AI could boost worker safety in warehouses and factories

Aug 29, 2019

A worker lifts a box at Amazon's new fulfilment centre after it was opened by Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond in Dunfermline, Scotland, November 15, 2011.The warehouse covers more than one million square feet (93,000 square metres), about the size of 14 soccer pitches, and is Amazon?s biggest in the United Kingdom. It will create 750 permanent jobs, along with a further 1,500 temporary jobs during peak periods. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne (BRITAIN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - LM1E7BF17XX01

An algorithm identified when a task started and ended so that it could calculate a risk score for an entire action. Image: REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

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The researchers had a robot (white arm) monitor participants performing activities in a warehouse-like setting. At the end of each activity, the robot showed a score on its display (right).

Image: Parsa et al./IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

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