Amazon hit a major robotics milestone: it now operates 1 million robots in its warehouses. The millionth robot just rolled into a facility in Japan, Amazon announced Monday.
That number edges the company closer to an even wilder milestone—robots soon matching human warehouse workers one-to-one. The Wall Street Journal reports 75% of Amazon’s global deliveries now get a robotic assist.
Amazon also launched a new generative AI model named DeepFleet. It manages robot routes inside warehouses, boosting robot fleet speed by 10%. The company built DeepFleet using Amazon SageMaker and trained it on its own warehouse data. 
This robot count isn’t just about numbers. Amazon’s machines keep getting smarter and stronger. In May, it rolled out Vulcan robots with two arms, a camera, suction, and even a sense of touch to handle inventory.
In October 2024, Amazon said its “next-generation fulfillment centers” would pack 10 times as many robots as current centers, working alongside humans. The first opened in Shreveport, Louisiana, near the Texas border.
Amazon went big on robotics back in 2012 when it acquired Kiva Systems.
The company also announced it’s releasing a new generative AI model called DeepFleet for its warehouse robots. This AI model, which can coordinate the robots’ routes within the company’s warehouses more efficiently, will help increase the speed of its robotic fleet by 10%, according to Amazon.
The company used Amazon SageMaker — the AWS cloud studio that helps build and deploy AI models — to create DeepFleet. Amazon trained the model on its own warehouse and inventory data.
