Hercules robots are tested at Amazon's BOS27 Robotics Innovation Hub in Westborough, Massachusetts. — Photography Joseph Prezioso/AFP
At Amazon's robotics laboratory on the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts, the company's newest automaton "Sparrow" picks out items to be shipped to customers, displaying human hand-like dexterity.
It is the e-commerce giant's most advanced robot yet and could soon do the job of the hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees who sort and send five billion packages annually.
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