{"id":1505,"date":"2025-10-23T04:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/amazon-claims-the-headline-isnt-robots-taking-jobs-as-it-reveals-new-cost-cutting-robots\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:50:44","slug":"amazon-claims-the-headline-isnt-robots-taking-jobs-as-it-reveals-new-cost-cutting-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/amazon-claims-the-headline-isnt-robots-taking-jobs-as-it-reveals-new-cost-cutting-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon claims the headline isn\u2019t robots taking jobs as it reveals new cost-cutting robots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A New York Times<\/em><\/a> report on Tuesday cited internal Amazon documents touting how its shift into automation could help it sell more products without hiring more people<\/a>, but today the company has issued a PR blast about robotics and delivery tech that is much sunnier<\/a>. Along with a tease of AI-connected augmented reality smart glasses<\/a> and VR training<\/a> for its drivers, Amazon showed off 10 robots<\/a> it\u2019s using or testing right now (it didn\u2019t mention whether any of them had issues during the recent AWS outage).<\/p>\n

In one post<\/a>, Amazon highlighted Blue Jay, a robot it calls \u201can extra set of hands that helps employees with tasks that involve reaching and lifting,\u201d and its agentic AI system Project Eluna, which \u201cacts like an extra teammate, helping reduce that cognitive load\u201d while optimizing sorting to reduce bottlenecks.<\/p>\n

Blue Jay can move 75 percent of the types of items Amazon stores, and is eventually supposed to be a \u201ccore technology\u201d powering Same-Day delivery sites. The company says it developed Blue Jay in just over a year based on AI, digital twins, and data from robots already in use, creating a system that \u201ccoordinates multiple robotic arms to perform many tasks at once, collapsing what used to be three separate robotic stations into one streamlined workspace that can pick, stow, and consolidate in a single place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amazon Robotics chief technologist Tye Brady says in the company\u2019s post that, \u201cThe real headline isn\u2019t about robots.. It\u2019s about people\u2014and the future of work we\u2019re building together.\u201d The blog post also reiterates a spokesperson\u2019s response to the Times report, saying that \u201cno company has created more jobs in the U.S. over the past decade than Amazon,\u201d and touting plans to fill 250,000 positions for the holiday season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CEO Andy Jassy\u2019s June letter to employees<\/a> about the impact of efficiency is a bit clearer<\/a>. He wrote about generative AI, saying, \u201cWe will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs. It\u2019s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Times <\/em>report suggests a similar plan for robotics and automation, citing Jassy\u2019s push to cut e-commerce costs and showing examples of how its warehouse overhauls are creating facilities that process more items with fewer employees who increasingly will focus on taking care of the robots.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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