{"id":100284,"date":"2019-12-30T05:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T13:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/amazon-employees-struggle-with-nerve-racking-robot-co-workers"},"modified":"2019-12-30T05:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T13:23:22","slug":"amazon-employees-struggle-with-nerve-racking-robot-co-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/amazon-employees-struggle-with-nerve-racking-robot-co-workers","title":{"rendered":"Amazon employees struggle with \u2018nerve-racking\u2019 robot co-workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-employees-struggle-with-nerve-racking-robot-co-workers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re out there, and you can hear them moving around, but you can\u2019t see them, it\u2019s like, \u2018Where are they going to come from?\u2019,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a little nerve-racking at first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is increasingly requiring warehouse employees to get used to working with robots. The company now has more than 200,000 robotic vehicles it calls \u201cdrives\u201d that are moving goods through its delivery-fulfillment centers around the U.S. That\u2019s double the number it had last year and up from 15,000 units in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Its rivals have taken notice. Many are adding their own robots in a race to speed up productivity and bring down costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re out there, and you can hear them moving around, but you can\u2019t see them, it\u2019s like, \u2018Where are they going to come from?\u2019,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a little nerve-racking at first.\u201d Amazon is increasingly requiring warehouse employees to get used to working with robots. The company now has more than 200,000 robotic vehicles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}