Influential lnnovators: Jeff Bezos

The Electric Engineer Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO, is one of the most influential leaders worldwide, not to mention that he is the 5th richest man in the world according to Forbes magazine. Born in 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Bezos' mother, Jacklyn Gise, got married to the Cuban-Spanish Miguel Bezos, who adopted Jeffrey and gave him his last name. He studied engineering at Princeton and worked several years in the optic fiber industry, until 1994, when he founded his first company: the online library Cadabra.com. This same company would take later the name Amazon, being a huge success and imposing its game-changing business strategy. Conquering the Outer Space As we told you in last week's bio, Elon Musk entered the aerospatial industry with his company SpaceX in 2002. However, what we did not tell you is that Jeff Bezos founded another aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company before him: Blue Origin. This company's last spaceship is New Glenn,  an orbital launch vehicle. It is expected to make its initial test launch prior to 2020, 8 years after the engineers began the design process. Revolutionizing Logistics Jeff Bezos started to use robots as workers of the warehouses, now referred to as "fulfillment centers". Some robots look like little "Roombas", programmed to carry shelves around the warehouse using movement sensors. They can move at 3/4 mph and lift tremendously heavyweights. There you can find robotic arms too, which pick up and place down different objects. Since Amazon implemented the use of these robots, the efficiency of the fulfillment centers has grown a 20%. Nevertheless, their policy is not to replace human labor with robots, but to make them collaborate. If you like collaborative robots, you can check out this closed challenge about the automatic loading of raw parts in a paint shop installation. Check out our challenge! Besides, ennomotive is hosting a Hackathon Industry 4.0 where you can build cobots and much more! Universal Robots is one of the sponsors and will be there with us!

— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) 12 de septiembre de 2016

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