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Amazon warehouse robots

Name: Amazon warehouse robots
Brand: Amazon

Amazon 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. About Amazon, 1 July 2025

Stage 5 of 5

Regulator-cleared or mass market

Which rule placed it

Evidence: Company-reported only
Human help: None reported
Last milestone: 18 Feb 2026

01Can I get it?

Yes, in places

Where it works today: Inside Amazon's own warehouses in many countries, including the US, Germany and Japan. Not sold to other companies. TechCrunch, 1 July 2025
Published price: No published price in our sources.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.

02Track record

What has actually happened

Every milestone is dated and links to the page it comes from. Lines marked company-reported rest on the maker's own word.

18 Feb 2026
Setback
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
1 July 2025
Mass market · sets the stage
Amazon said it had put its one millionth robot to work, in a warehouse in Japan.
About Amazon, 1 July 2025Company-reported
1 July 2025
Update
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 2025
Paying customers
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
Oct 2024
Update
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 2023
Paying customers
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
2012
Funding
Amazon began building its robot fleet in 2012, when it bought the robot maker Kiva Systems.
TechCrunch, 1 July 2025

03Promised vs delivered

What the maker said, and when

Dated targets the maker set in public, against what has happened since.

Said18 Oct 2023
Store incoming stock up to 75% faster
Amazon said Sequoia would let it identify and store incoming stock up to 75% faster than before. About Amazon, 18 Oct 2023
Still pending
No independent figure found on whether this was reached.

04Safety and incidents

What has gone wrong

29 Sept 2020
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

How we placed it

The rule, not an opinion

Stages are worked out by published rules from the dated milestones above. We never rate robots, and no maker can pay to change a stage.

5
Regulator-cleared or mass marketThis robot
A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.
Placed by: Amazon said it had put its one millionth robot to work, in a warehouse in Japan (1 July 2025).
4
Paying customers
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
3
Pilot
Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.
2
Pre-orders
Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.
1
Demo only
Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.

What we couldn't confirm. Amazon does not publish a full count by robot type. A 2025 report that Amazon plans to avoid hiring hundreds of thousands of workers through automation was not confirmed from a primary source here.

Sources

Cite this page

Robotics Verdict. “Amazon warehouse robots (Amazon): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/amazon-warehouse-robots. Checked 19 October 2026.