Amazon is rapidly growing its army of robots, which the e-commerce giant uses at its many fulfillment centers.<\/p>\n
The company now employs 45,000 robots across 20 fulfillment centers. That’s up a remarkable 50% from last year. Amazon also has 230,000 human workers.<\/p>\n
Amazon says that despite the size of its robot army, they remain an experiment. For example, each fulfillment center has a different ratio of robots to humans as the company analyzes optimization. SOme centers rely almost exclusively on robots while others have virtually none.<\/p>\n
The company is aggressively pursuing artificial intelligence. In addition to drone delivery<\/a> and Alexa<\/a>, Amazon is piloting a grocery store with no cashiers<\/a> or even self-checkout.<\/p>\n https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/12\/14\/amazon-expands-prime-video-to-rest-of-world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazon is rapidly growing its army of robots, which the e-commerce giant uses at its many fulfillment centers. The company now employs 45,000 robots across 20 fulfillment centers. That’s up a remarkable 50% from last year. Amazon also has 230,000 human workers. Amazon says that despite the size of its robot army, they remain an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":76892,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-76874","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/76874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/76874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/76892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76874"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=76874"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=76874"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=76874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}