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Meet 8 New Robots Helping Us Pack Orders
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Oct 10, 2024
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The goal of robotics technology in Amazon Operations is simple: Pair employees with the right technology to make your workdays safer, easier, and more productive, while delivering packages to customers faster than ever.
Meet the eight new robots supporting the next generation of package fulfillment:
1. Sequoia
- Job: Stores and retrieves inventory for employees picking items for customer orders
- Capacity: Retrieves hundreds of thousands of customer orders per week
- Launched in: Houston, Texas, in 2023
2. Hercules
- Job: Transport pods of items to employees picking items for customer orders
- Capacity: Can lift up to 1,250 pounds and travel across 1 million square feet
- Launched in: Sumner, Washington, in 2017
3. Titan
- Job: Transports large and bulky items to employees
- Capacity: Can lift up to 2,500 pounds
- Launched in: Schertz, Texas, in 2023
4. Sparrow
- Job: Identifies, selects, handles, and sorts individual products into totes to give to employees before packaging
- Capacity: Can lift items of up to 12 pounds
- Launched in: Richmond, Texas, in 2023
5. Pack Innovation
- Job: Create made-to-fit paper bags based on an order’s dimensions, which reduces the amount of material used
- Capacity: Helps package hundreds of thousands of customer orders per week
- Launched in: Euclid, Ohio, in 2023
6. Robin
- Job: Lifts and sorts packages before being brought to the outbound dock
- Capacity: Can lift packages up to 50 pounds
- Launched in: Lakeland, Florida, in 2022
7. Cardinal
- Job: Lifts packages to gently and tightly place them into carts in a Tetris-like manner
- Capacity: Can handle up to 50-pound packages, and load hundreds of packages per hour
- Launched in: Nashville, Tennessee, in 2022
8. Proteus
- Job: Moves carts with packages to the loading dock to be loaded on a truck
- Capacity: Can lift as much as 880 pounds
- Launched in: Nashville, Tennessee, in 2022
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Three Takeaways on Our Sustainability Progress
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Oct 01, 2024
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Amazon is committed to our sustainability efforts, and Operations teams play a critical role in turning these goals into reality. Recently during Climate Week, Andreas Marschner, VP Worldwide
Operations Sustainability, shared updates on the progress we’re making with electric vehicles, renewable energy, and packaging.
Watch the video above to learn more or read the summary of our 2023 Sustainability Report.
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