Amazon's warehouse floor is turning into a test case for what happens when a retailer decides that every second and every cent in the supply chain is up for grabs. By aggressively rolling out robots ...
It’s hard to believe it’s been a whole decade since Amazon made that big move to acquire Kiva Systems. Back in 2012, it felt like a pretty significant gamble, bringing in a robotics company to shake ...
Amazon's warehouse network is racing toward a future in which fleets of machines handle much of the lifting, sorting, and shuttling that once fell to human workers, and internal projections suggest ...
Huge yellow robots glide across a warehouse floor, guided by QR codes. Moving with an unerring purpose, the cuboid-shaped machines – each stacked with shelves full of products – deliver everything ...
Amazon wants more of these... everywhere. - Cindy Shebley via Getty UPDATE Wednesday, 12:15 p.m. ET: This story includes a statement from Amazon responding to the New York Times article. Referencing ...
Amazon has spent years automating its warehouses with robots. Its mechanical workforce is more than one million strong, rivaling the size of its human workforce of some 1.56 million people. Robots, in ...