and the robots are already moving everything to be in place well before they start almost but more accurately what the system is doing is identifying where our customers are ok where the customers are we're trying to serve secondly we already know where all the workstations are so all this got to do is go from where our customer items are to the nearest employee because based on like shift schedules and like just pre-planning oh no it's not based on any of that it's just based on proximity of where the items might happen to be out there it's just gonna find the nearest operational workstation so a station that we actually have an employee app and it's going to park pretty close by so it doesn't matter if it's me as an employee or someone else as an employee performing the tasks once we start the process it's just you know the next one or the next one up right okay so now the items actually show up to our workstation okay and our employees will actually use their computer monitor to see a picture of the item that we're trying to pick okay he is going to actually see the the shelf level and the bin location and what's more is there's going to be a light shining where we want the item to be picked now there's a let's random snow so there's a lot of different items in every bin he's gonna pull an item out and it needs to be the right one if it's the right one he'll scant well either way he's gonna scan that item and there's a barcode on that item and there's a big stationary scanner and if he's right he'll see that there's a little light according to the yellow to that we need to place the item into and then he'll tap that and start that process all over again but let's say he just got the wrong item for some reason good you see on this monitor that that's the wrong item and then he'll look and see if we can find the right one wait before he gets to scan and his tone that was it after like you scan it after you scan okay always talk about suppressor and then you'll have to scan it and then he'll seems like oh yeah yeah that's you know this is the wrong items oh okay you can put that back and grab the right item available to make it easier so when you're digging through a drawer all right what let's find the right thing that's exactly right it does make it a lot easier now the items that are going into these yellow totes are a bunch of different customer items all mixed up together right again it's sort of like a random still principle will will sort out the customer order further downstream right now we're just picking items so that we can get really good work flow in our building so my lots of things that are going to be going out shortly to make sure that they're closer together to properly sort them that's right all the items are gonna go out today and probably you know within the next hour or so give or take right right and so once he's picked about the right number of items in each of these yellow totes he'll advance them down this what I have known as the tote elevator I'm sure it has a more robust technical name but it looks like a toad elevator to me does it look like a dragon elevator and it looks like totes are on it I would go with toad elevator I support you thank you and I appreciate that all right so so they come after they've been put in after we picked by they are picking the packages from the bins pushing them into the totes and the totes then go to the tote elevator to move on to the next stop that's great well right once we still wants to click by us right then you pick anything goes on to the next and then we go to the next up in the process alright so like how often are those robots moving I feel like there's a lot of moving of robot robot right now and I'm wondering if they do they stay in movement so are as long as we have workstations that are actually in operation so we're working we work we're at what I call a 22 and a half seven day a week operation there's about an hour and a half that's kind of slower time it's a big shift change and everything around that time they're probably little to no stations actually operational so at that time it's not a lot of movement with our robotic drive units maybe there's a couple of ancillary things but really when we're actually in production our and our employees need to actually utilize the robots and they need to utilize these storage pods that's when you see the activity awesome alright so us more questions I feel like we could be asking questions all day though I love this what the movement comes like what happens if something drops on the floor yeah okay so and I mentioned that something could potentially drop a drop on the floor we never want to see that by the way it's not cool it doesn't help the customer in any way so but in the event that something does fall onto a floor we actually have our a team of employees who will go and use tech vests okay to go into the robotic or the this customer storage area right and retrieve those items or perform other parts of their job as well and lo and behold you have someone here with the tech vest on hello hello hey you DJ supposed to reach push it in Rueben pleasure to meet you Ruby so you hired everybody home anybody hey Ryan how are you doing good good to see you so you are the holder of the vest yes how does the tech fest work when it comes to the robots cuz there's a lot of moving out there yeah there's a lot of movement in there and whoever it has these vests that I'm wearing right now are able to control anything to have its on the floor so for example if I walk on the floor while this is not activating I can get hurt and everything it's moving right now but I can show you guys how this actually works I have an example of drives here these robots didn't tell you something these robots are amazing because they actually can carry about 750 pounds these bots are heavy so these robots are top-notch so I'm gonna just show you how if I was to walk on the floor with my safety wear aka safety vest and is this we're gonna see what effects does on the robots right as you can see you see all the blue lights that blink to all the robots see you around you see all just stop moving that's because everything is linked to my vest and I'm gonna tell you right now this is the safest ways to go around and pick up items pick up items you make sure you do a quick you make sure that everything that you're doing is safe and make sure you always physically and visually just match everything you're you doing so once you finish with this you just get out first you safely get out and you have to turn off the vest I can see the lights blinking right now yes so we'll see every single robot will turn off the lights awesome so like once you're done like they already know that they just go back to work yes everything's linked up we always double check make sure everything is linked up because it remember this is the reason why we have this for safety sweetie yes so thank you very much it's awesome to level thank you about those robots thank you appreciated those I'm tuning in we are here Amazon ewr 9 fulfillment center it's an amazing thing to have already seen this process right if we're going through an order of Amazon we've clicked bond we've seen how things get