Amazon just crossed one million robots, putting it on course to have more robots than its 1.5 million human workers, and its own internal documents reveal a plan to avoid hiring 600,000 people by 2033 by automating 75% of its operations. This is Episode 3 of The Robot Economy, and it breaks down the layer that actually captures the money in the robot revolution: the deployer. The company that does not build robots or their brains, but buys them by the million and uses them to replace the single biggest cost in its business, human labor. We cover Amazon's real robot fleet (Proteus, the touch-sensing Vulcan, and the DeepFleet AI that coordinates them), the staggering economics (around $12.6 billion in labor savings and 30 cents off every item), why last week's blowout Q2 2026 earnings and $220 billion capex plan matter, and the honest bear case: Amazon is a $2 trillion cloud-and-retail giant where robotics is only a slice, and erasing hundreds of thousands of jobs is a political firesto...