"This Amazon pick and place robot can move 80 percent of the items Amazon has in their warehouses."
Fox news anchor
Corny news anchor humor voice: "... and that's just because it doesn't have a thumb yet."
Pick and place machines have been around forever. This is old tech. More promising than humanoid robots IMO. I'm excited for effective automation, I'm not scared of it because it's hard.
The anchor repeated the talking points from the Amazon press release as if they were facts.