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

More than 3,000 robots navigate the four-story fulfillment center in Kent, guided by new algorithms that are making them faster and more efficient.

Amazon quietly ended its Blue Jay warehouse robot program just months after unveiling the multi-armed ceiling-mounted system ...

An apparent Amazon worker captured the stressful moment when robot shelves trapped him in while he was working the warehouse floor. Featured Video His video of the incident has risen to over 700,000 ...

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 ...

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Amazon's workforce may start to look a little less human in a few years. The New York Times reports that the company plans to avoid adding more than half a million jobs by 2033 by putting more robots ...