Amazon will open a new fulfillment center in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee next year. The facility joins others in the state, including fulfillment and sortation centers in Charleston, Chattanooga, Lebanon, Murfreesboro, Memphis, and Nashville. The new fulfillment center is the seventh Read more
Amazon will open a new fulfillment center in Iowa, the first in the state. The 645,000 square-foot facility in the city of Bondurant uses Amazon robotics and will be used to fulfill small items to customers such as books, electronics Read more
Amazon opened a new 48,000 square foot office for Alexa tech teams located in Santa Barbara, California, and plans to create 150 additional tech jobs in the city, the company announced on Tuesday. Amazon currently has dozens of open roles Read more
Amazon will invest over $40 million to develop a new facility for its Robotics division. The new 350,000 square feet facility will open in Westborough, Massachusetts in 2021 and will include corporate offices, research and development labs, and manufacturing space. Read more
Ecommerce platform Shopify is acquiring 6 River Systems, which makes warehouse fulfillment solutions. The move makes sense for Shopify, which launched a network of fulfillment centers earlier this year. Interestingly two of the founders of 6 River Systems had worked Read more
Amazon will build two new robotics fulfillment centers in Ohio, it announced today. Each fulfillment center will be over 700,000 square feet and will be used to pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as books, electronics and Read more
It appears more robots will be joining Amazon fulfillment centers. TechCrunch reported today that Amazon acquired robotics firm Canvas Technology. You can see its robots in action in a TechCrunch video from 2017 showing an autonomous cart that can safely Read more
Amazon robots, with the non-threatening name of “Scouts,” are patrolling the streets delivering packages in Snohomish, Washington as part of a test. Amazon explains the Scout is an “autonomous delivery device” the size of a small cooler, on wheels. In Read more
Amazon is holding a conference on Artificial Intelligence called re:MARS where speakers will demonstrate the practical applications of AI behind Alexa, AWS services, Amazon Go, Prime Air, Lab 126, and Robotics. It is somewhat surprising given the usual secrecy with Read more
Amazon wants to set the record straight about its use of robots, publishing a post titled, “5 facts to know about Amazon Robotics.” Included as one of its facts: “Robots do not replace employees.” The timing of its post struck Read more
