Amazon wants to use robots to make its warehouses safer for its workers

Amid mounting claims its warehouses, especially those with robots, are unsafe, Amazon is doubling down on technology in an attempt to make them safer. The Jeff Bezos-led company is using its Amazon Robotics and Advanced Technology labs to come up with new robots to keep Amazon's warehouse workers, which make up the majority of its more than 1 million employees, safer. Robots known as'Bert' and'Ernie,' use motion-capture technology. Amazon is using technology to keep its warehouses workers safer, despite claims to the contrary. Bert was designed to navigate Amazon's warehouses independently, becoming one of the Jeff Bezos-led company's first autonomous mobile robots This allows Amazon data scientists to understand what's going on in the warehouse and apply that to a laboratory setting, before going back out to the field again.