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10/22/2023
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By Arsenio Toledo
Amazon to begin testing Digit – a six-foot-tall humanoid robot that might end up REPLACING human warehouse workers
Amazon is testing the use of humanoid, six-foot-tall robots at their warehouses, causing more fears of employee displacement. The experiment will be conducted at Amazon’s BFI1 experimental facility in Sumner, Washington. The robot, known as Digit, is a two-legged robot that is capable of grasping and lifting items at Amazon facilities. Digit has two arms, […]
08/27/2020
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By Ethan Huff
Jeff Bezos wants to eliminate all humans, including his own workers at Whole Foods
E-commerce monolith Amazon is planning to eliminate all human workers at its Whole Foods Market stores across the country. The Jeff Bezos plan is to replace all human resources with robots as part of a massive technological overhaul of the standard shopping format. Instead of actual human cashiers, for instance, shoppers at Whole Foods will […]
01/06/2020
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By Ethan Huff
Amazon’s warehouse robots are injuring the human employees who are forced to work alongside them
This past year, Amazon more than doubled the number of robot “drives” it uses to move goods in and out of its delivery fulfillment warehouses. But these robotic vehicles reportedly aren’t meshing too well with the human employees that are being forced to work alongside them, many of whom are suffering serious injuries while trying […]
12/21/2017
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By Cassie B.
More sales, fewer jobs: In 2017, Amazon laid off thousands of retail workers and replaced them with robots
Any time the topic comes up of using robots for logistics, warehouse workers are told there is no need to be concerned because robots cannot completely replace humans. While we’d all like to believe that’s true, the 24,000 workers who have found themselves redundant at Amazon as its robot workforce grows would surely beg to […]
07/05/2017
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By JD Heyes
No more human fast-food workers by mid-2020s? Burger-flipping robot replace employees
The collapse of low-skilled labor in America continues unabated, thanks in large part to the advancement of robotics, and with it, a wave of coming unrest like nations have not seen in a long, long time. As reported by CNBC, the fast-food industry, in particular, is poised for dramatic changes, with the introduction of electronic kiosks […]
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