Overview

• Amazon deployed its one-millionth warehouse robot at a facility in Japan on July 1, bringing its global mobile robotics network to over one million units across more than 300 locations.
• The company launched DeepFleet, a generative AI foundation model that acts as an intelligent traffic management system to reduce fleet travel time by 10 percent.
• Robots now assist with approximately 75 percent of Amazon’s global deliveries, driving per-employee shipping productivity from 175 packages in 2015 to 3,870 last year.
• Amazon has upskilled over 700,000 employees through training initiatives to prepare them for technical, maintenance and engineering roles alongside expanding AI operations.
• CEO Andy Jassy cautioned that the rollout of generative AI could lead to reductions in the company’s total corporate headcount in the coming years.