Amazon 已有逾 100 萬部機械人，未來人類員工何去何從？
Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
Amazon 在倉庫營運逾 100 萬部機械人，並預計未來幾年大幅擴充隊伍；公司同時有逾 150 萬名全職及兼職員工。高層稱機械人承接物流中心中最艱辛、容易造成疲勞和受傷的工作，減輕人手負擔。勞工團體和獨立研究人員則指出，協作機械人近距離工作並能主導工作節奏，令自動化對員工不全是利好。
No organization in the world operates more robots than Amazon. The company already has more than 1 million robots working in warehouses around the clock to make tens of millions of same-day and one-day package deliveries happen on a daily basis—and Amazon is poised to significantly grow that robotic fleet in the coming years as it establishes new factories to churn out increasingly more capable robot workers.
Despite deploying so many robots, Amazon is also the second-largest corporate employer in the world, with more than 1.5 million full-time and part-time human workers, according to its 2025 annual report. Amazon executives say that the growing robot fleet has eased the burden on its human workforce by taking on the toughest fulfillment center tasks that carry the greatest risks of physical fatigue and injury. But labor advocacy groups and independent researchers point to evidence suggesting that warehouse automation driven by AI is not all upside for the humans who work alongside robots.
“For the last 100 years, most of the automation that we've seen usually happens away from workers—you're taking that high-risk task away from the worker, and you're doing so in a way that is not physically proximate,” Brian Greenwood, professor of business at George Mason University, told Ars. “The rise of collaborative robots really changes that dynamic for two reasons: one is that it is physically proximate, and two, the robot has the ability to dictate the pace of work.”
來源：Ars Technica · AI · arstechnica.com