MILPITAS, Calif. – Amazon’s Delivering the Future Summit kicked off this week to showcase the future of the e-commerce giant's delivery wing. But amid its push to become more efficient, concerns have emerged that it may come at a steep cost – jobs.

The New York Times recently reported, citing interviews and internal strategy documents, that Amazon's automation push could allow the company to avoid hiring 160,000 fewer people by 2027 and more than 600,000 fewer people by 2033.

But Amazon’s chief technologist for robotics, Tye Brady, sees it differently. Brady said the robots he’s developing are meant to help humans, not replace them.

"Our strategy is people and machines working together. The growth that we've seen is because of this mindset of machines augmenting and amplifying the h

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