Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 3,000 robots navigate the four-story fulfillment center in Kent, guided by new algorithms that are making them faster ...

After less than six months on the job, Amazon has fired its latest warehouse robot. Launched in October 2025, Blue Jay was a multi-limbed robot intended to serve as "an extra set of hands" in 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 is gearing up to become a much bigger player in robotics.

Amazon reportedly has a plan to replace more than half a million U.S. workers with “cobots,” and avoid hiring at least 160,000 human workers by 2027. Despite hoping to double the number of products ...

Let's be real: Robots doing the grunt work at Amazon warehouses is nothing new; they've been sorting and moving packages for over a decade. But that was just the beginning. Amazon is now reportedly ...

Amazon's warehouse network is racing toward a future in which fleets of machines handle much of the lifting, sorting, and shuttling that once fell to human workers, and internal projections suggest ...

The acquisition of Fauna Robotics is the second robotics startup Amazon has purchased this month.

Amazon believes it can use robots to avoid adding more than half a million jobs in the next eight years, The New York Times reports. NPR's A Martinez speaks to Times reporter Karen Weise. Amazon's ...