A robotic prepares to choose up a tote containing product on the Amazon Robotics achievement middle on April 12, 2019 in Orlando, Florida.
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A high Amazon govt advised CNBC Thursday that it is a “myth” that robots and different applied sciences take jobs away from folks.
Stefano La Rovere, director of worldwide robotics, mechatronics, and sustainable packaging at Amazon, stated that, relatively than changing jobs, superior robotics, synthetic intelligence, and different applied sciences are enhancing folks’s roles.
He added that new know-how is resulting in the creation of solely new job classes.
“It is a myth that technology and robots take out jobs,” La Rovere advised CNBC’s “Street Signs Europe” on Thursday.
Amazon says that the introduction of recent applied sciences has enhanced greater than 50,000 jobs throughout its fulfilment facilities in Europe.
The e-commerce big says it has put in greater than 1,000 new applied sciences throughout its European achievement middle community over the past 5 years, for an general funding of greater than 700 million euros ($751 million).
“Robots and technology help our employees … by reducing walking distance between assignments, by taking away repetitive motions, or [by] helping them to lift heavy weights,” La Rovere stated.
“In turn, our employees can learn new skills, they can learn new competencies, they can acquire new capabilities that allow them to progress towards their career objectives,” he added.
La Rovere added that, “Over the last years, more than 700 new categories of jobs have been created by the use of technology.”
He cited the instance of his personal group, the Amazon robotics and AI division, which is concentrated on bringing automation to Amazon’s huge community of achievement facilities which might be answerable for getting orders packed and prepared for supply to prospects.
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