Inside look at Amazon’s robot assembly line

Amazon (AMZN) is set to increase efficiency, safety, and speed delivery times through its growing robotics operation that now includes over 750,000 robots. Amazon’s fulfillment centers have diversified their robotic applications, from designing mechanical arms that sort packages to the company’s first fully autonomous mobile robot.

The process behind creating these robots involves a 10-station assembly line where each technician has seven minutes to finish their job in the robot manufacturing process.

Yahoo Finance’s Senior Tech Reporter Alexandra Garfinkle gets an inside look at Amazon's Robotics facility where the next wave of robots are being built.

Video transcript

ALLIE GARFINKLE: We are standing at a manufacturing line that has built more than 750,000 industrial robots.

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- There are 10 stations on this assembly line, and at each station, a technician has seven minutes to complete their assigned task of robot manufacture. On this particular day, workers are building Hercules drive units. Every single robot that Amazon has ever manufactured has come from this assembly line. A robot is made in just over an hour. Its next stop, testing, where roboticists and workers make sure the robot is ready for warehouse deployment.

How long does it take to test each robot? Another seven minutes. Over the course of one year, Amazon workers can assemble up to 300,000 robots.

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