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1. Oct 12
   Amazon passes 1 million warehouse robots as questions grow over human workers

   Amazon now runs more than 1 million robots around the clock in warehouses worldwide to support tens of millions of same-day and one-day deliveries daily, and it is building new factories in Austin, Texas and Greenwood, Indiana to expand the fleet further; according to its 2025 annual report it still employs more than 1.5 million full-time and part-time human workers. Amazon executives say robots absorb the toughest, highest-injury-risk fulfillment tasks, and a spokesperson said the company's global recordable incident rate improved 43% and its lost-time incident rate 70% since 2019, but the Strategic Organizing Center union coalition, a 2024 Senate HELP Committee investigation led by Senator Bernie Sanders and an April 2025 ILR Review study paint a more mixed picture: severe injuries fell 40% at robot warehouses while lighter repetitive-strain injuries rose 77%. The report also details Sequoia, Proteus and the DeepFleet coordination models plus the Robin, Cardinal, Sparrow and Vulcan arms — Vulcan being the first to combine vision with force-feedback touch, running in Spokane and Hamburg since 2025 with wider rollout expected in 2027.

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