A look inside one of Amazon's robotic fulfillment centers

Amazon is hiring 1,000 employees for its new robotic fulfillment center in Opa-locka. Here's a look into what those centers look like.

[@lawrenceehrbar8667]

I've been a picker and counter for over two years at an Amazon warehouse. "Counting" (there are 3 types, Simple Bin, Simple Record, and Cycle) is about the easiest job you'll ever have. The only thing is that it's really, really boring and a bit more time in a bending/crouching position as you spend more time on a particular bin cuz you always put item(s) back INTO the bin after removing as opposed to just tossing an item(s) into a tote. Anyway, on one knee (or both, lol) it can be very tiring and depressing the first week until you build up physical and mental endurance. In any event, the optimum task would be "counting" the full shift interspersed with maybe 3-4 hours of "picking" to break up the monotony and get the blood flowing again. Lol. Trust me on this.

[@buba_Dukz]

This is just mind blowing

[@purnaka8304]

But they asked you to pick 10times faster than shown in this video..... so profit oriented company that pressures employes to meet 320 items pick in an hour or 6 items in a minute.

[@lifewithmejessiemarie2570]

I was packing...loved it..they just moved me upstairs to stow and now I hate my job..its so physically demanding I have to go up stairs 100 plus times a day. I stowed 677 items in 5 hours...I. soo slow now that im never gonna keep up...fucking sucks...

[@ArredondoJairo]

@@lifewithmejessiemarie2570 i just started and i stow one thousand a day. im fucking slow lmao i think after 2 weeks imma get fired for not keeping up 💀

[@bethbb7930]

@@ArredondoJairo i started 2 days ago 1448 items 10 hour shift and my robot had error so it took off time 😒

[@jernikagardner289]

I hate these things I do this and I hate it I didn’t sign up to be on no ladder for 10 hours

[@xyero4399]

Its not that high compared to Walmart, Target, etc. Walmart expects you to pick and orderfill 465 cases per hour, and these items go over 50lbs.

[@leowetzel2497]

Nothing like the picking/packing that I did in warehouses in the 1970's.

[@Kelsey260]

Can you elaborate? Was it worse or better?

[@sara31773]

@@Kelsey260there can be no comparison. Might have been totally efficient back in the 70’s but the volume couldn’t come close Amazon.

[@yoshr02]

just finished my first 3 days working at amazon as a stower and im getting ptsd watching this

[@sincerelythree_]

Your job is more hard than this , u work at a delivery station this a fulfillment so the robots do half the job for them 😂😂😂

[@Wayof23]

Lmao I know I'm like a year late but honestly! I literally have dreams about stowing 💀

[@jaminova_1969]

@@Wayof23 "dreams"? More like nightmares!

[@annabella6072]

I seen stowers and honestly it does look very depressing 😢

[@joeguzman3558]

Wow I'm super impressed

[@cperry3000]

Everyone's hating on automation these days, but this is the future. I love that M2000 near the end. Great way to take care of incoming pallets.

[@sara31773]

Sadly I don’t think humans could do it this quickly. If you think about the MASSIVE amount of orders it’s mind boggling. People want their orders ASAP….but bitch about how it’s actually done.

[@zepetorclau]

Im starting here and I feel so nervious. Hope to learn and become more fast . I need to work in all stations. Stow, Pick, Pack y Dispatch.. decant too. Im still a training .

[@herrhunatter8023]

how was your start

[@nwojunkie]

when Roombas start hitting the gym

[@kristineiscrazyn.cranky46]

😅😅😅

[@shellbe4016]

I do this for a living

[@oscarlopes376]

any advises to improve? I work at this today...

[@notashapace1473]

Me to.

[@thetrader5235]

@@oscarlopes376 nice

[@catshez]

Me too !! Although I do ICQA, didn't see anyone doing that in this vid.. I want to film the pods whizzing about and put it to some classical music, they are very exciting and graceful in my opinion ! 😅 I love watching them speeding towards each other, and then suddenly stop ! I am done with peopling jobs , right now I prefer to talk to computers and robots 😂

[@catshez]

@@oscarlopes376 Tell the stowers to be more gentle with the stock when they put them in the bins ! 🤨😂

[@greetings.haveaniceday.7162]

Takt time takt time..🎵🎶🎶

[@cheegum6296]

00:45 Robot that just turned: umm rude!

