New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.
Robotics Amazon named a year-end target on August 19: Prime Air in nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns, a sixfold expansion. The line to file away sits further down the page, where the company puts a share on what a drone can carry.
Robotics At its London event, Amazon unveiled a Proteus robot that takes conversational text prompts and plans its own tasks, alongside a €10 billion European robotics investment and a 25,000-job pledge.
Robotics RBR50 named Amazon Vulcan its 2026 Robot of the Year at the Boston Robotics Summit on May 28. The touch-sensing stowing arm now handles 75% of warehouse items across two sites, 500K+ orders processed.
Robotics Amazon activated its first fully autonomous fulfillment center in Dallas this week. The warehouse runs 22 hours a day, ships 1.6x more packages, and employs 41 people. It used to employ 1,451.