Amazon, the second-largest private employer in the world, with 1.5 million workers, is accelerating its use of warehouse robots as part of a major automation drive, The New York Times reported on ...

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 ...

Amazon is now using more than one million robots in its facilities, the company says. The retail giant said three in four global deliveries are helped in some way by robotics. As Amazon relies more on ...

Robots could soon outnumber their human counterparts at Amazon warehouses, as the online retail giant doubles down on its automated workforce, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. Amazon ...

Amazon now has more than one million robots operating inside its warehouses, nearly equaling the number of human workers. Amazon's expanding fleet of robots includes: Hercules, a lifter capable of ...

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 ...

Amazon made a lot of noise in October when it unveiled Blue Jay, a multi-armed warehouse robot built to speed up same-day deliveries. Just months later, the company quietly ended the program. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ron Schmelzer covers AI and data best practices at Forbes since 2018 Amazon’s robotics group announced last week that it just hit ...

Facepalm: Amazon has responded to reports that the company aims to replace 600,000 US warehouse workers with robots by 2033. Predictably, it's trying to put a positive spin on the news, claiming that ...

At a press event last year, Amazon Robotics chief technologist Tye Brady told Fortune that the idea that there’s a battle of robots versus humans inside Amazon’s warehouse network is a “myth.” “We ...