Amazon said on Tuesday that it has cut positions within its robotics group, with at least 100 white-collar roles affected, according to two people familiar with the matter. The robotics team focuses on designing robots and other conveyances used to automate tasks, primarily in the companys warehouses.
The company provided a brief statement saying it routinely evaluates organizational structure to ensure teams are positioned to innovate and deliver for customers, but it did not specify the exact number of job eliminations in the robotics unit.
This personnel reduction follows prior rounds of corporate trimming. In January, Amazon cut about 16,000 jobs and signaled that further layoffs were possible. Starting in October with a round that reduced some 14,000 white-collar positions, Amazon has now reduced roughly 30,000 corporate employees in total. Those cuts have been linked internally to efforts to improve efficiency using artificial intelligence and to changes in company culture. While those reductions represent nearly 10% of white-collar staff, the majority of Amazons roughly 1.5 million employees remain hourly workers, particularly at fulfillment centers and other warehouse operations.
The latest reductions come after Amazon paused development of a robotic arm project called Blue Jay in January. Blue Jay was publicly demonstrated at an event in October; the concept showed multiple robotic arms capable of grabbing multiple items at once and was designed to assist workers in confined spaces.
Beyond the large October and January rounds, the company has also made smaller cuts over the past year across several units, including devices and services, books, podcasts and public relations.
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Context and immediate implications
The robotics layoffs underscore ongoing adjustments within Amazons corporate ranks as the company scales back portions of its white-collar headcount and reassesses projects that affect automation in warehouse operations. The pause in the Blue Jay development and the reductions in the robotics team highlight a re-evaluation of certain automation initiatives alongside broad workforce changes.