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02/21/2018 / By David Williams

Would you allow an Amazon robot inside your house? They’ve patented a “postman” bot to unlock doors for delivery, pickup

Amazon is slowly but surely becoming one of the most influential tech companies in the world. In fact, it has probably become one of the most influential companies of all time. The online retail giant has been trying to invest heavily into automation and robotics technology in the past few years, and now it has […]

01/22/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Shelves stripped bare at Whole Foods stores across America as supply chain logistics crater

Imagine going to your local grocery store and being greeted by empty shelves, with item after item on your shopping list nowhere to be found. That might be par for the course if you live in Venezuela, but well-stocked stores are something that most Americans take for granted, particularly those who shop in upscale stores. […]

12/21/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

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 […]

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