Report: Amazon plans for robots to ride along in vans and bring packages to your doorstep
Robots, robots, everywhere.
Elon Musk thinks his Tesla Optimus bipedal humanoid robots will be a $10 trillion industry. Nvidia is making a huge bet on building the AI tools and hardware to power industrial robots.
Now Amazon is also working on humanoid robots to further replace its human workers, both in its fulfillment centers and also to pop out of Amazon delivery trucks to carry boxes to your doorstep, according to The Information.
Amazon is testing humanoid robots in an “obstacle park” and trying out different robotics platforms to help build a foundational AI model of the work done by Amazon warehouse workers. It’s using the DeepSeek-VL2 LLM for the training, the report says.
Amazon was an early pioneer in industrial robots, and today it uses significant automation in its massively complex fulfillment centers, employing swarms of short, square robots that ferry shelves full of good to human pickers.
But the report indicates that Amazon envisions fleets of humanoid robots hitching rides on the company’s Rivian electric delivery trucks (with human drivers, for now) to schlep packages from the truck to your doorstep (and maybe snap those useless photos?).
Dealing with the chaos of real-world obstacles would be significantly more challenging than the tightly controlled industrial environment of a warehouse.
Now Amazon is also working on humanoid robots to further replace its human workers, both in its fulfillment centers and also to pop out of Amazon delivery trucks to carry boxes to your doorstep, according to The Information.
Amazon is testing humanoid robots in an “obstacle park” and trying out different robotics platforms to help build a foundational AI model of the work done by Amazon warehouse workers. It’s using the DeepSeek-VL2 LLM for the training, the report says.
Amazon was an early pioneer in industrial robots, and today it uses significant automation in its massively complex fulfillment centers, employing swarms of short, square robots that ferry shelves full of good to human pickers.
But the report indicates that Amazon envisions fleets of humanoid robots hitching rides on the company’s Rivian electric delivery trucks (with human drivers, for now) to schlep packages from the truck to your doorstep (and maybe snap those useless photos?).
Dealing with the chaos of real-world obstacles would be significantly more challenging than the tightly controlled industrial environment of a warehouse.
