Amazon generates a lot of trash. Precisely how much is a matter of some debate. In 2021, the company says it used 214 million or so pounds of single-use plastic in its packaging. Nonprofit ocean ...

Amazon has received a U.S. patent for a new kind of robot capable of packing orders to prepare them for shipment, according to NBC News. The patent, which Amazon first filed for in late 2014 ...

Amazon will soon use more robots in its warehouses than human employees, with more than 1 million machines already deployed across facilities, according to a report.

Amazon has agreed to buy Cloostermans, a company that makes robots capable of stacking pallets in its warehouses. Amazon says it already uses Belgium-based Cloostermans' tech, which can also ...

Amazon has introduced a handful of robots in its warehouses that the e-commerce giant says will improve efficiency and reduce employee injuries. Proteus, an autonomous mobile robot that operates ...

Robots able to help with so-called picking tasks would boost Amazon’s efficiency—and make it much less reliant on human workers.

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Amazon gave CNBC a first look at its new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can “feel” objects, enabling it to do a job only humans could previously handle.

Alongside the new robots, Amazon detailed two more automation systems that have been developed by its engineers. The first system increases worker safety by reducing the need for warehouse workers ...

Amazon is close to having more robots operating inside its warehouses than humans after the e-commerce giant announced this week that it now has more than a million robots working at its ...