Amazon splashes out $775m on laser-guided robots

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Online retailer plans to fill is warehouses with robot packers

Online retailing giant Amazon likes to do things a little differently. So when it found it had $775m burning a hole in its pockets, it realised that the best way to spend it was - on what else - a ...

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