Ty Brady, Amazon’s chief technology officer for robotics, shared his vision for reinventing workplaces within the online retailer’s warehouses and fulfillment centers.
Amazon is doubling down on artificial intelligence and robotics to redo work within its warehouses and fulfillment centers, even as the company cuts thousands of corporate roles and faces growing concerns about machines replacing human workers.
In its latest earnings report, Amazon announced 14,000 corporate layoffs as part of a broader internal restructuring. recent new york times The report also suggests Amazon plans to replace up to 500,000 jobs with robots over the long term.
“Jobs change. We’ve seen jobs change and tasks change.” Ty Brady, CTO of Amazon Robotics FOX Business’ Susan Lee said this at Web Summit 2025 in Lisbon.
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Brady was candid about what that means for his particular role. “I’m not shy about the fact that I want to eliminate all the simple, mundane, repetitive jobs in the world, and that’s what we’re working on within Amazon,” he said.
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy blamed the company’s job cuts on overhiring, with extra middle management positions, locations and lines of business added during the coronavirus pandemic. He has argued that the cuts are necessary to remain “agile” as AI reshapes the way companies operate. Amazon’s workforce has nearly tripled to about 1.5 million from 2018, according to SEC filings, and last year it was just below its 2021 peak of 1.6 million employees.
Andy Jassy, ​​CEO of Amazon. Speaking at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco, California. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
at the same time, Amazon pledges $2.5 billion over five yearsRetrain employees and communities to adapt to the changing demands of the workplace.
“We have a responsibility. I think every technology company has a responsibility to upskill their employees,” Brady said. “Amazon is focused on these efforts because we recognize that jobs are going to change,” he said, adding that as generative AI becomes more widespread, “now is the right time” to invest in upskilling the workforce.
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A robot picks up a tote bag filled with merchandise during a first public tour of the newest Amazon Robotics fulfillment center at the Lake Nona community in Orlando, Florida, on April 12, 2019. The 855,000+ square foot facility opened on August 26, 2018 (Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto, Getty Images)
Amazon plans to spend more than $125 billion this yeara large portion of which will go into cloud and AI infrastructure. Brady, who has spent more than 40 years in the technology field, called generative AI “probably the most revolutionary technology I’ve ever witnessed in my career.”
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Amazon Robotics has recently rolled out innovations like a robotic arm that can pack boxes and a tactile Vulcan robot, part of an effort to put more robots alongside human workers in its fulfillment centers. For now, Brady said, Amazon is manufacturing robots in Massachusetts.
