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Robots have been a staple at Amazon warehouses for more than a decade, performing tasks formerly completed by humans, including picking, sorting and moving packages. Now, Amazon plans to make human labor less necessary in its facilities by replacing more than half a million jobs with robots, The New York Times reports. Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content …

In one post, Amazon highlighted Blue Jay, a robot it calls “an extra set of hands that helps employees with tasks that involve reaching and lifting,” and its agentic AI system Project Eluna, which “acts like an extra teammate, helping reduce that cognitive load” while optimizing sorting to reduce bottlenecks. Blue Jay can move 75 percent of the types of …

Amazon’s robotics ambitions can lead to multibillion-dollar cost cuts for the company, according to Morgan Stanley. Amazon plans to replace 600,000 jobs with robots in the coming years and, ultimately, is working towards its goal of automating 75% of its operations, The New York Times reported on Monday citing several internal strategy documents. The e-commerce giant is planning to add …

Amazon has been using robots in its warehouses for over a decade, and that’s not stopping anytime soon. According to a report Monday from The New York Times, Amazon is seeking to ramp up its robot army at the cost of human jobs.  Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source. …

Amazon is reportedly leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers. Citing interviews and internal strategy documents, The New York Times reports that Amazon is hoping its robots can replace more than 600,000 jobs it would otherwise have to hire in the United States by 2033, despite estimating it’ll …

Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots  The New York Times Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents  The Verge Opinion | The Robots That Handle Your Amazon Orders  The Wall Street Journal The Robots Fueling Amazon’s Automation  The New York Times Amazon To Replace 6,00,000 Workers With Robots In This Country: All You Need To Know …

3dalia/iStock What would you do if you discovered your name in a list of experts on sex robots despite having never studied sex robots?  That was the situation for one rather panicked researcher who reached out to us in late September after discovering his name among several singled out in a review article for the “greatest number of published works” …

Google DeepMind has unveiled a pair of artificial intelligence (AI) models that will enable robots to perform complex general tasks and reason in a way that was previously impossible. Earlier this year, the company revealed the first iteration of Gemini Robotics, an AI model based on its Gemini large language model (LLM) — but specialized for robotics. This allowed machines …

Will autonomous androids built by Elon Musk take over Mars, like he’s promised? Not according to a leading robotics expert. In an interview with Forbes, Christian Hubicki, head of the Optimal Robotics Laboratory at Florida State University, predicted that the centibillionaire’s robots will be doomed to become scrap metal and plastic once left to their own devices on the Red …