AI in Warehouse Robotics Quiz

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1. What was the key innovation of Amazon's Kiva (Amazon Robotics) drive units?
   • They brought entire shelving pods to stationary human pickers
   • They packed boxes with tape automatically
   • They drove delivery trucks on highways
   • They wrote shipping labels
2. What is a 'grasp pose' that picking arms must predict?
   • The robot's battery level
   • Where and how to grip an object to lift it successfully
   • The price of the item
   • The warehouse's floor layout
3. What does SLAM enable a warehouse robot to do?
   • Slam boxes shut quickly
   • Speak to customers
   • Build a live map and locate itself within the environment
   • Charge faster
4. Why did Amazon researchers develop a pinch-grasping approach for some warehouse items?
   • Pinch grasping eliminates all motion planning
   • Suction cannot pick up any flat object
   • A pinch grasp requires no visual perception
   • Some items need contact on multiple surfaces, and suction can fail or damage packaging
5. Why do Amazon’s pinch-grasping researchers fuse views from multiple cameras?
   • To estimate the full 3D shape of a partially occluded item for grasp planning
   • To guarantee a perfect grasp for every item
   • To avoid identifying the item or its location
   • To replace the robot’s motion controller
6. What item-size limitation did Amazon report for its pinch-grasp prototype’s off-the-shelf hand?
   • It could handle only items weighing over 100 pounds
   • It handled items weighing less than two pounds in the described prototype
   • It could pick only flat paper objects
   • It had no physical gripper
7. How does Amazon’s Hercules drive unit use floor information?
   • It reads product barcodes from every item it picks
   • It follows painted arrows without sensing them
   • It reads encoded floor markers to navigate, locate its position, and find pods
   • A human operator steers every joint
8. What does Amazon call the use of multiple cameras to monitor a grasp while an item moves?
   • Static mapping, which freezes the route before a pick
   • Remote piloting, which requires a human to move each joint
   • Fleet scheduling, which assigns tasks to separate robots
   • Continuous perception, which can support motion-plan adjustment