One Quick Thing #0035

Amazon Warehouse Robots

One Quick Thing…

Amazon Warehouse Robots

I thought this was interesting, yet, I’m also sceptical that it is completely accurate.

Allegedly, Amazon now has over 750,000 robots deployed. Each robot packer at a warehouse can replace 24 workers. Packers cost $1 million each which only takes two years to recoup the cost. I say allegedly because… that would be close to $750,000,000,000 (three-quarters of a trillion dollars) that Amazon has invested in robots… and would mean that a human packer only costs them around $25,000 per year… Amazon says packing robots are still being developed because currently with smaller items humans still do a better job (phew)… and, surely, 750,000 robots would need a small army of highly-skilled maintenance people to, well, maintain them… unless Amazon has robots for that too…

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