entered into Amazon we've seen how things get picked out and prepared we've seen how those robots can kind of have some safety precautions and measure to make sure that nobody gets hurt we're gonna get a robot close up here very shortly but in the meantime we're gonna start a giveaway so regardless of what platform you're on if you're interested in winning a $100 Amazon gift card it's gonna be four of those giving away here very shortly now if you're not at twitch.tv slash first inspires you might want to get there for this part because this is our first giveaway of the night they're going to be more now with this to have a chance to win you must be or you must have at amazon.com account and you must be in the United States but other than that type an exclamation Amazon future engineer into the chat to start entering for this hundred dollar Amazon gift card there before people chosen and while you're entering for this giveaway we're gonna head to the robot close up see you shortly putting together a handle to move robotic drive units joined us straight from the Air Force he was the only person in my entire career that it's ever just said hey give me the hard job so I can learn everything we'll just take our robot for a walk I definitely had a sense of pride serving it's all just about doing the right thing for your country doing the right thing for yourself doing the right thing for the folks around you some of those same things carry into Amazon it's about being part of a bigger thing so in the Air Force I worked on some pretty cutting-edge avionics equipment but with Amazon that skill set really propelled me into working with robotics the little orange robots they move things around and it enables our fulfillment centers to be more efficient they're very reliable but when they do break it takes a bit to move them from point A to point B to be able to perform maintenance so what I did is mocked up a quick apparatus to move it around a handle we ended up calling the drive pusher I did yeah what's this thing on the end here we tried to actually get him to call it the t-mac 5000 or something that had to do with his name it's a common tool that's used now people don't realize I think where that started I was able to submit my design through our patent process now my name is attached to that as the inventor which is pretty neat with Amazon freely anyone from the ground floor to the highest echelons can come up with a design or an idea and run with them and they'll support you fully sometimes the small things have the biggest impact [Music] I'm Jordan and we're in FIRST Robotics Competition team 1902 exploding bacon hi I'm teal I'm eatin and we're part of the robotic Wolverines which is a FIRST LEGO League team a first survives competition team competes in a game challenge with a 125 pound robot against thousands of other teams around the world really exciting today to go behind the scenes were to Imagineers Bryan and Karan and get to learn about their involvement in Star Wars Galaxies edge at the animatronic all right guys here we are at Star Wars Galaxies edge a largest single land expansion that we've done in parks and resorts history here at black fire outpost on the planet bot 2 we have multiple attractions and a very immersive land for all of our guests to experience my role in list was to help bring to life some of the characters through our audio-animatronic especially over in rise to the resistance mine as well partnering with all the different creative partners in Lucasfilm to help bring some of the show action and elements alive now we're gonna take a rare behind-the-scenes look at our animation training lab you guys are gonna really get to see behind the curtain here what do you think [Music] all right so here we are at the animation training labs we kind of have a progression here of different hand technologies so down at the end come from a one figures a lot of these come from 1960s and World's Fair technology or recent we've been designing with electric is the advantage of the electric actuators on more precision and that controls we definitely get a little bit more control so you can get a very specific performance the robots that we build might have just maybe like two actuations to pick up a box or something like that well the Imagineers took us a look at the animatronics I found it very interesting see how all the different moving parts worked from moving your fingers to the moving of eyebrows this is one of our prototype arms that we've been working on that kind of helps show the range of motion so again it's all about the storytelling and trying to pick the right tool for the right job to tell the right story for our characters it's interesting that you mentioned having to pick the right tools and different perches in FIRST Robotics we have to do a similar thing working within our own capabilities to see what we're able to accomplish they see a lot of these things and I'm and I'm just more and more excited that first is it being able to prepare me at least I know what this stuff is to a certain extent it was very clear that the technology that we use is used in many of the same ways here at Star Wars Galaxies edge and it's very inspiring people to know that the FIRST Robotics Competition is going to prepare me for future careers essentially right here isn't one one of the best parts about being on the first team is if you think of an idea you can build it test it to make sure it works and if it doesn't work try different ideas I also love the community that first offers everyone's really supportive of each other being a force for change really means a lot about sharing everything whether we're teaching each other on our team through our challenges or we're remotely connecting with international teams or even our programs like first like a girl to bring up awareness for women in STEM it's really uniting everyone together this year Disney and Lucasfilm are teaming up with FIRST Robotics as part of Star Wars force for change philanthropic initiative we're on a mission to inspire the next generation of heroes and innovators to learn more go to first inspired org slash first rise [Music] welcome back to the show my name is DJ 9 I'm standing here with Cedric cross we are here at Amazon ewr 9 fulfillment center in New Jersey it's been an amazing trip thus far we're kind of walking through some things so if you not been here the entire time and you just happened to tune in we're showcasing what happens after you click buy at amazon.com so we've already seen the influx of when you bring things in we've already seen what happens when they take things out put them in the totes to prepare them for packing and right before we woman right before we went to a break we said that we were going to have four people hundred dollar and as an Amazon gift cards I feel like now is a good time to give those away so our four winners of those 100 $100 Amazon gift cards are underdog for gibster 99 outlaw pickle nice name and Joe the pro 1010 the four of you just won $100 amazon.com gift cards you'll be getting the whisker from the moderators shortly about how to clean those so thank you for tuning in if you were in on any other platform whether you are