Online retailer titan Amazon.com Inc. today unveiled a new warehouse robot during its Delivering the Future event in Dortmund, Germany, named Vulcan, the company said represents a “fundamental leap ...

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 newest generation of warehouse robots is no longer a side experiment tucked into a few pilot facilities. The company now relies on automated systems across dozens of fulfillment and sortation ...

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 ...

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 recently announced that it has purchased Fauna -- a maker of humanoid robots. Fauna's Sprout robot won't be taking over duties at Amazon's factories any time soon, but it will serve other ...

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 ...