Scott Anderson, director of Amazon Robotics Fulfillment, said current technology is at least 10 years away from fully automating the processing of a single order picked by a worker inside a warehouse.”There is a fallacy in the initial understanding of ‘Are we going to be a lights-out fulfilment network in the next few years?'” Anderson said during a tour of Amazon’s Baltimore warehouse for journalists on Tuesday.

For example, he said, the technology for a robot to pick a single product from a bin without damaging other products or picking multiple products at the same time in a way that could benefit the e-commerce retailer is years away.Anderson said Amazon is exploring a variety of technologies to automate the process of packing merchandise into boxes but it could take a decade …