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 ...

Amazon’s new Vulcan fulfillment center robot doesn’t look humanoid but it has some very human characteristics, like the ability to “feel” the items it’s handling. Amazon introduced Vulcan at its ...

If Amazon has its way in the future, you might see a humanoid robot jogging to your door to deliver packages. According to a report from The Information (citing an insider source) that was later ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Amazon.com Inc. has acquired Rivr Technologies AG, a Swiss developer of delivery robots. CNBC reported on Thursday that the deal closed earlier this week. The financial terms were not disclosed.

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 ...