The layoffs are separate from Amazon's broader cuts announced in January that impacted more than 16,000 corporate workers.

Amazon plans a $536 million robotic fulfillment center in Australia, where robots like Hercules and Sparrow will work alongside more than 1,000 human employees.

Amazon's newest generation of warehouse robots is no longer a side experiment tucked into a few pilot facilities. The company now relies on automated systems across dozens of fulfillment and sortation ...

Amazon.com, Inc.’s AMZN Australia unit on Wednesday disclosed a massive $750 million investment in a new robotics fulfillment ...

A group of workers with their fists raised in solidarity hold a scrawled sign: “We are humans not robots!” They and others at an Amazon warehouse in Minnesota protested in March and on July’s Amazon ...

Amazon is reducing headcount in its strategically important robotics division, a move some view as signaling broader ...

Amazon cut at least 100 positions in its robotics unit, continuing a sweeping corporate downsizing tied to artificial intelligence efficiencies and cost controls.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The robots inside Amazon's Kent Fulfillment Center are getting smarter — and the company is pressing forward with new technology ...

Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) has announced a major A$750 million (approximately $535 million USD) investment to build a cutting-edge robotics-driven fulfillment center in Brisbane, Australia. Slated ...

Amazon's e-commerce operations rely on thousands of robots to automate warehouse operations. Still, this division hasn't avoided job cuts.

Investing.com-- Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) said on Wednesday it will invest A$750 million ($535 million) in a new ...