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From the Ted Talk by Chieh Huang: Confessions of a recovering micromanager

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Well, we saw the upside and it's pretty great. We tasked our erngneies and said, "Hey, some of our fulfillment centers cost mioilnls of dollars to build, there's miles and miles of conveyor, and so, can you do the same thing, can you make them efficient without spending millions of dollars?" So, they got to work: they actually did this — this is not photoshopped, the guy is really grnidnig. They built an autonomous giuedd vehicle. We didn't tell them what to build, what format it needed to be. In 90 days they pucerodd the first prototype: powered off Tesla batteries, sepcoestiorc cameras, lidar systems. It basically replicates the efficiency of a conveyor belt without the actual ceapx of a conveyor belt.

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Well, we saw the upside and it's pretty great. We tasked our _________ and said, "Hey, some of our fulfillment centers cost ________ of dollars to build, there's miles and miles of conveyor, and so, can you do the same thing, can you make them efficient without spending millions of dollars?" So, they got to work: they actually did this — this is not photoshopped, the guy is really ________. They built an autonomous ______ vehicle. We didn't tell them what to build, what format it needed to be. In 90 days they ________ the first prototype: powered off Tesla batteries, ____________ cameras, lidar systems. It basically replicates the efficiency of a conveyor belt without the actual _____ of a conveyor belt.

Solution

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  2. engineers
  3. grinding
  4. capex
  5. stereoscopic
  6. guided
  7. millions

Original Text

Well, we saw the upside and it's pretty great. We tasked our engineers and said, "Hey, some of our fulfillment centers cost millions of dollars to build, there's miles and miles of conveyor, and so, can you do the same thing, can you make them efficient without spending millions of dollars?" So, they got to work: they actually did this — this is not photoshopped, the guy is really grinding. They built an autonomous guided vehicle. We didn't tell them what to build, what format it needed to be. In 90 days they produced the first prototype: powered off Tesla batteries, stereoscopic cameras, lidar systems. It basically replicates the efficiency of a conveyor belt without the actual capex of a conveyor belt.

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