Amazon's expanding fleet of robots includes: Hercules, a lifter capable of handling 1,250 pounds; Pegasus, which sorts packages on conveyor belts; and Proteus, the company's first fully autonomous robot able to operate directly alongside people.

The robot revolution has long sounded like a far-off sci-fi notion, but it’s a reality at the e-commerce giant.

Specifically, all the recent coverage of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s comment that AI advances would empower the Seattle technology and retail giant to replace human effort in its executive suite. The insinuation has been that Amazon is positioning itself to permanently downsize its roster of human workers that require nights and weekends off,