DUPONT, Wash. — Amazon officially unveiled a new warehouse in the South Sound Friday.
Robots will be helping 500 human employees fill orders at the Amazon fulfillment center in DuPont.
The center's been up and running since June, but the company wanted to get past the busy holiday period before having an official grand opening Friday for political and economic development officials.
At the computerized DuPont center, robots follow wires embedded in the floor to find or replace merchandise on a warehouse floor area equal to 59 football fields.
The News Tribune reports the $100 million center handles physically larger items. A warehouse in Sumner ships smaller items, such as books and DVDs, to customers in the Seattle metropolitan area.
The center is one of 50 around the country and three in the Puget Sound area that ships Amazon goods.
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