"Blue Jay, a multi-armed robot designed to sort and move packages, was unveiled in October for use in the company's same-day delivery facilities. At the time, the company was testing the robots at a facility in South Carolina and said it took Amazon significantly less time to develop Blue Jay - only about a year- than it did to develop its other warehouse robots, a speed the company credited to advancements in AI."
""We're always experimenting with new ways to improve the customer experience and make work safer, more efficient, and more engaging for our employees," Clark told TechCrunch over email. "In this case, we're actually accelerating the use of the underlying technology developed for Blue Jay, and nearly all of the technologies are being carried over and will continue to support employees across our network.""
"Amazon also unveiled the Vulcan robot last year, which is used in the storage compartments of the company's warehouses. Vulcan is a two-armed robot, with one arm meant to rearrange and move items in a compartment while the other is equipped with a camera and suction cups to grab goods. The Vulcan can allegedly "feel" the objects that it touches and was trained on data gathered from real-world interactions."
Amazon halted the Blue Jay warehouse robotics project months after unveiling the technology. Blue Jay was a multi-armed robot designed to sort and move packages and was tested in a South Carolina facility for same-day delivery use. Amazon described Blue Jay as a prototype and plans to apply its core technology to other robotics manipulation programs while reassigning employees who worked on Blue Jay. Amazon credited AI advancements for reducing Blue Jay's development time to about a year. Amazon continues broader robotics development, including Vulcan, a two-armed robot trained on real-world interaction data and used in storage compartments.
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