Across the top floors of an Amazon warehouse in Garner, North Carolina, about 10 miles south of Raleigh, the robots are already crowding out human workers. A sprawling robotic system in the middle of ...
Amazon made a lot of noise in October when it unveiled Blue Jay, a multi-armed warehouse robot built to speed up same-day deliveries. Just months later, the company quietly ended the program. The ...
The robotics system is called Blue Jay, and Amazon said it's already being deployed in one of its South Carolina warehouses.
What just happened? It seems even those people creating job-stealing robots are at risk of becoming unemployed. Amazon confirmed this week that it laid off staff across its robotics unit, with at ...