“750,000 robots working collaboratively with our employees” is pretty sobering, but Amazon is just getting started! When it says it is “freeing employees up to better deliver for our customers,” it means getting rid of them altogether. Like Marc Andreessen, Jeff Bezos is a Techno-Optimist and utterly unplugged from reality.

Andreessen wrote, “We believe that there is no material problem – whether created by nature or by technology – that cannot be solved with more technology.” When taken to the extreme, it is no wonder that Bezos agrees with Andreessen “We believe this is why our descendants will live in the stars.”

Where else would we go if there is nothing left for humans to do on earth? — Technocracy News & Trends Editor Patrick Wood

Amazon has introduced two new robots to speed up deliveries, raising concerns among fulfillment center workers that the e-commerce giant might eventually reduce its workforce.

In a blog post on Wednesday, Amazon said its robotics team will begin testing a bipedal robot named “Digit” at a site just south of Seattle.

“Digit can move, grasp, and handle items in spaces and corners of warehouses in novel ways. Its size and shape are well suited for buildings that are designed for humans, and we believe that there is a big opportunity to scale a mobile manipulator solution, such as Digit, which can work collaboratively with employees,” Amazon said.

Amazon explained Digit will “help employees with tote recycling, a highly repetitive process of picking up and moving empty totes once inventory has been completely picked out of them.”

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In addition to Digit, Amazon revealed Sequoia, a new robotic system to help fulfill customer orders faster, already operational at a Texas fulfillment center.

“Sequoia will help us delight customers with greater speed and increased accuracy for delivery estimates, while also improving employee safety at our facilities,” Amazon said, adding it will “identify and store inventory we receive at our fulfillment centers up to 75% faster than we can today.”

It also “reduces the time it takes to process an order through a fulfillment center by up to 25%, which improves our shipping predictability and increases the number of goods we can offer for Same-Day or Next-Day shipping,” the e-commerce giant added.

Amazon said it has more than “750,000 robots working collaboratively with our employees, taking on highly repetitive tasks and freeing employees up to better deliver for our customers.”