The e-commerce giant Amazon
has announced that it is going to expand its robotics operation. It will be leasing
350,000 square feet at a shuttered drug manufacturing plant in Westborough. The
company plans to spend $40 million upgrading a former AstraZeneca facility. It
expects to employ about 200 people to design, build and test robotics equipment
by 2021.
This move will further establish Boston’s status as a
robotics hub for the e-commerce
giant. This technology picks and sorts packages for faster delivery. It is a
key ingredient in the expansion of Amazon’s automated logistics and
distribution centres around the country. The vast plant which will be revamped
is a distinctive three-story glass pyramid that was not operational since three
years when AstraZeneca moved at that end of 2016. For a long time, this
facility was Westborough’s biggest taxpayer. Speaking about the e-commerce’s
move, Mike Kennealy, the state economic development secretary advanced that “Amazon’s
move to Westborough really validates the strength of the robotics cluster here”.
As for Tye Brady, the chief technologist at Amazon
Robotics, he said that this new location will be, “a world-class
facility where our teams can design, build, program, and ship our robots, all
under the same roof”.
Amazon will have a location for robotics in Westborough
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