The automation of Amazon Its premises approaching a new historic milestone, as – as the Wall Street Journal notes in its exclusive report – it will soon be “employed” robot as well as people.

The e -commerce colossus, notes the WSJ, who has spent years in trying to automatically do the work of people on his premises, has developed more than a million robots in these workplaces, as the company itself said. These are the most robots that Amazon has ever developed and approaches the number of people in its premises.

As noted in the report, Amazon warehouses hear strong sounds of metal arms carrying out various tasks, from robots moving on the floors carrying objects while elsewhere there will be automated systems that classify various objects, with other robots to help them.

Another striking element is one of Amazon’s younger robots called Vulcan, which has a sense of touch, which allows it to choose objects from many shelves. In addition, Amazon has taken recent measures to connect its robots to order execution procedures so that machines can work together with people.

“They are one step closer to the fulfillment of the full integration of robotics,” said Rueben Scriven, research director at the Interact Analysis.

Amazon said that about 75% of its international traditions are somehow supported by robotics. The increase in automation has enhanced Amazon’s productivity, and has solved problems such as the large staff rotation in its premises.

For some company employees, increasing automation means replacing certain repetitive work with more specialized machinery management operations. “I thought I was going to get heavy things, that I would run like crazy,” said Neisha Cruz, who spent five years carrying items in an Amazon warehouse, before being trained to oversee robotic systems. Today, however, it is now sitting on a computer and ensures that robots are operating properly at all Amazon facilities in the US and now has a 2.5 times higher salary than when it started working in the company.

In the meantime, as WSJ notes, robots replace some employees, with Amazon slowing down the recruitment. The e -commerce giant employs a total of about 1.56 million employees, with the majority of them working in warehouses. In addition, the average number of employees employed by Amazon on last year’s premises – about 670 – was the lowest number recorded in the last 16 years, according to a WSJ analysis. Some of Amazon’s latest facilities, such as those doing the same day’s work, have “a smaller number of employees and help us to make traditions at greater speed,” as a company spokesman said.

In the meantime, some robots are doing various work in collaboration with man. The robotic system that helps to classify stocks transfers the products to an employee who then chooses what is intended for an order.

It is noted that Amazon has trained more than 700,000 workers around the world for higher paid jobs that may include robotics work, the company said. Amazon Robotics technologist Tye Brady, however, said in an interview that the company would continue to need many employees and that new robots are intended to facilitate their work rather than replace them.