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Amazon

Amazon makes 3 robots we track. The furthest along, Amazon warehouse robots, is at stage 5 of 5: regulator-cleared or mass market.

Website: amazon.com
Based in: United States
Latest milestone: 22 Oct 2026

01Robots

What Amazon makes

Each robot's stage is worked out from its dated, sourced milestones by the same published rules, whoever the maker is.

Amazon warehouse robotsWarehouse · Warehouse robot fleetStage 5 of 5 · Regulator-cleared or mass marketAmazon builds and runs its own robots in its warehouses: wheeled robots that carry shelves and carts, and robot arms that pick and sort items and packages. In July 2025 it said it had put its one millionth robot to work.Inside Amazon's own warehouses in many countries, including the US, Germany and Japan. Not sold to other companies.The full record
AstroHome · Home monitoring robotStage 4 of 5 · Paying customersA small wheeled robot that drives itself around the home. Amazon built it to help with tasks such as keeping an eye on the home while owners are out.In 2022 it was sold in the US only to people Amazon invited to buy it. Its status in 2026 could not be confirmed.The full record
Prime Air (MK30)Drones · Delivery drone serviceStage 4 of 5 · Paying customersPrime Air is Amazon's drone delivery service. Its MK30 drone drops small parcels of up to 5 pounds at customers' homes.Amazon says it delivers by drone from 11 US sites, including around Phoenix, Tampa, Detroit, Houston and Dallas, and runs a trial in Darlington, England.The full record

02Track record

Every dated event

22 Oct 2026SetbackPrime Air (MK30)
Massachusetts' aviation regulator told Amazon it cannot open a drone takeoff and landing site anywhere in the state without a state certificate, and that Amazon had not yet applied for one.
DroneXL, 22 Oct 2026
22 Oct 2026SetbackPrime Air (MK30)
Massachusetts' transportation department told Amazon it could not open a Prime Air drone pad in Westborough or elsewhere in the state without its certificate, and said Amazon had not applied.
DroneXL, 22 Oct 2026
20 Oct 2026MilestonePrime Air (MK30)
Amazon said Prime Air would start drone deliveries in Tallahassee, Florida, by mid-November, at a public showing of its MK30 drone; the building to house the drones was still under permit review.
DroneXL, 21 Oct 2026Company-reported
20 Oct 2026SetbackPrime Air (MK30)
DroneXL reported that Amazon's hoped-for late-October start of Prime Air flights in Westborough, Massachusetts, had slipped, with a zoning appeal set for November 2 and a Planning Board hearing on November 10.
DroneXL, 20 Oct 2026
19 Oct 2026SetbackPrime Air (MK30)
Westborough, Massachusetts, voted 510 to 13 for a local rule banning commercial drone launch pads, aimed at Prime Air; it still needs state approval to take effect.
DroneXL, 21 Oct 2026
16 Oct 2026SetbackPrime Air (MK30)
Portland, Oregon's city council moved toward a possible pause on drone hubs, and Amazon's first meeting with city planners was cancelled.
DroneXL, 16 Oct 2026
11 Sept 2026SafetyPrime Air (MK30)
DroneXL reported that an Amazon MK30 drone set itself down beside a Baton Rouge road during storms, and another was found on a lawn in Waco; Amazon had not explained either landing.
DroneXL, 21 Oct 2026
19 Aug 2026MilestonePrime Air (MK30)
Amazon said its drones had made more than 70,000 flights, and that its collision-avoidance system twice steered drones away from crewed aircraft.
DroneXL, 19 Aug 2026Company-reported
19 Aug 2026MilestonePrime Air (MK30)
Amazon said Prime Air delivered from 11 US sites and would soon open in the Chicago, Syracuse, Cleveland, Atlanta and Boise areas.
Amazon newsroom, 19 Aug 2026Company-reported
18 Feb 2026SetbackAmazon warehouse robots
Amazon stopped its Blue Jay project, a many-armed robot for sorting and moving packages, a few months after showing it in October 2025. It said the technology would be reused in other robots.
TechCrunch, 18 Feb 2026
5 Feb 2026RegulatorPrime Air (MK30)
The FAA signed off its environmental review for 22 Amazon drone hubs in Texas. Each hub may run up to 1,000 delivery flights a day.
FAA finding of no significant impact, Texas, 5 Feb 2026
4 Feb 2026SafetyPrime Air (MK30)
An Amazon drone hit the outside of an apartment building in Richardson, Texas. It was damaged and smoked, but no one was hurt.
DroneXL, 8 Feb 2026
1 Oct 2025SafetyPrime Air (MK30)
Two Amazon delivery drones flew into the same construction crane in Tolleson, Arizona, on 1 October 2025.
DroneXL, 2 Oct 2025
1 July 2025MilestoneAmazon warehouse robots
Amazon said it had put its one millionth robot to work, in a warehouse in Japan.
About Amazon, 1 July 2025Company-reported
1 July 2025MilestoneAmazon warehouse robots
The Wall Street Journal reported that about 75% of Amazon's deliveries worldwide get some help from a robot along the way.
TechCrunch, 1 July 2025
7 May 2025MilestoneAmazon warehouse robots
Amazon showed Vulcan, a robot arm with force sensors that can 'feel' items it touches. It was already at work in Spokane, Washington, and Hamburg, Germany.
TechCrunch, 7 May 2025
Jan 2025SetbackPrime Air (MK30)
Amazon stopped US drone deliveries in January 2025 after crashes during testing.
DroneXL drone delivery guide, updated 16 Oct 2026
11 Dec 2024MilestonePrime Air (MK30)
Amazon started customer deliveries with its new MK30 drone in the West Valley of Phoenix, Arizona, and in College Station, Texas.
Amazon newsroom, 11 Dec 2024Company-reported
Dec 2024SafetyPrime Air (MK30)
Two MK30 drones crashed during testing in rural Oregon. Their laser height sensors misread the altitude and the software shut off the propellers.
DroneXL, 16 May 2025
Oct 2024MilestoneAmazon warehouse robots
Amazon announced 'next-generation' warehouses with ten times as many robots as its older sites, alongside human workers. The first opened in Shreveport, Louisiana.
TechCrunch, 1 July 2025
18 Oct 2023MilestoneAmazon warehouse robots
Amazon said its Sequoia system, which uses several kinds of robots to store and fetch stock, was working at a warehouse in Houston, Texas.
About Amazon, 18 Oct 2023Company-reported
30 Sept 2022MilestoneAstro
Amazon's Ring said Astro could be paired with its Virtual Security Guard service to patrol small businesses when no one is there.
Gizmodo, 30 Sept 2022Company-reported
28 Sept 2022MilestoneAstro
A year after launch, Astro was still sold only to invited customers, at $999 for early invitees.
MIT Technology Review, 28 Sept 2022
28 Sept 2021MilestoneAstro
Amazon unveiled Astro at $1,449.99, with a lower introductory price for early buyers in its invite-only Day 1 Editions program.
Amazon announcement, 28 Sept 2021Company-reported
29 Sept 2020SafetyAmazon warehouse robots
Reporting on Amazon's internal safety records found injury rates were higher at its heavily automated warehouses, where workers were expected to handle about 400 items an hour.
CNBC, 29 Sept 2020
2012MilestoneAmazon warehouse robots
Amazon began building its robot fleet in 2012, when it bought the robot maker Kiva Systems.
TechCrunch, 1 July 2025

03Money

On the stock market

Amazon trades as AMZN on NASDAQ. Amazon press release, July 2026

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