and venezuela, 80% of the influence messaging that was going for spain s cat alonian separatist movement. they put thousands of twitter bots out to elect roy moore. we know it, but you have to have the will to stop it. the technical expertise is there. ben, i know you have written about how these thousands of russian trolls targeted the national events in the 2016 race. how well organized are these trols in general? you break them down to the trolls on the right, the trolls on the left, and the black lives matter trolls. how hard is it to stop them? stop them basically, the social media platforms are stuck in a game of whack-a-mole. it s so easy to create a new fake anonymous account on twitter, that s what the platform is not designed to make people put their real identities on it. and at a push of a button, they can create a whole new bot army and conduct new attacks. and your question, how are they organized? they re very organized.
so there s a group called darpa. if your audience doesn t know the defense advanced research projects agency. they re like the cool kids on the block. they come up with the fun stuff like internet and velcro and robot armies. there s been a lot of talk after the war years, about the technology that was created. you know, mainly drones and autonomy. it s the big thing, according to my editor patrick tucker who you have on very often, who will say, you know automatic systems take humans out of the component as much as possible to save lives and also make a lot of work able to be done very quickly. the biggest, scariest thing ever that we re all waiting for is an actual robot army. robot infantrymen with robot abilities to kill other robots. that s the one thing the pentagon says they re never going to let happen but get as close to it as possible and keep trying to develop it. they keep trying to develop robotics that are auto ton mouse. we said the army this year put out a request they
shopping on their smartphones or tablets. accounting for about 20% of cyber monday sales. online retailer amazon.com wants to make sure all of those cyber monday orders get out to shoppers as fast as possible. of course, and the company is using a robot army to move presidents day quickly through warehouses, how it all works is pretty cool. take a look. the system serves a core function, enabling the very rapid taking of products for delivery. the inventory drives to the associates and is ready right when it s time to go to the customers. once the item is received, a robot brings up a storage pod for an associate to put
errol. now, after a disappointing holiday shopping weekend at the malls millions turned to the web, the internet in search of cyber monday bargains. ibm bench mark reports sales jumped 8.1% from 2013 but that s less than half of 2013 s year-to-year increase likely because many cyber monday deals start extra early and extend through the week. amazon.com wants to make sure all those orders get out to shoppers fast. the company is now using a robot army to move merchandise through their warehouses. a quick look at how it works.
million. still, some analysts predict sales could top $2.6 billion with lots of orders coming in via mobile devices. e-commerce giant amazon.com is hoping to break some records today. they ve employed high-tech help to keep it all running smoothly. actually, a massive robot army. they re giving the workers legs a little break, too. halle jackson is live at amazon s massive distribution center in tracy, california. how s it looking there? reporter: busy busy, as you might imagine. the robot army is being deployed for the first time. they re orange things, 15,000 eva robots sent out to ten facilities of amazon s here in the united states. here s how they work. no longer do employees like reggie behind me here have to actually walk out onto the warehouse floor to pick up items. instead, these robots bring the