Amazon.com Inc. is swiftly increasing the use of robotics, with over 750,000 robots functioning alongside its employees.
There are 1.5 million people at the second-largest private company in the world. Even if it’s a large number, it represents a drop of more than 100,000 jobs from the 1.6 million it had in 2021. In the meanwhile, the company employed 200,000 robots in 2019 and 520,000 in 2022. Amazon is gradually cutting back on employees whilst it adds hundreds of thousands of robots annually.
The robots, which include new models such as Sequoia and Digit, are designed to execute repetitive duties, boost productivity, safety, and delivery speed for Amazon customers. Sequoia, for example, speeds inventory management and order processing at delivery centres, whereas Digit, a bipedal robot developed in collaboration with Agility Robotics, handles positions such as transporting empty tote boxes.
Amazon’s significant investment in robots illustrates the company’s commitment to supply chain innovation as well as its belief in the synergistic potential of human-robot collaboration. Despite the vast amount of automation, Amazon stresses th
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