[@miikavalo8324]

I get nauseous just thinking about the amount of coding necessary to run those systems 😂

[@santosmontiel9825]

Me too

[@ASODeepak017]

Seriously

[@demolitionbarbiedoll]

i've heard amazon ambassadors like giving transgender employees a spanking for not reaching their numbers

[@TheMotherConfesser]

@@demolitionbarbiedollwtf

[@normalperson5000]

@@demolitionbarbiedollwtf

[@CrayZJo3Davola]

I'm a stower and the job can suck somedays and be good somedays. We are to stow 12 items per pod. That is easy unless ALL THE POD COMING IN IS 90% FULL AND STUFFED! The robots are bringing you pods that have no room to stow but they want you to stow anyways but you can't overstuff and stow 12 item or more. This can go on for the full 10 hour shift. Nothing but 90% full pod that you can stow maybe 1 item if you're good. Amazon needs to get their brains check.

[@TheMrForan]

Call an Andon for safety issue

[@lawrenceehrbar8667]

I feel ya. I never stowed and would never want to switch over as it appears that stowing could have bigger issues in regard to "favoritism" than picking (I'm a picker and also a counter). Anyway, at my warehouse I'd noticed recently that picking was a bit faster and easier and found out that the pods were averaging 90% capacity as opposed to the usual 110% capacity. Perhaps Amazon finally realized it's better for all involved that lesser filled pods "increases" productivity and PROFITS.

[@OfficialCaite]

i hated stowing

[@amorenita4768]

That's what I do now. 10 hrs is ridiculous

[@KevinMartinez-dr9oe]

Stowing in a PIT or walking?

[@michaelcastillo5688]

thats what im doing now... but i want to be a picker.. are you still stowing?

[@amorenita4768]

@@JVeleta11 yeah, No

[@traveltheworld3457]

@FRUYAKI is this possible bro 3 day ?

[@pb4ugo19]

1:13 do they not light up to tell you where to pick/stow? I see on other youtube vids they do.

[@e.m.dgaming1841]

This looks easy but it’s hard

[@chasenicholas6724]

The warehouse that I work at we have to walk everywhere. We don't have robots.

[@nuradilzholmukhan8672]

wow, very interesting and impressive

[@shinigami146]

Very cool and impressive. Even 2D logistics can be complicated when dealing with so many variables... at least to my tiny brain.

[@CarlosRodriguez-yb7wz]

How many people work in these warehouses?

[@drones7838]

How’s the workers strike going on now

[@abishekdangal4049]

What does tron associate do in these process??

[@teddy1080]

Amazon jobs are super labour intensive. It’s like prison work. You get paid just that little bit more to work your ass off 4 plus times. Good if you need work because they always hiring, but not healthy for long term. If you thinking of loosing weight this is the place to do so. Also affect you mentality due to 10hrs straight standing on the same spot doing the same thing. I call this the mental institution.

[@chasenicholas6724]

I walk at a Amazon warehouse with zero no robots. There is only 37 warehouses left like the one I work at. Have yo walk everywhere

[@natechenry]

@Jarod Armstrong not exactly true. It can be a career. 15-16 bucks 4 days a week for 10 hours is liveable. That’s 2400 bucks a month if you times 15 bucks times 40 hours. 2400x12 months = 28,800 plus the overtime employees have to do at least once or twice a month bumps it to 30,000 a year. That’s average salary.

[@orukpe1]

@@natechenry Exactly. In Amazon, you have accountants, marketers, programmers, software developers, warehouse assistant, delivery drivers, lawyers, business analyst, technicians, quality control, so someone can build a career without problem. And they pay very well. In spain for example , most logistics companies pay between 7 to 9 euros an hour, Amazon pay 11,45 euros an hour day shift, night shift 13,45 euros. that is double minimum wage in Spain.

[@oborojin]

@@natechenry 30,000 a year (before or after taxes) is close to the lower bound of "lower income" today. For the amount of work you're talking about, putting in overtime, etc. You should be getting paid at least 45k a year, starting pay. Inflation has been so rapid the last couple decades that 30,000 a year just isn't good enough anymore. And with wage stagnation, people keep thinking that what used to be passable, still is. It isn't.

