From the Daily Mail: Robots are whirring through a 2.8 million-square-foot Amazon facility. The company says the bots are here to help, not replace.
Amazon recently began shipping orders from its new $300 million robotics fulfillment center in Charlton, Massachusetts, the company confirmed to DailyMail.com.
The four-story facility houses cutting-edge tech, including hundreds of autonomous machines capable of lifting up to 1,500 pounds.
They work alongside more than 1,000 full-time employees to get books, electronics, and toys into delivery trucks.
Despite the claim that robots won’t take any jobs away from human employees, there are still looming concerns that the fast-rising development of artificial intelligence systems WILL affect the human workforce.
Amazon spokesperson Amber Plunkett told the Daily Mail that employees are ‘working alongside robotics and other technology that assist our frontline employees as they deliver for our customers.”
But Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in an internal memo, “As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. It’s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce.”
‘We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today,’ chief executive Andy Jassy told staff in a memo. https://t.co/7oyhbU73G2 pic.twitter.com/fandFuMWQI
— Financial Times (@FT) June 18, 2025
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