Overview

• Amazon has nearly completed its San Francisco humanoid park, an indoor obstacle course that simulates real-world delivery challenges and includes a Rivian electric van for robot trials.
• The company is developing proprietary AI software to power humanoid robots supplied by partners such as Unitree and Agility Robotics, enabling them to understand natural language commands and navigate complex environments.
• A newly formed Agentic AI team at Amazon’s Lab126 hub in Sunnyvale is creating multipurpose warehouse and delivery robots that can unload trailers, fetch parts and respond to spoken instructions.
• Generative AI enhancements are being deployed across Amazon’s logistics operations to produce detailed delivery maps, optimize inventory placement with SCOT technology, forecast demand and reduce carbon emissions.
• Amazon plans to move robots from controlled tests to real-world trial runs and expand its Rivian electric van fleet from over 20,000 toward 100,000 by 2030, prompting discussion about the future of human delivery jobs.