Technology is catching up to the U.S. workforce very quickly and one company is leading the way with robotics — which isn't exactly good news on the jobs front. The Wall Street Journal did a deep dive into Amazon's quest to automate tasks that have been done by its employees for decades.

Amazon is also looking to use a new generation of bipedal robots to help with the so-called "last-mile" of the delivery chain, where the process typically slows down, becoming far less direct and efficient.