Amazon's Robotic Empire: Jeff Bezos' Smart Warehouses

A 200,000 strong robotic empire is running Amazon's warehouses. From rolling robots, to robotic arms - they all work together in Amazon's smart warehouse system.

This documentary video takes a look at the automation technology working inside of Amazon's fulfilment centers. We'll take a look at the different kinds of robots Amazon has working for them, and the future tech the management are working on - to make the human workers work more efficiently like the robots.

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Amazon's City of the Future
To see how this smart warehouse tech will help build Amazon's city of the future, have a look at my other video here:

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Other topics in the video include:
• How Jeff Bezos and Amazon first started their robotic empire
• The annual challenge that Amazon hosts to help develop the challenging picking and packing robot - that could one day replace the humans
• The robotic vest that human workers wear with sensors that tell the robots humans are nearby
• Video footage taking a tour around the robotic warehouse
• And what is in store for the future of Amazon when it comes to expanding their robotic empire, and building smart cities of the future

[wealradyknowwhois]

Love the way Amazon calling their employees "humans".

[RudeMcNasty]

One day they'll have robots watching this video...

[DocDoom]

Back in the 90s, I read a news item that said that Amazon was a pie-in-the-sky premise and that predicted that it was doomed to collapse financially. Conclusion: ignore doom-sayers.

[amedvedevs]

I used to work at ones of those fulfilment centers ... Pretty cool and futuristic with all those robots running around

[millevenon]

Future is gonna look nothing like we can imagine

[Noemailnuublette]

This whole video feels like an Amazon warehouse worker orientation film.

[kulyog]

2000 : Hey, see Robot.
2050 : Hey, see Humans.

[tovsteh]

"Fulfilment centre" sounds like a term a major corporation would use for their dystopian workplaces...oh wait.

[humphrey]

The Amazon warehouse I work at recently started using these and they were awful for weeks. They never worked right and every day that ive worked with them, theres always delays and issues. It took me hours with them to do what I would normally be able to do without them in 30 mins. They've finally started to work a lot better now but it didn't seem so hopeful at first

[BlackShogun]

My son went from working hard on a hay farm to being a package driver for Amazon for one dollar more an hour. He loved it at first but that love quickly wore off. As he kept making his delivery time goals each week, they kept pushing him more and more without any bonuses. It was never good enough. He was working 12 hour shifts. He was exhausted, going up flights up stairs carrying packages daily.
The better he was, they more they worked him until he completely gave out. Once he tripped on a step and he was terrified to tell management so he wouldn't get yelled at n get a mark against him or get fired. I cleaned his elbow and super glued his elbow skin together and put butterfly stitches on it send sent him back to work.
A year later, after 2 years of no raises, tighter goals to meet, no recognition for safety, and reaching his goals, he gave up n quit.Km
5 months ago

[asi-oquabassey]

All I can say to anyone who reads this is to educate yourself so highly that you never have to settle for something as undignified as working in an Amazon fulfilment centre.

[pqrstzxerty]

However EU and UK plan to tax robots, as the Governments won't be getting wage taxes from the employees not hired.

[awaisakram]

I feel bad for the humans working who have to keep up with robotics now

[joesmith]

I'm an Uber driver and it's almost the opposite things going on the Uber AI assigns the job to the nearest driver, pick up passenger and the AI watches me and tracks me and directs me where to go and where to drop off the passenger. I think this is the future of a lot of jobs, it will be a synchronicity of partnership between man and machine. I mean look at just about all sector, even in medicine surgery is done with a doctor controlling robotic arms. Teachers use a cruriculum that is assigned and tracked by computers that determine which student is where and how to push them to achieve further

[ActiveCitizen]

This is how Amazon is shaping the future of e-commerce buisness...

[vmpy]

Time is near when you are about to make an amazon order and just realize that its already in your shelf!
Then find that you have already paid for it.

[nunezificationr]

Yes, I remember the Dispatch car, I saw a guy testing it on the streets of San Francisco, the cute car was driving by it self and the guy was just walking behind it, I asked him what it was for and he said, “at some point it will deliver goods to people’s home” I asked his name but don’t remember it, that was in 2016...
and when I saw Amazon show their “scout” I was like I know that little car, and in fact that is the dispatch delivery car...

[ideoformsun]

Maybe they can use a robot to bring their workers a cup of coffee.

[_percent]

technology moves as fast as I go to the store for beer

[patrickhill]

Citizens: “Raise the minimum wage!”
Bezos: