{"id":1216068,"date":"2025-02-16T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216068"},"modified":"2025-02-16T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:34:00","slug":"amazon-tests-robots-for-automating-fulfillment-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216068","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Tests Robots For Automating Fulfillment Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Yahoo Finance shares an interesting prediction. Amazon has an &#8220;under-the-radar robot push&#8221; that &#8220;could boost its profit margins big-time, Morgan Stanley managing director Brian Nowak said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nowak said Amazon has quietly developed six significant next-generation fulfillment centers in the past three years that bring automation front and center&#8230; Amazon now has industrial robots that can increase efficiencies across the storage, inventory management, pick and packing, and sorting order fulfillment processes.<br \/>\nFulfillment costs make up about 20% of Amazon&#8217;s retail revenue, so he reasoned that automation could have a significant impact on long-term operating profit potential. Nowak says if 30% to 40% of Amazon&#8217;s US units were fulfilled through next-generation robotics-enabled warehouses by 2030, it could lead to $10 billion-plus of savings&#8230; The investments in robots may already be paying off. Amazon&#8217;s North America retail operating margins on a trailing 12-month basis have risen for five straight quarters. North America operating margins improved to 6.2% from 4.6% a year ago. <\/p>\n<p>Nowak made the remarks on a Yahoo Finance podcast (at the top of their article) after touring one of Amazon&#8217;s robot-enhanced sites in Louisiana. He believes robotics can drive down Amazon&#8217;s costs compared to other retailers like Target (which he sees as lagging behind Amazon on robotics). <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile workers at an Amazon facility in North Carolina held a vote Saturday on whether to unionize. But roughly 75% of the workers voted against unionization.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Amazon+Tests+Robots+For+Automating+Fulfillment+Centers%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F16%2F0241242%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/twitter_icon_large-57.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F16%2F0241242%2Famazon-tests-robots-for-automating-fulfillment-centers%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facebook_icon_large-34.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/02\/16\/0241242\/amazon-tests-robots-for-automating-fulfillment-centers?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23611453&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Finance shares an interesting prediction. Amazon has an &#8220;under-the-radar robot push&#8221; that &#8220;could boost its profit margins big-time, Morgan Stanley managing director Brian Nowak said.&#8221; Nowak said Amazon has quietly developed six significant next-generation fulfillment centers in the past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}