For the robot’s appendages, Hitachi used two Epson ProSix C4-A901S industrial robot arms, which have six degrees of freedom of movement, and equipped them with cameras that use a computer vision ...

Three-quarters of Amazon’s global deliveries are now assisted in some way by robots, according to the company.

The number of robots in Amazon facilities just surpassed one million, the most the e-commerce giant has ever had.

In 2012 Jeff Bezos scooped up warehouse automation firm Kiva. Everyone else is still trying to catch up. An Amazon warehouse is a flurry of activity. Workers jog around a manmade cavern plopping ...

Amazon’s acquisition of Kiva set off an arms race among robot makers and shippers across the United States who scurried to keep up with the e-commerce giant.

Amazon’s robots are really feeling it now. The tech giant this morning unveiled what it describes as its first warehouse robot with a sense of touch. The robot, dubbed Vulcan, uses force sensors ...

An Amazon warehouse is a flurry of activity. Workers jog around a manmade cavern plopping items into yellow and black crates. Towering hydraulic arms lift heavy boxes toward the rafters. And an arm… ...

Amazon says its new warehouse robot, unveiled this morning, is its first with a sense of touch. Watch it pick, move, and stow items in these video highlights from the company, from Spokane, Wash ...

Hannah Gibson, chief executive of Ocado Retail, said that the number of robots with arms at its warehouse in Luton, Bedfordshire, will double from 22 to 44 in “the very near future”, ...

A component-sorting robot picks up items at the Obeta warehouse in Ludwigsfelde, Germany, Jan. 16, 2020. At the facility near Berlin, the new kind of robot is automating tasks that until recently ...

Brooks’ new company, Robust AI, unveiled its mobile robot, Carter, designed to work in warehouse facilities, last week.“The analogy here is a service dog,” Brooks says via video call. “It ...

In another sign that more warehouse workers could be displaced by machines, Hitachi has created a mobile logistics robot that can use two arms to handle inventory. Developed to meet increasing ...