The US tech giant is looking at ways it can automate more of its operations.
Amazon is trialling humanoid robots in its US warehouses, in the latest sign of the tech giant automating more of its operations.It said it was testing a new robot called Digit, which has arms and legs and can move, grasp and handle items in a similar fashion to a human."Amazon's automation is head-first race to job losses. We've already seen hundreds of jobs disappear to it in fulfilment centres," said Stuart Richards, an organiser at UK trade union GMB.
"This includes 700 categories of new job types, in skilled roles, which didn't exist within the company beforehand," the firm said. Scott Dresser of Amazon Robotics told the BBC this allowed it to "deal with steps and stairs or places in our facility where we need to move up and down". "It's an experiment that we're running to learn a little bit more about how we can use mobile robots and manipulators in our environment here at Amazon," he said.Mr Dresser suggested that the fears over human jobs being replaced didn't match what had happened at Amazon.
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