Amazon opens robotic fulfillment center in Massachusetts The nearly 3 million square-foot-facility features hundreds of robots equipped to lift up to 1,500 pounds each.

Amazon gave CNBC a first look at its new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can “feel” objects, enabling it to do a job only humans could previously handle.

Vulcan, a robot with tactile senses, is a step toward automating more of picking and stowing work done by humans inside Amazon’s fulfillment centers.

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.

Amazon Warehouses Now Have Nearly 1 Robot Per Human Worker The robot revolution has long sounded like a far-off sci-fi notion, but it’s a reality at the e-commerce giant.

Amazon is celebrating the deployment of its one-millionth robot as the company continues to advance its automation efforts. The post Amazon robots are on course to outnumber its human workers ...

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