What could the consequences be in the future?
An interesting tweet is making headlines regarding Amazon’s adoption of robots within its company. Posted by Sam Korus, the tweet includes a graph showing the relative numbers of robots and human employees (in the thousands) at the beginning of every year between 2013 and 2022.
The graph shows a growing trend in the number of humans and robots over time, with a noticeable uptick during the pandemic as people spent more time shopping online at home. Korus’ tweet predicts that more robots will be employed than humans at some point in the future; he might have a point.
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It wouldn’t surprise me if Amazon added more robots than people at some point within the next few years.
The robotics inflection is quite evident reading through Amazon’s robotics posts from just the past few months.https://t.co/OIX82yBuiVhttps://t.co/XbxHkvQX4shttps://t.co/K9n3msssC1
— Brett Winton (@wintonARK) January 12, 2023pic.twitter.com/44aV4dEAmM— Sam Korus (@skorusARK) January 13, 2023
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