The company expects to test ways it can use Rivr's robots to help with "doorstep delivery" and to "improve safety outcomes" for delivery drivers.

Amazon recently abandoned an innovative robotic line that it had deployed last year in an effort to streamline some of its ...

Amazon plans a $536 million robotic fulfillment center in Australia, where robots like Hercules and Sparrow will work alongside more than 1,000 human employees.

Amazon pulled the plug on Blue Jay, its high-profile warehouse robot, in January 2026, barely three months after the system was introduced at a splashy company event. The rapid shutdown of a project ...

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 ...

Amazon has acquired autonomous robotics startup Rivr, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed, a deal that could help the commerce and logistics giant deliver packages to shoppers’ doors more efficiently.

Artificial intelligence that makes humans more efficient and robots that make them less necessary: That’s the future Amazon.com is building in its e-commerce fulfillment business. The retail giant ...

Amazon cut at least 100 white-collar jobs in its robotics division as it continues restructuring, even while expanding its ...

A group of workers with their fists raised in solidarity hold a scrawled sign: “We are humans not robots!” They and others at ...

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has reportedly discontinued its recently introduced warehouse robot, Blue Jay, and reassigned its staff to other robotics projects. The operations of the robotic system ...

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 ...