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

Amazon plans a $536 million robotic fulfillment center in Australia, where robots like Hercules and Sparrow will work ...

Amazon, the second-largest private employer in the world, with 1.5 million workers, is accelerating its use of warehouse robots as part of a major automation drive, The New York Times reported on ...

Rivr Technologies AG, a Swiss developer of delivery robots. CNBC reported on Thursday that the deal closed earlier this week.

After less than six months on the job, Amazon has fired its latest warehouse robot. Launched in October 2025, Blue Jay was a multi-limbed robot intended to serve as "an extra set of hands" in the ...

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

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 cut at least 100 white-collar jobs in its robotics division as it continues restructuring, even while expanding its warehouse robot fleet and AI spending.

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.

As the second-largest employer in America, Amazon currently employs around 1.5 million workers. (1, 2) Between 2018 and today, Amazon has onboarded hundreds of thousands of workers, effectively ...

Amazon will invest $750 million into building a massive warehouse in Queensland nearly the size of 20 rugby league fields - ...