Robots are whirring through a 2.8 million-square-foot Amazon facility.
The company says the bots are here to help, not replace.
Amazon recently began shipping orders from its new $300 million robotics fulfillment center in Charlton, Massachusetts, the company confirmed to DailyMail.com.
The four-story facility houses cutting-edge tech, including hundreds of autonomous machines capable of lifting up to 1,500 pounds.
They work alongside more than 1,000 full-time employees to get books, electronics, and toys into delivery trucks.
Amazon staffers are ‘working alongside robotics and other technology that assist our frontline employees as they deliver for our customers,’ Amber Plunkett, a spokesperson for Amazon, told DailyMail.com.
‘Ever since we introduced robotics to our facilities over a decade ago, we have added hundreds of thousands of people to Amazon’s workforce.’
They’re working at the e-commerce giant’s $300 million robotics fulfillment center in Charlton, Massachusetts, helping humans get packages ready for deliveries.
Amazon said it is deploying robots in its warehouses that will help employees pack and ship 32 million products in a Massachusetts center (stock image)
It’s the largest such facility in the state. Amazon expects it will generate around $65.5 million in local revenue.
But the rollout comes amid a wave of job security anxiety because of AI — and even Amazon’s top brass admits the shift won’t be painless.
‘As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done,’ the company’s CEO, Andy Jassy, said in an internal memo to his corporate staff.
‘It’s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce.’
For their part, Amazon told DailyMail.com that it is training a future workforce for new positions that will ‘help design, build, maintain, and work alongside our technology.’
The company didn’t commit to maintaining current staffing levels.
Jassy’s memo comes as dozens of iconic tech companies make huge slashes because of generative tech.
Microsoft is planning on cutting thousands of jobs to make deeper investments in its AI capacity.
Amazon said the new Massachusetts center comes after a $300 million investment – it believes the high-tech facility will bring millions in regional revenue
Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, wrote a note to corporate staff, warning that some of their jobs might be made redundant with AI
Amazon said it has been retraining workers to prepare them for the advanced-tech future
Intel, the flagging computer chip producer, said it will cut 15 to 20 percent of its workforce.
Walmart, America’s biggest private employer, slashed 1,500 jobs, including tech-related positions.
Even consumer brands like Lululemon and Procter & Gamble will slash positions from its staff.
AI-driven job cuts are frightening middle- and high-income workers that have largely been shielded by massive cuts. For years, those layoffs were concentrated in US manufacturing plants.
The trend is freaking out college-educated employees.
So far, the cuts haven’t had a statistically significant impact on overall job numbers in the US. Last month, employers continued to add jobs.