[@kaylees3072]

Wonder what her takt time is

[@YungBl3ss94]

They didn’t have takt time when they had that software

[@Mankelberrie]

Oh they do. I’m new and they keep telling me to move faster..

[@lawrenceehrbar8667]

Ever notice that Amazon is really into "numbers" in regard to their laborers' production value but nothing is ever said regarding the size and weight of those individual numbers? Lol. Go call up Amazon and pretend you're a manufacturer and say you're considering Amazon to ship your products. Then say, "by the way, it doesn't matter how much my product weighs. Right?" Lol

[@toniumali9045]

what if cant meet your rate?

[@matthewjackson9615]

They are building out a brand new robotic fulfillment center right here in Waco Texas. Can you believe it?

[@kaseygroome4536]

Building one in Richmond, VA as well 😡😡😡😡😡

[@normalperson5000]

@@kaseygroome4536are you applying to work there?

[@adrianaduman1274]

Does anyone know amazon proteus robot components?

[@YungBl3ss94]

That woman picking moving too slow

[@bigt9972]

I'm a picker. If I move that slow then I'll never make the rate.

[@navdeepsingh-pk5qk]

Lazy woman

[@navdeepsingh-pk5qk]

@@chasenicholas6724 funny 😂🤣

[@navdeepsingh-pk5qk]

@@chasenicholas6724 what is your Warehouse?

[@YungBl3ss94]

@@bigt9972 I can move slow and still 450 easily lol

[@AA-cw7ql]

Intresting

[@teachingspanish204]

cooool job man i want that job

[@lt.danslegs9737]

This is not even close to showing how fast you’re required to work. No one was even close to tatk times.

[@mereh3945]

That first girl cute af 😍

[@mereh3945]

J I guess

[@luwigi4630]

Slow af

[@Salemjavaman]

My job appears at 1:10

[@EC-hc6kx]

Not even the tenth of the process...its gets wilder

[@taylorgang221000]

E C like how?

[@SoSo-hx7dy]

Big facts lol

[@Lulu-yepeyo]

There's robots be on red bull every day..lol

[@lindahammond3316]

It’s amazing to watch!!

[@gogojunegaming]

I just like & subscribe

[@mwloos1]

1:13 Heyyyy wanna go on break?

[@sulemanmohammed2676]

wow

[@concretelove]

Please let me go back to packing stow sucksss

[@fainafaina8004]

robots dont need to pee in bottle =)

[@eleven_bravo6861]

WALL·E

[@AaronSmith-ed6lf]

🔭📡🛰️

[@waheedmandozai222]

Damn these who has invented such robots . many youngs are jobless

[@nata122]

That portion of the warehouse would be a mess if people were maneuvering hundreds of those yellow stacks. Amazon employs plenty of people so it's just a matter of working together with the assistance of technology.

[@TMM-N]

The union is hammering amazon too much up to the point wherethey just simply starting to reduce human with machine,. Overtime they will replace those union workers with Mexican who could read and write english

[@benjamingreenbaum1631]

And then robot completely

[@kevinjorgensen7409]

She is a slow picker.. lol

[@timwalker8107]

do not work for amazon. its a awful place to work. it is torture. horrible. but still keeps hiring. avoid! avoid. not recommend

[@TheRealist2024]

Just because you can't handle it, that doesn't mean others can't, sounds like you're afraid of hard work.

[@sethshoell3020]

Exactly

[@shellbe4016]

@@TheRealist2024 then you should try our job

[@TheRealist2024]

@@shellbe4016 I would love to and see what all the fuss is about, I'm sure it can't be harder than doing construction.

[@TildeDixon]

I am leaving the CNA world to do this until nursing school is over. I can’t take another day trying to roll a 500 pound patient by myself, smelling their shit and dealing with running out of N95 mask because almost every patient on my damn floor has COVID. I don’t mind the hard work but I am sick of patients not being grateful. I could give two shits if management at Amazon is not grateful, I came to make my coins and go home lbs!!😂

[@johnalver]

Doesn't seem like a bad place to work

[@TheMrForan]

4 days in and its one of the most structured, positive places i have ever worked..