Amazon has spent years automating its warehouses with robots. Its mechanical workforce is more than one million strong, rivaling the size of its human workforce of some 1.56 million people. Robots, in fact, are on track to outnumber Amazon employees.

The Jeff Bezos-chaired company claims that the infusion of automation will drive up productivity and efficiency, while creating more high paying jobs. Some workers have praised the robot helpers for alleviating them of repetitive, backbreaking work.

But experts, seeing the writing on the wall, have long warned that Amazon had an ulterior motive with the robots — and now there’s evidence to prove it.

Interviews and leaked documents reveal that the company is planning to replace more than 600,000 jobs with robots, The New York Times reports.

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