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<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://businessinsider.com/category/amazon">Amazon</a> unveiled a new package sorting system on Wednesday, powered by robots called Pegasus drives.</li><li>The robots have cut down on missorted packages by 50%, Amazon said.&#xa0;</li><li>Amazon also unveiled a new family of robots that it has named Xanthus.</li><li><span><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet"><span>Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</span></a></span></li></ul><p>Amazon said Wednesday that it has developed a new package-sorting system that depends on hundreds of robots.</p><p>The system involves compact robots, called Pegasus drives, that pick up individual packages and carry them to various chutes associated with specific destinations.&#xa0;</p><p>The Pegasus drives are orange, squat, modular machines standing two feet high and three feet wide.</p><p>Individually, they don't look like anything remarkable. But when hundreds are working together in a warehouse, it's a mesmerizing sight, as illustrated in this video shared by Dave Clark, Amazon's senior vice president of operations.</p><p>Amazon <a href="https://blog.aboutamazon.com/innovation/live-from-las-vegas-its-re-mars-2019">said</a> the new Pegasus system has helped cut down on missorted items by 50%.</p><p>The company revealed the system at its re:Mars conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. It showed video of what one Amazon worker referred to as the "robot highway," where 800 Pegasus machines are furiously sorting and moving packages.</p><p>Amazon also said it's developing a new family of modular robots, called Xanthus, that have the flexibility to move single packages or pallets of packages with special attachments.&#xa0;</p><p>Here's an image of the new Xanthus.&#xa0;</p><p>&#xa0;</p><p class="tagline"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/5-biggest-questions-around-amazons-new-grocery-chain?IR=T&amp;itm_source=businessinsider&amp;itm_medium=ctgr_bii&amp;itm_term=ctgr_leadgen&amp;itm_content=ecommerce&amp;itm_campaign=5-biggest-questions-around-amazons-new-grocery-chain"></a></p><div></div><div></div><div></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/whataburger-in-n-out-burger-texas-fast-food-2019-5">We tried Whataburger, the 'In-N-Out of Texas' - here's our verdict</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Mike Blake / Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">An American Airlines Airbus A321.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>An e-cigarette caught fire shortly after an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/american-airlines">American Airlines</a> plane landed in Chicago on Friday.</strong></li><li><strong>Flight attendants quickly extinguished the blaze, the airline said in a statement. </strong></li><li><strong>It's the latest incident in a spate of electrical fires onboard planes. </strong></li></ul><p>The battery of an e-cigarette ignited on an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/american-airlines">American Airlines</a> flight shortly after landing at Chicago's O'Hare airport on Friday, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2019/01/06/e-cigarette-battery-ignites-fire-american-airlines-flight/2496840002/"><span>USA Today first reported. </span></a></p><p>In a statement to Business Insider, an airline spokesperson said "flight attendants quickly extinguished the fire and the plane taxied to the gate," noting that employees are trained on fighting battery fires and that it would report the event to the Federal Aviation Administration.</p><p><em><strong>Read more</strong>: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/unpaid-tsa-workers-cant-afford-to-get-to-work-2019-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TSA airport screeners have been working without pay during the shutdown and now many don't have money to get to work</a></em>.</p><p>Electrical fires have been the culprit in a string of delays and emergency landings in recent months. Most recently, an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/american-airlines-flight-lax-to-jfk-makes-emergency-landing-smoke-in-cabin-2019-1"><span>had to stop down in Phoenix after a "sudden burst of smoke</span></a>" from a galley chiller.<span>  </span>Overseas, a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pegasus-plane-forced-emergency-landing-after-e-cigarette-catches-fire-2018-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pegasus Airlines flight en route to Paris</a> was forced to land in Zagreb, Croatia, following an e-cigarette fire.</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/electronic-cigarettes-and-vaping-devices"><span>Transportation Security Administration guidelines,</span></a> electronic cigarettes and vaping devices can be stored in carry-on bags or carried with a passenger, but may not <keyword id="6354692" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Travel">travel</keyword> in checked bags.</p><p><em><strong>Read more</strong>: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/aer-lingus-international-economy-class-flight-review-photos-2019-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We flew Aer Lingus from Dublin to New York to see if it's a hidden gem among Europe's best airlines. Here's the verdict</a></em>.</p><p>Incidents are still rare, but they may be increasing. A <a href="https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/e-cigarette-burns-and-explosions-more-common-than-previously-thought-100318.html">recent report by <span>Consumer Affairs</span> found</a> that federal agencies have been underestimating the number of burns, injuries, and explosions created by e-cigarette technology, which converts liquid nicotine into mist through the heating of a battery.</p><p>"As part of safety management and risk mitigation, we always evaluate additional ways to enhance existing procedures to ensure cabin safety," the American Airlines spokesperson said.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-london-underground-tube-driver-trains-2018-5">Here's what it's like to drive trains on London's Tube - one of the most complicated subway systems in the world</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

