Right now, it looks like Amazon is still a long way from letting its bipedal robot kick down, er, deliver packages to your door. Testing will begin soon in a custom facility that will let the ...

“Amazon should make a robot ambulance that charges $300 instead of $3,000,” said another. The goal is for robots to come out of Rivian vans and deliver packages to your door.

Amazon mostly uses purpose-specific robots in its facilities, but it has tested a humanoid robot called Digit from Agility Robotics for warehouse work back in 2023.

A Swiss business project aims to introduce delivery robots in Japan as the country faces staff shortages in the food and logistics industries, with partnership discussions ongoing with major logistics ...

While Amazon has stated that its warehouse robots are intended to complement human workers, the deployment of humanoids for last-mile delivery could directly impact a substantial workforce globally.

Amazon has also tried to shave off delivery expenses by using its own drivers instead of those from UPS, the post office, or FedEx. The latest plan is to use robots to make deliveries.

Amazon is developing artificial intelligence software for humanoid package delivery robots, and reportedly has plans to soon test the robots at its San Francisco offices. According to a June 5 report ...

Amazon is completing construction of a "humanoid park," an indoor obstacle course at one of the company's San Francisco, California offices, where it will soon test such robots, according to one ...

Amazon declined to say where the delivery robots would be filled or what items they would deliver. Read the full report here. More articles on supply chain: ...

"For our customers, it's, of course, faster delivery," said the unit's leader, Yesh Dattatreya, a robotics scientist, at an event at Amazon's Silicon Valley Lab126 hardware device lab.

In a CNBC interview, he confirmed that over time, robots are expected to take over delivery and transportation. According to The Wall Street Journal, robotics now assists with about 75% of Amazon ...