Amazon’s new Vulcan robot uses touch to grab products from shelves, making warehouses faster, safer, and more efficient.

Amazon has announced a new robot with a sense of touch, enabling it to pick up and stow around three-quarters of the items found in its warehouses. The new robot, called Vulcan, can accurately gauge ...

Robots excel at many things, but having a good sense of touch is not among them. Whether dropping items or pinching them too tightly, which crushes the object, many robots struggle with these basic ...

Amazon is getting closer to deploying the closest thing to a human in its fulfillment centers as it unveiled a robot that can “feel.” Its latest robotics breakthrough, though, isn’t part of a plot to ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Amazon unveiled Vulcan, a warehouse robot with 'a sense of touch,' at an event in Germany. Vulcan adds/removes items from pods ...

Sergey Levine is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley whose research is focused on the thing our parents used to make such a fuss over, whenever we made stupid mistakes or should have known to avoid ...

Robots just got a feel for the job—literally. Amazon has deployed Vulcan, its first-ever robot with a sense of touch, at a fulfillment center in Dortmund, Germany. The robot, which was unveiled during ...

The Honor Robot Phone combines multimodal intelligence, advanced robotics, and “next-generation imaging" for its concept ...

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has revealed a revolutionary robot, Vulcan, which boasts a sense of touch, enabling it to manage approximately 75% of items in Amazon’s warehouses. What Happened: As per Amazon’s ...

When fully developed, R1, which for now uses wheels instead of legs to get around, will be deployed as a "smart companion for ...