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Getting by with some help from their robots

Kiva is automating order fulfillment

By Cynthia Cantrell
Globe Correspondent / October 20, 2005

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WOBURN -- At Kiva Systems Inc.'s 20,000-square-foot warehouse, there is a constant hum of activity as books, bottles of shampoo, shoes, and candy are retrieved from shelves and packed into boxes to fill orders. (Full article: 877 words)

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