Amazon has hundreds of thousands of robots in its warehouses, but that doesn\u2019t mean all of its robotic initiatives are a success story.<\/p>\n
The e-commerce giant has halted its Blue Jay warehouse robotics project just months after unveiling the tech, as originally reported by Business Insider<\/a> and confirmed by TechCrunch.<\/p>\n Blue Jay, a multi-armed robot designed to sort and move packages, was unveiled in October for use in the company\u2019s same-day delivery facilities. At the time, the company was testing the robots at a facility in South Carolina and said it took Amazon significantly less time to develop Blue Jay<\/a> \u2014 only about a year\u2014 than it did to develop its other warehouse robots, a speed the company credited to advancements in AI.<\/p>\n Amazon spokesperson Terrence Clark told TechCrunch that Blue Jay was launched as a prototype \u2014 although that was not made clear in the company\u2019s original press release.<\/p>\n The company plans to use Blue Jay\u2019s core technology for other robotics \u201cmanipulation programs\u201d with employees who worked on Blue Jay being moved to other projects.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re always experimenting with new ways to improve the customer experience and make work safer, more efficient, and more engaging for our employees,\u201d Clark told TechCrunch over email. \u201cIn this case, we\u2019re actually accelerating the use of the underlying technology developed for Blue Jay, and nearly all of the technologies are being carried over and will continue to support employees across our network.\u201d<\/p>\n Amazon also unveiled the Vulcan robot last year, which is used in the storage compartments of the company\u2019s warehouses. Vulcan is a two-armed robot<\/a>, with one arm meant to rearrange and move items in a compartment while the other is equipped with a camera and suction cups to grab goods. The Vulcan can allegedly \u201cfeel\u201d the objects that it touches and was trained on data gathered from real-world interactions.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoston, MA Amazon has been developing its internal robotics program since 2012 when it purchased Kiva Systems, a robotics company whose warehouse automation technology formed the foundation of Amazon\u2019s fulfillment operations. It surpassed 1 million robots in its warehouses<\/a> last July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon has hundreds of thousands of robots in its warehouses, but that doesn\u2019t mean all of its robotic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,2574,254,255,64,63,105,247897],"class_list":{"0":"post-490675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-amazon","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-warehouse-robotics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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