Amazon confirmed it has acquired Fauna Robotics, a startup building humanoid robots. Fauna's first product, called Sprout, is a $50,000 bipedal robot that's 3 feet, 6 inches tall and designed to be ...

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 ...

Think a robot can’t do your job? ‘It will happen, but I don’t know when,’ says one expert. How robots are already upending blue-collar work, career advancement, worker rights, and job satisfaction.

Amazon is shifting from failed hardware attempts to a software-first, social robot platform (via Fauna) that could plug directly into Alexa and Prime. Tesla is targeting labor and scale with Optimus, ...

Amazon has deployed its one-millionth robot. The e-commerce giant uses robots in its warehouses and facilities to move products around, handle packages on a conveyor belt and assist human workers.

Amazon made a lot of noise in October when it unveiled Blue Jay, a multi-armed warehouse robot built to speed up same-day deliveries. Just months later, the company quietly ended the program. The ...