Amazon has announced a new robot with a sense of touch, enabling it to pick up and stow around three-quarters of the items found in its warehouses.

Amazon has unveiled Vulcan, its first warehouse robot with a sense of touch, designed to handle inventory with precision while reducing strain on human workers.

Amazon’s enormous new warehouse in Woodburn has 30 miles of conveyors, 6,000 robots and 1,500 employees working to keep the $500 million facility humming around the clock.

Apart from its ability to work 20-hour shifts, Amazon also says the Vulcan robot complements human workers by helping reach items from high bins without a step-ladder, and low bins that would ...

Amazon has a growing fleet of warehouse robots to enhance safety and efficiency. In an internal document, Amazon said these robots are critical to flattening its hiring curve.

I saw how the e-commerce giant manufactures its warehouse robots during a recent visit to Amazon Robotics.

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Using so-called agentic AI, new robots will be able to unload trailers and then retrieve parts for repairs, according to Amazon.

Amazon says that it has developed a new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can 'feel' some of the items it touches.

Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift.

The man shot and killed by authorities outside the Amazon warehouse in Florence, Kentucky, was pulled over shortly before the shots rang out on suspicions that he stole a commercial truck ...

Amazon introduced "Vulcan," a new warehouse robot with a sense of touch, but the company asserts it won't replace human workers.