Amazon 机器人数量超百万，人类员工的下一步是什么
Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
Amazon 全球运营的机器人超过 100 万台，支撑每天数千万件当日与次日达包裹配送，并计划建厂继续扩充机器人队伍。Amazon 仍是全球第二大企业雇主，拥有超 150 万名全职和兼职员工；高管称机器人承接了最易疲劳受伤的重活，但劳工团体和 George Mason 大学教授 Brian Greenwood 等研究者指出，协作机器人贴近工人且能决定工作节奏，改变了过去自动化远离工人的模式。
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.”
来源：Ars Technica：AI · arstechnica.com