Amazon wants to ship you anything in 30 minutes. It's going to need a lot of robots

Amazon is burning through billions to get you stuff faster. It'll spend more than $35 billion on shipping costs this year, more than twice what it spent two years ago.

Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.The company recently warned investors it'll drop an extra $1.5 billion this holiday season as it works to transition to one-day shipping for Prime members. Profits are shrinking. And yet, this may prove to be a modest undertaking compared to Amazon's future delivery ambitions.

"That was quite a slam dunk," said Rian Whitton, a robotics analyst at ABI Research. "They scaled it very impressively and in a short period of time."Robots shift from factory floors to the skiesToday Amazon's robot ambitions extend far beyond its fulfillment centers. These new teams operate independently of the initial Kiva Systems group.

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