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A deep dive on Amazon's robotics efforts, resulting in 1M+ active warehouse robots; Amazon is still the world's 2nd-largest corporate employer with 1.5M workers

No organization in the world operates more robots than Amazon. The company already has more than 1 million robots working …

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