Thread: Amazon.com selling GEARS?!?!
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Re: Amazon.com selling GEARS?!?!
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Originally Posted by Andy Baker
Amazon.com bought Small Parts, Inc. last fall.

This is an effort by Amazon.com to get into the business of selling parts to people like us... people who want to build robots, inventors, hobbyists, educators, engineers in industry. This is a result of Jeff Bezos being inspired by FIRST (and similar activities), I believe.

A big fan of Amazon.com,
Andy B.
Do you think that Amazon's Mechanical Turk will ever have tasks posted like "Find the robot from team X in these photos" or "Find the most exciting footage from these online matches"?

Maybe someday...

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