IN one postAmazon highlighted Blue Jay, a robot the company calls “an extra pair of hands that helps employees perform tasks that involve reaching and lifting,” as well as its agent-based artificial intelligence system Project Eluna, which “acts as an extra teammate to help reduce cognitive load” while optimizing sorting to reduce bottlenecks. places
Blue Jay can carry 75 percent of the types of items stocked in Amazon stores and is expected to eventually become the “core technology” powering same-day delivery sites. The company says it developed Blue Jay in just a year using artificial intelligence, digital twins and data from robots already in use, creating a system that “coordinates multiple robotic arms to perform multiple tasks simultaneously, combining what were previously three separate robotic stations into one optimized workspace that can collect, store and consolidate in one place.”
Amazon Robotics chief technology officer Ty Brady says in a company release: “The real headline is not about robots. It's about people – and the future of work we're building together.” The blog post also repeated the spokesperson's response to the Times report, which said “no company has created more jobs in the U.S. over the past decade than Amazon” and touted plans to fill 250,000 positions by the holiday season.
CEO Andy Jassy June letter to employees on the impact of efficiency a little clearer. He wrote about generative artificial intelligence, saying, “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are done today and more people doing other types of jobs. It's hard to say exactly where this will lead over time, but over the next few years we expect it to reduce our overall corporate workforce as we gain efficiency gains from widespread use of AI throughout the company.”
Time The report proposes a similar plan for robotics and automation, citing Jassy's push to cut e-commerce costs and showing examples of how warehouse overhauls are creating businesses that handle more goods with fewer employees who increasingly focus on taking care of robots.