LinkedIn Twitter Facebook get to twitch.tv slash first inspires and get in so you can get in our next giveaway which isn't gonna be too long from now now I feel like our first tech challenge students that watch I'm gonna be excited about this next area we're at the robot repair zone so first things first how often do the robots work well and it's kind of a fun story about the robot maintenance and and you know well being in terms of making sure everything's working well and so let's talk about the batteries really quick okay where where were the battery be on the robot actually I feel like we could feel like we could get in here let's let's let's get on in here so we're on this robot with the battery beep okay so there's a lot of Technology inside this nice plastic shell okay you can touch it if you want I was afraid to I don't want to touch it I don't want to have somebody come around the corner you're not supposed to do that DJ it with good friends Harry I appreciate care all right so the brains of the operation you know are more just just around here because the Brawn of the applications aren't very good posts where they think about the bins are directly right and and in fact couple things that you should know the the posts that that will lift our yellow storage pods will come from here but you have to make sure that it's actually got a it's going to find the right area to pick up the storage spot it's got to be centered right so there's a sensor right here to be able to tell if it's lined up right to pick up the Apple the actual of yellow storage spot right sensors are really important for our drive unit we have a couple of other sensor type of things one there's something on the bottom of this that reads these two-dimensional barcodes that we have I call them fiducials asset tag smart barcodes and they actually help our robotic drive units navigate along with other things like our Wi-Fi our connectivity and our cloud and in programming and but there's a battery in here as well and that battery can really sustain a charge you know throughout the the workday for our Amazon employees okay so you can you definitely get a 10-hour charge with our drive units at any given time and the drive units when it needs a charge and will actually drive to a charging station by itself right but what makes it even cooler for me is we could a drive unit carrying a yellow sword squad performing a task and it may have an indication that oh it looks like there's you know gonna need to recharge pretty soon huh it will still be able to calculate the function the next function to make sure it completes its task as well it's in the middle of a thing yeah it needs a charge it'll finish the task and then go to charge off exactly okay exactly you said Drive and that reminds me that we have a lot of first students in the audience and I imagine that they're gonna have just as many questions what this robot is I could come up with yeah so if you're watching and you have a question type in exclamation Q space your question in the chat and then you can ask questions that we're gonna have Cedric answer while we're standing here in front of the Amazon robot and also if you're still typing in the explanation for the giveaway that's not that'll be the one for the next giveaway so you don't have to but you've mentioned that a charge for one of these robots can last a full workday yeah full workday there's a second type of charge that happens as well okay so this charge you don't need to do too often and I you know to be quite honest oh I'm forgetting exactly the duration but within every few days I believe you can charge these scribe units and it will sustain that 10 hour charge however if you don't take the time if the drive units don't actually get a longer charge where they're just sitting for you know a few hours really charging up then every time it goes through that shorter charge it could actually diminish the the time that the charge time in between so by not going for the longer charge or diminishing the battery life that's right so it makes more sense to have the robot go for a longer charge every couple of days is what I'm gathering or whatever that duration is I'm not sure if it's every couple of days so it'll have a short charge frequency and then it will also have one long charge in between those shorter charges now the thing that you just said that got me immediately confused and excited was that you said but long charges are only a couple of hours yeah how long is a short charge and a short charge allows us this thing to work lifting how much can these robots lips well some of them can lift upwards of over 700 pounds some others can lift over 1,000 pounds depends on the drive unit okay that makes my question even more crucial so if we're talking about a long charge yeah that doesn't have to happen all that often yeah being a couple of hours how long is a short charge to wear this robot knows to go get charged and then just all right it's been a short amount of time I'm back on duty well the longer charge is is definitely over a couple hours so we're talking about more than a couple hours the shorter charge is a little bit over an hour okay so it's as small as a shorter charge the longer charges yeah we're talking about hours here I do want to make sure I don't forget about one thing that's really important I know we're talking about charges and that's really important I can tell it's important because your whole body language is changed that I want you to know about this piece know about what's happening while we're having this conversation what and what we just left right over he went up to the to the picking area and we got to see how I just got picked and remember how they got put on to that conveyor belt and sent somewhere well right now those items that got sent somewhere are being packed and they're going to end up at one of our economically friendly work stations right where we have our employees who will be able to take those items and actually pack them into boxes and this is hard to see on this particular tour so I wanted to make sure I called that out because I don't want us to show up and see a bunch of boxes and not know exactly what's going on there so we already have gotten a question from chat yeah I believe it's Nick fly back and I can't remember if the question was what happens when the power goes off in the facility or what happens when the battery dies in a robot okay well let's do both okay all right let's start with the facility for learning let's do it if for any reason the power is out of this facility well that would mean that ultimately we wouldn't be able to operate now do we have secondary lighting and power to allow our associates to to appropriately safely you know walk somewhere yes but can we sustain productivity with the power outage not here so what we would automatically do is we would think about and I'm going to oversimplify this for this example think about where we are in in you know the region in North America and the East Coast and we're thinking what other sites are nearby that do not have power outages okay so let's divert some of our a little bit of our shipments in this location and this location in this location so even if