Amazon is an American multinational technology company
based in Seattle that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital
streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is considered one of the Big Four
tech companies, along with Google, Apple, and Facebook.
In 2020 Democratic presidential debates, the most
important discussion topic is about the automation of jobs and its impact on
the US labor force. At
the center of this debate is Amazon, a company that employees are more than
750,000 in its massive warehouse network.
In
2012 Amazon spent $775 million to purchase a young robotics company called Kiva
Systems that gave it ownership over a new breed of mobile robots that could
carry shelves of products from worker to worker, reading barcodes on the ground
for directions along the way.
Today Amazon has more than 200,000 mobile robots working
inside its warehouse network, alongside hundreds of thousands of human workers.
Robots have the potential to eliminate some of the most menial warehouse labor.
This robot army has helped the company to decrease its labor cost and fulfill
its ever-increasing promises of speedy deliveries to Amazon Prime customers.
This robotics race led by Amazon will have a seismic
impact on the warehouse industry, which employs more than 750,000 Americans
today and the rise of these artificially intelligent robots means that soon a
day will be come when these warehouse robots will be capable of replacing just
about every human task and human worker.
I always think that we as human are filled with greed
which takes us to greatest measures to increase the profits. The greed inevitably
led to destroy the blue collar jobs by bringing in robots in our industries
which can result in unemployment on large scale. The skilled people will be
ignored in the process of rapid development of machine which makes their skills
which they acquired during the lifetime useless.
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