Amazon 拥有超过 100 万名机器人“员工”，人类员工将何去何从？
Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
Amazon 已在仓库部署超过 100 万台机器人，并计划随着新工厂投产继续扩大机器人队伍。高管称机器人承担了最艰苦、受伤风险最高的任务；劳工团体和研究人员则指出，与人类近距离协作的机器人可能影响工作节奏和员工处境。
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