Amazon has introduced new robots to scan and box items in several of its US warehouses:
This is an excerpt from a story delivered exclusively to Business Insider Intelligence Transportation & Logistics Briefing subscribers.Online retail giant Amazon has introduced new machines in several of its US warehouses that scan and box items to be sent to customers,
These robots are used to transport pallets of inventory from one location to another. More importantly, they're designed to work in tandem with human warehouse workers — a worker must place items on the robot — rather than replace them altogether. that it would pay workers up to $10,000 each to quit their jobs and set up their own delivery businesses as part of its Delivery Service Partners program.about a year ago, the program helps provide Amazon with a reliable stable of delivery partners for its ever-increasing stream of packages. Taken together with the warehouse robotics initiative, it appears Amazon wants to reallocate its supply chain jobs away from warehouse workers and toward delivery couriers.
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