Amazon has long treated “last-mile delivery” as both its biggest advantage and its biggest challenge. Fast shipping wins customers, but the final few meters—finding the right entrance, navigating ...
The mammoth online retailer is no stranger to automation, laying off workers as it pursues artificial intelligence “in virtually every corner of the company,” as CEO Andy Jassy put it. Amazon told The ...
It seemed like this might have been a rare week without a “robot doing dumb shit” story—but never fear, because Jeff Bezos’s squadron of airborne delivery drones is here to save the day. Prime Air, ...
The market for autonomous delivery robots is set to grow 19.2 percent through 2024, fueled by customer demand for cheap, last-mile convenience and investor interest in a hot segment of logistics. Data ...
Four-legged robots are about to start delivering Amazon packages. CNBC reports the company quietly acquired Rivr, a Swiss robotics startup that makes robots on wheels designed for “doorstep delivery.” ...
Amazon confirmed it has acquired Fauna Robotics, a startup building humanoid robots. Fauna's first product, called Sprout, is a $50,000 bipedal robot that's 3 feet, 6 inches tall and designed to be ...
CEO Andy Jassy used Wednesday's earnings call to make clear that despite massive investments in warehouse automation, Amazon ...