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.

More than 3,000 robots navigate the four-story fulfillment center in Kent, guided by new algorithms that are making them faster and more efficient.

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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.

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 ...

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

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, ...

An apparent Amazon worker captured the stressful moment when robot shelves trapped him in while he was working the warehouse floor. Featured Video His video of the incident has risen to over 700,000 ...

Amazon, the shipping and delivery juggernaut, is hoping to replace more than half a million future jobs with robots, according to a New York Times report on Tuesday. The company’s vast warehouse ...