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 announced in June that it had hit a workforce milestone of deploying more than 1 million robots in its fulfillment and delivery network, making it about two-thirds the size of the company's ...

Robots have been a staple at Amazon warehouses for more than a decade, performing tasks formerly completed by humans, including picking, sorting and moving packages. Now, Amazon plans to make human ...

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 ...

Amazon has deployed more than one million robots across its global fulfilment centres, marking a significant milestone as the company approaches a point where robots could outnumber human workers on ...

Amazon is close to having more robots operating inside its warehouses than humans after the e-commerce giant announced this week that it now has more than a million robots working at its facilities ...

Amazon will soon use more robots in its warehouses than human employees — with more than 1 million machines already deployed across facilities, according to a report. Many of these robots cover the ...

A robot in Amazon’s fulfillment center follows an optimized path toward its target, guided by DeepFleet, the company’s new AI system designed to coordinate robotic traffic and reduce congestion on the ...