Inside Amazon's robotic arms race and the future of human work
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Amazon runs over 1 million warehouse robots alongside 1.5 million human workers, per its 2025 annual report, and plans new factories to expand the fleet. George Mason's Brian Greenwood says collaborative robots differ from past automation because they work physically close to people and set the pace of work.
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