According to Tye Brady, the chief technologist at Amazon, collaborative robotics will increase human potential, efficiency, and safety in fulfillment facilities while promoting constructive social change.

According to Tye Brady, chief technologist at Amazon's robotics division, the company envisions a future focused on "collaborative robotics," in which machines are designed to enhance human potential and capability rather than to replace it.

With the recent deployment of the one-millionth robot in its global operations and the introduction of DeepFleet, an AI system that optimizes robot movement across its fulfillment network (its intelligent warehouses), Amazon claims that robotics will be crucial to creating more capable societies.

Since 2012, the company has expanded from using a single type of robot to transport inventory shelves between warehouse levels to using a variety of robots to increase operational efficiency. Amazon's robot portfolio includes 'Proteus', Pegasus robots that handle individual parcels using precision conveyor belts, and Hercules, which can lift and transport up to 1,250 pounds of merchandise.

In reality, "Proteus" is a completely self-sufficient mobile robot that moves bulky carts loaded with consumer orders while avoiding workers in unobstructed, open spaces on Amazon websites. Brady believes that cooperation, that is, developing technologies that maximize human potential and competence, will be essential to the future of robotics. Amazon sees robotics as a tool to enhance human influence rather than replace people.

Addressing journalists at the sidelines of the Amazon Delivering the Future event in Tokyo to demonstrate the latest innovations and technologies of the company, Brady emphasized that it is not man and the robot fighting against each other, but the man and the machine working together in the future.