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Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs

By Jeffrey Dastin on May 14, 2019 6:58AM
Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs

Boxing up customer orders automated.

Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders. The company started adding technology to a handful of warehouses in recent years that scans goods coming down a conveyor belt and envelops them seconds later in boxes custom-built...

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