Amazon will be using 10,000 robots in its warehouses by the end of the year |...
CEO Jeff Bezos told investors at a shareholder meeting Wednesday that he expects to significantly increase the number of robots used to fulfill customer orders. There are currently about 1,000 robot...
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Amazon seeks FAA permission to test drones outdoors near Seattle
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is seeking permission from U.S. regulators to test its delivery drones near Seattle, as part of a rapid expansion of a program that has sparked widespread...
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Amazon requests FAA permission to test delivery drones
In April this year, Amazon.com issued a shareholder letter that stated: “The Prime Air team is already flight testing our 5th and 6th generation aerial vehicles…″ Fast forward three months to the...
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Does the Small UAV industry need its own coalition?
Last week USA Today reported that Amazon, 3D Robotics, Parrot and DJI had banded together to form a “Small UAV Coalition”, hiring DC-based lobbying firm Akin Gump to represent their interests before US...
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Amazon Picking Challenge
In September 2014 Amazon announced the Amazon Picking Challenge, a new robot manipulation contest as part of the ICRA robot challenges. The idea was to take a difficult problem from the warehouse...
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Amazon’s Echo: A point-of-sale even the kids can relate to
Amazon, the largest online retailer and Internet company in the USA, sells media, data, software, video games, electronics, food, toys, clothes, furniture, and jewelry. It is a big provider of cloud...
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Christmas is orange at Amazon
15K+ bright orange Kiva robots are operating across the US and at 10 Amazon fulfillment distribution centers this holiday season. Amazon has 109 shipping centers around the world, of which 10 use the...
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Amazon tests delivery drones at secret Canada site after US frustration
Exclusive: Guardian gains access to unnamed British Columbia site where tech giant’s roboticists and engineers are developing their unmanned delivery service See it on Scoop.it, via Robotics
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As drone use flourishes, the FAA waivers, and Amazon is forced offshore
Funding continues to flow to drone ventures worldwide even as news from the FAA suggests it will be many years before true autonomous flight will be allowed in the US. Meanwhile Amazon feels they must...
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Amazon Prime Air gets an updated FAA exemption
In a 9-page legal letter, with 28 itemized conditions and limitations, the FAA issued an exemption to Amazon to enable Prime Air to test in US airspace. The FAA letter, dated April 8th, was filled...
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Competing robotic warehouse systems
As sales via online retailers steadily increase, so too does the speed with which customers want their goods delivered. Amazon, eBay, and Google all have massive and speedy warehousing operations...
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Team RBO from Berlin wins Amazon Picking Challenge convincingly
The Amazon Picking Challenge is over and two things stood out. One: how many different arm gripper solutions were possible; and two: just how difficult the challenge still is. The gap between the top...
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GreyOrange gets $30m for mobile robots
Co-founders of GreyOrange: Akash Gupta and Samay Kohli GreyOrange, an India and Singapore-based materials handling startup, has received $30m in equity funding to ramp up production of their Butler...
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While Amazon doubles its number of warehouse robots to 30K, competing systems...
Amazon announced that at the end of September they had 30,000 Kiva robots at work in 13 fulfillment centers, effectively doubling the number of Kiva bots that it had in 2014. “Our intent is to use...
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Cargo drones deliver in the Amazon rainforest
The Amazon is home to thousands of local indigenous communities spread across very remote areas. As a result, these sparsely populated communities rarely have reliable access to essential medicines...
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/24/17
Amazon’s “beehive” concept for future multi-storey fulfillment centers. Credit: Amazon June 19, 2017 – June 25, 2017 At the Center for the Study of the Drone In an interview with Robotics Tomorrow,...
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