亚马逊机器人数量超100万台，人类员工何去何从
Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
亚马逊运营着超过100万台仓库机器人，支撑每天数千万件当日和次日达包裹配送，同时它仍是全球第二大企业雇主，拥有超过150万名全职和兼职员工。高管称机器人承担了风险最高的仓储任务以减轻人类负担，但劳工组织与研究者指出协作机器人 physically 贴近工人并可能主导工作节奏，自动化对人类未必全是利好。
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,” Brad 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