US EditionAmazon Humanoid Delivery Robots Are Coming
- Amazon is preparing to test humanoid robots for last-mile package delivery at a new indoor obstacle course called a 'humanoid park' in San Francisco in 2025.
- This initiative follows Amazon shelving its six-wheeled autonomous delivery robot Scout in 2023 and reflects the company's need to automate due to growing demand and labor challenges.
- Amazon is testing bipedal robots like Agility Robotics' Digit and Unitree's G1, which use AI software to navigate sidewalks, stairs, and deliver packages from Rivian electric vans.
- The company has deployed over 750,000 warehouse robots and partnered with Finnish firm IXI for a $36.5 million augmented reality project to improve delivery worker efficiency.
- If successful, the humanoid robots could lessen the manual workload for employees and help mitigate labor shortages, though technical challenges persist and there is no set schedule for their widespread implementation.
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Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots designed to go in the thousands of delivery vans that travel the country, according to a report quoted by The New York Post. The company, valued at $2 trillion, is testing two-legged, two-armed electric robots in a "humanoid park" in San Francisco, where they will be trained to work as Amazon delivery workers. Robots are tested in an indoor obstacle race the size of a cafeteria, where they are tr…
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