Amazon has devised a system to protect employees from getting run over by any roving robots.

Employees are being fitted with robotic tech vests that notify the machines of their whereabouts* so that any potential accidents are avoided.

Over the course of the past year, workers in more than 25 fulfillment centers have been able to use the vests.

The vests were designed by Amazon Robotics and are worn like a pair of suspenders* that are attached to a belt.

The device is packed with sensors that communicate with nearby robots, alerting them to an employee’s location so that they don’t crash into them.

The vests will be particularly helpful when employees have to enter parts of the warehouse that are designated robot zones.

Amazon’s enormous fulfillment centers include fenced off areas where robots ferry items from shelves and deliver them to employees waiting nearby. Human employees aren’t typically allowed into these areas as a safety precaution*.

Currently, if an employee enters the area, it triggers an alarm, which disables the robots, as a means of avoiding any possible collisions.

Brad Porter, Amazon’s vice president of robotics, said: “What the vest allows the robots to do is detect the human from farther away and smartly update its travel plan to steer clear* without the need for the associate to explicitly mark out those zones.”(SD-Agencies)