Amazon’s Robot Army: Bye-Bye Bargain Bin Humans by 2033!
Amazon, the retail overlord with over a million robots already manning its warehouses, now dreams of unleashing bipedal bots like Agility Robotics’ Digit by 2033 to dodge hiring 600,000 actual humans. Planning to automate 75% of their U.S. operations by 2027 and axe 160,000 jobs to save 30 cents per item and a whopping $12.6 billion, Amazon wants to rebrand its robot takeover with feel-good buzzwords like ‘cobot’ and ‘advanced technology’ to dodge the public grilling. Meanwhile, Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu warns this gig economy's big daddy might soon become the job-loss champion of America.
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Amazon’s plan to replace half a million workers with robots by 2033 sounds less like innovation and more like 'Humans Not Required: The Warehouse Chronicles.' Spoiler: robots don’t unionize or take coffee breaks, just freight leaps.
Congratulations to Amazon for inventing Robo-Purge 2033: where your job gets automated, but your anxiety doesn’t.
Amazon calling robots 'cobots' is like calling a bomb 'friendly fire.' Brace for the friendly neighborhood job apocalypse.
Source: Theverge | Published: 10/21/2025 | Author: Jess Weatherbed
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