#automation · How Robots Are Reshaping Work

Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raised $12B at a $41B valuation to build an 'artificial general engineer' — pointing physical AI at high-end engineering work, not the factory floor.

Four senators introduced a bill creating a National Commission on Robotics to assess U.S. competitiveness, with industry from Agility to Boston Dynamics cheering — and workers cast mainly as recruits.

At its London event, Amazon unveiled a Proteus robot that takes conversational text prompts and plans its own tasks, alongside a €10 billion European robotics investment and a 25,000-job pledge.

Amazon activated its first fully autonomous fulfillment center in Dallas this week. The warehouse runs 22 hours a day, ships 1.6x more packages, and employs 41 people. It used to employ 1,451.

800 locations. Zero human cooks. Customer ratings went up. The woks are automated now, and they don't burn the rice.