Amazon to Build $100 Million Robotics Plant in Greenwood
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Amazon to Build $100 Million Robotics Plant in Greenwood
The 585,000-square-foot factory is Amazon's second robotics manufacturing announcement in two months, feeding a network that already runs more than a million of its robots.
Amazon will invest more than $100 million in a 585,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Greenwood, Indiana, that will build parts for its fulfillment and robotics network across North America, the company said Sept. 24. The plant is expected to open by 2028 and create 300 manufacturing and engineering jobs.
Amazon's own announcement puts the average salary for those roles at nearly $100,000 a year, covering positions from CNC operators and welders to controls engineers and quality assurance specialists. Holly Sullivan, Amazon's vice president of economic development, said the facility "represents a significant investment in the Indianapolis community that will create jobs with a median salary well above the regional average." Indiana Governor Mike Braun called it "300 high-paying, skilled jobs" for the state in the same release.
What goes on inside 585,000 square feet
Amazon's release describes the retrofitted building as combining advanced fabrication, robotic welding, automated powder coating and assembly under one roof, coordinated by AWS cloud infrastructure and what the company calls AI-powered smart manufacturing software. Neither Amazon nor The Robot Report's coverage specifies which robot models or fulfillment components the plant will actually produce.
The second robotics plant announced in two months
Greenwood follows an August 2026 announcement of a robotics manufacturing investment in Texas, The Robot Report said, though neither Amazon nor the outlet has published a comparable dollar figure for that facility. Amazon has built what The Robot Report calls one of the largest industrial robotics manufacturing operations in the world at its Massachusetts facilities, where it has manufactured more than one million robots domestically to date. Those robots now assist with 75 percent of all customer orders Amazon delivers worldwide, according to the same report.
The Ocala, Florida facility pictured above is an existing Amazon fulfillment center, not the Greenwood plant, which has not yet broken ground.
Indiana's two decades of Amazon investment
Greenwood deepens a relationship that goes back to 2008: Amazon has invested more than $40 billion in Indiana since then and created more than 27,000 direct jobs in the state, according to the company's own announcement. That history is part of why Indiana, rather than a state with no existing Amazon footprint, got the second robotics plant in as many months.
What Amazon hasn't said is as notable as what it has: no construction start date, no specific product line, and no dollar figure for the Texas facility it announced first. For a company that has manufactured over a million robots and now says it needs a fourth major plant to keep up, the silence on what exactly Greenwood will build is the detail worth watching before 2028.
The timing lines up with a broader reshoring push in robotics manufacturing that Amkor is making with its own Arizona chip-packaging expansion, and with the economics questions already raised by Agility Robotics' order book for its Digit humanoid: building the robots domestically is one problem, and making the unit economics work at scale is a separate one.
| Metric | Figure |
|---|---|
| Investment | $100 million+ |
| Facility size | 585,000 sq. ft. |
| Jobs created | 300 |
| Average salary | ~$100,000/year |
| Expected opening | By 2028 |
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