Amazon deploys its 1 millionth robot in a sign of more job automation
On 27 November 2024, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Dummerstorf is an Amazon logistics center in Germany.
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Amazon announced on Monday and announced the robot of millions of workers and said that the entire fleet will be supported by the newly launched productive artificial intelligence model. Movement comes at a time when more technology companies reduce their work and automation warning.
A million robot milestone, Amazon Robotics Vice President Scott Dresser, who joined Amazon’s global network, strengthens his position as the world’s largest mobile robotic manufacturer and operator. Press release.
In the meantime, Dresser said that the new “Deepfleet” AI model will coordinate the movement of robots in the fulfillment centers, reduce the travel time of the fleet by 10% and provide faster and more affordable cost -effective package deliveries.
According to Dresser, Amazon began to use robots in their facilities to carry inventory shelves to the storage floors in 2012. Since then, the roles in the factories have grown to a great extent from the entire autonomous robots, where they can lift inventory up to 1,250 pounds.
In the meantime, artificial intelligence -supported humanoid robots designed to imitate human movement and shape can be deployed in its factories this year. Tesla.
Occupational safety fears
However, although the developments in AI robotics, such as employees in Amazon facilities, have come with the promise of productivity earnings, they also increased concerns about collective labor loss.
A pew research Published in March He found that both AI experts and the people see factory workers as one of the groups at risk of losing their jobs due to AI.
This was worried that he was trying to address in his statements.
“These robots are working with our employees, and the pre -line operators create new opportunities for the development of technical skills, while dealing with heavy lifting and recurrent tasks.” He said. Amazon’s Amazon’s Louisiana, launched at the end of last year, added that the “new generation of fulfillment center” requires 30% more employees in reliability, care and engineering roles.
However, the news of Amazon’s robot expansion will enable CEO Andy Jassy to CNBC, a short time after Amazon’s fast productive AI’s presentation of AI’s “doing some jobs that actually starts to automate technology”.
Jassy said that even if the AI eliminates jobs in certain areas, Amazon would continue to hire AI, Robotics and elsewhere. However, in a note made to employees in the early June, CEO admitted that the company expects the labor force to shrink in the light of technological developments in the coming years.
The decline may have already begun. CNBC reported that Amazon has reduced more than 27,000 jobs in 2022 and 2023 and continued to make more target deduction between business units.
Like Tobi Lutke, Shopify’s CEO, other major technology CEOs have recently warned AI’s impact on personnel. This comes as a wide variety of companies that invest and adopt and invest in AI. Tours dismissal.
Accordingly Harassment.551 companies, which follow the layoffs of the technology industry, dismissed approximately 153,000 employees last year. In February, a World Economic Forum report found that 48% of US employers planned to reduce the labor force due to AI.
