{"id":155657,"date":"2023-01-17T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/amazon-may-have-more-robot-employees-than-humans-in-the-future"},"modified":"2023-01-17T12:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:26:45","slug":"amazon-may-have-more-robot-employees-than-humans-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/amazon-may-have-more-robot-employees-than-humans-in-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Amazon may have more robot employees than humans in the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-may-have-more-robot-employees-than-humans-in-the-future2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What could the consequences be in the future?<\/p>\n<p>An interesting tweet is making headlines regarding Amazon\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019 tweet predicts that more robots will be employed than humans at some point in the future; he might have a point.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Oselote\/iStock.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>It wouldn\u2019t surprise me if Amazon added more robots than people at some point within the next few years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The robotics inflection is quite evident reading through Amazon\u2019s robotics posts from just the past few months.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OIX82yBuiV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OIX82yBuiV\">https:\/\/t.co\/OIX82yBuiV<\/a><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XbxHkvQX4s\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XbxHkvQX4s\">https:\/\/t.co\/XbxHkvQX4s<\/a><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K9n3msssC1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K9n3msssC1\">https:\/\/t.co\/K9n3msssC1<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brett Winton (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wintonARK\">@wintonARK<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wintonARK\/status\/1613607068308770817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/44aV4dEAmM&mdash;\">pic.twitter.com\/44aV4dEAmM\u2014<\/a> Sam Korus (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/skorusARK\">@skorusARK<\/a>) January 13, 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could the consequences be in the future? An interesting tweet is making headlines regarding Amazon\u2019s 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155657","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}