Amazon built vests to protect warehouse workers from its robots

We already knew that working at one of Amazon's warehouses could be hazardous. Amazon Robotics' latest product could protect workers -- but its existence is a strange vision of human-robot relations. TechCrunch reports that the online retail giant's in-house design firm had to come up with a solution -- in the form of a vest -- to protect workers from warehouse robots. The vest sends signals to nearby robots telling them to slow down in order to avoid a collision. "In the past, associates would mark out the grid of cells where they would be working in order to enable the robotic traffic planner to smartly route around that region," Amazon Robotics VP Brad Porter told TechCrunch.