In a move set to redefine American labor and retail, Amazon is accelerating its push to automate warehouse operations.
It’s useful to think about Ford alongside the evolution of workers at Amazon. Presently the U.S.’s second largest employer, ...
Amazon has hired roughly 700 employees to work in the new 650,000 square foot building and plans to hire more people. The ...
It makes Amazon’s fleet of industrial robots the world’s largest and Brady, who has driven its growth, its human overlord. The Kiva takeover was a pivotal moment, bringing with it a full-scale push ...
A visit to a fulfillment center, where machines move merchandise and tell humans what to do with it.
Amazon’s Pegasus robotic drive system retrieves finished packages from employees and sorts them for delivery. Pegasus is one of three kinds of robots Amazon uses in its warehouses. (Photo courtesy of ...
This holiday season, Amazon’s little helper is an orange, 320-pound robot called Kiva. The robots – more than 15,000 of them companywide – are part of Amazon’s high-tech effort to get orders to ...
This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Jessica Mendoza: When you step inside Amazon's warehouse in Shreveport, Louisiana ...
Amazon's workforce may start to look a little less human in a few years. The New York Times reports that the company plans to avoid adding more than half a million jobs by 2033 by putting more robots ...
Amazon is developing artificial intelligence software for humanoid package delivery robots, and reportedly has plans to soon test the robots at its San Francisco offices. According to a June 5 report ...
Amazon’s machines are much more than simple devices for moving stock around, like driverless forklifts. One new robot, “Vulcan,” has a “sense of touch,” The Wall Street Journal reports, which lets it ...
Inside Amazon’s 100,000-square-foot Greenwood warehouse—which provides the greater Indianapolis area same-day shipping for everything from paper plates to vitamins—robots and people collaborate in ...