NEW: 🇺🇲 Amazon’s robotics team is working towards automating 75 percent of the company’s entire operations - Verge The company expects to ditch 160,000 US roles that would otherwise be needed by 2027. This would save about 30 cents on every item that Amazon warehouses and delivers to customers, with automation efforts expected to save the company $12.6 billion from 2025 to 2027.