Last year, when The New York Times reported that Amazon’s robotics team’s ultimate goal was to automate 75% of the company’s operations, replacing more than half a million human jobs in an attempt to ...

When Amazon first introduced robots into its warehouses more than a decade ago, they looked harmless — squat, orange pucks gliding across the floor, ferrying shelves of goods to human workers. Today, ...

Making robots more human may turn out to be a costly mistake, not because the technology fails, but because it ignores the people it's meant to help.

It’s hard to think of any other company that has shaped the labor market as much as Amazon has over the past two decades. Now, internal documents and interviews obtained by the New York Times point to ...

Facepalm: Amazon has responded to reports that the company aims to replace 600,000 US warehouse workers with robots by 2033. Predictably, it's trying to put a positive spin on the news, claiming that ...

Over the years, Amazon has utilized robots and technology advancements to make its warehouses more efficient and lower its operating costs to help lower costs for consumers and improve operating ...

Comparisons and competitiveness among employees have been around as long as there have been workplaces. But those frictions are taking fresh shape as the use of artificial intelligence and robotics ...

SAN DIEGO — Companies like Amazon say robots could eliminate the need for hundreds of thousands of workers in the coming years, raising a big question: Are robots taking human jobs? To get a closer ...

Robots will be an extension of mechanisation trends which have already delivered huge advances in mine health, safety and ...