Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a vast Amazon warehouse on the outskirts of Tracy, central California, flat rectangular robots wait to be ...

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 ...

Amazon is now using more than one million robots in its facilities, the company says. The retail giant said three in four global deliveries are helped in some way by robotics. As Amazon relies more on ...

Federica Stufano, senior principal analyst at Gartner, said that, particularly as robots-as-a-service (RaaS) models, which ...

There's a new warehouse robot at Amazon that has a sense of touch, allowing it to handle a job previously only done by humans. Amazon unveiled the robot, called Vulcan, Wednesday at an event in ...

Robots in Amazon's fulfillment warehouse robots can pick and stow products well enough that the e-tail giant is happy to begin beta testing, but not well enough to leave human workers behind.… In its ...