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“See inside Amazon’s robot warehouse”
Amazon’s Tracy warehouse employs over 3,000 people alongside robots.
Key points
- Tracy, California facility spans 1.4 million square feet, about 23 football fields.
- Next-generation centers are ~25% more productive and support ~30% more skilled jobs.
- Hundreds of Hercules robots carry inventory pods to pick stations for workers.
- Proteus mobile robots haul carts toward outbound trucks; loading remains manual.
- Over 3,000 employees work at Tracy, up from about 1,000 when it opened in 2023.
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