Ty Brady, Amazon’s chief technology officer for robotics, shared his vision for reinventing workplaces within the online retailer’s warehouses and fulfillment centers.
Amazon is doubling down on artificial intelligence and robotics to redo work within its warehouses and fulfillment centers, even as the company cuts thousands of corporate roles and faces growing concerns about machines replacing human workers.
In its latest earnings report, Amazon announced 14,000 corporate layoffs as part of a broader internal restructuring. A recent New York Times report also suggests that Amazon plans to replace up to 500,000 jobs with robots over the long term.
“Work is going to change. We’ve seen jobs change, tasks change,” Ty Brady, Amazon’s robotics CTO, told FOX Business at Web Summit 2025 in Lisbon.
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Brady was candid about what that means for his particular role.
“I’m not shy about the fact that I want to eliminate all the simple, mundane, repetitive jobs in the world, and that’s what we’re working on within Amazon,” he said.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy blamed the company’s job cuts on overhiring, with extra middle management positions, locations and lines of business added during the coronavirus pandemic.
He has argued that the cuts are necessary to remain “agile” as AI reshapes the way companies operate. Amazon’s workforce has nearly tripled to about 1.5 million from 2018, according to SEC filings, and last year it was just below its 2021 peak of 1.6 million employees.
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Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO. Speaking at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
At the same time, Amazon has committed $2.5 billion over five years to retrain its employees and communities to adapt to the changing demands of the workplace.
“We have a responsibility. I think every technology company has a responsibility to upskill their employees,” Brady said. “Amazon is committed to these efforts because we recognize that jobs are changing.”
He added that as generative AI becomes more widespread, “now is the right time” to invest in upskilling the workforce.
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A robot picks up a tote filled with merchandise during a first public tour of the newest Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center at Lake Nona Community in Orlando, Florida, April 12, 2019. (Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Amazon plans to spend more than $125 billion this year, much of it on cloud and AI infrastructure. Brady, who has spent more than 40 years in the technology field, called generative AI “probably the most revolutionary technology I’ve ever witnessed in my career.”
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Amazon Robotics recently rolled out innovations such as a robotic arm that can pack boxes and its Vulcan robot, which has haptics, as part of an effort to put more robots alongside human employees in its fulfillment centers. For now, Brady said, Amazon is manufacturing robots in Massachusetts.