the power went out customers would still get their products on time just from different Amazon facilities that's exactly right our goal is to make sure that no matter what occurs we can still accommodate our customers also yeah we're gonna have we're just gonna divert like my shipment was already in this building we talked about it's pretend and sort of making it up it's okay we're still in the process of after clicking by yes you bought a thing right okay all right so the light the power went out we're just automatically gonna divert my shipment to another facility now the people the employees that are working in that facility we're gonna feel a slight uptick but because we're spreading it out pretty evenly it's only gonna be a song exactly right so that's actually awesome that you have the system in place to make sure that people still get their items in times just somebody's gonna work a little bit harder for a bit but once the building goes back up I imagine is just going to get clarify from there with this current facility that's right now what happens if the power goes off in the robot yeah so if our drive unit goes goes down for power well it would be the battery not working or there might be some sort of malfunction to be honest we do a really good job of maintenance here so we rarely see malfunctions or in this facility because we actually perform a regular maintenance schedule we'll open it up we'll clean it we'll make sure everything is looking good we'll do some diagnostic testing from time to time and then send it on its way we do all of that to prevent breakdown right but assuming that maybe the battery is out for whatever reason we should actually have an understanding as to why the power went out on this drive unit before it actually made it to you it's a charging station because it's programmed to go right to its charging station right and from there we can start to analyze and resolve any problems that may have occurred right and that's why we're in the robot repair room to kind of solve that exactly now we have another question from chat yeah underdog four wonders what happens if you have an odd-shaped package that doesn't fit in one of the standard bin locations well an underdog for yes so if we have a circumstance where there's an item that might appear to be not fitting in one of the bins and one of two things is should be considered one the item that we're actually trying to receive should actually fit into one of our bins and we have different sized bins in our yellow storage pods one of them is nine inches another one is around 2018 and and I think we even have 22 inch bin so we have lots of variable sizes but what's really important for you to know is nothing even comes into this building unless it can fit and we know that because we've already assessed the the weight and dimensions of all of our items because frankly some of our items that actually belong in a bigger facility what I call that non sort fulfillment center right for like the microwave ovens are bigger they actually have a different place that they have to go to so it's our job to know exactly what should come in this building awesome now we've been in the robot repair area learning a little bit and I feel like we've we're still in the same spot of that story of after you click fine we've seen inbound where packages come in that get sorted into their proper storage bins we've seen pic where they get sorted into the totes it's where the totes then go onto the tote elevator to move on and some of them get packed some of them we have placed into other totes but next up we're going to find the next step of the process and I'm a fan of it it's the pallet Iser now the pallet Iser I'm going to give you one hint and that there's a really big arm that's it and once you can figure out what you think the pallet Iser is gonna be before we get there but there's another giveaway remember earlier when I told you that if you were here if you were on LinkedIn if you're on Facebook if you're on Twitter that we're gonna have more giveaways now is one of those times so if you want to enter this giveaway same rules apply you have to have an amazon.com account you have to be in the United States the giveaway link for this one type in in the chat exclamation first inspires just like this twitch account name so if you are on LinkedIn Twitter or Facebook head to twitch.tv slash first inspires type in exclamation first inspires in the chat to be one of the next four people who have a chance on winning a $100 Amazon gift card and in the meantime we're gonna head to the pallet Iser see you soon [Music] we have our own culture our own language supporting so I take care of each other look out for each other safety is always the number-one priority we want to be the most safety centric organization in the world we have created a virtual reality of our fulfillment centers to identify hazards and learn what they look like my access path we're now using our robotic tech bests at nearly every Amazon robotics facility this vest is actually protecting me so no matter where I am it's still sending out that signal that tells the robots hey there's a person here don't come close stop or go slow if you have a new digital checklist for the operators to use they'll sign in to make sure that the people that are attempting to sign in have the proper training and then they'll go through a digital checklist sat-comm some of what to look for we use Amazon Kindles they're one of our most important tools keep them safe because they can check to see if the trailer is topped in because if it is that we can go inside there are many things that we've actually changed in our operations through the use of technology that actually helps speed things up but at the same time it makes it safer for our associates to do more constantly striving to be a leader we are obsessed with customer experience and we are equally obsessed with the safety of our associates [Music] we're here at the Lucasfilm headquarters in San Francisco to meet with the students with first robotics they'll meet bb-8 and learn more about how he was brought to life now we just have to go and get them laughter you robots have a central motherboard I mean that's the way he three [Music] hi I'm Samantha and I'm Evan thief and we are FIRST LEGO League team called the Thunder BOTS who have been competing for over six years hi my name is Katy I'm Nathan and we're from the first robotics competition team 1678 citrus circuits from Davis California so I'm Matt and I see you've already met bb-8 so i've done 25 years in film industry working on animatronic creations I'm one of the creator and operators of bb-8 from an engineering standpoint that is what's the biggest difference between like making a rolling dried versus another droid like r2d2 r2d2 for one thing he's very stable it has three wheels bb-8 his body is the wheel and the way we do that is that he has a fairly large weight and then he has some gyroscopic sensors it's been like having a phone we took your phone around and do games like that and if you touch him he'll only stabilize himself I never took much thought into I'm like okay it's probably all just CGI but after he showed us everything and