Amazon shutters Blue Jay robot as it transitions to Orbital, a new modular warehouse system enhancing same-day delivery ...

Amazon quietly ended its Blue Jay warehouse robot program just months after unveiling the multi-armed ceiling-mounted system designed to speed same-day deliveries in October.

Amazon’s recent push to integrate robots into its delivery operations marks a significant shift in how the company plans to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. The tech giant aims to replace 500,000 ...

Amazon said Blue Jay's core tech will be used for other robotics projects and the employees who worked on it were moved to ...

Just months after calling Blue Jay a core warehouse technology, the company shelved it as part of a broader shift in how its fulfillment network will work.

At its new Stone Mountain, Georgia, facility, Roomba-like robots shuffle between stacks, another adds shipping labels while another arranges packages in pallets ...

Robots have been a staple at Amazon warehouses for more than a decade, performing tasks formerly completed by humans, including picking, sorting and moving packages. Now, Amazon plans to make human ...

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The discontinuation marks a major course correction in Amazon's robotics strategy – and underscores the persistent gap between AI's rapid progress in software and its slower, ...

Inside Amazon’s 100,000-square-foot Greenwood warehouse—which provides the greater Indianapolis area same-day shipping for everything from paper plates to vitamins—robots and people collaborate in ...

Amazon's workforce may start to look a little less human in a few years. The New York Times reports that the company plans to avoid adding more than half a million jobs by 2033 by putting more robots ...