It’s hard to believe it’s been a whole decade since Amazon made that big move to acquire Kiva Systems. Back in 2012, it felt like a pretty significant gamble, bringing in a robotics company to shake ...

ALCOA, Tenn. — While most people are asleep, nearly 2,000 workers are busy inside Amazon’s TYS1 fulfillment center in Alcoa, ensuring packages are processed and ready for delivery. The TYS1 facility ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Amazon's Spokane center is testing a new AI robot arm to help get orders to customers faster. The robot is called "Vulcan." It sorts products in the warehouse before they go into ...

Amazon unveiled a new robotics system for its warehouses that can pick, sort and consolidate packages in a single assembly line. The system is called Blue Jay, and Amazon said it's already being ...

Amazon's warehouse network is racing toward a future in which fleets of machines handle much of the lifting, sorting, and shuttling that once fell to human workers, and internal projections suggest ...

The arrival of new robots, especially to places like Amazon delivery centers, has sparked a big debate. Some say they are stealing human jobs while others argue they’re creating a bigger market for ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — Amazon recently opened a second massive facility where an army of robots fetch customers’ orders before handing them off to employees. The new Virginia Beach fulfillment center at ...

Amazon has deployed over 750,000 robots to its fulfillment centers over the last decade or so, but now there's a new, shall we say, more sensitive addition. The company has announced Vulcan, its first ...

Package-carrying robots await their orders at Amazon’s SNA3 fulfillment center in Otay Mesa. (File photo by Chris Jennewein/Times of San Diego) Amazon is raising the curtain on its state-of-the-art ...