Amazon’s recent push to integrate robots into its delivery operations marks a significant shift in how the company plans to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. The tech giant aims to replace 500,000 ...

Amazon.com Inc. has acquired Rivr Technologies AG, a Swiss developer of delivery robots. CNBC reported on Thursday that the deal closed earlier this week. The financial terms were not disclosed.

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 ...

Think a robot can’t do your job? ‘It will happen, but I don’t know when,’ says one expert. How robots are already upending blue-collar work, career advancement, worker rights, and job satisfaction.

One of the headline projects of Amazon's Robotics division's 2025 slate, Blue Jay was initially hailed as the culmination of Amazon's foray into autonomous robotics. Development time was significantly ...

Amazon is quietly shelving its Blue Jay project months after introducing the robotic picking and stowing system in a South Carolina fulfillment center last October. The e-commerce giant confirmed that ...

Barry Tormoehlen, a maintenance technician at Amazon’s fulfillment center in DuPont, vacuums the inside of a KIVA, one of Amazon’s robots that are used to move items around the center, Monday, July 3, ...

Facepalm: Amazon has responded to reports that the company aims to replace 600,000 US warehouse workers with robots by 2033. Predictably, it's trying to put a positive spin on the news, claiming that ...

Amazon on Wednesday announced plans to invest $40 million in a new 350,000-square-foot robotics innovation hub in Westborough, Massachusetts, slated to open in 2021. The new facility, together with an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 1, a week before Prime Day, Amazon workers at the vast RDU1 warehouse south of Raleigh returned from half-hour shift ...