Amazon passes a million robots: 40% fewer serious injuries, 77% more minor ones

According to Ars Technica, cited by IT之家, Amazon now has more than a million robots in its warehouses. The group is still expanding their production and deployment.

According to its 2025 annual report, Amazon employs more than a million and a half people, full time and part time. It is the world's second-largest private employer.

A study published in April 2025 in the journal ILR Review found 40% fewer serious injuries in Amazon's robotic warehouses than in its conventional ones. The same study also found 77% more minor injuries there, linked to repetitive movements.

The Strategic Organizing Center, a union coalition based in Washington, concluded in reports from May 2021 and April 2022 that Amazon's robotic warehouses had a higher injury rate than the others. Its reports drew on the injury data Amazon had given the US government for the years 2017 to 2020.