Amazon enters the age of robots. What does that mean for its workers?

People have predicted robots will destroy the labour market, but Amazon believes investment in robotics could create jobsTrapped in a metal cage in a corner of a 350,000 sq ft Amazon warehouse outside Boston last week a lonely yellow robot arm sorted through packages, preparing items to be shipped out to customers who demand ever-faster delivery. Soon it will be joined by others in a development that could mean the end of thousands of jobs and, Amazon argues, the creation of thousands of others.