You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Amazon has ramped up its fleet of robots in recent years to boost its warehouse operations. It's more ...

The robots glide across the floor, sometimes pausing to spin a quarter turn or two before resuming their route. They come close to one another but never collide. It’s not choreographed – they’re ...

Amazon manufactures and tests its Hercules and Proteus robots inside a massive facility in North Reading, Massachusetts.Madeline Stone / BI Inside an unassuming office park in North Reading, ...

Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

Amazon upgraded Proteus with natural-language controls as part of a wider European robotics push involving STARK, Vulcan, and major investment. Amazon’s warehouse robots are starting to sound less ...