The automation arms race is heating up.

"Our experience of robots is that it's actually driven up employment rather than the reverse," Amazon executive John Boumphrey told CNBC.

After taking over the desk jobs, AI automation is now after the jobs in the warehouse. According to a New York Times report, Amazon is quietly accelerating its automation efforts, with an ambitious ...

The site will sit within the e-commerce giant’s fulfillment network and further expand its use of automation across the ...

Amazon.com (NasdaqGS:AMZN) is building a large, highly automated robotic fulfillment center in Texas to increase efficiency ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Inside Amazon's newer, robot-filled warehouses, the next big efficiency drive focuses on how humans ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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