A robot prepares to choose up a tote containing product on the Amazon Robotics success center on April 12, 2019 in Orlando, Florida.
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A top Amazon executive told CNBC Thursday that it is a “myth” that robots and other technologies take jobs away from people.
Stefano La Rovere, director of world robotics, mechatronics, and sustainable packaging at Amazon, said that, quite than replacing jobs, advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are enhancing people’s roles.
He added that recent technology is resulting in the creation of entirely recent job categories.
“It’s a myth that technology and robots take out jobs,” La Rovere told CNBC’s “Street Signs Europe” on Thursday.
Amazon says that the introduction of latest technologies has enhanced greater than 50,000 jobs across its fulfilment centers in Europe.
The e-commerce giant says it has installed greater than 1,000 recent technologies across its European success center network over the past five years, for an overall investment of greater than 700 million euros ($751 million).
“Robots and technology help our employees … by reducing walking distance between assignments, by taking away repetitive motions, or [by] helping them to lift heavy weights,” La Rovere  said.
“In turn, our employees can learn recent skills, they’ll learn recent competencies, they’ll acquire recent capabilities that allow them to progress towards their profession objectives,” he added.
La Rovere added that, “During the last years, greater than 700 recent categories of jobs have been created by way of technology.”
He cited the instance of his own team, the Amazon robotics and AI division, which is concentrated on bringing automation to Amazon’s vast network of success centers which might be accountable for getting orders packed and prepared for delivery to customers.
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