ALCOA, Tenn. — While most people are asleep, nearly 2,000 workers are busy inside Amazon’s TYS1 fulfillment center in Alcoa, ensuring packages are processed and ready for delivery. The TYS1 facility ...
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A sober look at Amazon’s automation drive

Earlier this year, Amazon announced the deployment of its one-millionth robot. Although the company stresses in all of its communications that robots “work alongside our employees,” augmenting and ...
SPOKANE, Wash. — Amazon's Spokane center is testing a new AI robot arm to help get orders to customers faster. The robot is called "Vulcan." It sorts products in the warehouse before they go into ...
Every day, 24/7, robots in Amazon’s Stone Mountain fulfillment warehouse help sort thousands of items that churn across rumbling conveyor belts. Now, those who are curious can see the machine that is ...
Amazon will soon use more robots in its warehouses than human employees — with more than 1 million machines already deployed across facilities, according to a report. Many of these robots cover the ...
One of the great things about Amazon is its fast delivery options, especially if you're an Amazon Prime subscriber. That speed is made possible by a massive logistics operation. Amazon stocks products ...
The arrival of new robots, especially to places like Amazon delivery centers, has sparked a big debate. Some say they are stealing human jobs while others argue they’re creating a bigger market for ...
Amazon is accelerating its shift toward automated warehouses, and internal projections suggest that hundreds of thousands of ...
BRISTOL, Ind. (WISH) — E-commerce giant Amazon on Wednesday celebrated the grand opening of its new advanced robotics fulfillment center in northern Indiana. Republican Gov. Mike Braun was on hand for ...
OGDEN, N.Y. — Amazon has officially opened its long-delayed sortation facility on Shepard Road in Ogden. The 208,000 square-foot sort center have employees working alongside “advanced technology,” to ...
A new Amazon robotics fulfillment center has opened in Bristol, Indiana. The 800,000-square-foot facility uses robots and conveyor belts to process orders. Since opening in September, the center has ...