told us how baby it was made it just changes your whole view so how does bb-8 head move around is the body like a giant magnet well in this universe we have the force we have the force of magnets you're absolutely correct so straight through the center axis of his body there's a stalk that comes off of it that moves around and the sphere if you like doesn't touch this top part this of magnets in here and then the head sits on top so wherever you move the stalk the head will follow so one of the interesting things is that he doesn't have a battery in his head in fact what we're doing is transmitting power through the body so if I take the head off we should see the light go out when they're either seeing the possibilities with bb-8 opened up a lot of ideas in my mind of things I might want to do or things I'm interested in so I believe you guys have brought some stuff with you to show me which is exciting absolutely we're really excited to show you what yeah I'll see you later and Roble what do you have in FIRST LEGO League the robot game part is completely autonomous so you won't see us having any controllers it's all programmed Wow so you told us about how r2d2 has a system where he has two main wheels and then one that just kind of follows along everywhere he goes so that's actually a system that we've incorporated into most of our robots so this here is called a caster wheel they use casters on really see how it would have advanced my learning and robotics especially with the Lego aspect of it all I just love that all right so this is our robot during the game our goal was to score those yellow panels over there and those orange cargo balls into the structure Wow zippy again infill you usually cheap we have several robots that do different tasks so trying to get to do all the one thing I can honestly say I really don't know how I would get over some of those challenges and I think it's amazing to show us what a team can do well I've had a really fun day meeting you guys it's inspirational to me you want to go away and build more stuff I'll be looking out for you in the future maybe this will just come and join our team my favorite part of FIRST robotics is the skills that you learned both the technical skills and soft skills like collaboration and communication realizing that the design process was pretty much the same for bb-8 and also our little robots was something that was I think really inspired this year Disney and Lucasfilm bb-8 and myself are teaming up with global robotics community first as part of the Star Wars force for change philanthropic initiative we're on a mission to inspire the next generation of heroes and innovators and hopefully some future droid builders learn how you can get involved at first inspires dog / first rise welcome back to Amazon ewr 9 I am DJ night and I'm joined by Cedric Ross encyclopedia of Amazon knowledge now we just got done coming from the robot repair shop we did let you guys know to type in information first inspires in the chat to find out who of you is going to win $100 Amazon gift card there are four winners and those winners are key pleasant demons Bhama fan 65 and nutrition tech before of you just won $100 Amazon giftcards make sure to watch your whispers very shortly because the moderators are gonna reach out to you to get you know goods now with the pallet Iser it's a massive robot arm what does the pallet Iser do well and so it does actually put together a bunch of these yellow totes onto a pallet okay so that we can shrink wrap it and deliver to another location but the reason why we utilize this is to assist our employees in building the pallets one and then two to make sure that these items are going to a destination where they can be merged with other items so it's like earlier when you were talking about how this location handles small and medium sized item right a sort of what if they're getting something like a microwave in addition to their small item at non sort they go on to the totes or into the totes the pallet Iser puts them on a pallet and they get shrink-wrapped and taken to one of those facilities or they'll be taken to either those facilities or a facility where both items will come together right and so a place where we can merge those items and then usually you see this when customers prefer to have all of their goods sent to them and one shipment as opposed to piecemeal shipments because they come from different locations I'm that just hearing that boggles my mind cuz I've always wondered how is that Amazon gets so much stuff to my house within two days so to know that so much goes into getting things in an individual totes that gets into other amazon fulfillment centers and then join with other things before they get sent out that's impressive it's a it's a lot of of work I mean over you know 22 years of our technology came into play and understanding the best way to do these things oh there you go you've seen this working right now right right so cool you see the red light there that's awesome so that pallet Iser right now robotic arm is aligning itself up so that it can place the item in the appropriate pallet run it has to go to the right pallet - it has to go in the right position for the pallet now the the grabber there I'm sure that's not a technical term on the arm actually also has sensors so as it's coming down to pick something up it's lined up well so it picks it up properly and then it's cleared enough space as you can see there you probably saw a couple of my employee colleagues Amazon employee colleagues go in there to perform a task every time that happened the machine was shut down right so it only operates when we have a clear space right now it's finding its location and it's trying to fit and go into the right spot now sometimes we do have to calibrate the Machine as well or make sure that we're we're efficient so our technicians are available to help but make sure that that happens right so why is it so important to have so many safety precautions when it comes to robots working with humans because I feel like there's a lot of safety tape here telling us to not go any further than here I think it's great that you notice that there's a tape on the floor to indicate certain safety precaution airy areas one safety is our number one priority the safety of our employees the safety of you our visitors and everyone in this building we feel like we need to make sure that we have adequately given you the the kind of safe measures so I put the pallet of the total and I'm sorry I just did you see it but yeah that's super agree yes so that's why I mean I I think it's really important we you know you have to start from that safety standpoint right and you build your entire operation and workflow around safety you start doing that and you make sure you you have a really great and a healthy workplace that to us is a big big important deal definitely now we've learned a lot about the pallet Iser now if we're back to the story of what happens after you click buy on amazon.com we've seen the inbounder we've seen the pic we've seen things get place it into the toe we've seen where the robots be prepared we've seen the pallet Iser which is like probably my favorite famous