How Amazon Is Using Robots To Cut Costs, Make Logistics More Efficient

If there is something that defines the e-retail giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), it's the ability of the company to revolutionize the space that it enters or operates in. So it might be of little surprise that the company is now using robots in its warehouses to make the logistics process quicker and efficient.

Bloomberg’s Cory Johnson recently reported on the robots being used by the company from one of Amazon’s warehouses in Tracy, California.

"Tracy, California is about an hour and half from San Francisco, from San Jose and from Sacramento. So it's centrally located and allows Amazon to have operations in the state where they once feared to operate for fear of sales taxes. They've decided to forego that to be closer to the people they're serving and they are serving them at this facility with robots," Johnson said.

"These robots essentially are like a giant roller skates or dollies or something and they go underneath  carts of stuff that people have ordered at Amazon. These carts weigh something like 750 pounds."

Johnson continued, "This 350-pound robot can lift that 700 plus pounds cart and move it to the place where an Amazon worker would store lots of stuff on it, all the barcodes, all using complex software that Amazon has written themselves, and then eventually when someone orders that thing, the same cart will then move to someone called the picker, someone who pluck the stuff off that thing and throw it into a giant yellow bin moved by conveyor belts closer to where it gets packed and sent to a customer."