Darker Details: Inside Amazon’s Robotic Workforce

Amazon isn’t just using robots, it’s building the largest robotic workforce on Earth.

Amazon’s robotics division has rapidly grown into one of the largest automation programs on Earth now operating over a million robots across 175+ facilities.

Inside those warehouses, humans and machines already work side by side, managed by AI systems that track every movement, break, and metric.

This week’s Darker Details briefing breaks down:

• Amazon’s full roster of warehouse and humanoid robots.

• How the company’s $85 billion annual R&D spend is turning efficiency into control.

• What “hybrid workforce” really means and how that language is spreading through global labor policy.

• The long-term human cost: rising injury rates, data-driven oversight, and the slow erosion of trust.

Read the full briefing below →