bar because I think it's massive and it moves very fast but we've already given away eight $100 amazon.com gift cards I feel like it's time to give away more before we go to the next station so for those of you who are on other platforms and for those of you who weren't here for the previous giveaways I would remind you first things first you have to have an amazon.com account you have to be in the United States and you also have to be in the twitch chat at twitch.tv slash first inspires if you're on LinkedIn Facebook or Twitter please go to the twitch site come on the chat and to enter type in exclamation first rise which just so happens to be the theme of the 2019 2020 season with FIRST Robotics so enter exhibition first rise in the chat to win enough $100 Amazon gift card and we'll see you very shortly as we head toward the slam they said hey this is the project that's coming in this is the job opportunity we have start thinking about it and now I get to play with robots all day exactly where to drop it each of those little chutes is a specify destination at the bottom big part of my job is monitoring the activity and the traffic patterns I'm looking for any major congestion spots I'm looking for any robot that isn't functioning the way that it should we've gotten a lot of on-the-job learning with regards to how these things work how the programming works because I had no background in robotics at all just having the opportunity to be a trailblazer is just absolutely phenomenal to me I told my family that I babysat eight hundred robots I wouldn't have my job without these robots and now when I walk in it's kind of like your first alumni means that I have entire world of connections it allows me to ball in here and get back to the indeed I think first and really prepare you to solve any number of the world's big problems the skills that you're gonna be learning can completely change the future first was founded in 1989 by Abdeen caiman as an inventor he realizes that the way to have the biggest impact is to create a whole generation of new inventors through hands-on engaging robotics challenges first ignites passion and stem for kids ages 6 to 18 their sport worldwide programs once you get the challenge you figure out your game plan you make a MOBA and you throughout each of our programs teams embrace first core values impact inclusion teamwork at face value first is a robot competition but at the end of the day it's so much more than that we learn a lot about leadership how to communicate with others problem-solving working together hoping are the team's our mentors teach us not just a busting butt about life I think it's incredibly important for you to see careers and science and engineering as a possibility for them first IQ taught me that I'm capable of doing anything that I set my mind to there is nothing better than seeing your robot on the field playing for the first time they're all they're like they're gonna work we're gonna work no no no it works it's the best feeling ever as a participant in the first program in high school you get access to eighty million dollars for the scholarships there are scholarships for colleges universities as well as technical programs first really develops a pipeline where there's jobs there's careers there's opportunities for every one of these kids based on the skills and the experiences they develop in these programs and first every student can go pro it's a really cool way to step into your future I am first yo soy first album first welcome back to Amazon II wr9 my name is DJ night I'm here with Cedric cross Amazon encyclopedia extraordinaire we're here at emphasized ewr showcasing the process from you clicking buy so your package shipping all of the things in between it's been an amazing experience thus far we just got done checking out the pallet Iser yeah we've already shown things being brought in everything being sorted and then we also told for people to type in exhibition first rise in the chat to win $100 Amazon gift card so right now I feel like it's time that you for getting your giveaways so the four winners of the $100 Amazon gift card this time our hockey TV I am cuddles nice name karate Moses and pastries day that's a beautiful day I feel like if it's pastry day that's the best day of the week give me all of your pastries alright come on over coffee congratulations on winning $100 Amazon gift cards check in whispers the moderators will be reaching out to you shortly but we've done a lot of things and I feel like we're winding down to the end of the process that Amazon does when it comes to somebody clicking buy we're at the slam what does the slam stand for slam is an acronym it stands for scan okay label application manifests okay this is the part of the process where we are actually placing shipping labels on to our cartons and our envelopes and like if they're slamming the labels onto the boxes right look I feel like it has to have it at something I'm going to categorically deny that they are slamming anything so there's no slamming that happens at the slam no banning get destroyed your Park no that doesn't help the customer at all true right so where's the scam start I imagine it starts over here if so let's walk through the process of the slam okay so the items that are coming down the conveyor belt here are ultimately items that have been packaged for our customers to notice when they're coming downstream here they only have a barcode the boxes are taped but there's just a barcode you don't see any shipping labels at all so it's gonna come down here and it's going to get scan right about here where we will also not only scan the item we will also weigh the item so the item is going to get weighed it's weighing those items without them stopping yeah that's right it keeps moving you notice it kept moving weighing we didn't stop and just just keep keep moving through that is crazy now the conveyor belts are separating the little black part of the conveyor belt here it helps to separate the cartons to make the scan very easy the items have to weigh just the right amount like we can't be off by even so much as an ounce so here's no deviations on weight no deviation so we're weighing the the item plus the packaging right but once it gets scanned here and weighed information is going to go up into the cloud and come down here and we're going to be able to identify based on that barcode the customer shipping preference so if they're going to go by a postal service we're going to print a postal service label right here and then apply it once it's UPS we're gonna print a UPS label and then apply it in the application process Chiz comes right down close to the box and then you'll hear that little hissing sound which is air pushing onto the box thus no slamming I mean it's just slamming things with air so physical air I like that it's laminated but that's actually a pretty impressive way of hailing things so between the distance of that scan and this box yeah it goes up to the cloud and then back down and it prints that quick that's yeah that's well rows on quick printing that's about like six feet right and it's not stopping that's right it stopped about six feet up in the cloud and down