How Amazon Uses 1 Million Robots to Process 600,000 Orders Every Hour

How Amazon uses 1 million robots to process 600,000 orders every hour Every hour, Amazon processes more than 600,000 orders around the world. Behind that number are warehouses capable of storing tens of millions of products, arranged in a way no human would ever organize them. Not a single employee can remember the exact location of every item. Yet just minutes after you click "Buy Now," more than one million robots across Amazon's network begin working alongside people to locate that exact product and move it into the packing line. So how do Amazon's employees and robots work together to operate one of the largest and most sophisticated logistics systems ever built? The answer begins in the one place every package must pass through: an Amazon Fulfillment Center. 00:00 Introduction 00:54 Overview 02:00 Inbound 03:05 Chaotic storage 05:37 Buy now 07:44 Outbound 09:25 Why Amazon is so fast 11:15 The cost of speed 13:00 Conclusion