Amazon's robot fleet tops 1 million, raising questions about its 1.5M human workers
Polymarket · x · 2026-10-18
Per Polymarket, Amazon has now deployed over 1 million robots across its operations, raising concerns about the future of its 1.5 million human workers — a landmark number in automation-driven labor displacement.
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