It has been four years since it was approved, but the new Amazon distribution center in Woodburn held its grand opening Oct. 6. Officially called Amazon PDX8, the $500 million, 3.8-million square foot ...

Amazon has introduced a new robot for its fulfillment centers that can use artificial intelligence to sense the size and shapes of items by touch, and then pick or stow those items from hard-to-reach ...

Amazon's RDU1 warehouse uses metrics to track speed, quality, and efficiency. Robots like 'Hercules' automate transport and packaging to reduce worker strain. Amazon plans to expand robotics to manage ...

Amazon has unveiled its most advanced robot to date – a machine that can sense touch – in a move aimed to alter how its warehouses are staffed and operated. The robot, dubbed Vulcan, was announced ...

Amazon sees a future centred around 'collaborative robotics', where machines are geared to amplify human capability and potential, rather than replace them, according to Tye Brady, chief technologist ...

The e-commerce titan – which has grown from Jeff Bezos selling books online from his garage in the mid-1990s to a $US2.33 trillion ($3.55 trillion) juggernaut ...

Amazon is leveraging advanced robotics in fulfillment centers to boost safety, productivity, speed, and cost efficiency. AMZN's new robots, including Vulcan and Proteus, are transforming warehouse ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a vast Amazon warehouse on the outskirts of Tracy, central California, flat rectangular robots wait to be ...

On July 1, a week before Prime Day, Amazon workers at the vast RDU1 warehouse south of Raleigh returned from half-hour shift breaks and listened to a pep talk. Called "stand-ups," these routine ...

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