This appears not to be a machine made by Amazon, but rather a commercially available machine called CartonWrap 1000 made by an Italian firm named CMC Srl. Accor

This appears not to be a machine made by Amazon, but rather a commercially available machine called CartonWrap 1000 made by an Italian firm named CMC Srl. According to news reports I found online, Amazon is piloting the machines in its warehouses, however. (Edit: I wrote this in reply to the original article title which described the machine as Amazon's.) News report: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-automation-exclusive/exclusive-amazon-rolls-out-machines-that-pack-orders-and-replace-jobs-idUSKCN1SJ0X1 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-automation-exc... Product website: https://www.cmcmachinery.com/portfolio-item/ecommerce1-cmc-cartonwrap/ https://www.cmcmachinery.com/portfolio-item/ecommerce1-cmc-c... The effect on waste should be interesting. I assume that everyone who has ordered a product online has had the experience of receiving that product in a box that was quite a bit larger; that happens because standard shipping processes use a limited and pre-determined set of cardboard box sizes. If you look on the box somewhere, you should see a label like "1A5" which is the box size. With past technology, you had to round up to the next largest box that fits the product, which sometimes leaves quite a bit of waste, both in cardboard and the packing material (plastic pillows) used to fill up large voids in the box. It looks like this machine can cut boxes exactly to the product dimensions, which will presumably save both on box and filler material to lower costs, and generate less waste.