Jyoti Mann of Businessweek reports that Amazon’s industrial robot army is the world’s largest; it has more than doubled to 750,000 robots. He writes:
Amazon has ramped up its fleet of robots in recent years to boost its warehouse operations.
It’s more than doubled the number of robots deployed in its fulfillment centers and warehouses in the last three years, from 350,000 in 2021 to 750,000 by last June, data from its blog posts show. The company also claims to be the world’s largest manufacturer of industrial robots.
Amazon has a whole bunch of robots with unusual names that it uses in its operations. Robotic arms Robin and Sparrow were designed and manufactured at its Robotics Innovation Hub near Boston and help sort customer orders. […]
It’s more than doubled the number of robots deployed in its fulfillment centers and warehouses in the last three years, from 350,000 in 2021 to 750,000 by last June, data from its blog posts show. The company also claims to be the world’s largest manufacturer of industrial robots. […]
And despite fears that robots and technology could replace workers, the opposite has been true, La Rovere told the outlet: “Over the last years, more than 700 new categories of jobs have been created by the use of technology.”
Amazon didn’t respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
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