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San Francisco-based robotics and artificial intelligence startup, Kindred, is running a pilot program at a Gap warehouse that combines its remotely operated Kindred Sort robot with software developed by industrial robotics specialists Fanuc. 

Caption: Pilots at a remote location can operate the robots for pick and place operations. 

The system relies on a blend of AI-assisted automation and human piloting, The Verge reported:

“Our whole premise is that we want to be in a physical body, interacting with the world to learn. We want to provide the intelligence from the cloud, and then provide human intelligence when needed remotely,” [says] George Babu, Kindred’s chief product officer. […]

Over time, algorithms should take over more and more complex tasks. But humans assist the robots along the way both to perform tasks the machine is incapable of performing today …