Warehouse operations are undergoing a profound transformation as companies grapple with the competing pressures of faster fulfillment expectations, persistent labor shortages, rising operational costs ...

Amazon pulled the plug on Blue Jay, its high-profile warehouse robot, in January 2026, barely three months after the system was introduced at a splashy company event. The rapid shutdown of a project ...

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 and ...

There's a new warehouse robot at Amazon that has a sense of touch, allowing it to handle a job previously only done by humans. Amazon unveiled the robot, called Vulcan, Wednesday at an event in ...

Amazon says that it has developed a new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can “feel” some of the items it touches. The two-armed Vulcan, which can maneuver goods inside the storage compartments Amazon has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ron Schmelzer covers AI and data best practices at Forbes since 2018 Amazon’s robotics group announced last week that it just hit ...

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

Amazon quietly ended its Blue Jay warehouse robot program just months after unveiling the multi-armed ceiling-mounted system ...