seconds as you as you're seeing all right so I already mentioned that we have multiple other places that they work with people yeah likes are you working with ups working with a US Postal Service so what happens once it gets here like where are these going to so the items once we have applied the labels onto the item they're gonna go up a conveyor belt and they're going to go right to our outbound shipping sortation process okay a shipping sorter if you will now you're talking about shipping sorters and I feel like we're gonna have to stop here in a second because you know we got to look both ways before we cross the street that's correct because safety and nobody's coming so we're good now we have an important part of this process so we've given away a lot of Amazon giftcards as far for these I think that we give away 12 $100 Amazon gift cards right now and I feel like there's some very important parts to this next bit exhalation FC tours in the chat for the next part of the giveaway well we're getting away $200 Amazon gift cards so if you haven't already joined the chat at twitch.tv slash first inspires now is the time whether you're on Twitter whether you're on Facebook whether you on LinkedIn do the thing hop in the chat and now we get to talk about outbound so we've seen the entire story from the beginning of somebody clicking buy products are being brought in to Amazon we've seen them go for to Stowe we see let me get picked placed into totes we've seen the pallet size which places those totes in the places if they need to leave and then we've seen a slam where the labels get placed on in between the pallet Iser or in between the picking and the slam they get packaged and now we're at out dog what happens here so outbound is our final stage of our process in our filming center here and so it's important that we get this part right what we're seeing right now our items that we had just packaged and placed a label on to and then our conveyor belts are taking those items up onto our bound shipping sortation unit the shipping sortation unit is a carousel you know it's a I'm gonna oversimplify it's like a racing track right and it's not exactly the cars are Trey's these black Trey's along a belt now every one of those trays has been assigned a particular shipping lane so for instance anything that will come down here that means that carton has been scanned and assigned this particular shipping lane because this is the trailer it's going to lead to the trailer that we're gonna take this item out to see I was confused this entire time wondering how those packages got off I thought that was like a big like on that push them off it was like they're just conveyer belts so they've just spent a really cool conveyor belt and and also this great technology that allows us to be able to assign every single one of those pardons a particular tipping Lane which to me is really great and so imagine like we're getting closer and closer to our holiday season we're gonna see a lot of these lines in the coming weeks full of customer packages going out to our awesome customers and we're already standing in front of a couple already so that's kind of awesome it's amazing to see this entire process from the inside I've never seen it before so it's I love it we also met you this in person be perfectly honest I love it I just want to make sure that I do share that the items that once they get here onto this conveyor belt they'll go right into the trailer now this machine here will allow us to extend our conveyor belt all the way to the place where our employees can just pick up the box take the box place it on to the floor or wherever it needs to be until they have filled up the entire truck and they're in there right now actually one loading up Brooks one of our one or two of our employees are in they're loading up trucks right and I think that's pretty awesome that is pretty awesome now I feel like there's a lot of things that we found out there's a lot of things that we've seen here today that would not be possible without an amazing group of engineers and with that comes a fairly important part of everything that we've done today Rob you Thompson middle school in Seattle or one of 150 schools at the Amazon future engineer program worked with with FIRST Robotics to sponsor their FIRST robotics teams and those teams got the same tour that we got today but we want to hear a little bit from Bravo so let's hear from them before we go any further congratulation to Broadview Thompson middle on starting their first lego league team I'm kind of excited about it because seeing the things that those students could do with Lego is just mind-boggling right it's really impressive it is ridiculously impressive but I feel like the people at home especially the first students that are watching right now may have questions so if you have questions type in exhalation Q in the chat space and give us your question right after that so we can get questions asked about the outbound aerial I guess I did not know that there would be this many lunge for traffic and that there would be conveyor massive conveyor belt that has other conveyor belts pushing packages that's a marvel for me all right so I feel like questions are coming in now now hand oven fan one two three asks are the boxes recyclable all right the boxes recycle though yes they are so the cartons that were the brown boxes that we have that customers receive can actually be recycled I should know because I actually ordered from Amazon as well and receive boxes and and truly abdomen our recycling bin yes Lag Lucas wants to know what's the maximum weight that the pallet Iser can carry well that's a great question so I'm gonna be honest first by saying I I don't know the exact weight want to be clear but I can tell you that those pallets we're talking at a minimum roughly roughly 500 pounds minimum right but pallet are gigantic arm can lift 500 pounds yeah like it well so it depends on that particular palette Iser it's the only job like just to be clear the only job is to grab the yellow tote place it on to a pallet it's not actually lifting so gosh I'm so with that in mind I will also share that most of the totes that we have are about 28 have about 25 pounds worth of tote okay sorry I I might have misinterpreted the question is to like the size of the actual pallet so declare individual pallet can hold up to 500 pounds but the holotype can grab a cajuste in the average of those is about 25 the average those totes are about 25 pounds yep nice that I dunno now Cassie wants to know how does the ordering system decide which fulfillment centers to take someone's order from so to answer that question I will first just say that the technology and the cloud technology and supported by Amazon Web Services is really what helps drive that right right and the oversimplified process and I always simplify because it tells a story better is that we would like to send items to customers as close to where the customer lives as possible that would be like the best-case scenario but not everything is as close to that customer and so we have to make other certain decisions as to how quickly can we get the item to the customer well it's not that close and