Amazon unveils new robot that could replace warehouse workers

In demonstrations on Thursday, the machine autonomously grabbed items of different sizes and textures from a plastic tote and placed them in other receptacles.

Automating such tasks may look simple but has stumped Amazon roboticists for years.

“You would think that’s incremental, but it’s not,” said Joe Quinlivan, a vice president who oversees teams working on robotics and fulfillment technologies, at a press event unveiling the device. “It’s a major leap in technology challenge, and technology development.” Amazon is the second-largest private employer in the US behind Walmart Inc., and has 1.54 million workers worldwide.

Groups seeking to unionise these facilities are also pushing for improved safety and working conditions, along with higher pay. They currently store most types of products on racks of mesh shelving that are likely incompatible with robotic arms like Sparrow.But the company has been sensitive to the perception that it plans to eliminate jobs.

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