More warehouse robots coming to market as Softbank invests $20M in Fetch

Hallie Siegel writes: Japanese Softbank just injected $20M in funding to Fetch Robotics, a Silicon Valley company that is developing robotic solutions for warehouse and logistics. This is one of the first warehouse systems that is coming to market since Kiva (Kiva Systems was bought by Amazon in 2012 for $775USD million). (Softbank is also invested in Aldebaran Robotics, producing the Pepper robot — a social humanoid robot that is scheduled to make its debut in Nestle stores later this year as a sales and marketing assistant.) The warehouse and logistics market is a nice fit for robotics — you can also read about some of the other competing systems that are being developed here: http://robohub.org/competing-r...