Amazon plans a $536 million robotic fulfillment center in Australia, where robots like Hercules and Sparrow will work alongside more than 1,000 human employees.

Four-legged robots that scramble up stairs, stride over rubble, and stream inspection data — no preorder, no lab coat required.

Building an open-source data lakehouse costs $520K/year in engineering time, before licenses and infra. The real all-in cost ...