Amazon unveiled smart glasses, robots, and AI systems to accelerate deliveries and boost efficiency, even as analysts warn of potential U.S. job losses. Amazon unveiled new delivery technologies on Wednesday, including AI-driven smart glasses and robotic systems, as part of efforts to reduce delivery times and boost efficiency.

With RoboBallet, the complexity of computation also grew with the complexity of the system, but at a far slower rate. (The computations grew linearly with the growing number of tasks and obstacles, and quadratically with the number of robots.) According to the team, these computations should make the system feasible for industrial-scale use.

Part of the problem is that workers and outdated machinery that sort bottles, cans, paper, and plastic at recycling facilities miss a lot of recyclables, leading to waste. Glacier’s AI-powered robot can identify more than 70 recyclable materials,

An innovative approach to automation design used inverted six-axis robots and a gravity-fed tray system to boost throughput by 20% while reducing labor by 66.7%.

As of last December, the state had over 154,000 Amazon jobs - the most in the country - as well as 68 fulfillment and sortation centers and 61 delivery stations. Amazon recently announced a 30,000-worker hiring surge in the state to help with the holidays,