Meet the Kinema Pick.

It’s a self-taught robot capable of breaking down large pallets of cardboard boxes, and it’s probably going to steal a lot of jobs someday. It’s the brainchild of Kinema Systems, a robotics startup from Menlo Park, California. According to the company, the nifty machine is the very first “self-training robot picking solution.” Designed for use in warehouses and stores, it uses a combination of 2D and 3D vision, and computer learning to dismantle a shipping pallet.  more