Amazon is introducing new robotics and artificial intelligence systems as the online retail giant is reportedly considering automation plans to avoid hiring more than half a million workers. The ...

The long-term outlook for Symbotic is bright, but the short term is cloudier.

One of those sites in Kent, Washington, is capable of handling 1 million parcels daily alone, leveraging employee know-how, robotics, technology-enhanced workstations, inventory “pods” and automated ...

As the second-largest employer in America, Amazon currently employs around 1.5 million workers. (1, 2) Between 2018 and today, Amazon has onboarded hundreds of thousands of workers, effectively ...

An official company document describes Amazon's new Vulcan robot and similar machines as key to keeping a lid on hiring ...

Tye Brady, chief technologist for Amazon Robotics, introduces “Project Eluna,” an AI model that assists operations teams, during Amazon’s Delivering the Future event in Milpitas, Calif. (GeekWire ...

According to the Times, that same strategy would lead to 600,000 jobs Amazon wouldn’t need to hire by 2033. The Times’ reporting did not include any information about axing jobs for active Amazon ...

Amazon is quietly shelving its Blue Jay project months after introducing the robotic picking and stowing system in a South Carolina fulfillment center last October. The e-commerce giant confirmed that ...

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 ...

The automation arms race is heating up.

An Amazon delivery driver wears smart glasses displaying real-time navigation and delivery instructions directly in his field of vision, during Amazon’s ...

The logistics industry has spent the past few years talking about robots, warehouse automation and artificial intelligence. This year, that talk has turned into real money. But the way companies are ...