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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Amazon unveiled Vulcan, a warehouse robot with 'a sense of touch,' at an event in Germany. Vulcan adds/removes items from pods ...