Amazon delivered more than a billion packages for the first time in 2016, and it's on track to ship even more in 2017, so it makes sense that the company is striving to make its boxes more efficient.

Amazon purchases come with a lot of packaging. Do you know the best ways to dispose of it? As if we all don't order enough Amazon packages on any given day, it's time for Prime Day once again (the ...

This week, the Verge reported on the massive onslaught of Amazon’s cardboard boxes at recycling facilities everywhere—otherwise known as the “Amazon effect.” According to Sims Municipal Recycling, one ...

For households across America and the world, the Amazon “smile” has become a familiar feature of their daily lives. Emblazoned on countless corrugated boxes and bag mailers, it greets folks as they ...

Todd Grasser, an Amazon process assistant, using an automated device to package items in paper bags for shipping at a facility in Sumner, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) SUMNER, Wash. — At ...

Sixteen teams of robotics researchers are traveling to Japan this week to help Amazon.com Inc. solve its warehouse problem. The company has a fleet of robots that drive around its facilities gathering ...

Forget billboards or magazine ads. If an advertiser wants to put its brand in front of a big audience today, you may as well slap that ad on an Amazon shipping box. Or, at least, that’s the mindset ...

Robots in Amazon’s warehouses are taking on a new role of boxing up orders, and they do so much more efficiently and quickly than the human workers they replace. As Reuters reports, Amazon has been ...