Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amazon has trained 700,000 of its employees to better work with advanced technologies since 2019. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) ...

Robots have been a staple at Amazon warehouses for more than a decade, performing tasks formerly completed by humans, including picking, sorting and moving packages. Now, Amazon plans to make human ...

Amazon will soon have as many robots as it does humans plugging away at its warehouses, the Wall Street Journal reports. At this rate, it won’t be long until the flesh and blood employees are ...

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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 ...

In a move set to redefine American labor and retail, Amazon is accelerating its push to automate warehouse operations. Internal strategy documents reveal the company expects U.S. orders to double by ...

Amazon’s machines are much more than simple devices for moving stock around, like driverless forklifts. One new robot, “Vulcan,” has a “sense of touch,” The Wall Street Journal reports, which lets it ...

The Amazon.com, Inc. BHM1 fulfillment center is seen before sunrise on March 29, 2021 in Bessemer, Alabama. - Votes are set to be counted on March 29, 2021 on whether to create the first Amazon union ...