Amazon claims its robots aren’t coming for your fulfillment-center job

Last week, during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Amazon held its biggest-ever holiday shopping event. To meet the demand and maintain the ultrafast delivery its customers have come to expect while fending off stiff competition, the company has begun retrofitting its 185 fulfillment centers worldwide with a new generation of proprietary robotics systems. Meanwhile, working conditions for the human beings at several of Amazon’s 185 fulfillment centers worldwide have come under fire. In just...