Amazon warehouse workers tell us what they really think about their new robot coworkers

Source: Business Insider

Robots at work inside an Amazon warehouseJess Lynn Goss for BI; Rebecca Zisser/BIAmazon warehouse workers used to spend much of their days walking, pushing carts through long aisles to manually retrieve customer orders from shelves. Today, hundreds of "Hercules" robots do this instead, carrying towering yellow storage pods filled with inventory to employee workstations. "I'd walk like 10 miles a day on average," said Mohammed Khan, who started as an entry-level picker 12 years ago and is now a senior manager at an Amazon warehouse in Tracy, California.