Amazon showed off Proteus, the storage robot — the company's first fully autonomous variant designed to work side-by-side with humans.
Warehouse automation has been one of the secrets to the success of e-commerce giant Amazon. Now, the company has taken the technology to the next level with the introduction of Proteus, the first fully autonomous storage robot. It was first shown at Amazon's annual Re: Mars conference in Las Vegas this week.
Proteus is similar in appearance to a robot vacuum, but is larger and more powerful. It's designed to move shopping carts around Amazon warehouses and can do it side-by-side with people. Until now, robots have needed to be separated from the surfaces on which humans work.
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Safety, detection and navigation features have been developed in-house at Amazon.but as tech crunch Note that the company has acquired several robotics companies over the past decade. Proteus is similar to the development of Canvas, which has been acquired since 2019.
In addition to Proteus, Amazon also showed Cardinal, a robotic arm designed to handle packages that are stacked on top of each other.
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