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Amazon to spend $100 million on Indiana plant to build gear for its robotics network

The 585,000-square-foot Greenwood facility will add robotic welding, powder coating and assembly and employ 300 people by the end of 2028, Indiana officials said.

Motion Media News Staff

Sep 24, 2026

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Amazon will invest more than $100 million in a manufacturing plant in Greenwood, Indiana, that will make equipment for its fulfillment and robotics network across North America, Indiana Gov. Mike Braun announced Thursday, Sept. 24.

The company will buy and equip a 585,000-square-foot building at 1175 Collins Road, according to the state's announcement. The plant is expected to open in 2028 and will bring metal fabrication, welding by robots, automated coating and final assembly together in one building, supported by AWS and AI-driven manufacturing systems and robots.

The state expects the plant to employ 300 people by the close of 2028, including CNC operators, welders, powder coating technicians, assemblers and controls engineers. State officials said the positions will pay an average of nearly $100,000 a year.

"Indiana has always been a state that builds things," Braun said. Holly Sullivan, Amazon's vice president of economic development, said the plant "represents a significant investment in the Indianapolis community."

The announcement does not list any state incentives for the project. According to the state, Amazon's Indiana spending since it arrived in 2008 tops $40 billion, with more than 27,000 jobs created.

Part of a broader robotics buildout

The Greenwood site follows an August announcement of a robotics manufacturing investment in Texas, The Robot Report noted. Amazon has built large robot manufacturing operations in Massachusetts and has produced more than 1 million robots in the United States, which are deployed in more than 300 facilities worldwide, the outlet reported. Amazon says those robots help employees with 75% of the customer orders it delivers globally.

The company has also acquired RIVR, a developer of wheeled quadruped robots for doorstep delivery, earlier this year, and plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of 2026, according to The Robot Report.

Amazon said it chose Greenwood for Indiana's manufacturing workforce, cost structure and logistics network. The state cited more than 2,500 industrial engineering graduates a year from schools including Purdue University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Ivy Tech Community College.