An e-cigarette caught on fire on an American Airlines flight in Chicago

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Reuters/Osman Orsal</span></p><p class="caption">A man looks to a display board of a currency exchange office in Istanbul, Turkey.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Here is what you need to know. </p><p><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/turkey-central-bank-emergency-measures-to-save-financial-system-after-lira-collapse-2018-8">Turkey's central bank promises 'all necessary measures' to save its financial system</a>. </strong>"The Central Bank will closely monitor the market depth and price formations, and take all necessary measures to maintain financial stability, if deemed necessary," the <span>Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey</span> said Monday. The Turkish lira is down 7% versus the dollar on Monday and has lost 40% of its value in August.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-southkorea-talks/two-koreas-agree-to-hold-september-summit-in-pyongyang-ministry-idUSKBN1KY00U">North and South Korea are getting together for another summit</a>. </strong>The two Koreas have agreed to meet in  the truce village of Panmunjom, in the demilitarized zone, in September to hold more talks about ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program, Reuters reports.  </p><p><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-soybean-cargo-docks-in-chinese-port-after-weeks-at-anchor-amid-trade-dispute-2018-8">The cargo ship that's been drifiting off the coast of China with $20 million of soybeans has finally docked</a>. </strong>Peak Pegasus docked in Dalian, China on Sunday with 70,000 tonnes of US soybeans on board, making its cargo one of the first shipments to incur the new tariffs, Reuters says. </p><p><strong><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-russia-says-will-cut-holdings-of-us-securities-amid-sanctions-ria-2018-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">Russia says it will continue to trim its holding of US securities</a>. </strong>Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said his country will rely more on other currencies, including the euro, in response to new sanctions on Moscow, RIA state news agency reports. </p><p><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-future-depends-on-1-trillion-dollar-question-2018-8">There's a $1 trillion question hanging over stocks right now</a>. </strong>There have been $1 trillion in stock buybacks authorized this year, and they could ultimately determine the fate of the bull market, according to Goldman Sachs strategist David Kostin. </p><p><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-wealth-fund-tesla-stake-private-2018-8">Saudi Arabia is reportedly looking to invest big in Tesla</a>. </strong>Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, Public Investment Fund, has built a 5% stake in the electric-car maker and is looking to become a significant investor, Bloomberg says. </p><p><strong><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-trump-backs-boycott-of-harley-davidson-in-steel-tariff-dispute-2018-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">Trump backs a boycott of Harley-Davidson if it moves production overseas</a>. "</strong>Many @harleydavidson owners plan to boycott the company if manufacturing moves overseas," President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday. "Great! Most other companies are coming in our direction, including Harley competitors. A really bad move! U.S. will soon have a level playing field, or better"</p><p><strong><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/bayer-stock">Bayer is getting whacked after the Monsanto ruling</a>. </strong>Shares of Bayer were down more than 12% in Germany following a California jury verdict on Friday that ordered its Monsanto subsidiary to pay $289 million in damages after a lawsuit alleged its Roundup weedkiller caused cancer.  </p><p><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/market-news-stocks-drop-monday-turkey-lira-crisis-2018-8">Markets are under pressure as Turkey's lira crisis spreads</a>. </strong>Japan's Nikkei (-1.98%) was hit hard in Asia and Germany's DAX (-0.69%) trails in Europe. The S&amp;P 500 is set to open down 0.19% near 2,829.</p><p><strong><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/earnings-calendar">Earnings reports trickle out</a>. </strong>Sysco reports ahead of the opening bell.  </p>

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