Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 1, a week before Prime Day, Amazon workers at the vast RDU1 warehouse south of Raleigh returned from half-hour shift ...

Amazon's internal projections about automation are unusually blunt: instead of simply trimming headcount at the margins, the company is mapping out how to redesign its warehouses so it never has to ...

Amazon's RDU1 warehouse uses metrics to track speed, quality, and efficiency. Robots like 'Hercules' automate transport and packaging to reduce worker strain. Amazon plans to expand robotics to manage ...