{"id":99642,"date":"2019-12-11T14:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/how-robots-are-transforming-amazon-warehouse-jobs-for-better-and-worse"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:42:37","slug":"how-robots-are-transforming-amazon-warehouse-jobs-for-better-and-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/how-robots-are-transforming-amazon-warehouse-jobs-for-better-and-worse","title":{"rendered":"How robots are transforming Amazon warehouse jobs \u2014 for better and worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-robots-are-transforming-amazon-warehouse-jobs-for-better-and-worse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, Amazon has more than 200,000 mobile robots working inside its warehouse network, alongside hundreds of thousands of human workers. This robot army has helped the company fulfill its ever-increasing promises of speedy deliveries to Amazon Prime customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey defined the expectations for the modern consumer,\u201d said Scott Gravelle, the founder and CEO of Attabotics, a warehouse automation startup.<\/p>\n<p>And those expectations of fast, free delivery driven by Amazon have led to a boom in the retail warehouse industry, with entrepreneurs like Gravelle and startups like Attabotics attempting to build smarter and cheaper robotic solutions to help both traditional retailers and younger e-commerce operations keep up with a behemoth like Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Amazon has more than 200,000 mobile robots working inside its warehouse network, alongside hundreds of thousands of human workers. This robot army has helped the company fulfill its ever-increasing promises of speedy deliveries to Amazon Prime customers. \u201cThey defined the expectations for the modern consumer,\u201d said Scott Gravelle, the founder and CEO of Attabotics, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99642","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=99642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}