Amazon plans a $536 million robotic fulfillment center in Australia, where robots like Hercules and Sparrow will work alongside more than 1,000 human employees.

Robots in Amazon's fulfillment warehouse can pick and stow products well enough that the e-tail giant is happy to begin beta testing, but not well enough to leave human workers behind.… In its ...

Robots have been a staple at Amazon warehouses for more than a decade, performing tasks formerly completed by humans, including picking, sorting and moving packages. Now, Amazon plans to make human ...

Amazon has rolled out sophisticated new robots, named Vulcan, that could potentially threaten the livelihoods of millions of warehouse workers. Equipped with state-of-the-art capabilities that allow ...

Just months after calling Blue Jay a core warehouse technology, the company shelved it as part of a broader shift in how its ...

Amazon's new Vulcan robot uses physical AI to carefully stow and pick everything from socks to fragile electronics at fulfillment centers. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech ...

The tech giant this morning unveiled what it describes as its first warehouse robot with a sense of touch. The robot, dubbed Vulcan, uses force sensors and AI to handle and organize inventory with ...

This week Amazon debuted a new warehouse robot that has a sense of "touch," but the company also promised its new bot will not replace human warehouse workers. On Monday, at Amazon's Delivering the ...

Amazon has introduced a new robot for its fulfillment centers that can use artificial intelligence to sense the size and shapes of items by touch, and then pick or stow those items from hard-to-reach ...

Amazon is developing artificial intelligence software for humanoid package delivery robots, and reportedly has plans to soon test the robots at its San Francisco offices. According to a June 5 report ...