Amazon plans a $536 million robotic fulfillment center in Australia, where robots like Hercules and Sparrow will work alongside more than 1,000 human employees.

The layoffs are separate from Amazon's broader cuts announced in January that impacted more than 16,000 corporate workers.

When Amazon expands, it often does so at a scale that reshapes entire industries. So when Amazon Robotics job cuts ...

Just months after calling Blue Jay a core warehouse technology, the company shelved it as part of a broader shift in how its ...

An Amazon spokesperson described the affected roles as a "relatively small number," confirming that affected employees would ...

Amazon cut at least 100 positions in its robotics unit, continuing a sweeping corporate downsizing tied to artificial intelligence efficiencies and cost controls.

Amazon says it will spend more than $750m building a new robotics fulfilment centre in Queensland that will create 1000 “permanent local jobs” and lead to faster delivery times.

KENT, Wash. — The robots inside Amazon's Kent Fulfillment Center are getting smarter — and the company is pressing forward with new technology that is raising familiar questions about the future of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 3,000 robots navigate the four-story fulfillment center in Kent, guided by new algorithms that are making them faster ...

Amazon's e-commerce operations rely on thousands of robots to automate warehouse operations. Still, this division hasn't avoided job cuts.

The division axed on Tuesday is responsible for ​designing robots and other conveyances for automation, primarily in warehouses. Starting ​with a round of some 14,000 white-collar ⁠employees in ...