Humans have become pretty fast at shipping out your items with the help of computers and whips, but soon your items will be at your door a second after you click. Zappos just completed implementation of Kiva Systems’ Mobile Fulfillment System, which will see “a fleet of Kiva’s mobile robotic drive units and inventory storage pods” hit the company’s Kentucky facility. (Robots in Kentucky? Grab the bourbon and the shotgun…Better grab the inflatable sheep too. Could be along and lonely night.) The move is being made to keep the distribution system up to par with a bunch of new products outside of just footwear.

[CNet]