Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
May 9th, 2025Robots are going through the same ramp in capability that large language models went through a couple of years ago.
Via: IEEE Spectrum:
At an event in Dortmund, Germany today, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform how robots interact with the physical world.” In the short to medium term, the physical world that Amazon is most concerned with is its warehouses, and Vulcan is designed to assist (or take over, depending on your perspective) with stowing and picking items in its mobile robotic inventory system.
