Amazon has placed its one-millionth warehouse robot inside a fulfillment center in Japan, a fleet size that now stretches across more than 300 facilities worldwide. The milestone lands alongside two operational advances the company is betting on to squeeze more speed out of that hardware: Sequoia,

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ron Schmelzer covers AI and data best practices at Forbes since 2018 Amazon’s robotics group announced last week that it just hit a major milestone with over one million warehouse ...

Amazon made a lot of noise in October when it unveiled Blue Jay, a multi-armed warehouse robot built to speed up same-day deliveries. Just months later, the company quietly ended the program. The robot's core technology will live on in other projects.

There's a new warehouse robot at Amazon that has a sense of touch, allowing it to handle a job previously only done by humans. Amazon unveiled the robot, called Vulcan, Wednesday at an event in Germany. CNBC got an exclusive first look at Vulcan in April ...

Amazon wants to bring on new employees-albeit non-traditional ones-to deliver packages. According to a report from The Information, the e-commerce giant is creating AI-based systems that would allow humanoid robots to deliver packages to consumers' doorsteps.

Amazon is now using more than one million robots in its facilities, the company says. The retail giant said three in four global deliveries are helped in some way by robotics. As Amazon relies more on robots for order fulfillment, it needs fewer human ...