{"id":147202,"date":"2022-09-29T15:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/amazons-robots-are-getting-closer-to-replacing-human-hands"},"modified":"2022-09-29T15:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:23:49","slug":"amazons-robots-are-getting-closer-to-replacing-human-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/amazons-robots-are-getting-closer-to-replacing-human-hands","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s robots are getting closer to replacing human hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7lW1-RkfVcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A recent video published on the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.science\/latest-news\/pinch-grasping-robot-handles-items-with-precision\">science blog<\/a> features a new \u201cpinch-grasping\u201d robot system that could one day do a lot of the work that humans in Amazon warehouses do today. Or, potentially, help workers do their jobs more easily.<\/p>\n<p>The topic of warehouse automation is more relevant than ever in the retail and e-commerce industries, especially for Amazon, which is the largest online retailer and the second-largest private sector employer in the US. Recode reported in June that research conducted inside Amazon predicted that the company could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/23170900\/leaked-amazon-memo-warehouses-hiring-shortage\">run out of workers to hire<\/a> in the US by 2024 if it did not execute a series of sweeping changes, including increasing automation in its warehouses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent video published on the company\u2019s science blog features a new \u201cpinch-grasping\u201d robot system that could one day do a lot of the work that humans in Amazon warehouses do today. Or, potentially, help workers do their jobs more easily. The topic of warehouse automation is more relevant than ever in the retail and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147202","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}