then how do we make sure that we're doing it in the most cost-effective process so we're using some complex algorithms to make a lot of decisions there's a lot of artificial intelligence a lot of machine learning that's happening a lot of technology is used to make those decisions but we would like first to get the item as close to the where where our fulfillment center suppose to the customer is impossible awesome now before you to the next question there is one remember we're giving away for $200 amazon.com gift cards so be along with typing an exclamation Q space or question and the chat set ask a question we're set to answer also remember be typing in exhibition FC tours and it has to be in the chat at twitch.tv slash first inspires so if you're on Twitter go Mike then if you're on Facebook get to twitch chat enter so that we Martinez wants to know are all of the fulfillment centers 24 hours yeah so all of our Amazon sortable fulfillment centers like this building and our non-slip fulfillment centers operate on what we first say we kind of call it 24/7 but in reality there's about 90 minutes of the 24 hours that is mostly downtime a big shift is leaving in the wee hours of the morning and a new shift is coming in so we're maybe I don't know 22 hours 22 and a half hours a day seven days a week that is awesome now you got one last question from Alex how long have Emma's on robotics facilities been around it may not have been facilities okay Amazon robotics facilities how long have the Amazon robotics facilities been around well so Amazon and robotics has been around since about let's see even before the facility to be honest wait the technology of Amazon robotics and we started working at about I think late 2011 or early 2012 now you'll have to forgive me because that was when I was on my coffee break you know a couple years not not around so now I'm table coffee breaks means important is really important so around around 2012 we then started to really do a lot of research and development on Amazon robotics facility started showing up around 2013 and 2014 and then we started incrementally getting more Amazon filmer simek's currently we have about we have more than 50 robotic fulfillment centers worldwide Wow that's a large considers how many fulfillment centers are there globally so globally we have more than 275 fulfillment centers worldwide Wow and really it's so great because it allows us to really fulfill customer orders and it's all to really make a good impact on our on our customers that's amazing well sorry thank you so much for this amazing tour I've been blown away many a time and I've enjoyed every minute of it now we did have four people that entered to win $200 Amazon gift cards and I feel like they might want to know what they've won so the four winners of the final giveaway for the $200 Amazon gift cards are starting with Jake 304 Grover Tech Joey bun and Jimmy Dom congratulations on winning your $200 Amazon gift cards thank you very much the Amazon for the opportunity that I have this amazing touring thank you for coming to hang out with us now you still have a couple more questions can you tell us about the Amazon future engineer scholarship I certainly can and but I want to make sure I get this right because I think it's really important so I'm gonna read a little bit out of this that's fair so are Amazon future engineers scholarship it's one part of our child childhood to career program aimed at increasing access to computer science for children and young adults from underserved and underrepresented communities our scholarship which opens in two weeks provides $10,000 a year for four years it comes with a guaranteed paid internship at Amazon during the summer find out more at our website Amazon future engineer calm now that is now super awesome I've been lucky enough to get the tour here this has been absolutely impressive there are 23 amazon fulfillment centers that you can get tours at in ordered States so go to amazon.com /fc tours to check out if there's a fulfillment center near you that you can get a tour at as well and that would be remiss in an Amazon facility on a twitch channel to not remind people that if you like video games and you have a twitch account and you have Amazon Prime you also get twitch prime by connecting your Amazon account to your twitch account which gets you not only free games but also free goodies for games like I just got I just claimed something that came out today in a game that I'm a fan of I don't know if I can talk about it so I'm not gonna say the game but it's yes I'm excited about it and you also get the ability to subscribe to the twitch channel of your choice for free every my awesome and you're in twitch.tv slash first inspire so I mean you could hit the subscribe button we could twitch bran and spread robots around switch for the next month they cost you nothing you already have Amazon Prime but I'm DJ night I'm here with such a cross we've been given this amazing tour of Amazon ewr 9 in New Jersey we've seen the entire process between both a simplified process from when you click buy so when an Amazon package leaves the facility it's been an amazing time thanks for tuning in and if you have enjoyed any of this make sure to follow twitch.tv slash first inspires there's gonna be more amazingness coming soon have a great night we'll see you soon I walk to school almost every day it's not the safest neighborhood sometimes it can be a bit frightening vo is the normal years of teaching the most amazing student that I've ever had he's brilliant my name is Lee attend jean-baptiste but also go by Leo I'm a student Orange High School in Orange New Jersey it does get difficult at times worrying about money and mostly worrying about taking care of our brothers there's been times where I felt like giving up he's always sitting in the corner with a book I love my mom she is my hair she works constantly to make sure that even if we can't afford everything at least we have a house we have food in the future I think I wanna become artificial intelligence or machine learning researcher at first college wasn't really a reality I decided to apply for the Amazon scholarship because I thought it was a great opportunity being able to potentially get an internship with Amazon and just saying I'm an Amazon future engineer that is something that vo definitely is excited about today this box all of a sudden came to him from Amazon let's do this package for me you're one of the select group of students to receive this four-year $10,000 a year scholarship yeah in addition to a scholarship we'd like to offer you a paid software engineering internship I'm proud of thank you mama it's a big load off my shoulder I'm sure I don't even do it just so happy that you guys chose them um he's great Donna Clara [Music] [Music] 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Rating: 4.6774192 out of 5

Keywords: haines, high, school, glacier, bears, amazon robots, robotics, engineering, trimmed, inspire, young, engineers, programming, working as a team, work for amazon, amazon

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Length: 86min 52sec (5212 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 18 2019